The journalists, in effect, play straight men for one another.
"I'm trying to figure out who the straight man is."
Mark's role in season four was as a romantic straight man.
These were straight men but from the street drug world.
Either that or he was a hell of a straight man.
First, though, I had to be his straight man for a little while longer.
He walked down the street, a tall, very straight man.
If not quite the "straight man" of the group, he was certainly the most serious.
