deadpan comedy
Humor without expression
Deadpan comedy delivers jokes, absurdities, or outrageous statements with a completely expressionless face and flat tone—as if the speaker doesn't realize anything funny is happening.
The contrast between ridiculous content and serious delivery creates the humor.
He announced with perfect deadpan that his goldfish had joined a cult.
The style is associated with performers like Buster Keaton and Steven Wright.
- dryFree from moisture
- dry humorUnderstated, expressionless comedy
- deadpanExpressionless, especially for humor
- deadpan deliveryEmotionless comedic performance style
- stoicUncomplaining endurer of hardship
monotone · poker-faced · straight face · expressionless · stone cold · no reaction · understated · wry · sardonic · straight-faced · subtle · timing · comic timing · delivery · absurd · ironic · sarcasm · Buster Keaton
- British HumorBritish humor, dry humor, deadpan, Monty Python, Blackadder
- humor booksjoke books, one-liners, wisecracks, limericks, roast jokes
- mockerymockery, ridiculing, jeers, jeering, jibes
- dramedydramedy, tragicomedy, seriocomedy, comedy-drama, dark comedy
deadpan comedyslapstick
Exaggerated physical humor
physical comedy · broad comedy · mugging · screwball comedy · clowning
dead, deaden, deadened, deadly, deadness, panned, panning, comical, comically