front man vs stooge

front man

noun
  • A person acting as the public face of some other, covert group. 

  • The lead singer in a musical group. 

  • striker, attacker, forward. 

stooge

noun
  • A magician's assistant who pretends to be a member of the audience. 

  • One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe. 

  • A confederate; a person who is secretly working for the researcher, unknown to the study participant. 

  • A straight man. 

  • A secret informant for police. 

verb
  • To act as a straight man. 

How often have the words front man and stooge occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )