How To Use Straight man In A Sentence
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But comedy needs opposites, a straight man and a gagster.
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Man crush is a strong emotion a straight man shows when he respects, admires and idolizes another man, totally non-sexual.
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A "straight man" refers to a heterosexual male, who is sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex.
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Hire noted comedians and physical actors for the lead roles, provide the straight man, and start firing.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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John was the straight man to Ken's gagster at the GLC rather as Brown was to Blair.
An Interview with John McDonnell
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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!
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Ventriloquist, straight man for brashy puppet, Charlie McCarthy, Candice Bergen's father
Celebrity Dirty Laundry
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He showed a sly, deadpan humor as Legolas in Lord of the Rings and even as the stalwart and overserious Will Turner, straight man to Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow, he had flashes of wit and the devil may care attitude that all swashbuckling heroes must have in the face of impossible odds.
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A straight man and a good fisherman.
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In other words, most Japanese comedy, both live and on television, has been closer to what Americans would term low-budget farce - physical comedians, often performing in traditional, vaudeville-style duos replete with a straight man - doing silly pranks that allows the audience to feel superior to what they are seeing on their TVs.
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He sipped from a can of Cherry Coke and exchanged a look with his straight man Munger, whose myopic self-containment seemed impregnable.
American Everyman
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He cannot believe that no one has approached him about being Basil Brush's straight man when the vulpine glove puppet resurfaces on TV next year.
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At face value, the typical metrosexual is a straight man who has homosexual or effeminate characteristics.
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Becks feels "proud" to be called gayest straight man
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For him to be basically the put-upon straight man surrounded by zanies, including Allison Janney as the wacky boss and Nate Torrence as her nincompoop son, seems like a waste.
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Being a straight man in gay circles taught him something about what it feels like to be on the other end of the male gaze.
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She writes repeatedly about how she remained a virgin until she was 24, until, it seems, although she doesn't say so explicitly, she met her now husband, a shadowy figure who only really appears in her story when he's comedically useful as a straight man.
Bossypants by Tina Fey – review
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Laurel Canyon (2003), each focused on an innocent young woman swept up in the glamorously baffling sex-and-drugs scene swirling around a charismatic older female artist, the situation here is reversed; unexpectedly drawn in to and fascinated by the ultra-domestic household created by a pair of charismatic femmes, the swinger is the straight man (literally).
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The jokester proceeds to counter all of the straight man's objections.