Asst. Prof. Tina Post became intrigued with how the gesture of expressionlessness operated in the 20th-century Black performances across literature, visual and performance art, film, theater, dance, ...

Deadpan is not so much a type of joke as a mode of delivery, a manner of address to an audience that often provokes nervous laughter. Comedian Nathan Fielder’s persona is marked by deadpan. In his hit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Or maybe, “Harold” could only have come from the off-kilter but fertile musings of stand-up legend Steven Wright. Wright, for what ...

“Deadpan,” released in the spring by Heresy Press, is an unapologetically funny novel about a serious subject: Antisemitism, bigotry and hate. The satire, even though Richard Walter started writing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Installation view of 'Funny Business: Photography and Humor,' Phoenix Art Museum, 2025. Katie Jones-Weinert, CC BY-SA Deadpan is ...