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The use of a character who, by contrast, brings out the comic qualities of another character (or of other characters). The comic foil is the straight man in a pair of comedians (eg Laurel and Hardy or Abbot and Costello) who allows the other to be funny, makes them funnier, without doing anything funny themselves. This characters are considered comic foils:
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