Grossmith also wrote, composed, and performed in several one-man drawing room sketches, short comic operas or monologues that were given at the Opera Comique or the Savoy Theatre in place of the companion pieces when shorter matinee programmes were playing. These works included "Beauties on the Beach" (1878), "Five Hamlets" (1878), a revival of his "A Silver Wedding" (1879), "The Drama on Crutches" (1883), "Homburg, or Haunted by The Mikado" (1887–88), and "Holiday Hall" (1888). In reviewing a matinee performance of "The Drama on Crutches", "The Times" commented, "he not only satirizes the present tendency of fashionable amateurs to join the stage, but also parodies ... the manner of Mr. Irving and other actors of the present day, including himself. The sketch created great amusement, though of course, it depends entirely for its success upon the actor's powers of mimicry." Grossmith also performed in charity events, including as Bouncer in "Cox and Box" in 1879 at the Opera Comique.