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:

    “Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Then let us pray that come it may,—
    As come it will for a’ that,—
    That sense and worth, o’er a’ the earth,
    May bear the gree, an’ a’ that.
    For a’ that, and a’ that,
    It’s comin’ yet, for a’ that—
    That man to man, the warld o’er,
    Shall brithers be for a’ that.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)