"I've heard it gives you man boobs," says O'Malley, 28, deadpan.
His unmistakable profile, his deadpan, Droopy Dog style, and his sense of humour helped make Hitch a star as well as a director.
Magritte's deadpan art unsettles by melting boundaries between reality and fantasy.
Eijkelboom used a similar technique in an earlier project, Paris-New York-Shanghai, an exhibition and a trio of books documenting everyday life in those cities that was widely perceived as being a deadpan comment on globalisation's effect on national identity.
The end result is a photo-book called The Winners, an extraordinarily revealing yet utterly deadpan glimpse of life in what is often referred to as the last dictatorship in Europe.
Why do I make you laugh so much?' he says in a soft, deadpan voice, because she does, indeed, seem to be giggling, helplessly.
And when, in the late afternoon sun, the glittering gold trophy was presented to the US captain Ben Crenshaw, it would have been hard indeed not to detect amid the pomp, platitudes and smiles as he wittered on in his Texas twang about the spirit of the Ryder Cup, and Mark James paid his deadpan Yorkie tributes, that golf truly had been the winner.
The story might have been set in Glasgow or Liverpool, other Victorian centres of industrialisation, but Patterson captures the deadpan rhythms and acerbity of Belfast dialogue.
His story is a remarkable tale to which his deadpan delivery doesn't quite do justice.
"I don't see why not," he says in his trademark deadpan delivery.
The "Merkel rhombus" has become something of a symbol.Asked about it, she replies, in a disarming and characteristic deadpan, that she adopted the position to solve a practical problem, as any trained scientist would (she earned her PhD with a dissertation on quantum chemistry).
