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:
“You should look straight at a film; that’s the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”
—Werner Herzog (b. 1942)
“A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
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