This master comedian of dead pan delivery, perfect timing and the supreme usage of the pause to milk the audience laughter, actually started in vaudeville as a “class act” with his playing the violin and a partner as a pianist.

He was happy to acknowledge the outstanding ovation with his dead pan face and speak in his unique French Canadian accent.

I can't imagine that Jesus could have inspired and led crowds of people with a serious dead pan expression; it is more likely he had a sense of humor, and endless love for people.

Here a young man, perhaps sixteen, is sitting with his back to the rock among some ferns playing a guitar, dead pan.

He had a long hang-dog sort of face and a cropped hair style that he claimed, dead pan, was a relic of his days at West Point.

'I thought it was to drink. It wasn't until I sobered up and returned that I realized why I belong here. Umm . . . what were you going to do? I mean if I took even longer to return?' 'Become professors,' she said dead pan.

At the lower levels men do not fight calmly and they are not reassured by commanders affecting the manner of an undertaker or the dead pan of a poker player.

Allen's brilliant piece tells, in dead pan, the story of a trio of crackpot scientists who are seeking a remedy for the embarrassing and dangerous human problem of choking on food in public restaurants.

Keaton's face ranked almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype; it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet it was irreducibly funny. No other comedian could do as much with the dead pan.

“It's a psychic, capable of spying, using out-of-body experiences, stuff like that,” Van Pelt dead panned.

"Well, that explains everything," Zippy dead panned.

This is a picture of me delivering the punch line. I violated one of my own basic rules by failing to "dead pan."

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