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Cuckoolander Commentator
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It's the Big Game, everyone is in the stands and excited. They can't wait to see what happens, to hear the announcer as he or she comments on the action and keeps the crowd up to date. Too bad said announcer is off in his own little world and not really paying much attention to the actual game. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Cuckoolander Commentator is, as the name suggests, a Cloudcuckoolander whose job it is to announce, comment on, or otherwise narrate on what's going on at an event. This will cause, at the very least, an Unreliable Narrator and will usually require a straightman second announcer to act as the Cloudcuckoolander's Minder. It's less common to see such announcers in a serious event or setting, unless the story in question is a comedy in the first place. More commonly it will be a relatively informal affair, and indeed the Cuckoolander Commentator may just take up the job himself without anyone asking (or particularly wanting) them to do so. If the character does appear in a formal or major setting, it could be that the Cuckoolander is actually a deliberate act. A characterization the announcer does to add some flavor to the job and add to the witty banter between a co-announcer or host. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Compare Large Ham Announcer, which this trope can overlap with, since the Cuckoolander Commentator's antics can easily be part of the Funny Moments for a work. Tends to be the Wise Guy half of a Straight Man and Wise Guy duo. May also be The Announcer for a game show, in which case any Cuckoolander qualities may indeed be an intentional act for entertainment. Currently, this trope is envisioned for announcers at particular events or shows, rather than the general narrator, though that may change depending on examples. Also, it isn't intended to include merely snarky or funny commentators. Cuckoolander Commentators are usually funny, but it's often because they're so out there and, barring the deliberate act clause, usually aren't doing it intentionally. |
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Jesse Cox could be considered this. Especially when paired up with... well... just about anyone really but especially the more serious TotalBiscuit. It gets inverted when he works with Wowcrendor, who despite often being much more mellow than the bombastic Jesse, is a major Cloudcuckoolander on his own. This fact gets lampshaded in an episode of The Co-Optional Podcast when Jesse realizes that, when he's teamed with Crendor, he's the TB of the duo. | |
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Don Chery of Hockey Night in Canada may be a good mid-game commenter, but it's sometimes hard to tell what he's saying over his extremely loud and varied wardrobe. | |
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Booker T. since returning to do commentary on Smackdown in 2011. | |
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Super Monday Night Combat derives a large portion of its humor from this trope. | |
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Spanish WWE announcer Héctor del Mar definitely qualifies. His callings tend to fall in all kinds of absurd puns, improvised senseless proverbs and downright bizarre comments about the matches and the wrestling in general, and the most awesome thing is that he is not the color commentator (who technically is Fernando Costilla, Deadpan Snarker of Humor Amarillo fame). Despite his little attachment to wrestling announcing itself, Del Mar is popular in Spain to the point that many Spaniards watch WWE more due to him than the actual product. | |
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Ultra Fast Pony: In "Rock, Clocks, and Two Stupid Ponies", Pinkie and Spike are allegedly the commentators for the fall race. In practice, they spend all their time talking about how high they are and never even mention the race. In "The Pet Games", Dick Hardman spouts non-sequiturs and nonsense, and he frequently has no idea what's even happening in the game. The other commentator, Tom Waterman is much saner in comparison, but he can't be all there because he acts like Dick's commentary is completely normal. |
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Ratchet: Deadlocked had Dallas as a Cloud Cuckoolander and Juanita as his minder. | |
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Al Snow on Sunday Night Heat. For one thing, he had a different name for every jobber than whatever they would be announced as and was convinced every last one of them was part of the "Bobaganush clan". | |
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The radio version of Dead Ringers parodied famous cricket commentators' (such as Henry Blofeld, whose father was the namesake for the Bond villain) tendency to talk about all the cakes they'd been sent in by local fans by exaggerating it into them rather talking about those than the ongoing cricket match. | |
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Banjo-Kazooie: Gruntilda, when hosting the game show portion at the end. | |
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Daffney Unger during the early volumes of Shine, when she decided to join the more straight forward Lenny Leonard of its WWN predecessors RoH, FIP, Dragon Gate USA and EVOLVE. | |
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Phineas and Ferb had Phineas and Grandpa announce the roller derby. Phineas actually commentated the events while Grandpa just listed all the colors he could think of. He was the color commentator. A later episode had Phineas and Isabella commentating on a batting cage competition, with Isabella describing it as something between the X-Games and a gladiatorial match. |
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A hilarious example happens in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, where Fry and Laurie are commenting on an English Cricket game. By the end of the sketch they're shouting about completely random things from growing up in England. | |
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Brad Maddox on his few commentary appearances. What he says almost always contradicts what's actually going on in the ring. Once during the middle of a match he asked Michael Cole if he had "direct deposit on his check?" | |
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JLA #76 starts out by showing Plastic Man announcing the eponymous League's celebratory baseball game. At the end of the scene, everyone disappears except him, leading him to call for a break in the both while he has a seizure. As it turns out, he's hallucinating as his body is reconstituted in the Watchtower's lab. | |
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Saturday Night Live's portrayal of Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Carey made him appear this way, with Harry going off on completely unrelated tangents when delivering his reports on Weekend Update. | |
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Nick Diamond is certainly more eccentric than his co-commentator, often filling time between Celebrity Deathmatches with ... something bizarre. | |
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Pinkie Pie in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is the commentator alongside Spike for the contest between Applejack and Rainbow Dash during the annual Running of the Leaves. | |
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DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story gives us Pepper Brooks, known for his staggering powers of deduction and assortment of non sequiturs. While Cotton McKnight isn't exactly a shining paragon of sanity, he usually plays the Straight Man to Pepper by popping a Fascinating Eyebrow and choosing not to respond to Pepper's more... outlandish comments. | |
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Dusty Rhodes. Botchamania has a segment called "Insane Dusty Commentary". | |
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Homestar Runner has one: Coach Z attempting to be the announcer for the Fall Float Parade. Marzipan is not amused. | |
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Fred Willard's character in Best in Show is a former American Football player turned sportscaster, who is horribly misplaced commentating alongside an expert at the titular dog show. This results in tangents and crude humor, as well as an overwhelmingly clear impression that he has no idea what he's doing. | |
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The example quoted above is the result when Luna Lovegood is made a Quidditch commentator in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Professor McGonagall acts as her Minder. The earlier commentator, Lee Jordan, wasn't as extreme, but had shades of this trope. While he did announce what was going on in the game, he also had a tendency to rant about the Slytherin team's less-than-ethical play tactics (including screaming profanity at them), discuss how pretty he thinks certain female players on the Gryffindor team are, and gush about Harry's new Firebolt ("Jordan, are you being paid to advertise Firebolts? Get on with the commentary!") He also can swear pretty badly when Gryffindor is losing, to the extent where McGonagall tried to take the microphone off of him at one point. |
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