Deadpan Snarker/Radio

"Bob: (introducing a "human interest" segment) We've found that you listeners enjoy hearing these pathetic people tell their tragic stories."
 * Legendary comedy team Bob & Ray based their entire act around this trope, as applied originally to the medium they worked in, and later expanded to take in every media trend and fad going. Given their influence on modern American comedy - including but not limited to Bob Newhart and George Carlin - it could be argued that they played a major role in popularising the concept.

"Ford: How would you react if I said I'm not from Guilford after all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse?
 * The Devil in Old Harrys Game is very definitely one of these, though most of the other characters get their moments.
 * Robin Ince in Mitch Benns Crimes Against Music. And in real life.
 * The late Humphrey Lyttleton on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, whose chairman persona believed the entire game was insane, and the teams were clearly idiots for doing these things. (Except Mornington Crescent. That was Serious Business.)
 * The current host, Jack Dee, has carried on the tradition, with a few subtle differences. Humph was more bored, Jack is more bitter.
 * Spock in the Spock Versus Q audio plays Armageddon Tonight and Did I say that?. Technically, Q is the Deadpan Snarker for most of the latter play, but only because he's Spock. It Makes Sense in Context.
 * Our Miss Brooks: Miss Brooks' character uses sarcasm with frequency (as does many of the characters she plays in other works).
 * Everyone in The Phil Harris Alice Faye Show has their moments, but Julius the grocery boy takes the prize. This trope defines how he enters a room and greets Phil and Frankie.
 * First Officer Douglas Richardson in Cabin Pressure. It's one of the things he does best, and he's good at everything.
 * One might miss it between Captain Obvious moments, but Arthur Dent in The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy was not above indulging occasionally.

Arthur: I don't know. Why, do you think it's the sort of think you're likely to say?"


 * More obviously, Zaphod snarks at Arthur, Ford snarks at Zaphod, Trillian snarks at both of them and Marvin just snarks.
 * Ed Reardon of Ed Reardons Week.