Straight Man

Straight man may refer to:

  • Straight Man, a 1997 novel by Richard Russo
  • Straight man (stock character), a member of a double act who plays a stooge, feed, or comic foil (an actor not meant to be funny who is surprised by, or is the object of, a joke by the comic) in theatrical comedy
  • A heterosexual male

Famous quotes containing the words straight and/or man:

    “Music dissolves the straight and narrow.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)