Word: deadpan
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...Keillor's way. His radio show is generally easy listening, but it exists for the moment when he intones, "It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon" and launches into one of his tallish stories, marked by a looping inventiveness and softly colored by a kind of deadpan compassion. I would not for a moment imply that he achieves in them a tragic sense of life, but they are certainly implicitly sympathetic to people whose reach exceeds their emotional grasp and often enough hypnotic in their telling. I'm not saying that a movie can reasonably be expected...
...Tiara Girls, The Hills completes a kind of MTV trilogy of princesshood. Yet it's hard not to like Conrad, if only because compared with her idle, spoiled friends, she's practically Horatio Alger. ("I have a full-time job!" says one guy pal. "I go out every night!") Deadpan and gorgeously shot, The Hills is an addictively watchable visit to the cool kids' table...
...McLean’s magnum opus. “Excuse me. We’ve also had a noise complaint.” By now there were three HUPD officers on the scene. Recognizing that he had a captive audience, Rennell paused to consider the statement before delivering his deadpan reply: “Do you guys have any good ghost stories...
...Furnaces have a great sense of humor. On “Oh Sweet Woods,” Eleanor Friedberger—the band’s vocalist and Matthew’s little sister—sings of being kidnapped by fanatical Mormon missionaries. Eleanor’s deadpan vocal performance heightens the absurdity of the events she recounts, and Matthew’s haunting acoustic guitar provides the perfect melodic background for her gonzo tale. “Borneo,” the following track, is a jaunty ode to gambling addiction. Eleanor opines that she?...
...make her show stand out, Dench decides to do an English version of the Moulin Rouge. In a hilarious scene, Henderson convinces the stuffy Lord Chamberlain, played with perfect deadpan by Christopher Guest, to allow nudity onstage. “But what about the midlands?” the Chamberlain asks, to which Dench replies “you mean the pussy?” Too prude for the Parisian approach to nudity, the Lord Chamberlain relents to nudity presented strictly as art; the girls onstage can’t move...