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With puns and characteristic deadpan humor, the MythBusters kept the presentation lively and entertaining...
Mission: Impossible was '60s TV's answer to the James Bond films: instead of a brawny superhero, the show brought teamwork, disguise and a deadpan theatricality to international espionage. And at its center was Graves as its smooth, smart boss. He parodied that gravitas in his goofily predatory turn as the Airplane! pilot with an unusual interest in young boys. He then effortlessly switched back to paternal omniscience as the host of A&E's Biography. Seemingly born middle-aged, Graves wore well, guesting on 7th Heaven into his 80s. His domestic life was steady too: he is survived...
...ability to communicate with church outsiders may derive from his six-year stint as a General Electric executive - "before I saw the light," as he informed Colbert, deadpan. He is also less edgily polemic. David Gibson, a veteran religionista and columnist at Politicsdaily.com, notes that while Martin does champion "marginalized" Catholics like gays and women, as well as nuns, who are currently undergoing a Vatican doctrinal investigation despite their declining numbers and often-heroic works., he excels at spiritual and pastoralnuns (currently under a Vatican microscope), he excels at spiritual and pastoral issues. "He's like a campus chaplain...
...like any other family" - into the social and political saga of Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), an ordinary guy in suburban Salt Lake City who happens to have three wives and a bunch of nutter relatives out in the woods. The show works simultaneously as family-values-affirming drama and deadpan surrealist farce: Father Knows Best meets Twin Peaks. And its creators, Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, seem to keep those shark-jumping events as a checklist of things...
...American dream, unrequited love, and two tragic deaths is Fitzgerald’s humor. Shepherd manages to draw out the wit and sarcasm of the narrator, capitalizing on dramatic pauses and pointed glances at the audience. As he reads Fitzgerald’s exposition aloud, his earnest and deadpan drawl meshes well with the reflective musings of Midwesterner Nick, and Shepherd is instantly likeable—a necessary quality for an actor who will be speaking nearly non-stop for six hours...