Last Updated：2025/11/20

(idiomatic) A comedian who plays a secondary or supporting role, especially as straight man and traditionally in vaudeville or burlesque theatre.

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second banana

Source Word

second banana

idiomatic

Japanese Meaning

脇役のお笑い芸人、特に主役のブーストを担うボケと突っ込みのセットで、主にストレートマンとしてサポートする役割を果たす人物

Even though he was the second banana, his timing kept the audience laughing all night.

彼は脇役のコメディアンだったが、その間の取り方で観客を一晩中笑わせ続けた。

Sense（1）

He grew disenchanted with playing second banana and never getting credit for the laughter.

Sense（2）

(idiomatic) A person who serves in a supporting, secondary, or subsidiary capacity; an assistant.

The plumber left his second banana behind, to finish installing my new sink.

second bananas

（ plural ）