54 Deadpan Humor Definition

The delivery is meant to be blunt ironic laconic or apparently unintentional.

Deadpan humor definition. Marked by or accomplished with a careful pretense of seriousness or calm detachment. To make a joke while looking or seeming serious. Dry humor with a blank expressionless face. Deadpan delivery of the joke. A person especially a performer who has or assumes a blank expression. These are british comedians deadpanning with their usual dry wit. Impassively matter of fact as in style behavior or expression.

Her natural capacity for irony and deadpan humour. Marked by an impassive matter of fact manner style or expression a deadpan comedy. A blank expressionless face. Displaying no emotional or personal involvement. Entry 1 of 4. Deadpan dry humour or dry wit humour is the deliberate display of emotional neutrality or no emotion commonly as a form of comedic delivery to contrast with the ridiculousness of the subject matter. Includes other elements of humor ranging from shy humor sarcastic even macabre humor and other personal characteristics which makes it unique to the individual.

The secret to a long life is not dying she deadpans. Looking out over a million square miles or so of indian ocean i kept my expression deadpan. Even as her voice drips sarcasm her deadpan expression doesn t change. This type of humor is common among shy and socially indifferent people. With a blank expressionless face.