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At its best, Adams' comic strip delivers clever, sarcastic, deadpan humor.
Encomiums for the sitcom--which depicts the goings-on behind the scenes of a TV talk show--praise star and creator Garry Shandling's deadpan humor, the show's skewering of show biz, and its blurring of life and art with celebrity cameos (guests on the final episode include Jerry Seinfeld, Warren Beatty, and Jim Carrey).
Ironists run a continual risk: if they nudge too hard and use too broad an irony, they risk sounding facetious; if they stay deadpan and use too subtle an irony, they sound in earnest and risk being taken literally.
Critics are split on the Coen brothers' follow-up to Fargo . The positive spin: They've grafted their trademark deadpan wit onto a '90s film noir.
Like other blockbusters, it may suffer from a "perilously thin" plot (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker ), but that's "the least important thing" about the movie ( Newsweek ). Instead, reviewers revel in its deadpan humor, stylish costumes, and comic performances, particularly that of Tommy Lee Jones--"registering levels of cool that would cause most actors to snap in half" (Lane).