A deadpan comedic style where the speaker delivers jokes with no facial emotion. Beloved on TikTok since ~2020 — the genre of someone explaining an absurd scenario in the same tone they'd order a sandwich. Letterman pioneered it on TV; TikTok made it native.
"Her whole account is just dry humor stand-up."
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'Dry humour' is humour delivered with a flat, deadpan tone — no obvious laughter cues, no exaggerated facial expressions, often with sarcasm or understatement. British, Scandinavian and Australian comedy lean dry. If your teen says someone has a dry sense of humour, they mean the person is funny in an understated, deadpan way. Harmless observational vocabulary; a positive descriptor in most contexts.
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Humor that is presented with no change of expression; deadpan.
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