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 ...
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. What makes deadpan feel so off, so destabilizing, so dryly funny?
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