Deadpan Humor Quotes

We're weird guys. I don't know if a lot of people get our humor. A lot of people probably think we're jerks. We're real sarcastic. Really ironic and stuff. We mean well, but we joke around probably a lot more than we should.

The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!

One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

I have an incredibly dry sense of humor.

I've got a sick sense of humour, a dark sense of humour. I do care about things and care about people but there's another side to me.

I love Steven Wright.

As a comedian I appreciate every kind of comedy. You decide for yourself what you're going to do.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck.

I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

Nice blouse, Sage,” Adrian told me, deadpan. “It really brings out the khaki in your pants.

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.

There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.

We, the comics that we like, we're all, like, post-humor.

We ask our volunteers, "Do you work here?" They say, "Not yet."

My wife is Swedish, so I'm familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It's very dark and very deadpan.

I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking; when he's joking, I think he's serious.

The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.

The best comedy is always played straight down the middle.

I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight.

People used to make fun of alternative comedy because sometimes it would be someone being funny, and sometimes it was a crazy man with a flute making no sense. And it's very easy to be like, yeah, that's not really comedy.

I guess the essence of my comedy is to get into a very abnormal situation but act like it's normal.

A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you must be profoundly in error," said Sir Thomas, "No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me."