the diary of a nobody by george grossmith

He is so proud of his puns that he repeats them to himself and laughs out loud. As it is, he simply writes down the minute by minute of his event-less life. Who would have thought the vain thoughts and actions of a completely unimportant person with big ideas about his own personality were meticulously documented and published back then already, including lists of food, what to wear on what occasion, social encounters, small run-ins with friends and family, hopelessly disappointing egocentric grown-up children? If he had had a smartphone, the dear Mr Nobody would have posted a picture of his dinner on his blog each night. His son, George Grossmith, Jr., became a famous actor, playwright and producer of Edwardian musical comedies.īloggers, Facebookers - who would have thought you had a predecessor in Victorian England?

He continued to perform into the first decade of the 20th century. Some of his comic songs endure today, including 'See Me Dance the Polka'. Grossmith was also famous in his day for performing his own comic piano sketches and songs, both before and after his Gilbert and Sullivan days, becoming the most popular British solo performer of the 1890s. Second, he wrote, in collaboration with his brother Weedon, the 1892 comic novel Diary of a Nobody. Pinafore (1878), the Major-General in The Pirates of Penzance (1880) and Ko-Ko in The Mikado (1885–87). First, he created a series of nine memorable characters in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan from 1877 to 1889, including Sir Joseph Porter, in H.M.S.

Grossmith is best remembered for two aspects of his career. As a writer and composer, he created 18 comic operas, nearly 100 musical sketches, some 600 songs and piano pieces, three books and both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines. His performing career spanned more than four decades. George Grossmith was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer.

The diary of a nobody by george grossmith