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Dead wood may refer to:
- Dead tree (disambiguation)
- Dead wood, the "straight man" in a double act
- Dead Wood (novel), a 2009 novel by Chris Longmuir
- Dead Wood (film), a 2007 British film
A double act, also known as a comedy duo, is a comic pairing in which humor is derived from the uneven relationship between two partners, usually of the same gender, age, ethnic origin and profession but drastically different in terms of personality or behavior. Often one of the members of the duo — the straight man, feed, dead wood, or stooge — is portrayed as reasonable and serious, while the other one — the funny man, banana man or comic — is portrayed as funny, less educated or less intelligent, silly, or unorthodox. If the audience identifies primarily with one character, the other will often be referred to as a comic foil. The term "feed" comes from the way a straight man sets up jokes and then "feeds" them to his partner.
Dead Wood is a 2009 novel by the British writer Chris Longmuir. It won the Dundee International Book Prize, the largest monetary British Prize for first novels, in 2009, and was published by Polygon Publishing. The novel is based upon the unsolved murders of 18-year-old Carol Lannen and 20-year-old Elizabeth McCabe in Scotland during the 1970s.
