funnyman
nounEtymology From funny + -man.
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Informal comedian
- To get the party started a professional funnyman was hired.
- From 1970 to 1974 he was one of the most familiar funnymen in Chicago: by day a heavily promoted personality journalist, by night a "sit-down comic" with a devoted following.1988 December 16, Albert Williams, “Club Dates: Bruce Vilanch returns from Hollywood”, in Chicago Reader:
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- As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism.2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:
- Antonyms
- straight man
- Related terms
- funnywoman