Word: deadpan
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...memories of a simpler, more comforting time. During his nearly 30-year tenure at the Tonight Show, Carson delivered a special brand of wit and class, particularly during his sharp opening monologues. He interacted with a fascinating array of guests, accentuating his intriguing and often hilarious interviews with his deadpan expression. Heeere's to a legendary master of late-night talk TV who had an unforgettable impact on people's lives. David Kaliner Las Vegas
...memories of a simpler, more comforting time. During his nearly 30-year tenure on the Tonight Show, Carson delivered a special brand of wit and class, particularly during his sharp opening monologues. He interacted with a fascinating array of guests, accentuating his intriguing and often hilarious interviews with his deadpan expression. Heeere's to a legendary master of late-night talk TV who had an unforgettable impact on people's lives...
...Archigram drawings and watercolors were musings about what the postindustrial city had become, a compact node of entertainments and spectacles in a society of people in motion. That's the spirit of Peter Cook's Instant City in a Field Long Elevation from 1969, a deadpan fantasia of a city with all its diversions that could be lowered from the air by balloon. The philosopher Francis Bacon once wrote that "the monuments of wit survive the monuments of power." If that's true, then these whimsical flights of fancy will still be around long after some of the uglier skylines...
...film. If you don't, you'll just sit there wondering how (and why) Wes Anderson, the director and a co-writer (with Noah Baumbach), thought this thing up, talked someone into financing it and somehow drew you the viewer into spending good money on this exercise in deadpan postmodernism...
...friend’s marine murderer. Announcing his quest to a roomful of shocked patrons, he is asked, “What would be the scientific purpose of killing it?” to which he replies, in perhaps the best example of the film’s deadpan humor, “Revenge...