Edited sentence: " At Home combined mimicry, storytelling, recitations, improvisation, quick-change artistry, and comic song.According to Leigh Hunt, Mathews's table entertainments were unparalleled "for the richness and variety of his humour, and were as good as half a dozen plays distilled.Along with its rousing popularity on the English stage, Mathews had some success in twice bringing the show to America.Perhaps the master of the table entertainment was Charles Mathews, whose show At Home or Mathews at Home, began in the Lyceum theatre in 1808