What does funny man mean?
Funny man means (informal) comedian.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(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.
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.
Use funny man when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Funny man means (informal) comedian.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include straight man.
To get the party started a professional funnyman was hired.
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