stooge

One of the smart tweaks Bong has made to Ashton’s book is devolving the character from an everyman into a passive stooge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025

Its corporate stooge Mr Paradox, played by Succession's Matthew Macfadyen, tries to covertly recruit Deadpool to help safeguard the central "sacred" timeline of reality by sacrificing his world.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2024

Then again, Myn has a reason for stonewalling Hera – he's an Imperial stooge wearing the cloak of a businessman.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2023

Truss turned out to be a stooge for Boris Johnson, Maureen Dowd writes.

From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2022

None of us would have expected it from Padre Gabriel, who was, we thought, a stooge substitute sent in after Padre de Jesus was arrested.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Take, for instance, the three stooges of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

Albeit his stooges would not be the three of yesteryear’s Hollywood, Larry, Moe and Shemp.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

But the music is anything but impersonal, and the album’s biggest hit, “Crossover,” is an indictment of sellouts and corporate stooges.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2022

He spent a year as "Mr Rodney", who was one of a series of stooges for the puppet, Basil Brush, before creating and starring in the ITV sitcom Dear Mother...

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2017

But unlike those poor stooges at the Ice Court, Van Eck would be ready for Brekker.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Back in the U.S., he stooged for other entertainers, even held fans for Sally Rand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Georgia drifted into a period of stooging for most of the top funny men: Hope, Durante, Frank Morgan, Milton Berle, Danny Kaye.

From Time Magazine Archive

Anything else is just "stooging," which is flyers' slang for pooping around.

From Time Magazine Archive