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This is a list of notable deadpan comedians and actors who have used deadpan as a part of their repertoire. Deadpan describes the act of deliberately displaying a lack of or no emotion, commonly as a form of comdic delivery to contrast with the ridiculousness of the subject matter. The delivery is meant to be blunt, sarcastic, laconic, or ...
The term deadpan first emerged early in the 20th century, as a compound word (sometimes spelled as two words) combining "dead" and "pan" (a slang term for the face). It appeared in print as early as 1915, in an article about a former baseball player named Gene Woodburn written by his former manager Roger Bresnahan. Bresnahan described how ...
Players is an American sitcom which premiered on the Spike network on March 2, 2010. [1] The series is a partially scripted/mostly improvised comedy about two brothers who run a sports bar together. After airing three episodes, Players was removed from the Spike schedule and put on hiatus. The remaining seven episodes from season 1 were pushed ...
Saturday Night Live cast members with the longest tenures Performer No. of seasons [b] Years on the show Notes Kenan Thompson: 22 [3] 2003–present: Promoted to repertory player in his third season on the show. Darrell Hammond: 14: 1995–2009: At the time of his departure, Hammond had the longest tenure as a cast member on the show.
Craig Lawrence Kilborn (born August 24, 1962) is an American television host, actor, comedian, and sports commentator. Kilborn began a career in sports broadcasting in the late 1980s, leading to an anchoring position at ESPN's SportsCenter from 1993 to 1996.
A saucepan is one of the basic forms of cookware, in the form of a round cooking vessel, typically 3.5 to 4 inches (90 to 100 mm) deep, and wide enough to hold at least 1 US quart (33 imp fl oz; 950 ml) of water, with sizes typically ranging up to 4 US quarts (130 imp fl oz; 3.8 L), [1] and having a long handle protruding from the vessel.
Dead Still is a six-part Irish-Canadian television drama series, which premiered on May 18, 2020 on Acorn TV and May 15, 2020 Citytv. [1] The series is a co-production between Ireland's Deadpan Pictures and Canada's Shaftesbury Films and is written by John Morton, from a story by John Morton and Imogen Murphy, and directed by Imogen Murphy and Craig David Wallace.
Danson began his television career as a contract player on the daytime soap opera Somerset. [9] He played the role of Tom Conway from 1975 to 1976. In 1977, he played Dr. Mitchell Pierson on the daytime soap opera The Doctors , having also appeared earlier in 1975 as another character, Dr. Chuck Weldon. [ 10 ]