“I'm just trying to make them laugh,” says Steven Wright. “I don't focus on emotion.” The 68-year-old comedian and actor, who’s built a career on setting the bar for the definition of “deadpan,” has ...

For a guy who usually looks so mournful, Steven Wright has been making a lot of people laugh for 40 years. A standup comic, Wright has an almost patented delivery: Deadpan, almost dead, his ...