Lion comique
The lion comique was a type of popular entertainer in the Victorian music halls, a parody of upper-class toffs or "swells" made popular by Alfred Vance and G. H. MacDermott, among others. They were artistes whose stage appearance, resplendent in evening dress, contrasted with the cloth-cap image of most of their music-hall contemporaries.
The songs the lions comiques sang were "hymns of praise to the virtues of idleness, womanising and drinking",[1] perhaps the most well known of which is George Leybourne's "Champagne Charlie". The lion comique deliberately distorted social reality for amusement and escapism.[2]
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- ↑ Kift & Kift (1996), p. 49
- ↑ Vicinus (1975), p. 262
