Straight Man and Wise Guy: Difference between revisions

* [[Pinky and The Brain]], with Pinky as the Wise Guy and The Brain as the Straight Man.

* Walter is the Costello to Tiren's Abbott in [[Dubious Company]]. Also occasionally, Mary and Leeroy are the wise guys to Sue and Sal respectively.

Walter: [[Who's on First?|Nowhere.]]<br />

(beat) Tiren: Walter, I will beat you to [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon|death with a coconut]]! }}

* Andy Griffith and Don Knotts were like this in [[The Andy Griffith Show]]. Andy's Andy Taylor was the straight man and Knotts' Barney was the wise guy. Although it was originally to be the other way around.

* [[Wallace and Gromit]], notable in that the Straight Man (Gromit) is completely mute and only expresses himself through pantomime. Their exchanges are usually along the lines of:

'''Gromit:''' ''([[Silent Snarker|rolls eyes]])'' }}

* Early ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had Lisa and Bart as a classic Straight Man And Wise Guy pair, especially when they investigates mysteries together. Usually, Lisa would compare the situation to some historic moment or classical literature, and Bart would make a joke about it.

'''Bart:''' Yeah, except their dad wasn't waiting in the car reading Archie comics. }}