# Comedy Duos - Two Straight Men

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 14, 2015, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-duos-two-straight-men/720019 "2015-05-14T11:17:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-duos-two-straight-men/720019/21 "2015-05-18T16:34:13Z")

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> So, I’m wondering if there were any other comedy duos that could be considered two straight men

From the [Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_act) about double acts/comedy duos:

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> Where the “straight man” serves no personal comic purpose but acts as a device to make the “comic” look good, he is known as a “stooge”.

So, you’re asking if there’s ever been another comedy act with two (or, heck, maybe even three) stooges? 🙂

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**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-duos-two-straight-men/720019/22 "2015-05-18T17:27:50Z")

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Isn’t most comedy either a straight man in a funny world (Newhart) or a funny man in a straight world (Mork & Mindy)? Well, there’s observational comedy, where the comedian points out the unnoticed funny stuff that happens in the straight world. I guess I can imagine a team of 2 straight men doing observational stuff, pointing out hypocrisies and the like, but for quick laughs, straight man and the goofy one are the most reliable.

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**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-duos-two-straight-men/720019/23 "2015-05-18T19:06:47Z")

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Crystal and Gad

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-duos-two-straight-men/720019/24 "2015-05-18T19:38:06Z")

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Many Bird and Fortune sketches have two straight men talking at cross purposes or being conspicuously wrong, rather than goofy.

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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-duos-two-straight-men/720019/25 "2015-05-18T20:45:15Z")

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Stiller and Meara did sketches and mostly switched who was going to be the set up. Or they both were straight or goofy as the sketch needed.

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