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    eccentrically, the straight man is expected to maintain composure. The straight man is a foil, a contrasting character to the funny man. The direct contribution...
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  • Straight Man (New York: Random House, 1997) is a novel by Richard Russo set at the fictional West Central Pennsylvania University in Railton, Pennsylvania...
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  • Look up straight man in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A straight man is a member of a comedy act who plays a stooge, feed, or foil. Straight man may also...
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  • developed by Paul Lieberstein and Aaron Zelman based on the 1997 novel Straight Man by Richard Russo. Starring Bob Odenkirk, the series premiered on March...
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  • Look up straight in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Straight may refer to: Straight, slang for heterosexual Straight-acting, an LGBT person who does...
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  • Straight man cancer (Chinese: 直男癌; pinyin: zhí nán ái) is a derogatory neologism used by Chinese feminists to describe men who are stubbornly supportive...
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    duo—the "straight man", "feed", "dead wood", or stooge—is often portrayed as reasonable and serious, while the other one—the funny man, "banana man", or comic—is...
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  • the final suitor was a straight man, he and Thomas split a reward of $1 million. Conversely, if the final suitor was a gay man, he alone won the reward...
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    in vaudeville, Broadway and the first five Marx Brothers films as the straight man and romantic lead until leaving the act following Duck Soup in 1933....
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  • Straight Plan for the Gay Man is an American comedy television series that premiered on February 23, 2004, on Comedy Central. It is a parody of Bravo's...
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