Funnyman
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Funnyman is a noun meaning (informal) comedian.
Meaning
(informal) comedian.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- funnymen
- funny man
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include funnywoman, laughster, comique, joker, gagster, gagmeister.
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