Recent Examples on the WebSo which restaurant did Yelp readers declare top banana? Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2022 Guillermo Rodriguez always fancied himself as the top banana. Lars Brandle, Billboard, 9 July 2019 This is, alas, the Yahweh of the early Hebrews, a fickle, petulant, seemingly amoral deity whose childish obsession is with proving himself top banana in the pantheon of primitive gods. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 12 July 2018 Companies, government agencies and institutes are spending millions of dollars on research and development to find a new top banana. Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
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Etymology
from a burlesque routine involving three comedians in which the one that gets the punch line also gets a banana