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	Humour Summary
		A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including, but not limited to geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education and context.
		The term "humour" as formerly applied in comedy, referred to the interpenetration of the sublime and the ridiculous.
		In this context, humour is often a subjective experience as it depends on a special mood or perspective from its audience to be effective.
	www.bookrags.com /Humour (2775 words)

	Deadpan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Deadpan is a form of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done by a person, while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression.
		The term "deadpan" first emerged as an adjective or adverb in the 1920s, as a compound word combining "dead" and "pan" (a slang term for "the face").
		Finally, the verb deadpan 'to speak, act, or utter in a deadpan manner; to maintain a dead pan' arose by the early 1940s, apparently as a journalistic coinage rather than a theatrical one.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deadpan_humour (946 words)

	Humor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people.
		A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humourous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including but not limited to sex, age, geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education and context.
		For this reason humour is often a subjective experience as it depends on a special mood or perspective from its audience to be effective.
	abcworld.net /humor.html (1100 words)

	humor
		The origin of the term derives from the humoural medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids known as humours controlled human health and emotion.
		Author E. White once said that "Humour can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." However, attempts to do just that have been made, as follow.
		It has been postulated that the laughter/feel good element of humour is a biological function that helps one deal with the new, expanded point of view: a lawyer thinks differently than a priest or rabbi (below), a banana peel on the floor could be dangerous.
	hometown.aol.de /lorelaizak/wo-24138.html (1603 words)

	Humour - WebArticles.com
		Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people.
		For this reason, true humour is subjective as it depends on a special mood or perspective from its audience to be effective.
		A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humourous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including but not limited to sex, age, geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education and context.
	www.webarticles.com /print.php?id=357 (1054 words)

	Humour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Humour (humor in American English) is a form of entertainment and a form of human communication, intended to make people laugh and feel happy.
		The origins of the word "humour" lie in the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids, or humours, controlled human health and emotion.
		Different types of humour which appeal to different sectors of humanity exist – for instance, young children particularly favour slapstick, while satire tends to appeal more to the older and better-educated.
	www.centipedia.com /index.php?title=Humor (869 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The term "deadpan" first emerged as an adjective or adverb in the 1920s, as a compound word combining "dead" and "pan" (a slang term for the face).
		Finally, the verb deadpan 'to speak, act, or utter in a deadpan manner; to maintain a dead pan' arose by the early 1940s, apparently as a journalistic coinage rather than a theatrical one.
		Ben Stein, who was originally a university professor, found a new career as a comedy actor by exploiting the stereotype of the dull academic, often acting as a straight man.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=deadpan_humour (1027 words)

	Humour
		Examples of various different styles of humour, or techniques for evoking humour or creating a humourous situation are listed below.
		For this reason humour is often a subjective experience as it depends on a special mood or perspective from its audience to be effective.
		By comparison, the use of irony creates the perception of a passage from the serious to the comic, while in humour the opposite is true.
	www.dcult.com /Humor/Humour.php (1497 words)

	Margaret Atwood
		Though the book's premise is serious, you included many wordplays and moments of deadpan humour.
		The deadpan humour, the scepticism about human motives, and the tendency to tell straight-faced lies for fun, to see if you can get the listener to believe them.
		"Gallows humour" is called that partly because highwaymen about to be hanged were much admired if they could crack a joke in the face of death.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/atwood/interview.html (1037 words)

	Deadpan
		Americans visiting Australia have gained themselves a reputation for gullibility and a lack of a sense of humour by not recognising that tales of kangaroos hopping across the Sydney Harbour Bridge and drop bears exemplify the propensity for this style of leg-pulling.
		Unlike his intensely committed and colorful lawyer father, Ariel Perelman (a deadpan Daniel Hendler) is anal, inexpressive, becalmed in a dull job, and unsure of his place in life.
		Forced to loosen up a little when he snags a lively, beautiful wife he thought was out of his league and becomes a parent, Ariel is further unsettled when his father comes to him with a proposition.
	www.dcult.com /Humor/Deadpan.php (902 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		Never allowing his lack of formal training to get to him Khakhar had a deadpan humour and his work was characterised by casual draughtsmanship.
		Relieved by wit and humour though it is, his fiction written in Gujarati, too, conveys his fascination for Gujarati middle-class morality.
		Though little is known of his literary work as they are written in the vernacular his play Maujila Manilal has been staged in Mumbai, and Khakhar himself painted the sets for that production.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030809/asp/nation/story_2248671.asp (387 words)

	Pulp and Dagger -- Review
		But it's obvious that this is something that sprang, not out of some voguish passing fancy, but Mignola's genuine passion for the medium of comics and the milieu of horror.
		He cleverly mixes those elements, injecting deadpan humour, and rough and tough superhero-style roughhousing as well.
		These are as much super hero adventures as they are horror, with Mignola's spartan, stylized art serving to mute the shockingness of the occasional bouts of grisly horror, as does a wry, deadpan sense of humour.
	www.pulpanddagger.com /pulpmag/rev_hellboy.html (1718 words)

	UK woman a hit with veiled humour - Sify.com
		"Police are looking for a woman with brown eyes," she said, delivering her deadpan humour with a face as sombre as her traditional dress.
		They are not famous for their sense of humour but they loved it," she said.
		And her humour works because she uses her own experiences as a rich source of material.
	sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=13218634 (489 words)

	Observer \| Just show me the way to go home
		Deadpan humour aside, comedy on Radio 4 isn't always a laughing matter - just ask the Bishop of Southwark
		Its usual humour involves wordplay, politics, live audiences, silly songs and jokes so signposted you see the punchline before the set-up is finished.
		The conceit was that the show was a tribute to a composer of musicals: but as the trails had already revealed that the programme was a mickey-take, the joke was dead before it even cleared its throat.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329670679-102280,00.html (572 words)

	Random Journeys #1
		Some very odd things happen to him over the course of the day, which Rob recounts with deadpan humour that highlights his dislocation from the local culture as he puts up with his bosses flawed efforts to welcome him.
		The art style that Rob uses might be most diplomatically termed naive with scratchy line work, no attempt at anatomical correctness in regards to such details as hands, and very simple facial construction.
		The settings are simply drawn but do have a sense of detail that suggests they were drawn from life.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /smallpress/115502993154089.htm (366 words)

	Deadpan
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		Deadpan is a form of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done by a person, while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression.
		Murder She Wrote: Steal Me A Story & Deadpan
	www.buzznet.com /tags/deadpan (48 words)

	THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU
		Yes, Anderson’s droll, deadpan humour is not everyone’s cup of tea, and even I have to confess to being only lukewarm to his films upon the first viewings.
		Murray is the prime embodiment of the level and tone of humour that Anderson has always strived for.
		He is not of the loud, boisterous, or sick and disgusting type of comedy that relishes in unpleasantries (which, unfortunately, seems to be the calling card of far too many recent screen comedies).
	www.craigerscinemacorner.com /Reviews/life_aquatic_with_steve_zissou.htm (1567 words)

	braided on All Consuming
		The perfect blend of deadpan humour, and serious moments (like the one in the diner with the ice cream, or the eye test).
		The family is a real one – many different characters who are forced to live under the same roof because they are related.
		But be warned, if you’re not a fan of deadpan humour, you probably wouldn’t like it very much.
	allconsuming.net /person/braided (143 words)

	World Cinema: Films -- Judex (1963) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		There's a world of difference between the natural and "found" surrealism of Louis Feuillade's wonderful lighthearted 1914 French serial and the darker, studied surrealism and campy piety of Georges Franju's 1964 feature-length remake.
		Yet in Franju's hands the material has its own kind of magic and wonder (as well as deadpan humour), and this is one of the better features of his middle period, which also yielded Les yeux sans visage (aka The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus).
		Judex (Channing Pollock) is a cloaked hero-avenger who abducts the villainous banker Favraux in order to prevent the evil Diana (Francine Bergé in fl tights) from stealing a fortune from the banker's virtuous daughter (Edith Scob).
	www.geocities.com /worldcinema/films/judex (203 words)

	Full Alert Film Review: Drifting Clouds
		It would pass as deadpan humour if it wasn't spoken with such resigned weariness.
		There is humour and idiosyncracy at the periphery, but at the centre there is frustration and futility, and sorrow for the ways in which the logic of profit reduces people, until their worth is equated solely with their earning capacity.
		It must have been tempting to play the story for more laughs, more farce, more deadpan wit, but the film's great strength is the sober, empathic manner in which it observes Lauri and Ilona's misfortunes.
	wlt4.home.mindspring.com /fafr/reviews/drifting.htm (814 words)

	Tookeys Film Guide - Film Reviews since 1902
		The Coen Brothers’ quirky, warm-hearted comedy about childlessness is not to everyone's taste, but it’s original, well sustained (unlike most other of the Coens' films) and one of the best offbeat movies of the 80s.
		The screen is chock full of deadpan humour, crazee situations, gags and stunts.
		Its deadpan, off-the-wall humour is established from the start...
	www.tookeysfilmguide.com /Film.asp?id=9053 (704 words)

	Eye Weekly - Let it Byrne - 05.03.01
		This humour comes through in his album's title.
		Byrne's deadpan humour shows through on the new opus, and long-time fans shouldn't worry -- it's tempered as much by surrealism as by sadness.
		Although his songs have become more literally comprehensible over the years, he still reaches his lyrical destinations via the road to nowhere.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.03.01/music/byrne.html (652 words)

	The Mini-master
		The tentacular roots out of which, living in a given time and place, Satie became what he was spread over a wide area in a diversity of fields; and Whiting makes even the most recherché details seem illuminating, hilarious, or touching - or a combination of all three qualities.
		For instance, his chapter on the entertainer Vincent Hypas demonstrates how, with his parodic deconstruction of familiar material and his deadpan humour, Hypas had no less to offer to Satie than did 'greats' like Debussy, Ravel, Cocteau, and Picasso with whom he's commonly associated.
		Satie, throughout his working life, fought hard - but on the whole with good humour - for their erasure: a small but militant saint wearing bowler hat, pin-stripe suit, and a pince-nez, armed with his rolled umbrella.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/1999/09/chatnoir.htm (415 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Health : Nursing : Humor
		A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humourous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including, but not limited to geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education and context.
		Humans often find the behaviour of animals amusing or humourous.
		Visual humour: Like the above, but encompassing narrative in theater or comics,or on film or video.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Health-Nursing/Humor.shtml (1704 words)

	FilmJudge - Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny
		He has good comic timing, is skilled at deadpan humour, and I actually think his character has the better lines.
		There are times when they use the songs as a form of narration, and the moments where the film is close to turning into a fully-blown musical are when it's at its strongest.
		It's also apparent that too many things have worked their way into the script that would have sounded great when they were being written down, but which don't translate well onto the screen.
	www.filmjudge.co.uk /review.php?ID=192 (570 words)

	The Little Blue Box
		Though I haven't seen too many episodes of this show, it has proved to be one of the most refreshing shows around, with its irreverent humour and touchingly realistic family situations.
		I was sorry to see him go on another indefinite leave, as I found his deadpan humour to be one of the highlights of the show.
		It had a nice blend of humour mixed in to relieve the dread of Billy's illness.
	www.angelfire.com /ca5/books4/tv.html (679 words)

	Mass Effect Community - humour
		Humour is great, but please, no Henpecked Hou.
		I'd like to see more deadpan humour instead of caricatures.
		No, humour would totally detract from the feel of such a game.
	masseffect.bioware.com /forums/viewtopic.html?topic=549500&forum=104&sp=15 (743 words)

	aki01
		I decided a long time ago that it was high time to have a section of the site dedicated to one of my Cinematic heros, the Finnish film director Aki Kaurismaki.
		There was a golden age in the late 90's when I discovered a video rental shop in Stoke Newington, North London, that had a well stocked supply of obscure world cinema, and I would rent these films to watch first thing in the morning before walking to work.
		Kaurismaki is unfailingly entertaining in interviews, being both taciturn yet outspoken and retaining the deadpan humour of many of his films.
	www.geocities.com /davidserjeant4/aki01.html (182 words)

	Reviews of Harrington & Kauffman
		The two are masters of deadpan humor, intertwining a font of Belgian grandmother jokes with a surprising amount of emotionality.
		Kauffman in particular as the seldom-speaking Nhar proves to be an adept physical comedian, while his counterpart Harrington, with his deadpan Jacques Cousteau-influenced delivery style is an impressive story-teller.
		Richard Harrington and Chris Kauffman of Hotel California are back together at the Fringe to present their brilliant and hallucinatory comic stylings, this time ruminating on "The mystery of life and death." The two wondrously blend crackling deadpan humour and superb physical comedy into a this-time-snowy dreamworld that will leave you breathless with laughter.
	www.harringtonkauffman.com /Reviews.html (5750 words)

	BBC - Films - The Station Agent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Finbar McBride (Peter Dinklage) breaks the mould as a dwarf who opts out of society because of the unwanted attention his appearance invites - he may be a loner, but he'd look very silly trying to straddle a Harley.
		But this is a gem of a movie that, like its protagonist, boasts a fiercely independent spirit full of discreet optimism and deadpan humour.
		When Fin inherits a derelict train depot in rural New Jersey, he can't wait to escape the brashness of New York.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2004/03/18/the_station_agent_2004_review.shtml (442 words)

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