second bananas

noun

plural of second banana
as in top bananas

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  1. wits
  2. comedians
  3. wags
  4. humorists
  5. farceurs
  6. funnymen
  7. jokesters
Noun
  • Sharpen your wits at any number of trivia nights in the area.
    — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
  • There, Rannells matches wits with Allison Janney as the grieving widow.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 26 June 2026
Definition of wits
Noun
  • The event features more than 80 active or retired sports stars, as well Hollywood actors, comedians and entertainers, all vying for a $600,000 purse in the three-day, 54-hole tournament.
    — José Luis Villegas, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
  • Both seasons saw the casting of unknowns to a sizable degree; actors, comedians, and improvisers who have not previously been in the spotlight united in a remarkably convincing and cohesive ensemble performance.
    — Emily Maskell, IndieWire, 10 July 2026
Definition of comedians
Noun
  • Moreover, if Griffin stepped into public life now, the cynical wags in finance would declare the reason obvious—his hedge fund’s returns have been sagging.
    — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Many critics, political pundits, and wags asked, somewhat rhetorically, whether anyone in the administration recalls how handing the responsibility of nuclear weaponry over to machines turned out in the Terminator movies.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026
Definition of wags
Noun
  • By 1980, most newspapers had humorists as well as analysts on their editorial or op-ed pages, and some, especially smaller ones that did not have separate business or lifestyle sections, ran advice columns on business and other topics there.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The State Police magazine already has a crew of freelance humorists hard at work.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 17 Jan. 2026
Definition of humorists
Noun
  • Director David Ellenstein has assembled a strong quartet of farceurs who easily slide in and out of a multitude of characters, accents, funny wigs, moustaches, costumes and prop glasses while running in and out of the 25 doors on scenic designer Marty Burnett’s simple but effective set.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
Definition of farceurs
Noun
  • Fellow Hollywood Bowl funnymen will include Shane Gillis, John Mulaney and Marcello Hernández.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Lord and Miller are boisterous funnymen, with a flair for the exaggerated and the outlandish that feels born of their frequent work in animation.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
Definition of funnymen
Noun
  • There are Jewish jokes and Jewish jokesters and Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters.
    — Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Some people might bring nice presents, while jokesters may put far less valuable gifts in their boxes.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Dec. 2025
Definition of jokesters
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