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In its [[United Kingdom|British]] form, the two actors would usually be composed of a "straight man" or "feed" and a "comic", the purpose of the feed is to set up jokes for the comic. This would rely heavily on comic timing.

[[Morecambe and Wise]] are arguably the quintessential British double act. They followed the traditional formula with [[Eric Morecambe]] as the comic and [[Ernie Wise]] as the feed. Other British acts such as [[The Two Ronnies]], [[Hale and Pace]], [[Vic and Bob]], [[French and Saunders]], [[Mitchell and Webb]], [[Fry and Laurie]], [[Simon Pegg]] and [[Nick Frost]], [[Ant & Dec]], [[Punt and Dennis]], [[Lee and Herring]], [[Armstrong and Miller (television)|Armstrong and Miller]], [[The Peacock and Gamble Podcast|Peacock and Gamble]] and [[Dick and Dom]] display the role of "comic" and "straight man" in a less obvious, largely interchangeable or are dispensed with altogether. More obvious British examples of the comic-feed dynamic are [[Cannon and Ball]], [[Little and Large]] or the children's entertainers [[The Chuckle Brothers]], where the straight man acted largely as a humourless set up for the comic.

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