In Pro Wrestling
The stable DX or Degeneration X would be considered a "comedy duo" in the professional wrestling world. In this case Triple H would be the straight man and Shawn Michaels would be the funny man. Wrestling commentary teams have often served as comedy duos, perhaps the most famous being the comedically villainous Bobby "The Brain" Heenan and his strait-laced, down-the-middle partner Gorilla Monsoon. More recent examples would include the announce team of Jerry "The King" Lawler and Vince McMahon in the mid-1990s and later the duo of Lawler and Jim Ross during WWE's Attitude Era.
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