They are the choices a straight man, playing a straight man, playing a gay man would make.
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And I thought about how badly I've seen a movie get screwed up when the straight man doesn't want to be the straight man.
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It takes a great comedian to pull off the role of straight man; Moore played the wry straight man to his own bombastically over-the-top series.
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Tachibana (Shihori Kanjiya) is the straight man in the relationship.
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Lilly also does good work as the movie's requisite straight man.
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" Bush perfectly plays the straight man, with a curt, dry, "No.
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AC: It's so much fun because they're always the straight man.
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Sometimes I feel forever doomed to play straight man to her.
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This makes them the straight man in our ongoing human comedy.
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In Bad Santa 2, he's practically forced to play the straight man.
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He could live life as a straight man while being gay secretly.
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"I'm a straight man with gay pride," read one of the posters.
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When you're with a straight man, he could be seeing another woman.
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And we hung out for a good year or two straight, man.
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Chick is wacky and high-energy, Fox is the mellow straight man.
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Bullock is still the same no-nonsense straight man he always was.
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Schmidt was too much of the perfect guy/straight man in this episode.
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Morty, an ostensibly dim-witted neurotic, plays the straight man, the audience's surrogate.
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The latter is like a companion piece to "Straight Man," by Richard Russo.
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He's a gung-ho, grizzled straight man, readily playing against his superheroic image.
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That just reminds me to have the confidence of a white straight man.
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Be the best possible straight man, and you'll get the clown next time.
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But when I fell in love with a straight man, I became instantly paranoid.
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A straight man can feel what it is like to be a gay man.
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And then the famous Doritos ... Let me hear it in the straight man voice.
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No one asks you if you're into trans women when you're a straight man.
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Troy: I was a "straight man" and fought like hell to keep that label.
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Joel: I identify as a straight man, prior to and after dating trans women.
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Playing a homosexual playing a straight man, he finds the winking moments of recognition.
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Mr. Katims renamed Lou and reimagined him as a married straight man with kids.
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Mr. Martin was the suave, elegant straight man; Mr. Lewis was manic and kinetic.
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I'm a straight man, I've moved all the way since working here for you.
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Fabio*, a 37-year-old married straight man from Brazil, has an altogether different experience.
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In some ways, Neal Gamby is the straight man in this story to [Goggins's Lee].
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Mr. Ford's Tommy was often Mr. Lawrence's straight man and the subject of his jokes.
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"He spent entirely too much time in the gym for a straight man," former Rep.
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"I have to be the straight man or the dad on the campaign," Graumann quipped.
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Immediate backlash ensued over yet another straight man being selected to portray a gay character.
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James Franco is naturalistically unnatural, and his brother Dave is an occasionally bewildered straight man.
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" That's what I always think when I play the straight man, "Just do your job.
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The 1980s were prime time for both comedy giants and they're in perfect form in Spies Like Us. The genius of the film is that Chase plays an utter goofball like a straight man, and Aykroyd plays the straight man like an utter goofball.
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Meme Biden was weird Uncle Joe, the prankster — the perfect goofball "brother" to Obama's straight man.
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However, the casting of a straight man in the role drew criticism from the LGTBQ community.
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Mr. Lipton's coverall-wearing persona, suave and geeky, is a lopsided take on the straight man.
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"In comedy you have the 'straight man,' who's basically the deadpan, flat comedy partner," Beatriz said.
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"I can tell you this, Andy: I'm a straight man — very confident in my sexuality," he said.
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In comparison, a white, straight man is almost never called bossy, sassy, or uppity for asserting himself.
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Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Eleanor's supposed soulmate, is the patient, conflicted straight man to Bell's quirky character.
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Instead, Barker played the straight man and let the buffoonery all around him do the heavy lifting.
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On Dick Van Dyke, Moore was often relegated to the role of straight man, so to speak.
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Straight man, married, and he was like, 'Wow, this is The Vagina Monologues of the 21st century.
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Had hiring a straight man named Christian to play a quintessential gay Jew given him any pause?
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He thought that as a straight man, he had no business turning the book into a movie.
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To be a straight man seems to include pressures to "provide," to succeed in the public sphere.
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The straight man tells her that she's not fierce and strong enough to be a black woman.
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"When you're a straight man, your boys, friends, and surrounding associates will put you on; provide," Norwood wrote.
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In 2014's bro-romcom That Awkward Moment, he's the straight man to a pair of man-boys.
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It would be much funnier to have Clinton as the "straight man" while Trump, rightfully, acted the buffoon.
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Generally, this refers to when a straight man watches his wife or girlfriend having sex with another man.
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Martin played the romantic, crooning straight man, and Lewis was the anything-for-a-laugh comedian of chaos.
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Women often play the straight man, so it was a priority to make complex, funny, silly, female characters.
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You could say Washington is the high energy comedian while Beijing is content to play the straight man.
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The running mate — the presumed pro, the straight man — will be on the hook for all of this.
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Chick is a wacky little narcissist ping-ponging around the page; Fox is the fond, amused straight man.
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That's the challenge he's faced since accepting the job of Mr. Trump's straight-man running mate last summer.
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"For all the lesbian theories, Hillary enjoys nothing more than flirting with a handsome, preferably straight man," Chozick writes.
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"Usher is the guy — I told him, 'Dude, I'm a straight man, but I love you,&apos" Chris laughed.
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What straight man would listen to anything about sexuality from straight men who have pledged not to have sex?
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But you don't have to be a straight man, or even a full-blown kinkster, to be into this.
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Even though Mr. O'Neal identifies as a straight man, the recent shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
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"People have gotten really angry with me for being 'a straight man' dancing in the gay arena," he replies.
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It is two guys meeting for the kind of outing a straight man might reasonably arrange with a woman.
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Peter Grosz is sedately brilliant as Mike Pence, the straight man forced to play sidekick to his temperamental opposite.
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It did not matter if you were gay, straight, man, woman — you could not take your eyes from her.
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The Blue Jackets had killed 27 straight man advantages over the previous 11 games and two periods on Thursday.
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"I sent Trump a letter laying out the top 'straight man cancer' behaviors, hoping he would examine himself," said Zheng.
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The host is a one-man band, playing both straight man and crazy man, hitting punchlines and providing set ups.
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He did vaudeville, more or less, a lifelong act where he played the straight man to a host of clowns.
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A straight man could even fess up to a "man crush" — as long he was being, you know, totally ironic.
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And Michael Palin of the Monty Python troupe plays the straight man in "Remember Me." GAME OF THRONES 9 p.m.
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Mr. Brammall is, per usual, the straight man, offering futile protests in response to Stokes's winsomely idiotic and offensive riffs.
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In these experiments, straight female participants were shown fictitious Facebook profiles depicting either a straight woman, straight man or gay man.
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Some people weren't thrilled that Whitehall, a straight man, will be playing the first openly gay character in a Disney film.
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" 47, straight, male"As a straight man I'm usually in the role of initiator — trying to get consent, not give it.
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But being a straight man requires its own layers of levity, something Crowe just doesn't seem to possess in his soul.
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But Some Things Do. Steinem, Sandberg and Judd on How to End Sex Harassment The #MeToo Moment: I'm a Straight Man.
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What truly made the skit funny, though, was Will Ferrell as "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek – the "straight man," as it's called.
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The verdant warrior functions as a straight man to the film's sillier characters, so it's characteristic for her to remain quiet.
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Vera Wylde, the cross-dressing persona of a straight man in Vermont, believes the contradiction is rooted in sexism—toward women.
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The "straight man" was Woody Harrelson as Marty Hart, a philandering father who is undone by his lack of self-awareness.
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His latest novel, "The Organised Criminal," has at its center a brotherly friendship between a gay man and a straight man.
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Why would a lesbian guest — coded, obnoxiously, as less than hot — behave with a prostitute exactly as a straight man would?
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Was he just your garden-variety murderous straight man (98 percent of all mass shootings in America are committed by men)?
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Why would a lesbian guest—coded, obnoxiously, as less than hot—behave with a prostitute exactly as a straight man would?
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The "straight man Instagram aesthetic" is fixated on nighttime skylines, fast food, and photos of other people's dogs, this piece argues.
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The old masters play the straight man in the background while the paint on top adds humor or creates a joke.
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He tells me over dinner that he thinks he was the only straight man in line and probably the most excited.
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Rather than one of them always playing it straight and the other handling the jokes, they took turns being the straight man.
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And Shannon turns Elvis into the ultimate straight man, a walking sight gag who has no idea how much comedy he's enabling.
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Rhodes's Obama is curious, self-contained, irritable, and witty, and Rhodes—sixteen years younger and six inches shorter—is his straight man.
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Desus, 34, with a thin whisper of a beard, is the straight man, providing structure and delivering withering jabs with cool reserve.
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Gender-related discussions are flourishing on social media, where terms like "straight-man cancer" are used to mock narrow-minded male chauvinism.
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There is Chito's friend Elly, whose real name is Larry Jarrett, a mellow courier who plays the straight man to Chito's ebullience.
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Bud Abbott (primarily the straight man) and Lou Costello were the team responsible for bringing you the famous "Who's on First?" routine.
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"Gay man, straight man, we're all human" (thanks, Ted from London) is almost definitely not a compliment or an expression of alliance.
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For example, if a user identifies as a straight man, they may be matched with a trans woman who is interested in men.
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It says a lot about how deep Schitt's Creek's pool of comedy talent runs that Levy is almost always playing the straight man.
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This is the first trailer for the upcoming Baywatch remake, which has Dwayne Johnson playing the straight man to a ridiculous Zac Efron.
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Harrelson's Beckett is a worthy straight man to the comedic antics, and Clarke seems to relish playing the mystery of the enigmatic Qi'ra.
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That's why I loved Gone Girl, where Neil Patrick Harris played a straight man in the movie; it just made me so happy.
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But as a straight man, he says he no longer wants to take potential roles away from actors who actually identify as gay.
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The media went along to the extent of playing straight man for his jokes and asking the questions that the president wanted asked.
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That site came under fire because it only allowed users to register as either a "straight man" or a "straight woman," CNN reported.
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The Alchemist is often portrayed as the show's straight man, a rawboned dude who doesn't much care about food beyond its caloric utility.
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Because she was assigned male at birth and was attracted to women, she felt trapped in the role of playing a straight man.
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Although "SportsCenter" anchors like Keith Olbermann and Stuart Scott were known for their wordplay, catchphrases and energy, Ley usually played the straight man.
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I couldn't understand why, as a straight man, I was attracted to her, if she had been assigned male when she was born.
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Philip played the straight man to Stan, carped about Paige and Matthew, and here and there registered his continuing disgruntlement with the job.
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Whether you're a queer woman, a straight man, a non-binary person, or anyone else, strap-ons can make your sex life extra fun.
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He might be the show's most overtly comic character, but he's also able to play straight man when other characters need to be weird.
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Tommy starred in all 5 seasons of "Martin" as Martin Lawrence's level-headed best friend, who often played straight man to Martin's crazy antics.
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I remember even Matt Smith, looking through so many pictures and as a straight man thinking, 'I didn't know penises could be so beautiful!
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The suitor only learned near the end of the season that he had fallen in love with a straight man, according to The Guardian.
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Beck Bennett also gets a thumbs up as straight man and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who seems to still harbor a grudge after Deflategate.
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As a straight man, Esiason made sense; he had a name, some gravitas, and a history with the station as a regular Imus guest.
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Modern Love What happens when a transgender person, who fantasizes about having an androgynous body, falls for a straight man who loves female curves?
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Why He's The Schitt: Johnny's usually the straight man that every other more over-the-top character plays off but his subtly is his strength.
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Some have accused the new President of exemplifying the type of behavior dubbed "straight man cancer" on the Chinese internet -- stubbornly sexist and chauvinistic men.
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When shown one photo each of a gay and straight man, both chosen at random, the model distinguished between them correctly 81% of the time.
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The monochrome, displaying all the generosity of a blank canvas, plays the straight man to the dramatic eyelash, creating the very grounds for its performance.
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He and his wife, Heather, welcomed two children, and Rohrer continued to live as a straight man — until he ended his marriage a decade ago.
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"Today Will Be Different" ends on a wonderful grace note from Timby, who has spent most of the book playing straight man to his mother.
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Prodded by her pal Ariane (Karin Viard), Violette pursues the dorky banking I.T. engineer Jean-René (the star comedian Dany Boon, playing decent straight man).
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"If you have this 'strange' person and the 'straight man,' those two points of view are really based a particular type of normality," explains Davidson.
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The moderator of the show and its game straight man, Ernie Johnson, as well as its producer, Tim Kiely, liked Smith's off-the-cuff demeanor.
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Moreover, they know they are more "marketable" as a perceived straight man playing a gay character than as a gay actor playing a gay character.
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He has played happy-go-lucky (in John Hillcoat's 2012 bootlegging period piece "Lawless") and straight man to a marauding zombie girlfriend ("Life After Beth").
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Mr. Horton, who wears Ed's conflicts with a forthright air of denial, is the dream straight man (so to speak) to Mr. Urie's flamboyant Arnold.
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Among the major characters, Christopher Abbott is a strong Yossarian in the more dramatic moments, but his comedic sensibilities clash with his straight-man register.
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Meyers played straight man, apologizing for taking a few days to respond to Wiig's emails, canceling plans, stealing her headphones, and failing to use a coaster.
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Along the way, Nathan Lane dons full drag, Robin Williams dances his pleated pants off, and Gene Hackman brings remarkable depth to his straight-man role.
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Mr. Lord, who cycled through four marriages, hung around with many of the rebellious, semi-feral writers he represented, but he was always the straight man.
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Reiner was the straight man and Brooks was the 2,000 Year Old Man who had 42,000 children — and not one of them ever came to visit.
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The thing is, while Lafayette was a proud gay man, Ellis, the actor behind the character, was a straight man with a wife and a son.
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If Mr. Rossi's unflappable suavity was standard operating procedure for a comedy team's straight man, Mr. Allen's childlike mix of innocence and insanity was something new.
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" Mr. Donnell gets some of the less interesting material, but he's a wonderful straight man to Mr. Kilgore in their dueling duet, "The River Won't Flow.
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I am a huge fan of Russo — "Straight Man" and "Nobody's Fool" are two of my favorite books, but the latest one just didn't grab me.
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The Financial Times described him in a story last week as "an Irish Catholic from Queens" who "makes for a useful straight man" to Neumann's extravagance.
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The brothers had a well-defined musical-comedy stage act in which Tom, on guitar, played a dimwit, and Dick, on bass, was the straight man.
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An AIDS educator, Brazis also mentioned to Orth that "Lee's name would come up occasionally as a gay 'straight' man" in the support groups she led.
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In a chaotic tilt-a-whirl of a movie, Davidson's straight man provides the comic relief — which, as an SNL cast member, is what he does best.
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And Hayley feels limited by her role as a level-headed straight man (or woman), with her unflappability only really paying off in the film's weirdest moments.
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Not only is he white, he's also a handsome, rich, straight man from California, who comes from a long line of handsome, rich, straight men from California.
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" This supposedly appalling misdeed, as she described it, involved Charles trying to "trick a straight man into thinking he's gay yet again, and somehow you're the victim.
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First up, a 3853-year-old straight man in New York City explains how he dates — and what he spends — after years of being in a relationship.
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Game Night surrounds mainstay straight man Jason Bateman with Rachel McAdams, Lamorne Morris, Sharon Horgan, and Jesse Plemons — familiar faces, but none of them major comedy stars.
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"It would be awesome for there to be a huge, multi-million-dollar, Steven-Spielberg-directed film with a gay man playing a straight man," he says.
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I was playing the straight man the way, say, Scott Aukerman might on the improve show Comedy Bang Bang, setting up guests so they could riff freely.
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Along with Mr. Smith and Matt Ray, his music director, arranger and patient "straight man," Mr. Mac's main professional sidekick is the costume designer Matthew Flower, a.k.a.
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All the social norms of being a straight man in the bedroom (I must be the penetrator, I must be in charge) had literally been fucked into insignificance.
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There was the vapid privilege (and outright cluelessness) of the Bluth family that Arrested Development's Michael (Jason Bateman, in full straight-man mode) could never quite rein in.
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"He's not a straight man by any means, but I think the audience will learn a tremendous amount from this show in a very fun and unusual situation."
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Noah's first episode kept a lot of the Stewart trademarks – from playing the straight man to correspondent Jordan Klepper to ending the show with a Moment of Zen.
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Protagonist Phoenix isn't the jokester here, though he certainly isn't above the occasional jibe—instead, he plays the straight man to nearly every other character in the series.
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I'm more into vomit from straight guys or men who are dads, but it's very hard to find a straight man or a father to vomit for me.
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For most of my 20s and 30s, I never had to worry that getting ahead in my career meant staying in the good graces of a straight man.
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If the HBO special was any indication, viewers should not expect Woods, whose resting state is guarded, to play Mickelson's straight man in an on-course comedy routine.
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He's the team's straight man, he's kind of the DCEU's visual answer to Iron Man, he's even a bit of this movie's MacGuffin, he's even kind of cool!
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Like Crosby and Hope, the two formed a bromance between a straight man (Martin) and a buffoon (Lewis) characterized by an emphasis on banter, absurdity, and physical comedy.
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It turns out straight women only trusted a gay man's advice about a potential boyfriend more than the same advice from, say, a straight man or another straight woman.
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Look no further than two of (straight man) Pete Davidson's recent rom-com roles to see the GBF still exists and the roles are still as problematic as ever.
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"It's a return to the I Love Lucy dynamic Eva and I had on Housewives," Chavira says of playing the "straight man" to Longoria and Riva's Lucy and Ethel.
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After playing the role of straight man for the Jimmy Durante and Ed Wynn TV comedies in the 1950s, Vigoda would spend the next 30 years working in theater.
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Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated that, when shown pictures of one gay man, and one straight man, the algorithm could attribute their sexuality correctly 81% of the time.
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WATTERS: Okay, you want white men -- just take a step back, you want white men to recognize that they have certain advantages by being born a white straight man?
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Teller is saddled with the straight-man role—the sweet guy perfectly willing to overlook his work's ethical quandaries—and he brings his usual soulful intensity to the character.
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"You're going to have every straight man around the world doing a French tuck," Karamo Brown tells his "Queer Eye" costar and resident fashionista Tan France in one episode.
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" — TREVOR NOAH "If a straight man wants to grill steaks while wearing cargo shorts talking about how much they love watching 'Scarface,' no one should try to stop them.
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The Economist summarizes the results: When shown one photo each of a gay and straight man, both chosen at random, the model distinguished between them correctly 81% of the time.
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Sheen, recently seen in Masters of Sex, seems like a fine choice for the angel Aziraphale, who often serves as the straight man to Crowley's more sly and conniving character.
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Just in case you ever wondered how a straight man would describe sex with a woman, Buzzfeed went ahead and had gay men ask them — and things got pleasantly awkward.
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People rarely use the term to describe a melodrama made by a straight man; even when "camp" is meant as a compliment, it contains an insult, suggesting a musty smallness.
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The star often played straight man to Goulding's more boisterous characters, and the pair took the act everywhere from The Tonight Show to The Ed Sullivan Show and, eventually, Broadway.
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Katz is the straight man; he is mostly playing himself, an affable dude who loves his Chicago sports and could easily slide into the chair of any ESPN opinion show.
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"I told the leader of the protest in the Captain America shirt that I was a proud straight man, and he told the police to let me through," Shepard said.
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By contrast, Chance the Rapper is corny and proud, while Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig sounds vaguely embarrassed to be a straight man, but neither succeeds at depicting a relationship's contours.
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More temporary levity follows at the siege in Riverrun, where Bronn plays the cad to Pod's straight man in a scene that sounds fun on paper but proves weirdly tiresome.
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Newhart, playing a psychologist, served as a splendid straight man to the others in the quirky cast, including Daily as his friendly but not-too-bright airline pilot neighbor Howard Borden.
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And yet, despite his Emmy and Golden Globe wins, he made news in January when he told Bustle that he would no longer be playing gay characters as a straight man.
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As a straight woman, when I initiate, I am never refused, but is that because he consents, or because he thinks it is an expected part of being a straight man?
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Looking back now, I think what he really needed was a fellow straight man to tell him he was okay the way he was—that his attraction to me wasn't dangerous.
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Richards starts as a straight man, scolding her male coworkers for mocking the clown's death, before she quickly becomes the center of the action, absolutely losing it during the funeral. RIP.
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Anyway, last night he was doing his usual comedy bit (if he even knows he's hilarious), with perennial straight-man Dan Pasch, when he brought up his appearance in the film.
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Reynolds described himself as a "conflicted Mormon" who's trying to fix his culture, and he cited his Mormonism for the reason he, as a straight man, has taken up LGBT advocacy.
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Ellis marries Annie, and for a time, the three of them become a family, "so daft and so happy," Annie and Michael the manic pixie dream team to Ellis's straight man.
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In this sketch, Palin is still the joke (which is fair, because her speech was unlistenable, and contained literally zero full sentences), and Darrell Hammond as Trump is playing the straight man.
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"That kind of crush seems really antique," said Lucas Whitehead, 29, a straight man who lives in a brownstone in Fort Greene populated by a revolving mix of heterosexual and homosexual males.
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Both Davidson and Boston-based trans improviser Lorelei Erisis agree that certain improv styles can surface performer biases—such as when one performer plays the "straight man" to another's off-kilter character.
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But there's also something curious about the fact that, when a straight man with whom she has a platonic relationship comes to her aid, Hannah decides to add sex into the mix.
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Brain is a hyperintelligent, short-tempered straight man voiced by a guy doing a stentorian Orson Welles impression; Pinky is daffy and sweet and speaks in an over-the-top Cockney accent.
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Ventriloquism is basically a double act in which one person plays both straight man and funny man — a welcome throwback at a time when comic duos are gone from the standup scene.
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And as the bewildered straight man to everybody else, Mr. Schnetzer more than holds his own, finding intriguing ambivalence within Dylan's virtuous persona and also proving himself a dab hand at snooker.
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There's no Tom in the video games, but he's a decent straight man to Sonic's exuberant big kid, one who can help calm down what could have easily become a hyperactive movie.
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CNN, once the buttoned-up straight man of cable news, has embraced its role as foil to Mr. Trump, with anchors like Jake Tapper delivering aggressive interviews and commentary on the administration.
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I know nothing about cars, my closet is full of dresses, and the only straight man I regularly talk to is my girlfriend's roommate (because, you know, I don't want to be rude).
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With Couric and Vieira, Lauer could be an easygoing straight man; with Curry, who threw off his rhythm and also threatened his dominance of the hard-news stories, he could often look sour.
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The whiskey-swilling, woodworking, meat-loving Libertarian could have become a forgettable straight-man alongside a crowded ensemble cast of local government do-rights, but actor Nick Offerman gave Swanson heart and depth.
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And I actually found the comedic material to be there for him in a way it wasn't for almost everyone else, especially Melissa McCarthy, who, maybe, shouldn't be a straight man after all.
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" Barlow wrote that as a "straight man that grew up here in Oklahoma, I love taking my truck mudding, going fishing, swimming at the lake, floating the river, and several other 'country' activities.
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A performer playing a "straight man" is more likely to make anything they feel is out of the ordinary into the "game of the scene"—essentially the joke that makes the scene funny.
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You suffer the casual heartbreak of being surrounded by beautiful boys who will never fuck you, The only straight man who speaks to you is Billy Farrell asking how to spell your name.
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She said that she was also upset by Mr. Charles's attempt to "trick a straight man into thinking he's gay, yet again," an incident she said happened at her most recent birthday celebration.
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The idea that a white, Christian, straight man could be persecuted because of those factors — at one of America's most conservative universities in one of America's most conservative states — has caused some confusion.
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Coupled with Clinton's scandalous history, the photo sets up Obama as the straight man foil to Clinton's sex jokes and shenanigans, a motif that would be repeated years later with Biden-centric memes.
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Jason*, a 22-year-old straight man from the US, pinpoints his earliest farting fantasies to the age of six, when he would imagine hanging out with a gassy Pumbaa from The Lion King.
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In a typical scene from the game Super Seducer, the player — presumably a straight man cruising for sex — encounters two women sitting on a blue velvet couch, catching up over a glass of wine.
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While Iammoshow shares his enthusiastic, beat-friendly thoughts on felines (they shine "like glitter"), Ravioli serves as a straight man, keeping a constant cool as his owner dances around with him in one hand.
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If a straight man can put a photo of a woman on his desk, how can a lesbian have no redress under Title VII if she is fired for doing the exact same thing?
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But Bohemian Rhapsody isn't interested in exploring the positive aspects of their friendship, because it would apparently rather portray Mercury as lost, confused, and fixated on her, just as a straight man might be.
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No stranger to robots from his gig on HBO's "Westworld," James Marsden co-stars as Sonic's straight-man BFF, and the fact that he delivers the trailer's funniest line isn't necessarily a positive sign.
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His "Tonight Show" appearances were informative but also funny: Mr. Fowler often proved to be a fine straight man for Mr. Carson, as in 1983, when he brought on a large crane named Stanley.
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Sarcastic straight man Cliff is the most compelling of the characters so far, but even the emotional rollercoaster he rides in the first episode is undermined by the writers adding in one twist too many.
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When she's not experiencing a manic episode, Maria often ends up playing the bewildered straight man as everyone else unravels — but then again, since we're inside Maria's head, who's to say what we're actually seeing?
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As a straight man and a player in the NBA, Bullock is uniquely positioned within popular American cultural to educate others about the humanity of transgender individuals, and the alarming rates of violence they face.
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Dating has also come under fire for allowing users to register only as a "straight man" or "straight woman," and for a feature that allows users to select "happily married" or "unhappily married" as a status.
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To further examine why this might be the case, we had women imagine receiving information from either a straight woman, straight man, or a gay man about their physical appearance and the dateability of potential boyfriends.
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Trump and 'straight man cancer' Chinese feminists used to be able to count on the support of the US government, with former secretaries of state Hilary Clinton and John Kerry both voicing their support for them.
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It came across as yet another moment for the greater LGBTQ community to prop up the words of a white, cisgender — and in this case, straight — man, reportedly before letting any LGBTQ people of color speak.
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And, again, Monsoon was next to him, playing the perfect straight man, his nobility and decency cast as relief against Heenan's acid one-liners and flights of fancy where up was down and bad was good.
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This has much to do with the element of surprise: Buress's character, a typically restrained dentist named Lincoln—Broad City's one and only straight man, in all senses of the phrase—rarely breaks the goofball barrier.
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"How You Get the Girl" is a guide for a straight man on how to win back his ex-girlfriend six months after the breakup — but if the relationship ended, it probably ended for a reason.
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Gene Okerlund, who as a ringside interviewer and commentator served for decades as a straight man to the outsize personalities who suffuse the world of professional wrestling, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Sarasota, Fla.
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Ali, more or less the straight man in the double act, approaches every moment with a razor-fine wit, a lively awareness of the absurdity of the situation that may not belong to the character alone.
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He was at his best with characters that were a little naive, clumsy or slow-witted, and especially when teamed with straight man Harvey Korman and given the chance to show off his improvisational and slapstick skills.
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Based on the 1978 French film La Cage aux Folles, it involves, among many things, Nathan Lane throwing pitch-perfect hysterical fits, Hank Azaria dancing in cutoffs, and Robin Williams playing the straight man (no pun intended).
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Anyone who suffered through Crowe's unfortunate recent turn on Saturday Night Live might be worried—the Oscar-winner was awfully stiff—but thankfully he seems to be the badass straight man opposite Gosling's more temperamental private eye.
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Equal parts straight man and odd one out, Guillen helps shepherd the narrative scene-to-scene with his incisive dialogue and unwavering nervousness — keeping the story's pace at a strong clip without sacrificing any of his character.
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According to blood donation guidelines set by the FDA, a straight man who either pays for sex with a woman or knowingly has sex with a woman who is HIV positive only needs to wait a year.
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But when he says that a hypothetical straight man, cheating on his wife with prostitutes, then impregnating her, could "waltz into any clinic guilt-free" — well, that would be true only if the guy were a sociopath.
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Metrosexual [me-troh-sek-shoo-uh l] | adjective (metrosexuals) Usually used to describe a straight man — although some queer men may also use the term — who spends more time on his appearance than is considered normal for men.
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Shows like Will & Grace and Gimme Gimme Gimmemeans we are well-versed in the gay man/female best friend stereotype, but a straight man having mostly female friends—there's no term for it, no stereotype to draw from.
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Having to leave their shared home, Leila moves to Hackney to live with Gabe (Domhnall Gleeson), a neurotic novelist and teacher trying to make sense of his own life and lovers and who is, notably, a straight man.
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The current season of The Bachelor, featuring white straight man Arie Luyendyk Jr, also underperformed, ratings from its January 1 premiere dropping 29% from last year's January 2 date, which many blame on competition with The Rose Bowl.
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In what was almost certainly the greatest commenting duo in pro wrestling history, he would needle his WWF commentating partner, Gorilla Monsoon, who played the straight man to Heenan's cutting wit with a style that nobody else had.
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A kind of proto–Liz Lemon, Moore's character Mary Richards was neither straight man nor comic force, but a little bit of both—a fully rounded-out human whose struggles in the workplace and outside it felt real.
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Similarly, in analyzing Czech Hunters, a gay-for-pay series set in Eastern Europe, he looked at another uncomfortably exploitative porn fantasy—that of the desperate straight man willing to do anything for a fat wad of cash.
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The biggest star on the planet, Jackie Chan, was never able to be much more than Chris Tucker's straight man in a series of "Rush Hour" films that featured a running joke that Mr. Chan's character was Japanese.
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On YouTube, you can find video montages of the play's aftermath: Messi and his teammates celebrating and cracking up, the goalie López mugging like an exasperated vaudeville straight man, play-by-play announcers dissolving in peals of laughter.
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The Obama Presidency ended with a fairly wholesome and over-covered meme template of the President once again playing straight man while the VP made crude jokes or set up pranks at the expense of President-elect Trump.
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But if you're a straight man who is sick of hooking up with living, breathing women and doesn't mind shelling out tons of cash to sweat inside a sex suit, it looks like the internet has answered your prayers.
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Ms. Perego and two other puppeteers were on hand to impart the movements, and a fourth provided Topo Gigio's voice — but, Mr. Ilson wrote, Mr. Sullivan had not realized that someone would also have to serve as the puppet's straight man.
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Alan Young, a comedian and veteran supporting actor who found wide fame as an unlikely sort of second fiddle — the hapless straight man to a talking horse in the 21953s sitcom "Mister Ed" — died on Thursday in Woodland Hills, Calif.
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And, with the exception of his Academy Award performance and his work in about a dozen other films, he was most often a peripheral player, a sidekick of the star or the straight man with setup lines for the comedian.
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But they're also cast exactly on type, from mean-boss Aniston (last seen in Horrible Bosses) to straight man Bateman to lovably overconfident partying boss Miller to Randall Park (Fresh Off the Boat) as that ubiquitous office standard, Fred-from-Accounting.
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The characters tick familiar boxes: Scotty (Grant Rosenmeyer), who has paraplegia, is the crass, childish one; the visually impaired Mo (Ravi Patel) is a nervous stickler for the rules; and Matt (Hayden Szeto), who uses a wheelchair, is the straight man.
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"I don't want to in any way belittle the struggles of other people while talking about the struggles of a straight man," said Patty Walters, 27, the lead singer of As It Is. "At the same time, toxic masculinity is real."
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Ferrell's over-the-top reactions and habit of spitting out random, totally inappropriate words to answer questions is on full display here, as is Poehler's charming straight-man condescension and ability to both play on and play up someone else's jokes.
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Co-directed by Kiyoko herself, filmed with the help of her friends, and with a modest $5,000 budget, the plot centers around two teenage girls crushing on one another, and fighting back against a predatory straight man who won't leave them alone.
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" 22, straight, male"It has led me to question how I, as a straight man, can possibly approach a potential partner without being seen as a potential creep given the number of negative experiences women seem to have with men in general.
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A straight man might not believe that they are being treated "less favorably" than his female colleagues if they are forbidden from engaging in romantic relationships with men, but the gay plaintiffs in Bostick and Zarda would no doubt see that question differently.
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Not all that long ago, it positioned Ivanka, like the other women in Trump's inner circle, as an eternal straight man, a woman who was sucked into her father's orbit against her will, who longed for freedom but would never reach it.
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Just a couple of weeks after rubbing dirt on himself on live TV—and encouraging his ever-patient straight man,commentator Dave Pasch, to do the same—Walton has gone and hijacked a UC Berkeley band member's glockenspiel and started playing it.
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It would typically play out like this: A straight man would want activities that could be construed by mainstream culture as "gay," such as pegging or forced bi (when a man is forced by a dominatrix to perform homosexual acts with another man).
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But Alderson turned from standup act to straight man on Thursday when the Mets announced that, lo and behold, they had signed Tebow — a former Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, an N.F.L. washout and a cross-cultural lightning rod — to a minor league contract.
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Msgr. Thomas J. Hartman, the self-styled straight man of a Catholic-Jewish duo that for a generation traded congenial religious repartee as "The God Squad" on television and radio and in a newspaper column, died on Tuesday in Uniondale, N.Y. He was 69.
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It looks at what it's like to live in the world as a white, middle-class, non-disabled straight man, and all the easy, unthinking power that can accrue to a person who gets to live like that — then it takes that power away.
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Assume nothing, and ask about their sexuality point blank—the women from the study who had the most problems in their relationships with bisexual men had initially assumed they were entering a relationship with a straight man, only to find out the truth later.
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There is a scene in an elevator and another in a men's room stall that are almost worth the price of admission, and while Mr. Crowe is something other than a natural comedian, he is a perfectly serviceable straight man for Mr. Gosling, who is.
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The arrest scene is harrowing and brutal, but the whole thing is over in a matter of minutes, after Thomas' friend and love interest bails him out by masquerading as a disgusted straight man trying to get his friend back to work on time.
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Like his Russell in "The Irishman," Pesci's performance as Joey is guided by restraint: Whereas Jake is ruled by his appetites — for food, violence, teenage girls — and freely expresses his emotions regardless of the situation, Joey remains the put-upon, sometimes humorous straight man.
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Sager leaned into this, embracing his role as a straight man to a series of much taller and more recognizable mock-antagonists—as the object of Gregg Popovich's world-historic impatience, say, or the inspiration for Kevin Garnett's rapid-fire insult comedy/fashion criticism.
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Wanting to find a way to joke about Conway's relationship with Trump is understandable, and it's easy to trace SNL's tendency to temper the chaos of a character like Baldwin's Trump with some semblance of a "straight man," which by default became McKinnon's Conway.
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Instead, he plays a straight-man-in-a-strange-land version of himself, whether he's hunting for Cialis during a VR-sex escapade, casually wielding a firearm, or giving an earnest tour of his love nest ("designed by clinically insane Swedish architects to encourage optimal lovemaking").
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While society tends to think of losing your virginity or "popping your cherry" as a straight woman or straight man having penis-in-vagina sex for the first time, that's a definition that leaves out a lot of people and a lot of different kinds of sex.
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Jack is a particularly mediocre protagonist, with the combination of a bland performance and inconsistent script making him unconvincing as an underdog townie surrounded by more privileged students at Belgrave, or even as a straight man struggling to keep up with the pace of mystical reveals.
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Not Kobe the storytelling auteur or Kobe the smiling straight-man to a hyperactive mauve puppet, but Kobe as he was and imagined himself to be during his basketball career, both as a champion and then, toward the end, as the vengeful ghost that haunted his team.
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Where Bridesmaids presents a collection of female stereotypes, Joshy casts five guys as the same two types of characters: the reasonable, bedraggled "straight man" in sensible pants and a zip-up hoodie, and the best friend whose job it is to make sure zany hedonism ensues.
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" In the comments section of the post, she has since criticized O'Brien for using the club as a backdrop for comedy, stating that she was "questioning the intent of a straight man standing in front of a club full queer folks making jokes about the club.
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It's also simply fun to watch Josh, the slack-jawed straight man to the endless hijinks of East Peck, and his team, made up of sweet, simple, brother-cousin-having Dwayne Reed (Steven Boyer) and the fantastic Anne Flatch (Sherri Shepherd), try to break the case.
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Bill Walton introduced the concept to his perennial straight man Dave Pasch during last Saturday's game between Arizona and Cal, and you could witness Pasch writhe in discomfort as Bill Walton opened up the can of dirt, poured some out, and briskly rubbed himself with it.
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Even the series' straight man, lawyer Josh Segal (Nicholas D'Agosto), who serves as the primary connection between the two seasons, has his own quirks, including a penchant for magic and a sense of interior design that another character describes as similar to that of an old lady.
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Cox continued in a similar vein, conscious of his status as a straight man who can't fully understand the lived experience of being LGBTQ but who feels empathy and solidarity with them: I am not here to tell you that I know exactly what you are going through.
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In a way, the play is a utopian fantasy of a wholly gay little world (with the insertion of one terrified, maybe-probably-closeted straight man as the exception that proves the rule) at the final moment before that world was — finally, necessarily, violently — merged with the mainstream.
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Deadpan police detective Clive Babineaux (Malcolm Goodwin) provides great comic beats as the straight man who's nevertheless willing to work with a "psychic" medical examiner (that's the explanation Liv gives him for the intel she gleans through her zombie-powered visions) — and take Liv's wild personality swings in stride.
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Erskine, a comic talent best known as a creator of the Hulu comedy series "Pen15," suggests that the answer is yes: Her Alice is so effortlessly confident and funny that it's almost a shame she is destined to end up with a bore of a comedic straight man.
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Less common is the straight man who filters his unease through the lives of women, but in one of the great American films of the 1970s, Altman's prismatic "3 Women," Shelley Duvall is Millie Lammoreaux, a young woman whose carefully crafted persona masks a deep and painful insecurity.
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As he told Rolling Stone in 211, Hart intended these jokes to constitute a self-deprecating look at his own bigotry and fears: In essence, the humor was supposed to lie in the level of absurdity he was displaying as a straight man who was insecure about his masculinity.
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Washington excels at playing the straight man on the verge of a nervous breakdown, toggling between simmering rage and hilarious incredulity during his many phone calls with Duke, who lists the many ways he can tell the difference between a white man and a Black man by the way they enunciate.
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Romance Bookstore Even when he's playing the straight man — in this case, the exasperated owner of a romance-themed bookstore who has to deal with his employee and her stock boy acting out their bodice-ripper fantasies at work — Thompson manages to be the funniest one in the sketch. 15.
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He isn't alone in his blandness — while Evangeline Lilly gets a lot more room to take an active hand in this film than she did in Ant-Man, and her opening fight scene in particular is thrilling, her character is still a bland straight-man type compared to the other heroes.
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Take a look at this clip from Tapper's January 31 show, in which he played a winking straight man responding to footage of White House press secretary Sean Spicer incoherently insisting that Trump's executive order on immigration isn't a "ban," despite Trump himself using that term over and over again: .
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Even we have been guilty of that, choosing to focus on the analysis of McGregor's words with our Academic Analysis of his trash talk before UFC 25, and relegating Diaz to the unsung role of straight man, a simple tool to set up some of The Notorious's most beloved quips.
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He said he robbed some places to help feed his family and also was offered a gig as a bouncer at the comedy club Improvisation, where he began honing his skills as a performer -- sometimes acting as a master of ceremonies or as the straight man in skits, the newspaper reported.
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Some of these traumas, like the pain of childhood molestation, are very big and serious, but the series also understands deeper, societal trauma, like the legacy of slavery, or smaller traumas, like being a less masculine (though still straight) man in a society that values traditional masculinity above all else.
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If naming Shelton was a publicity stunt, it worked: Twitter users were so startled by the revelation that both "Blake Shelton" and "Sexiest Man Alive" trended for most of Wednesday, and the jokes flowed loudly and freely: even a straight man can see there's no way blake shelton is the sexiest man alive.
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Make no mistake: Chris Hemsworth is worthy of goofball comedy — achingly so, proven time and again outside the Marvel Cinematic Universe — and his sidekick in this case, Mark Ruffalo's Hulk, is the endearing straight-man, whose big green form has since evolved rudimentary conversational skills that are used to very funny effect indeed.
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An announcer's podium is set up stage right, along with different producers and assistants working on their laptops — bands tune their instruments, guests chatter and banter with Mr. Stubbs, who also functions as an impeccable straight man, and the audience groans and chuckles while cheesy ad copy is read during the breaks.
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Two variety series meant to show that she could play more than the sunny straight man — Mary and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour — largely bombed, and her assorted TV comeback vehicles in the '80s and '90s (which mostly played off her famous work as Mary Richards in various ways) failed as well.
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The show cannot imagine that a straight man could truly love pageants and mentoring young women and be secure in his masculinity, or that a young lesbian could love herself enough to not fall in love with her straight best friend, or that a fat girl could be happy, healthy, and thriving without losing weight.
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Federer, usually the crowd favorite worldwide, would get to keep playing the straight man when the match began, as Willis pumped up the fans, windmilling his arms and looking fully prepared to enjoy every minute, even if he did not win a game until he held serve at 0-1 in the second set.
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Whereas in the past, Carson Kressley would take his straight man of the week to a Tom Ford store on a brick-lined street in Soho, France takes his father-of-six hero to a Target, so he can shop within his budget and develop a sustainable grooming regimen in a bathroom shared by eight family members.
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Take a look at this clip from Tapper's January 31 show, in which he played a winking straight man responding to footage of White House press secretary Sean Spicer incoherently insisting that Trump's executive order on immigration isn't a "ban," despite Trump himself using that term over and over again: "It seems odd though," Tapper mused with faux concern.
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While internet drama curator KeemStar set off a heated debate earlier this week when he insisted on Twitter that "No straight man in the history of mankind was bi curious," and claimed that men who had experimented couldn't possibly be straight, Savin-Williams says sexuality is more complicated than the black and white categories we automatically put people into.
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A federal judge in Buffalo, for instance, determined that a discrimination suit depends on a plaintiff's actual sexual orientation: If a straight man were harassed with homophobic slurs, the judge said, he could bring a gender-stereotyping claim that would be considered an improper attempt, were it brought by a gay man, to bootstrap a workplace discrimination claim.
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Gamely playing straight man to Mr. Baron Cohen's clueless suburban would-be gangsta rapper, Mr. Schultze patiently explained why currency does not come in denominations of, say, $22.56; that there was no particular "bestest" personal identification number to use with a bank account; and that "buying low and selling high" in the stock market had nothing to do with artificial stimulants.
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Over the course of the 10-minute conversation (in which Bruce, the infamously profane comedian, plays the unlikely straight man), Heckler divulges some of the secrets of his craft and introduces a few of his performers, using tweezers to remove them from what he calls the "flea hotel," a box filled with cotton or wool, in which the insects' feet get caught.
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Expanding on some of the themes laid out in his 2012 Rumpus essay about a sexual encounter with a straight man that goes scarily wrong, Jones (full disclosure: a former BuzzFeed News employee) barges right into the coming-of-age memoir pantheon with this slim account of growing up gay and black in Texas with a determined single mother and a religious grandmother.
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Viewers were engaged by its distinctive if unusual threesome of announcers: Howard Cosell, a dyspeptic, easy-to-dislike commentator best known for boxing and his relationship with Muhammad Ali; Don Meredith, the mellow and mischievous former quarterback who could drift into song or wit; and Frank Gifford, the handsome football hero and straight man who tried to tame the other two.
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But leaving aside the fact that there is no such thing as non-political art — that Ellis's position as a white, gay, wealthy cis man has as much influence on his perspective as Barry Jenkins's perspective as a black straight man has on Moonlight ("dour and downbeat," Ellis opines) — Ellis's ostensible love for style is not evident in the clogged and uninteresting White.
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He's still in the unfortunate position of playing many of his scenes with that child, though, and the 12-year-old actress, Saniyya Sidney, steals them all — partly because they're written that way, with Brad as Amy's straight man, and partly because Sidney is a natural scene stealer who already knows how to zero in on a laugh and how to angle her face for a wide-eyed reaction.
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At first, this year's edition of what Meyers has dubbed "Game of Jones" followed the format established last year: Meyers fired up the latest episode, "The Spoils of War," and then played straight man to Jones's superfan wild card, watching in mingled awe and amusement as she explained that Bronn is the guy "who knows where all the one-dollar cigarettes is" and that she would definitely have sex with Littlefinger, but she would have to keep her eyes open the whole time.
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Read more:A drag queen who called out a former Republican representative for his anti-LGBT votes at a gay bar in LA told us why she confronted himDrag queens are calling out New York Magazine&aposs &aposmost powerful drag queens&apos list, citing inaccuracies and bad photos Allegations against entertainer Todrick Hall are piling up, from stories of nonpayment to accusations of backlash for reporting sexual misconductAs a straight man, I tried drag makeup for the first time with RuPaul&aposs Farrah Moan
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In "Straight Man," the novel that followed "Nobody's Fool" in 1997, and which remains one of the great academic satires of all time, right up there with Kingsley Amis's "Lucky Jim" and Francine Prose's "Blue Angel," Russo showed us a comic sensibility with much sharper edges — but that novel was narrated in the first person, while the current book's method is to open up the perspective and dig deeply into the hearts and minds of its large cast of characters, some of whom are less deserving of that attention than others.
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