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Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.
Aarti Mann
Needs
Man
Woman
Every
Sitcom
Straight
Straight Man
Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them.
Brett Gelman
Work
Needs
Man
Fight
Women
People
White
Community
Action
Active
Every
Liberal
Back
Our
Sides
Out
Color
Take
Supporting
Making
Hiring
Pat
Man Needs
Roles
Just
Stop
Straight
Them
Straight Man
Themselves
Unifying
Defending
If a straight man dresses well, chances are he's not straight.
Claudia Winkleman
Man
Dresses
He
Well
Straight
Straight Man
Chances
Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
Colin Hanks
Time
Religion
Man
Comedy
Wind
See
Some
Guy
Most
Him
Sort
Up
Just
Straight
Straight Man
Theme
Explode
Aside
Really
I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
Dan Butler
Man
Television
Straight
Straight Man
Play
For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!
Dominic West
Man
Men
Kiss
Seem
Lot
Straight
Straight Man
Awful
Awful Lot
Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.
Harvey Korman
Man
First
Costello
Concept
Although
Very
Interesting
Straight
Straight Man
When I'm filming a documentary, I feel like I should be the straight man, watching with a raised eyebrow.
Jon Richardson
Man
Eyebrow
Feel
Like
Documentary
Straight
Straight Man
Should
Watching
Raised
Filming
It's hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He's such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so surprising. He's such a live wire. It's just so exciting to watch.
Kate McKinnon
Man
Live
Everything
Bizarre
Wire
He
Exciting
Does
Surprising
Just
Straight
Straight Man
Hard
Creature
Watch
It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.
Martha Plimpton
Funny
Mom
Family
Man
Woman
Television
Foil
She
Common
Straight
Straight Man
I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.
Neil Innes
Man
Ways
See
Role
Being
Straight
Straight Man
Many
My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.
Paul Rudd
Me
Man
Comedy
Think
Drama
Those
Definitions
Terms
Straight
Straight Man
Because Buffy really has become the straight man, every once in a while it's nice to be the one that tells the joke and it's nice to be the one that is the joke and it's nice to do something that's a little bit different.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Man
Joke
Become
Nice
Every
Once
Bit
Tells
Something
Buffy
Because
Different
While
Little
Little Bit
Straight
Straight Man
Really
A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.
Steve Guttenberg
Gay
Man
Friends
Happen
Straight
Straight Man
As a straight man, I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.
Steve Kazee
Love
Gay
Man
People
Dance
Going
Just
Straight
Straight Man
Bars
To a straight man, the notion of walking around as a coiffed, waxed, nail-polish-wearing, lispy dude is uproariously absurd. As people, we find absurdities funny. That's our first step in making sense of them.
Steven Crowder
Funny
Man
People
First
Sense
Our
Waxed
Find
Step
Absurd
First Step
Around
Making
Dude
Walking
Straight
Them
Straight Man
Notion
A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the audience.
Thomas Middleditch
Man
Think
Having
Bland
Emotional
Wrong
Comedies
Make
Audience
Lot
Conduit
Being
Straight
Straight Man
Choice
I have the version of me where I'm interviewing someone, where I definitely am the straight man, and I like to show a lot of respect to my guest and let them take the reins. I don't like to compete with my guests. I don't like to be funnier than my guests or get into a 'Who's wackier?' sort of thing.
Tom Green
Me
Man
Respect
Interviewing
Guest
Guests
Definitely
Someone
Take
Like
Sort
Am
Lot
Version
Than
Get
Where
Straight
Them
Straight Man
Show
Reins
Thing
Compete
Funnier
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