Merritt's vocals tend toward the deadpan tuneless, but he writes lovely melodies with a sting.
With a deadpan expression, Mairbek explained that the genie inside the girl was 340 years old.
My mother had recently filled half a red Silvine exercise book with startlingly deadpan revelations.
Costolo won the audience over by sprinkling deadpan gags and self-deprecating humor into the pre-dinner interview.
It's got these wonderful, deadpan kids' voices who are playing the role of 7.
Macy, in another of the deadpan performances that have become his trademark, is The Shoveler.
The film's outrageous deadpan humour recalls the early efforts of its producer, Peter Jackson.
Warwick Davis had the satirical idea for HBO's "Life's Too Short, " a deadpan, "The Office"-style faux-documentary series.
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"Dark and Deadpan" chronicles the transition, that cusp of time just before TV began to rule all media.
Many of the works in "Dark and Deadpan, " on the other hand, are distinctly Pop in their attitude.
His speechwriters are skilful and he delivers punchlines with a certain deadpan panache.
And friends say that, in private, the dolefully deadpan look can rapidly give way to a sparkly, sometimes feminine, charm.
Buster Keaton went deadpan, altering his expression with only the tiniest of inflections, and became a modernist icon of fortitude.
Nielsen has taken the art of deadpan into uncharted territory, marrying a polite, paternal manner to a state of acute mental shutdown.
These are often distilled into deadpan rituals, with the director maintaining his Proustian interest in habit in its capacity both to mortify and console.
Mr Gore, often lampooned for his stiff posture, responded in a deadpan manner, saying: "I think people buy that magazine for the articles".
Jarmusch lacks for nothing in his deadpan pastiche of spy thrillers, but some viewers may experience a residual, vulgar longing for the real thing.
The film is full of grand gestures and deadpan humor, including what is likely the finest scene of Noh theatre yet filmed in France.
Like many Nouvelle Vague reinventions, the lyric for "The Killing Moon" is delivered in a girlish deadpan, removing the song from its sad sentiments.
But, while Cummings is lacerating and deadpan, her fictional avatar reminds me less of Roseanne, or even of Silverman, than of someone much older: Lucille Ball.
"Dark and Deadpan: Pop in TV and the Movies, " at the Whitney Museum of Art, is another effort, however sketchy, to complicate assumptions about the 1960s.
Ha Jin, who left his native China in 1985 to study at Brandeis University and then remained in the U.S., tells this tale in an impeccably deadpan manner.
The funniest of the lot is the hefty Melissa McCarthy, a deadpan lewd comic, who is proud of her weight and alarmingly active in throwing herself at people.
This weekend the questions were painful and the answers deadpan.
Alternately deadpan and lacerating, this persona risks alienating the audience, a quality that also happens to be the signature of male sitcom auteurs, including Larry David and Louis C.
Assessing their costs, their risks, their marketability, attending doggedly to every detail, Mr Littlejohn provides a sort of deadpan breakdown of what will pass as saleable poshness with the public.
In a style familiar from Mr. Sorkin's TV shows ("The West Wing") and movies ("The Social Network"), characters deliver lines in double time, tightly packed with earnest screeds, deadpan jokes and cultural references.
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