How To Use straight man In A Sentence
- But comedy needs opposites, a straight man and a gagster.
- Man crush is a strong emotion a straight man shows when he respects, admires and idolizes another man, totally non-sexual.
- A "straight man" refers to a heterosexual male, who is sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex.
- Hire noted comedians and physical actors for the lead roles, provide the straight man, and start firing.
- Clarkson is the gangling, unpredictable bringer of disaster; Turner is the slightly pompous straight man in the flesh, Turner is the more garrulous, Clarkson a little more earnest, though only a fraction. Potted Potter: Harry in a hurry
- Often unfairly maligned as a bland straight man surrounded by more interesting characters, Jerry Seinfeld is actually the self-obsessed heartbeat of the show with a fine line in ultra-sarcasm. The best of Seinfeld
- And, in another swell little marriage between projection and the reliance on contradistinctive definitions of manhood, the straight man who invents a sexual assault out of whole cloth benefits from the overwhelming narrative that it is women who routinely make false rape claims in desperate bids of self-preservation or vengeance. Feminism 101
- The cheeky glove puppet fox hosts a variety and sketch show format - a procession of comic stooges play straight man and second fiddle to his antics.
- John was the straight man to Ken's gagster at the GLC rather as Brown was to Blair. An Interview with John McDonnell
- Mr. Hamm mostly acted as Tina Fey's straight man, but, he did have one great reaction to her, when she called herself the "generalissimo": "I don't even know what that means! The New York Observer -
