Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monica-joke well is getting seriously dry. The funniest moment of the night belonged to diminutive ex-labor secretary Robert Reich on "PI," claiming deadpan that in 30 years of friendship, Clinton had never tried to kiss him -- "not even a fondle." Odd. He's so cute...
This is no tract; all the characters have reasons for their outbursts. But the film is most sympathetic to Ludo's desperate, deadpan certitude that he'd enjoy being a girl. Like last year's magnificent Ponette, Ma Vie en Rose is an inside report--neither cloying nor condescending--from the enchanted, irradiated island of childhood...
...Newsroom Its final episodes were too bizarre, but for most of its run on PBS, this Canadian series about the news department of a TV station was balanced perfectly between reality and parody. Filmed in documentary style, it achieved some brilliant moments of deadpan humor, and Ken Finkleman, the show's creator, played the news director with a wicked combination of egotism, pettiness and desperation. Imagine Broadcast News meets Spinal...
...away in that federal prison, Blondie doesn't remember Brown, but he takes his point. "You've got to show who's boss on a daily basis," he says in the deadpan, laconic manner that became legend in the 39th. "That wasn't and isn't the kind of area where you walk a beat and make nice with the residents...
...entertaining mix of slyly witty allusions and slapstick humor. Their kazoo version of a Corelli fugue was one of the show's highlights, provoking a spontaneous ovation from the opening-night audience. Davidson's War and Fleisig-Greene's Famine were especially outrageous and Chakan's Death appropriately deadpan. While characters like Orson and Olivia were funny because they were so easy to mock, the band members were intentionally--and successfully--funny...