Wiktionary
n. 1 (context idiomatic English) A comedian who plays a secondary or supporting role, especially as straight man and traditionally in vaudeville or burlesque theatre. 2 (context idiomatic English) A person who serves in a supporting, secondary, or subsidiary capacity; an assistant.
WordNet
n. a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian [syn: straight man]
someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role [syn: second fiddle]
Usage examples of "second banana".
He reminded her a bit of James Brolin, the second banana on that Dr.
Only second banana to the actual hero, true, but Trampas has got the one line from the book everyone remembers: ‘.
Those females were way too used-up to cop even a second banana role in any teenage horndog fantasy-overweight and overworked-just your typical sad sweet old black ladies that life had been shitting on for about four hundred years, about as sexy as a bag of turkey necks rotting in the noonday sun or a hippopotamus's asshole with a wad of toilet paper hanging off it.
Those females were way too used-up to cop even a second banana role in any teenage horndog fantasyoverweight and overworkedjust your typical sad sweet old black ladies that life had been shitting on for about four hundred years, about as sexy as a bag of turkey necks rotting in the noonday sun or a hippopotamus's asshole with a wad of toilet paper hanging off it.
I had played second banana to Lee working Warrants, and if Fritzie and I partnered up I wanted him to know that I wouldn't play stooge--or lacky-- like Harry Sears to Russ Millard.
Greenjeans, a proper second banana, was poker-faced but the Captain mugged each time he passed the camera.
I'm everybody's favorite second banana, but with a crew of only ten there's just no room for any second bananas.