Hammy Herald
Everybody listen to me! My name is Armando, Alejandro, Essssstrrrrrada! And this is my, Samoan Bulldozer, Umaga!
—Monday Night Raw
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Someone significant is about to enter the scene. He may or may not be a Large Ham himself, but the character who announces his arrival is, and takes full advantage of that with a suitably over-the-top introduction.
Compare Inadvertent Entrance Cue and Large Ham Announcer. Contrast Incoming Ham, where a Large Ham enters and announces himself.
Examples of Hammy Herald include:
Anime and Manga
- Kenichi's father, of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple uses this with his shotgun, Sebastian. He presses a button, and the gun starts sliding slowly out of a hidden panel in the wall, while he yells:
ARISE, SEBASTIAN! |
Live Action TV
- Monty Python's Flying Circus. An announcer at a nightclub introduces the next act.
- Happens several times in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, usually in the form of Jii or Ryuunosuke giving a long-winded and boastful description of their Lord Takeru, only for Takeru to cut them off. Happens again when Kaoru receives the same treatment from her retainer, Tanba.
Film
- William's friend Geoffrey in A Knight's Tale. He whips the crowd into a frenzy for the pseudo-knight to do his thing. Chaucer, that's it - Geoffrey Chaucer.
- In Spider Man, the wrestling announcer decides that Peter's stage name isn't cool enough and announces him dramatically as "the amazing SPIDER-MAN"! Naturally, he's played by Bruce Campbell.
- The introduction of a star in All That Jazz.
- Davy Jones' introduction of the Kraken in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
- Mad Max: "Greetings from the Humongous! The Lord Humongous! The Warrior of the Wasteland! The Ayatollah of Rock-and-Rollah!"
- In Tron: Legacy, Jarvis's speech introducing Clu to the light cycle arena.
- The Prince Ali number in Aladdin is basically a multi-minute act of hammy heralding.
Prince Ali! Fabulous he! Ali Ababwa |
Literature
- The bit in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets where everybody starts to think that Harry is the descendant of Salazar Slytherin, so Fred and George start marching in front of Harry and crying out, "Make way for the Heir of Slytherin! Seriously evil wizard coming through!" and stuff like that, in order to mock the notion.
Puppet Shows
- On Sesame Street, this applies to Norm, herald to the Grand High Triangle Lover.
Music
- One of Ray Stevens's novelty song openings: "And now, ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, it is indeed a great pleasure to introduce to you - held over three weeks and getting rave reviews - BRIDGET....THE MIDGET... the Queen of the Blues! Woooooo!"
Professional Wrestling
- The incredibly hammy Alberto Del Rio gets an even hammier introduction courtesy of his personal ring announcer, Ricardo Rodriguez.
- Let's face it, plenty of ring announcers qualify. Michael Buffer and Lilian Garcia, especially.
- Theodore Long was this for Rodney Mack, Mark Henry, Jazz and Mark Jindrack. The two names in the middle were pretty hammy themselves but in general, the purpose of an announcer in wrestling is to provide ham to one who lacks it.
- Armando, Alehandro, Estrada! The unsung hero(or not) who helped Umaga get over. WWE thought it worked too well and dropped him.
Theatre
- Hamilton gives one to George Washington in "Right-Hand Man" that is worthy of a WWF star.
Western Animation
- In "Yankee Doodle Daffy", Daffy Duck plays the agent for a kid duck singer. Daffy plays it up as if the kid were the greatest thing since sliced bread, although he turns out to be not so hot.
He's colossal, stupendous! One might even go so far as to say he's mediocre. |
- The kid even holds up a picture of a ham while Daffy is praising him.