Charles Pooter is a humorous and accident-prone character. Pooter's diary accounts his daily routine, which includes parties, minor embarrassments, and relationship with his troublesome son. The book is based in nineteenth century which makes it interesting and worth reading. This diary presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Porter. The small minded but essentially decent suburban world he inhabits is both hilarious and painfully familiar. This diary is seen as a satire of the English middle class at that time which is stiff, vain and without a sense of humor.

The Diary of a Nobody, an English comic novel written by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon Grossmith. The diary is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Mr. Charles Pooter, a middle aged city clerk of lower middle-class status but significant social aspirations, living in the fictional "Brickfield Terrace" in Upper Holloway which was then a typical suburb of the impecuniously respectable kind. Other characters include his wife Carrie (Caroline), his son Lupin, his friends Mr. Cummings and Mr. Gowing, and Lupin's unsuitable fiancée, Daisy Mutlar. The humor derives from Pooter's unconscious gaffes and self-importance, as well as the snubs he receives from those he considers socially inferior, such as tradesmen. In The Diary of a Nobody the Grossmiths create an accurate if amusing record of the manners, customs and experiences of lower-middle-class, suburban Londoners of the late Victorian era.

The book has spawned the word "Pooterish" to describe a tendency to take oneself excessively seriously.

George Grossmith (9 December 1847—1 March 1912) was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. As a writer and composer, he created 18 comic operas, nearly 100 musical sketches, some 600 songs and piano pieces, three books and both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines.

Grossmith is best remembered for two aspects of his career. First, he created a series of nine memorable characters in his comic operas. Second, he wrote, in collaboration with his brother Weedon, the 1892 comic novel Diary of a Nobody.

English author, journalist and entertainer, George Grossmith is chiefly famous for his amusing work, The Diary of a Nobody.