Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates · 03 Sep 2026
@JoyceCarolOates An earlier example of this was The Andy Griffith show. He started out playing the funny country bumpkin he was in his standup monologues. But he quickly realized it worked better if he was the straight man and Don Knotts (and other characters) provided the comedy.
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