My art

[i_am_dude_man]

An excerpt from a New York Times article "How to Be Funny".

"How to Do a Deadpan
By Bob Balaban, actor

Deadpan: a vaudeville term coined in the 1920s to describe a comic with an expressionless face, pan being slang for face, and dead being dead. Think Jack Benny. Buster Keaton. Christopher Guest. Deadpan is the double take without the take, the

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[doggans87]

Deadpan is a true art form. That's all there is to it.