A physically large man, he was billed as "the Boy Comic", and acted as though he was an overgrown child desperate to please the audience.

His comedy act was that he would attempt to direct his wife as she sang, and explain her song to the audience, while never managing to successfully finish his interventions.

[1][2] He became a solo performer in the early 1900s, and developed his act further as a monologist with a zany sense of humor, drifting from one absurdity to another.

Sometimes, as an encore, he would return to the stage announcing that he had left out a couple of lines from one of his songs, then proceed to sing lyrics that made absolutely no sense.

[1][2] In the same year he was appointed as the first secretary of the Vaudeville Comedy Club, an association of performers set up by Will Cressy.