"Top banana" nghĩa là gì?

Guillermo Rodriguez always fancied (tưởng tượng) himself as the top banana. Jimmy Kimmel’s sidekick (cộng tác) got to be just that in a fun segment (phân đoạn) with Gwen Stefani. 

The totalitarian ethos (đặc tính chuyên chế) was present from the beginning, and given that the top banana did not care for the citizenry making fun of him, in due course it was made illegal (bất hợp pháp) to make jokes about the presidential surname. 

The expression top banana was coined (tạo ra) in vaudeville (kịch vui Vô-đơ-vin) in the 1920s to mean the top comedian featured in a show. Phil Silvers, a comedian whose career spanned (sự nghiệp lâu dài) the entertainment venues of vaudeville, movies, radio and television, gives credit to Harry Steppe as the man who coined the term. Steppe was a comedian and writer. 

Thu Phương 

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