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:

    The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
    The Pear-tree spreads along the wall,
    Sara Coleridge (1802–1852)

    Povert ful ofte, whan a man is lowe,
    Maketh his God and eek himself to knowe.
    Povert a spectacle is, as thinketh me,
    Thurgh which he may his verray frendes see.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)