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146: 962: 1846: 1856: 408: 101:, in a 1908 interview, had alluded to dead pans without using the actual term "deadpan". Cohan, after returning from a trip to London, told an interviewer that "the time is ripe for a manager to take over about a dozen American chorus girls and wake up the musical comedy game. The English chorus girls are dead–their pans are cold.” 95:. Bresnahan described how Woodburn used his skill as a ventriloquist to make his manager and others think they were being heckled from the stands. Woodburn, wrote Bresnahan, "had a trick of what the actors call 'the dead pan.' He never cracked a smile and would be the last man you would suspect was working a trick." 120:, defines "dead pan" as "playing a role with expressionless face, as, for instance, the work of Buster Keaton." There were several other uses of the term, in theater and in sports, between the 1915 Bresnahan article and the 1928 article in the 145: 396:. Failure to include the context or to identify the contradiction results in the listener finding the dry humour unfunny. However, the term "deadpan" itself actually refers only to the method of delivery. 329:
are both frustrated figures who display little facial expression in their put-downs. Atkinson also plays authority figures (especially priests) while speaking absurd lines with a deadpan delivery.
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developed his deadpan expression. Keaton realised that audiences responded better to his stony expression than when he smiled, and he carried this style into his silent film career. The 1928
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humour, because the humour in dry humour does not exist in the words or delivery. Instead, the listener must look for humour in the contradiction between words, delivery and
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and Brad Jewell, noted for their deadpan style, with Jennie and Terrie Frankel (Doublemint Twins), Sig Sakowicz, Tony Diamond, Sara Sue, Tippi Hedren and Mel Bishop
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article as having the first appearance of the term in print. That article, a collection of film slang compiled by writer and theatrical agent
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The Everything Big Book of Jokes: Hundreds of the Shortest, Longest, Silliest, Smartest, Most Hilarious Jokes You've Never Heard!
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delivery to contrast with the ridiculousness or absurdity of the subject matter. The delivery is meant to be blunt,
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interacts with unsuspecting subjects not realising they have been set up for self-revealing ridicule; on this
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term for the face). It appeared in print as early as 1915, in an article about a former baseball player named
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Darnton, Charles (1 Feb 1908). "George M. Cohan Froze in London, But in Paris–Ah!–He Managed to Thaw Out".
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was performed almost entirely in deadpan; it helped relaunch the career of one of its supporting actors,
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Second edition, 1989; online version December 2011. accessed 17 February 2012. First published in
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states, "his career has been built on winding people up, while keeping a deadpan face."
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Many popular American sitcoms use deadpan expressions to deliver dry humour, including
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is the deliberate display of emotional neutrality or no emotion, commonly as a form of
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often draws humour from an exasperated sigh. While in his various guises such as
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comics Al Shaw and Sam Lee, was performed entirely in deadpan. The 1980 film
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British Music Hall: An Illustrated Who's Who from 1850 to the Present Day
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Bresnahan, Roger (20 Jan 1915). "Roger Bresnahan's Own Tale".
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delivered deadpan monologues in his double act with
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Index

Deadpan humour
Deadfacing
Anti-humor
comedic
ironic
laconic
compound word
slang
Gene Woodburn
Roger Bresnahan
George M. Cohan
Oxford English Dictionary
New York Times
Frank J. Wilstach
verb
List of deadpan comedians

Rat Pack
Joey Bishop
music hall
T. W. Barrett
Buster Keaton
Vitaphone
The Beau Brummels
vaudeville
Airplane!
Leslie Nielsen
Bill Murray
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Arrested Development

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