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Witty Banter
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Occurs most often in non-fiction shows with more than one host. The hosts will trade funny and or witty comments back and forth instead of presenting what they are supposed to be presenting. They may also digress into talking about their personal lives. Young, hip viewers might assume that the execs are out of touch for encouraging the banter, but according to an Ipsos-Reid poll taken in 2004, over 85% of viewers preferred shows with banter to those without even if they had previously claimed not to like banter. This includes young, hip viewers! Producers know what viewers want, and it's apparently lots of small talk. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Local news broadcasts, daytime talk shows, and infomercials seem to especially love doing this, but you also get it between the DJs on music and radio programs. In news broadcasts, reporters who are live on the scene will sometimes engage in this at the end of their segment. Sometimes there exists a pair or trio of hosts who have good chemistry, and can do this spontaneously (this is key), without making it seem forced or artificial (also key). The producers may note this and insist on more of it, ruining the chemistry. British news programmes are usually devoid of this. In contrast, British music radio stations often rely on good banter more than on good music, to the extent that many people tune in to hear the hosts more than the music they play. See Smarmy Host. For hero/villain banter, see You Fight Like a Cow. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); }) |
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Frequently parodied in The Day Today; the segues between host Chris Morris and the other correspondents parody these tactics in different ways. With the travel reporter Valerie Sinatra, Morris would make no effort to conceal the fact that he had a heavy crush on her, which she would politely attempt to rebuff; with the business correspondent Collaterlie Sisters he would openly insult her, and he would psychologically torment Alan in a variety of different ways, including flirting and overly aggressive interrogation. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? also has occasional bit of witty banter before and after skits between the performers and the host. Sometimes the subject of the banter becomes a small Running Gag and appears in the skits themselves. The "Greatest Hits" game revolves around two performers (almost always Colin and Ryan) advertising a compilation album while exchanging witty banter. |
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On the iCarly web awards episode, the gang made lame banter on purpose. | |
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Spoofed on Murphy Brown: During a FYI airing, Miles tells Murphy and the gang at the last minute to talk amongst themselves so that the footage can be played during the end credits to give the show a "friendly atmosphere". However, he adds that the audio will not be recorded, prompting this exchange of dialog: However, Murphy's mic was not turned off so the fake banter is broadcast live nationwide, causing a micro scandal. |
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SportsCenter or any likewise talk show on ESPN or any other channel devoted to sports, if there isn't a game on you can expect this in between sports-related news, highlights and analysis. | |
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A fictional example: The entire point of the radio stations in the Grand Theft Auto series is the witty banter. Good news? It's actually witty. Bad news? Eventually it runs out. | |
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The UK cable channel Dave is supposedly called this because they ran a survey and discovered that almost everyone in the country knew at least one person called Dave. It touts itself as being "the home for witty banter". In other words it shows endless reruns of Top Gear, Red Dwarf and several different panel shows that they've got their hands on, often the exact same episodes day after day. | |
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On Room 101, the show where people nominated things to be permanently removed from the world, one of Dara 'O Briain's choices was banter. He noted that in Real Life, all of us engage in pointless small talk to smooth over social situations that would otherwise be awkward; the mystery is why anyone thinks those moments should be televised. | |
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy parodies this straight to hell. The two hosts hate each other; their on-screen banter is all scripted, and over the station credits they improvise: | |
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When the two aired back-to-back, Countdown with Keith Olbermann and The Rachel Maddow Show would toss from one to the other at the end of Olbermann's program into Maddow's. As the two are genuinely friends in real life (and Maddow in fact got her start guest-hosting Olbermann's program), their tosses (like the Daily/Colbert example above) are much less painful than most. Ditto her banter with The Last Word host Lawrence O'Donnell, which is in fact so popular with viewers that it got its own highlight reel in 2017. Maybe it's a Rachel thing... |
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In The Simpsons the two DJs from the radio station KBBL engage in this all the time- it often devolves into passive-aggressive (sometimes without the "passive") sniping at each other. The station's motto serves as a Lampshade Hanging; "No sports, no talk, no information — for mindless chatter, we're your station!" In "Bart Gets an Elephant", the voice-tracking machine that is going to replace them if they don't give Bart an elephant comes pre-programmed with several different kinds of inane babble. On a separate occasion Homer met with the man who claimed to have invented the radio version of this trope. Homer punches him and the man admits he gets that a lot. |
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The entire point of Alan Partridge is his complete failure at this sort of thing. His frequent attempts at witty banter are cringe-worthy and often offensive, but hilarious in a very different way. His handoffs to the host of the next slot are Witty Banter between two people who aren't very witty, and genuinely hate each other. Alan's only slightly worse at it than his colleague. |
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Spoofed in Futurama by the sinister alien Morbo and his perky human co-anchor Linda. Morbo's attempts at banter involve rants about destroying humanity and mid-range Hulk Speak. Linda is an airhead who just laughs it all off. "CHIT CHAT ACHIEVED!" |
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Wake Up To Wogan. Terry himself, whichever of Fran Godfrey, John 'Boggy' Marsh or Alan Dedicoat (Deadly Alancoat) was co hosting that weak, Lynn Bowles the traffic announcer, occasionally producer Paul Walters and later Alan 'Baralands' Boyd, and at the end of the show a handover to Ken Bruce. | |
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Later showings of the Eurovision Song Contest have featured a pair of hosts (male and female) exchanging excruciatingly scripted Witty Banter, usually by way of "flirting." Usually in English, which is not their first language. On at least one occasion (Denmark, 2001), rhyming couplets were employed for the purpose. In Britain most of this is either talked over, or at least commented on by Terry Wogan who mercilessly rips it apart. Terry Wogan (and Graham Norton, now that Wogan left) is the only reason many British and Irish people can bear to watch them. Wogan's hilarious but oh-so-true comments about how Britain never gets any votes and how most countries are simply making tactical or political votes as opposed to voting for the genuine best song make you wonder how the Eurovision execs let him get away with mocking the entire contest as a whole. He has admitted, in at least one interview, that they keep a mini bar on hand while they're doing the commentary, and have gotten quite drunk during the ad breaks over the years. |
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In "Fall Float Parade" on Homestar Runner, Coach Z attempts to engage in witty banter with cohost Marzipan, but fails because he's too much of a Casanova Wannabe. | |
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On Family Guy, the "banter" on the Channel 5 newscasts invariably devolves into the anchors dumping on each other. | |
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This is one of the trademarks of the Sidemen, bantering with one another as they compete against each other in various games and laughing about it (especially Ethan Payne). Sometimes, the banter gets so great that they wouldn't even care about the game they're playing and who wins or loses. | |
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In an episode of Friends, Joey practices with Ross and Chandler before his audition for the role of a game show host. He jokingly berates Ross for introducing himself too verbosely. Chandler introduces himself as: | |
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Smashie and Nicey on Harry Enfield and Chums are a parody of radio DJs who seem to spend more time engaging in banter than actually playing records. Or, rather, a record, "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet". | |
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