Definitions
A funnyman is a comedian or humorous entertainer.
Word origin
From funny + -man.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Comic performer”8 letters
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