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straight man

NOUN
  1. a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian

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  • 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 -
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