The Garfield specials are also unique for their deadpan delivery and oftentimes bleak worldview.
“I could tell you missed me more than I missed you,” Tom says, deadpan.
Her humor was New York humor, layered and tangy with irony; chewy and Jewish and deadpan and literate.
Chandler, with his deadpan wit fully intact, offered a different—if completely fabricated—tease for the upcoming season.
But he had his own defenses, a great off-hand resilience and a deadpan humor, and he survived.
Homes carries off her fiction-writing Nixon with deadpan wit.
But something about the cover image—four deadpan dudes against a robin's-egg blue background—spoke to me, I guess.
To his credit, his formally resolved images register a trace of deadpan wit.
She continued to stare, deadpan and blank-eyed, with no answering flicker of a smile.
Suzanne looked closely at him—he was so deadpan, it was hard to tell what was on his mind.
adjective
: my wife's New York ironies or her deadpan humor/ This is known as the deadpan system of prevarication
noun
verb
: With kids packing his audiences, he deadpanned ''I promise to lower the voting age to 6'' (1930s+)
