Lars Bondeson called himself "
Sweden’s original rustic comic". At the same time that
Jödde i Göljaryd (Karl Peter Rosén) was establishing the wardrobe and repertoire for a new form of entertainment, he was appearing at the Alhambra Variety Theatre in
Stockholm. Bondeson — in contrast to
Jödde i Göljaryd — took rustic humor into the world of commercial entertainment via vaudeville, dance halls and folk parks. He collected tunes and songs, which he had discovered or in some cases written himself, and published them in ten songbooks. He died in 1908, having seldom performed in later years. His career in show business had, in fact, lasted only from 1891 until 1895. The
Minnesota Historical Society has his songbooks and other publications to which he contributed in its collections. ==Gallery==