Bromance

Dave Carnie is credited with coining the term as editor of the skateboard magazine Big Brother in the 1990s to refer specifically to the sort of relationships that develop between skaters who spent a great deal of time together.

[4][2][3][5][8] Several characteristics of bromance have been cited: According to Chen, society has taken a collective interest in reexamination of some of the traditional constraints on male friendship, and in potentially reshaping the constructs of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

The cultural resonance of Martin and Lewis's comedy derived from the way it set in motion a more complex ‘queering of gender.’"[21] They starred in 16 films together as an inseparable unit, as well as on early live television and in nightclubs.

Professional footballers Eric Dier and Dele Alli, who played together for both Tottenham Hotspur and the English national team, have a close relationship that has been described as a bromance.

[26] During the 2016 Olympic 100m finals, the friendship between Jamaican Usain Bolt and Canadian Andre De Grasse emerged, characterized and celebrated on social media as a bromance.

[28] The tight relationship both on- and off-stage between Bruce Springsteen and the late E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons has often been described[29][30][31] as one of the most fitting examples of bromance in Western modern music.

[32] The Japanese and Korean music industry actively encourages bromance among male celebrities (particularly members of boy bands) as part of the fan service to please the audience.

; Ronnie Kroell and Ben DiChiara from the Bravo reality series Make Me a Supermodel, in which the pair was nicknamed "Bronnie";[35] the relationship on Survivor: Gabon between Charlie Herschel and Marcus Lehman;[36] and American Idol's Kris Allen and Adam Lambert, which was given the name "Kradam".

[39] Prominent examples of bromantic comedy include Judd Apatow's The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) and Knocked Up (2007), as well as Greg Mottola's Superbad (2007), which targeted non-sexual homosocial behavior and masculinity in inventive ways.

[40] Zoolander (2001),[41] Wedding Crashers (2005),[5] Funny People (2009),[42] John Hamburg's I Love You Man (2009),[13] The Hangover (2009),[42] and Horrible Bosses (2011)[42] are other examples.

[11][51][52] The term has been used to describe Narendra Modi from India and Barack Obama from the United States during the January 2015 visit,[53][54][55] and Vladimir Putin from the Russian Federation with Gerhard Schröder from Germany.

[56] In early 2017, a number of internet memes surfaced which alluded to Obama's relationship with Vice President Joe Biden as a "bromance".