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straight man

noun as in comedian who sets up joke

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In Hollywood, one of the quickest ways to an award nomination is to be a straight man playing gay.

In the press they were “furious lesbians” who targeted Buckle “because he was a straight man.”

Jackman, given all the rumors around his own sexuality, elected to play the most gay-adjacent straight man on TV.

With Reiner playing the straight man, Caesar plays a wise-cracking and loopy archaeology professor.

The trait was especially essential for Nathan, a straight-man character Garcia patterned after himself.

If you say flat you didnt get the goods well let it go, because we know youre a straight man, and think youre right.

I'll tell M'Grath, the publican at Solong, too: he's a straight man—he'll keep his ears open and warn chaps.

That, said Harding gravely, is a straight man, and he will do something by and by when he has an opportunity.

Well, I want a straight man, with good nerves and a cool head, to run a sugar estate for me.

Ned shot the answer back like a straight man who had been rehearsing his lines for weeks.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to straight man, such as: sidekick, banana, feed, feeder, foil, and second banana.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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