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Deadpan, dry humour, or dry-wit humour [1] is the deliberate display of emotional neutrality or no emotion, commonly as a form of comedic delivery to contrast with the ridiculousness or absurdity of the subject matter. The delivery is meant to be blunt, ironic, laconic, or apparently unintentional. Etymology.
The meaning of DEADPAN is marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression. How to use deadpan in a sentence.
noun. 1915–. A serious or emotionless face, esp. as a deliberate appearance; (occasionally) a person with a serious or emotionless face; the act or habit of putting on this type of facial expression. Also: straight-faced comedy or humour. 1915. He had a trick of what the actors call ‘the dead pan ’.
Deadpan definition: marked by or accomplished with a careful pretense of seriousness or calm detachment; impassive or expressionless. See examples of DEADPAN used in a sentence.
Deadpan dates to 1928, when pan was slang for "face." So if you seem to have a "dead face" as you say something, it means your face looks very blank — no energy or animation. Deadpan is associated with sarcasm, and like sarcasm, if you use it for comic effect, there's a risk your audience won't pick up on it.
2 giorni fa · deadpan in American English. (ˈdɛdˌpæn ) US. noun. 1. an expressionless face. 2. a person, as an actor, who has or assumes such a face. adjective, adverb. 3. without expression or show of emotion; blank (ly) verb transitive, verb intransitive Word forms: ˈdeadˌpanned or ˈdeadˌpanning. 4. to do or say (something) in a deadpan manner.
n. 1. A blank, expressionless face. 2. A person, especially a performer, who has or assumes a blank expression. adj. Impassively matter-of-fact, as in style, behavior, or expression: deadpan delivery of the joke. adv. With a blank, expressionless face. v. dead·panned, dead·pan·ning, dead·pans. v. tr. To express in an impassive, matter-of-fact way.
