Deadpan Humor

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I was thinking "none" but that's more fun.
It reminds me of another time when I'd gone to a community meeting, and we had each introduced ourselves briefly. Afterwards, the woman who was starting a magazine asked if she could interview me on my main project. We decided to take care of it right away, by heading to the nearest public table in the pub next door. There, it was time for a bit more introduction, and this was not long after the Club of Rome had done their sums and found that if the developing world did raise themselves to driving Fiats, etc., we'd need another planet to keep everything going. So, wanting to identify herself with the Deep Ecology movement, she just said "I think that there has to be a reduction in population."
I let that sit until it was fully ripe, and then leaned forward to confide "Well, yes, I have a Little List myself."
She almost fell off her chair.

The bin bags we get are useless. The tops are always sealed.

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But it is alright. If you turn them upside down, the bottom is always unsealed.

Confession: I only "get" about half of the jokes people have posted so far.

At first I thought it said, Bedpan Humor

Hah!

Deadpan humour is a weird one for me. When I "get" it, I find it one of the funniest kinds, and like to (try to) use it myself. But at the same time, I often don't "get" it, or people don't "get" my attempts. It seems to be one of those where you really need to know how the other person ticks to make it work. I had a friend who could have me engrossed in his shaggy dog stories for half an hour or more, getting ever more ridiculous as it went on, without me having the slightest inkling that he was pulling my leg (at the time, neither of us had any idea that we would both later be diagnosed autistic!)

I went to visit my friend one evening, and as I was getting settled, his big German Shepherd came sleepily out to smell my shoes. "My watchdog" Don remarked, and I'm still chuckling. We both knew that the dog had recognized my car.

I'm not subtle enough to truly have the ability to convey "deadpan" humor.

Even when I'm attempting to be subtle, it doesn't come out quite right.

Yes, I use it a lot, and chances are most people don't get it.

My three NT kids have explained to me that even they don't always know whether I'm serious or not.

By the way, hi I'm new, this is my first post.

My sense of humor would be a sensibility depicted by a hybrid of the movies Airplane and Blazing Saddles and the TV shows SCTV, The Larry Sanders Show and some garnish thrown in from Black Adder and Monty Python.