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Example sentences for: deadpan

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He keeps the action slightly remote and the jokes deadpan, and the upshot is that the audience almost never stops giggling.
Such objects, with their elliptical wit, return us to the dark side of still life; these bones and cages and tacks and thermometers offer a deadpan answer to what life is: C'est la vie.
Its secret is deadpan parodies of news stories ("Report: Drug Use Down Among Uncool Kids").
And it's delivered in a deadpan style that seems clearly borrowed from Johnny Carson.
P.S.: I love it when newspapers are deadpan.