Ishii portrays painful humiliations to deadpan comic effect without belittling the victims.

Earlier this week, we lost the great deadpan comic actor Leslie Nielsen.

I want to hear him scream, he said, looking at me, deadpan.

That deadpan quality was much in evidence as he explained this move.

I mean, he looks goofy, and he's got that great deadpan delivery.

Butler snorted, as he usually did immediately before delivering a deadpan line.

Robert gave it to him, real deadpan, and asked how he felt.

Entire thing pursued with deadpan seriousness as though Holmes had actually lived.

Hi. He wore the guarded, deadpan expression that children assume for introductions.

Waititi, on the other hand, comes from the world of deadpan comedy.

It's as if he aims for a style-less, deadpan mode of painting.

Bolt upright, with deadpan smiles, they move as if in slow motion.

The comedy series has a very droll, completely deadpan format… Video, Audio

His mentor is Judson, the deadpan librarian emeritus played by Bob Newhart.

Chakas and Riser watched with us on the command deck, faces deadpan.

He exhaled a puff of smoke and gave her a deadpan stare.