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Smarmy Host
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A related trope to Kent Brockman News (or Immoral Journalist) and Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight, this is the Game Show Host or sports announcer counterpart. You know the type: preening, narcissistic, slicked hair and an equally slick personality. He can flash a gleaming smile for the camera, but it's a Smug Smile lacking warmth. He will crack lots of jokes and engage in Witty Banter, but you always suspect he's really an insufferable Jerkass, and you're often proved correct in that assumption. When used in an actual broadcast, this tends to go best when said host is schooled enough in Self-Deprecation to realize that he comes off as this, and uses it to make more jokes, in which case he's often a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Has quite a lot in common with, but is usually more influential than, the Lounge Lizard. Often goes hand in hand with Delusions of Local Grandeur, newsreaders believe they are local celebrities due to their jobs. |
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Danganronpa: Paradise Lost: Takeshi Tashiro, the Ultimate Game Show Host, has a sleazy aura around him, being more concerned about his show than the lives of his fellow students. He also turns out to be a Dirty Coward willing to go to extremes such as evidence planting and murder to keep his drug addiction under wraps. | |
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Daffy Duck fills the role in the Looney Tunes short "The Ducksters," in which he takes delight in the humiliations Porky Pig goes through on his radio quiz show. | |
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The Hunger Games' Caesar Flickerman (pictured) comes across as a moderately smarmy sports commentator, the real distasteful part of the character is that he is casually talking about the horrible deaths of various children as they fight to survive in the arena. | |
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In the classic arcade game Smash TV, the chatty host is definitely this trope, using such catchphrases as "Big money! Big prizes! I love it!" In this game, he goes much farther than just being a smarmy announcer. If you make it to the last level, he is the True Final Boss. | |
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Beaux Handsome in WordGirl. There's also Seymour Orlando Smooth. One of the villains, he's not only smarmy, but skeezy—a corrupt host who rigs all of his game shows so that none of the real contestants has an actual shot at winning. Oh, and he uses his dazzling white teeth to stun his opponents. | |
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Guy Smiley from Sesame Street. | |
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Chris McLean, the host of Total Drama is an exaggerated version, being a smug, sleazy, and shameless jerkass to humorously (or disgustingly, depending on who you ask) sociopathic levels. Blaineley, former co-host of Celebrity Manhunt and later the Total Drama Aftermath, counts too. She's pretty much a washed-up female Chris. |
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The jerkass Millionaire host in Slumdog Millionaire. | |
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Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge: Talk show host and former sports presenter Alan Partridge. | |
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Subverted with Corny Collins in Hairspray. He has the hair for it and is somewhat self-absorbed, but he is wholly redeemed by the fact that he's not a racist and, in fact, is very open to racial desegregation. In the end, he openly defies the villain role and generally functions as a Reasonable Authority Figure. | |
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Damon Killian of The Running Man, who is a Villain with Good Publicity. | |
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The Joe Schmo Show had a cast of Reality TV archetypes, with the hosts' being that of "smarmy host". | |
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Played for increasingly dark laughs in Sex House. When The Host comes into the show for the first time, he's way too personal with everybody, and Derek notes he looks 'dead-behind-the-eyes'. Over the course of the show, he goes just as insane as everybody else. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus has a lot of sketches based on this trope. Michael Palin as the host of Blackmail is one of the more notorious, though Eric Idle seems to have played the majority of them. | |
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Tamaki of Deadman Wonderland. | |
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Frank Miller's RoboCop sees Luke Spindle, a creep of a talk show host who frequently insults his audience and guests, causally drops a homophobic slur, kisses a girl in the audience, decks a guy who rightfully calls him a punk, and makes lewd remarks to a female police officer. Naturally, the female cop uppercuts Spindle, and later, an audience member makes a failed attempt to kill him. | |
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The host of the show "Can You Spend It?" in the Punky Brewster episode "Punky's Millions" seems to hope that Punky and her pals don't succeed at spending a million dollars in 24 hours. They don't succeed and the host celebrates it. (The story does end well, though.) | |
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In an episode of Martian Successor Nadesico, the various female characters on the show participated in a fashion show to be the new captain captain for a day, and Jun and Nagare acted in the role of commentators. The latter fit into this role like a glove, being a rather jerkish The Casanova. | |
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