Usually means: Supporting actor, less prominent role.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (second banana)

noun:  (idiomatic) A comedian who plays a secondary or supporting role, especially as straight man and traditionally in vaudeville or burlesque theatre.
noun:  (idiomatic) A person who serves in a supporting, secondary, or subsidiary capacity; an assistant.

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