comedic duo
Laughs together professionally
A comedic duo is a pair of performers who work together as a comedy act, typically with contrasting personalities or roles—the straight man and the funny man, the smart one and the fool.
The format has produced iconic partnerships: Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Key and Peele.
They've been a comedic duo since college.
- Laurel and HardyContrasting comedic film partners
- funny manProfessional humor performer
- straight manComedy duo's serious half
- foilDefeat a plan
- good cop bad copAlternating hostile and sympathetic interrogators
banter · slapstick · double act · odd couple · misunderstandings · fish out of water · gag · timing · repartee · call and response · chemistry · camaraderie · exaggeration · partnership · bowler hat · contrast · satire · vaudeville act
- comedianscomedian, stand-up, comic, stand-up comic, standup comic
- Japanese Comedydouble act, straight man, funny man
- comedyjokes, humor, puns, sarcasm, stand-up
- Japanese theaterkabuki, noh, bunraku, Bunraku, kyogen
ensemble size
comedic duosolo act
stand-up comic · one-man show · one-woman show · stand-up comedian · comedy troupe