Best Deadpan
One Foot in the Grave was a British sitcom created by David Renwick, running for ten years from 1990 to 2000. The program consisted of six main series and seven Christmas specials, with its broadcast schedule spanning January 1990 through 2000. The final series aired in 2000, concluding the show’s r...
Bill Murray is an American comedian recognized for his distinctive deadpan delivery and versatile career. He rose to prominence as a cast member on Saturday Night Live beginning in 1977 and achieved widespread acclaim through film roles including Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day. His work appeals to a...
Tig Notaro is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actress recognized for her deadpan delivery and conversational style. She gained significant critical attention in 2012 with her live stand-up album Tig Notaro: Live, which she recorded shortly after being diagnosed with breast cancer and expe...
Bob Newhart was an American comedian and actor known for his deadpan delivery and distinctive stammering style. His 1960 debut album, *The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart*, was a historic success and became the first comedy album to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Beyond his stand-up car...
Norm Macdonald was a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer, and actor known for his deadpan delivery, caustic wit, and distinctive use of anti-humor. He gained national prominence as a cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1993 to 1998, where he anchored the Weekend Update segment. Following hi...
Steven Wright is an American stand-up comedian and actor recognized for his distinctly lethargic vocal delivery and deadpan presentation of surreal, philosophical one-liners. His debut comedy album, I Have a Pony, was released in 1985 and earned him a Grammy Award nomination. As an actor, he won the...
Jack Benny was an American comedian, actor, and radio and television performer whose long-running programs helped define twentieth-century broadcast comedy. His fictional persona was vain, miserly, musically inept despite playing the violin, and perpetually 39 years old. Benny was particularly known...
Hannibal Buress is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor recognized for his deadpan delivery and observational humor. He gained significant public attention as a writer and performer on television shows like "Broad City," where he played Lincoln Rice, and "The Eric Andre Show." Additional...
Jack Dee is a British stand-up comedian and actor famous for his dry, deadpan, and highly cynical stage persona. Dressed typically in a dark suit, he frequently delivers observational humor rooted in everyday frustrations and misanthropy. Beyond his stand-up career, he is a familiar presence on Brit...
Rich Hall is an American comedian, writer, and musician known for his deadpan delivery and curmudgeonly stage persona. He gained early television exposure writing for 'Not Necessarily the News', where he coined the term 'sniglet', and won an Emmy Award for his writing on 'Saturday Night Live'. Hall...
Tom Gleeson is an Australian comedian and television presenter, host of the ABC program Hard Quiz and known for his acerbic on-stage persona.
Icelandic comedian regarded as one of Iceland's most prominent stand-ups internationally, who released the Netflix special Pardon My Icelandic in 2020.
