Brewer's: Low Comedian

(The, in theatrical parlance, is the farceur, but must not poach on the preserves of the “light comedian.” Paul Pry is a part for a “low comedian,” Box and Cox are parts for a “light comedian.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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