funnyman

See also: funny man

English

Alternative forms

• funny man

Etymology

funny +‎ -man

Noun

funnyman (plural funnymen)

1. (informal) comedian

   To get the party started a professional funnyman was hired.

   • 1988 December 16, Albert Williams, “Club Dates: Bruce Vilanch returns from Hollywood”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     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.

Antonyms

• straight man

See also

• funnywoman