grim-all-day

Updated: May 22, 2025

Harley at the annual dinner of the Drury Lane Fund, spoken in the June following Grimaldi's death: "Yet, shall delicacy suffer no violence in adducing one example, for death has hushed his cock-crowing cachination, and uproarious merriment. The mortal Jupiter of practical Joke, the Michael Angelo of buffoonery, who, if he was Grim-all-day, was sure to make you chuckle at night."

R. J. Broadbent - A History of Pantomime