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Meanings of double act in English

Russian
пара комиков
Portuguese
dupla cômica
Spanish
duo humoristico
Catalan
duet còmic
Wikidata

Pair of comedians whose act is based on their uneven relationship.

пара комиков
Synonyms
Examples for "comedy duo"
Examples for "comedy duo"
1
The original Sunshine Boys were the comedy duo, Smith & Dale.
The new yorker
2
New Zealand's fourth-most-popular guitar-based digi-bongo a cappella-rap-funk- comedy duo are touring the UK once more.
The Guardian
3
The musical comedy duo is Deborah Linden and Errol Elumir.
Wired
4
The comedy duo are not moving with the show when it transfers to Channel 4.
BBC
5
The call was made by a well-known Montreal comedy duo Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel.
The Irish Times
1
The 2 girls made a comic duo, Sarah was very thin and Gretchen was fat.
The new yorker
2
The Australian comic duo The Umbilical Brothers met in miming class but found they preferred making noise.
Radio NZ
3
Lawyers for the play's producers and the comic duo's heirs did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Reuters
4
The comic duo were then the most popular on television, and the self-doubting Braben thought that he was not good enough.
The Guardian
1
Yeez are a pair of comedians the day.
Fresh
2
It started with a pair of comedians in blackface who exchanged a string of corny jokes and then did a soft-shoe dance.
The last illusion
1
With the as-yet-untitled sitcom still in the works, let's imagine some other comedic duos we'd love to see break funny bones on TV.
Ebony
Usage of double act in English
1
IT WAS the final public performance of the most unpredictable double act.
The Irish Times
2
Now confronted with a Wahid-Megawati double act what will the wags say?
The Irish Times
3
They continued to function as a symbiotic double act to the end.
The Guardian
4
Their double act had been the defining novelty of the newly restored Executive.
The Irish Times
5
It's rare to see two sisters form a double act; most sisters know better.
The Guardian
6
He said Mr Lawlor and Redmond "had a great double act" going.
The Irish Times
7
It also marked the culmination of Ailes' double act in politics and the media.
The Guardian
8
Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Minneapolis-St. Paul MINNEAPOLIS What is America's greatest double act?
Reuters
9
People refer to this internal double act all the time.
Keeper: one house, three generations, and a journey into alzheim...
10
You and Chris are quite the established double act now.
News.com.au
11
It threatened to be an uneasy double act when the pair met on Thursday.
The Guardian
12
Maybe he thought they were pulling some nice-and-nasty double act.
Anvil Gate
13
And now this late-career double act arrives in the UK for a week-long tour.
The Guardian
14
And McGuinness made an interesting double act with Gerry Adams.
The Guardian
15
Amy Lawrence Shared between Sky's excellent double act of Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher.
The Guardian
16
I was doing standup in a double act and doing it solo as well.
The Guardian
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Translations for double act
Portuguese
dupla cômica
Double act across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common