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Straight Man (New York: Random House, 1997) is a novel by American writer Richard Russo set at the fictional West Central Pennsylvania University in Railton, Pennsylvania.A campus novel, the book was inspired by Russo's experiences teaching at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Southern Connecticut State University, and Penn State Altoona.
Manzai is a traditional style of comedy in Japanese culture comparable to double act comedy. [1] Manzai usually involves two performers (manzaishi)—a straight man and a funny man —trading jokes at great speed. Most of the jokes revolve around mutual misunderstandings, double-talk, puns and other verbal gags.
Sometimes the straight man gets laughs through sarcastic reactions to the comic's antics, such as Stewart Lee's deadpan, reasoned reactions to Richard Herring's ridiculous antics in their pairing. When the straight man serves no specific comic purpose, but acts as a device to make the comic look good, he is known as a stooge.
Boke and tsukkomi are loosely equivalent to the roles of "funny man" or "comic" (boke) and "straight man" (tsukkomi) in the comedy duos of western culture. Outside of owarai, the term boke is sometimes used in common speech as an insult, similar to "idiot" in English, or baka in Japanese.
A straight man is a stock character in a comedy performance, especially a double act, sketch comedy, or farce. Straight man may also refer to: A heterosexual man;
The comedy team is a sacred show-business relationship. From the beginning of time, when Eve asked Adam if he wanted a bite to eat, having two or more characters deliver the jokes has always meant ...
Straight man, a comedian who feeds lines to another; Shill, a confederate or performer who acts as if they are a spectator; The Stooge, a 1952 American film; The Three Stooges, a comedy group from the 1930s to the 1970s The Three Stooges, a film based on the comedy team; The Stooges, a late-1960s and early-1970s rock band
Involves character comedy; the comedian uses the skill of ventriloquy to "throw his or her voice" into a dummy or puppet character. The ventriloquist generally speaks as the "straight man" and gives the comic lines to the dummy. Exceptionally skilled ventriloquists can make the dummy sing.