With a deadpan expression, Mairbek explained that the genie inside the girl was 340 years old.
Warwick Davis had the satirical idea for HBO's "Life's Too Short, " a deadpan, "The Office"-style faux-documentary series.
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Mr Gore, often lampooned for his stiff posture, responded in a deadpan manner, saying: "I think people buy that magazine for the articles".
The funniest of the lot is the hefty Melissa McCarthy, a deadpan lewd comic, who is proud of her weight and alarmingly active in throwing herself at people.
Double back and head up a block to Venice Boulevard to visit the Museum of Jurassic Technology (www.mjt.org), a deadpan collection of genuine fossilized curios and phony artefacts that feels like collaboration between Dave Eggers and David Lynch.
As the case unfolded, Mrs Bercow's QC, William McCormick, had argued that the phrase "innocent face" was merely an indication that the tweet should be read in a deadpan manner, comparable to stage directions or notation on a musical score.
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The words and punctuation of "innocent face", he said, were merely an indication that the question should be read with a deadpan emphasis or tone, comparable with stage directions such as sotto voce or a notation on a musical score.
The movie, set in a Minneapolis suburb in 1967, is a deadpan farce about middle-class bad taste (Jewish division), with a schlemiel Job as its hero Professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physicist at a local university whose life is falling apart.
His speechwriters are skilful and he delivers punchlines with a certain deadpan panache.
Like many Nouvelle Vague reinventions, the lyric for "The Killing Moon" is delivered in a girlish deadpan, removing the song from its sad sentiments.
At a recent gig in London, their set included a hilariously deadpan version of Je T'Aime, 1970s disco hit Le Freak, the recent UK garage anthem Dynamitee and a jaunty reworking of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights, sung by Hinchcliffe.
Assessing their costs, their risks, their marketability, attending doggedly to every detail, Mr Littlejohn provides a sort of deadpan breakdown of what will pass as saleable poshness with the public.
This unromantic comedy by Jeff Garlin, who also stars, sometimes resembles a TV pilot for a cult show, yet its deadpan absurdities and sour realities evoke a pain that no amount of humor can dispel.
The result is a fast, tough, deadpan-funny pop epic about the Queen of the Hop getting kidnapped by the Leader of the Pack and rescued by the Soldier Boy as well as a postmodern riff on the abduction of Helen of Troy.
My mother had recently filled half a red Silvine exercise book with startlingly deadpan revelations.
Nielsen has taken the art of deadpan into uncharted territory, marrying a polite, paternal manner to a state of acute mental shutdown.
And friends say that, in private, the dolefully deadpan look can rapidly give way to a sparkly, sometimes feminine, charm.
Merritt's vocals tend toward the deadpan tuneless, but he writes lovely melodies with a sting.
The deadpan American hipster Tommy Lee Jones gives the performance of a lifetime in this sombre but fascinating movie, playing a former army man, Hank Deerfield, whose son, Mike (Jonathan Tucker), after serving in Iraq, has gone AWOL in America.
Jarmusch lacks for nothing in his deadpan pastiche of spy thrillers, but some viewers may experience a residual, vulgar longing for the real thing.
Alternately deadpan and lacerating, this persona risks alienating the audience, a quality that also happens to be the signature of male sitcom auteurs, including Larry David and Louis C.
This level of weirdness could, in other hands, appear forced and willful, but Anderson seems at ease with his conceits, allowing his cast which includes Willem Dafoe and, with a ringing British accent, Cate Blanchett to relax into the demands of deadpan.
Buster Keaton went deadpan, altering his expression with only the tiniest of inflections, and became a modernist icon of fortitude.
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