Sentences with phrase «deadpan jokes»

Post a few deadpan jokes, and moments of spacing out... (edited of course) we discuss his history of his work, and his installationSpreadsheet, and performance Mowers of Ten presented by the Art - In - Buildings program, and Monique Meloche Gallery.

The title of Nauman's piece, itself a cropped representation of the artist's arms tied behind his back, plays on a deadpan joke of literal interpretation while referencing the domino effect as new generations of artists (sculptors emerging in the 1960s, in this case) take precedence over their elders (the titular Henry Moore).

It was a deadpan joke about waving goodbye to Minimalism.

Not exact matches

«I have joked that I want my legacy to be «World's Oldest Man,»» he deadpans.

Many of the xtranormal videos that have caught on with a big audience have followed a similar formula as this one: the jokes that work tend to be those whose humor relies on repetition and deadpan delivery, since characters say the same lines exactly the same way every time.

His deadpan delivery of jokes that are so pathetic they're funny is unequalled.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Best of all is an excerpt from the jury press conference, in which actor Donald Sutherland brings down the house with an uproarious joke delivered with impeccable deadpan timing.

Not that you'd really want it any other way, as you know you're going to get more jokes per minute than nearly any other comedy out there, and one of the funnier deadpan comedic actors in Leslie Nielsen (Nuts, Soul Man).

The cinematographer also joked that he had no interest in the evening's prize for the shortest acceptance speech, deadpanning, «I don't see myself on a Jet Ski somehow.»

«We lost 19 of our best guys that day,» a deadpan Kumail Nanjiani quips in The Big Sick, resulting in the year's most audacious joke (it's about 9/11) which sealed the Silicon Valley star's status as the most exciting comedy actor on the scene.

Cage's trademark deadpan performances and unintentionally comedic delivery have spawned meme after meme, and the fact that he not only knows that he is the butt of these internet jokes, but gamely goes along with it, makes him a veritable web icon.

Jokes about whether or not you can crack it will inevitably follow «The Lobster» into cinemas — where audiences will have to decide whether the film's deadpan weirdness and high - concept ruminations on love and life are for them or not.

The central joke in «The Humbling,» which was directed with great deadpan flair by Barry Levinson and written by Buck Henry and Michael Zebede, fits Pacino's observation: Here is a thoroughgoing actor who can't dispel his theatrics even when he is at his most «real.»

Her contribution to the exhibition includes sweaters with hand - knit political jokes and riddles, as well as «cover girl» self - portrait photographs featuring the artist in deadpan poses revealing the artist's sly sense of humor.

- Richard Prince Painted in 1990, If I Die is one of Richard Prince's celebrated series of monochromatic joke paintings; the deadpan, visual expressions of humor that have been the mainstay of the American artist's career.

Her contribution to the exhibition includes sweaters with hand - knit political jokes and riddles, as well as «cover girl» self - portrait photographs featuring the artist in deadpan poses revealing the her sly sense of humor.

As well as paintings and drawings, it will feature several deadpan sculptures, including a stuffed Jack Russell holding a placard that states, «I'm dead» (a Surrealistic joke that would surely have pleased Magritte).