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The 13 pages that link to Straight man, each with the reason it gives.

• DeadpanRelated: The straight man's unruffled reactions use deadpan restraint to frame another performer’s antics.

• Character comedyRelated: The straight man’s grounded reactions sharpen the comic character’s eccentricities.

• Double actRelated: The straight role gives the contrasting partner’s antics a clear target and frame.

• Marx BrothersRelated: Zeppo and Margaret Dumont often provide the composed reactions that expose the others' disorder.

• Abbott and CostelloRelated: Abbott typically supplied the authority and composure that framed Costello’s comic confusion.

• Oliver HardyRelated: Hardy often supplied the authority and frustration that made Laurel’s behavior funnier.

• Gracie AllenRelated: Burns’s calm corrections gave Allen’s apparent misunderstandings their comic frame.

• Lou CostelloRelated: Abbott’s controlled responses sharpened the humor of Costello’s bewilderment.

• Martin and LewisRelated: Martin’s calm reactions gave Lewis’s antics a comic frame.

• Bob NewhartRelated: Newhart often supplies the calm reaction that makes his scene partners’ antics funnier.

• Burns and AllenRelated: George Burns’s calm responses gave Gracie Allen’s eccentric logic a comic frame.

• Leslie NielsenRelated: Nielsen often served as the unflappable center against which a film’s nonsense could register.