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End man

noun

A man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show; carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor. Synonym: corner man.

A man at one end of a row of people.

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"End man" Quotes from Famous Books

... done put up now, Jud?" grinned a tall weaver with that blank look of expectancy which settles over the face of the middle man in a negro minstrel troupe when he passes the stale question to the end man, knowing the joke ...

— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore

... office and copy was needed, Sam hunted him up, explained the situation, and saw that the necessary matter was produced. He was not ambitious to write—not then. He wanted to be a journeyman printer, like Pet, and travel and see the world. Sometimes he thought he would like to be a clown, or "end man" in a minstrel troupe. Once for a week he served as subject for a traveling hypnotist-and ...

— The Boys' Life of Mark Twain • Albert Bigelow Paine

... six talking machines," said the boarder who wants to be an end man, "it doesn't follow that he ...

— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers

... next hour. There was nothing particularly "awful" about L'Abbaye of itself—at first, nor, perhaps, even later; at least the awfulness was well covered. The program of entertainment was awful enough, if deadly mediocrity is awful. A big darkey, dressed in a suit which reminded me of the "end man" at an old-time minstrel show, sang "My Alabama Coon," accompanying himself, more or less intimately, on the banjo. I could have heard the same thing, better done, at a ten cent theater in the ...

— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln