straight man
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“I was teaching a lot of people to surf, mostly women who didn’t want a straight man to teach them how to surf because it feels vulnerable enough,” says Walsh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
It is very dapper for a straight man, but it couldn't be more boring for Tan France.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2025
The two have the rapport of an experienced comedy pairing: Larry King’s straight man to Schwartz’s rambunctious troublemaker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024
But he has grown into his role at “Saturday Night Live,” proving to be an especially strong straight man adept at the comedy of embarrassment.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
"There's a man back there in the Pullman knows him like he was his own son, a straight man, none better in this Western country," West concluded.
From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine
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