Depraved Kids' Show Host: Difference between revisions

* The demonic puppet hosts of "Smile Time" from ''[[Angel]]''.

* In the ''[[Frasier]]'' episode "Juvenilia", Frasier is railroaded into a harsh interrogation from the three hosts of "Teen Scene".

** And then there was Nanny G, Frasier's first wife. She had become a Raffi-style children's entertainer in the meantime. During a concert she gave, she started singing a song that Lilith immediately interpreted as sexual, but Frasier explained as being sung to a child... until the next line...

* Mexican clown Brozo's entire schtick is this; he's a depraved, homeless, bitter and a tad mysogynistic. Of course, this is played for laughs... currently he has a [[The Daily Show]] type of program.

* An episode of ''Mathnet'' featured Vicious Vinnie, a villainous children's show host who taught kids incorrect information like that Chicago was the capital of Illinois.

* "Tia Penha" (Aunt Penha), one of the many characters of Brazilian Comedian Marcelo Médici, is a gender flipped version of this. But unlike other examples, she's an outright [[Jerkass|bitch]] even on air. She [[Grimmification|subverts upbeat children' songs]] by [[Kill'Em All|telling that everyboy died in the end]] and that everybody WILL die ([[And Your Little Dog, Too|your mommy included]]). She's also particularly fond of telling some truths about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

* Boxcar Burt, a briefly-seen in-universe host watched by [[Space Ghost|Brak]] and [[Aqua Teen Hunger Force|Meatwad]] in an [[Adult Swim]] New Year's Eve sketch.

* A man who played Dougie the Whale in one episode of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]''. A complete jackass even onstage (at least to his backstage crew) and got into a fight with Will, in front of the child audiences no less.

* ''[[Laugh In]]'' often featured the demented "Uncle Al, the Kiddie's Pal!" who was usually hungover and kept cracking bad double-entendre jokes and running around like a maniac.

* Back in [[The Eighties]], an episode of ''Les Dennis's Laughter Show'' featured Les parodying then-[[CBBC]] host Phillip Schofield. Dennis's version of Schofield gets steadily more drunk, attempts to murder [[Non-Human Sidekick]] Gordon T. Gopher, and eventually has a prostitute/groupie in the studio who he tries to pass off as "Gordon's mum"! Bizarrely, Schofield himself, long after his CBBC career, was interviewed for [[Channel 4]]'s ''Zippy & George's Puppet Legends'', where he claimed that ''Gordon'' had a drink problem.

* In universe, Jane from ''[[Coupling]]'' ''almost'' became this... she had the depraved part down pat, it was just the "Kid's show host" part that was up in the air... after all, her sidekick was a sock puppet named Jake the <s> Penis</s> Truth-Snake.

'''Jake:''' Oh, shut up, you deluded bitch! }}

* Inverted by [[The State]] with "Blueberry Muffins in the Morning," a show proposed by Blueberry, a children's television producer who looks and acts like a clown in real life.

* ''[[Reno 911]]'' had an odd example. Reading Ron is actually a great host, who does his best to put his dark past behind him. Enter the Reno Sheriff's Department, who so thoroughly ruin Reading Ron's Police episode that it sends Ron into a cocaine fueled rampage on the roof of the station.

* Season 2 of ''[[The Armstrong and Miller Show]]'' has a recurring gag with the hosts of a children's TV program (a spoof of [[Blue Peter]]) apologizing to its viewers for various drunken, lewd, violent and illegal acts - in kid-friendly language.

'''Tina:''' And spent it on a large amount of ''special powder''. This powder, like the holiday center, is designed to make people feel very happy... }}

* Ernie Kovacs was very fond of this trope. His character Uncle Buddy would allow kids to walk backwards blindfolded on the Staten Island Ferry railing. Another of Kovacs' characters, Mr. Science, could barely hide his exasperation toward his easily distracted kid helper Billy. Kovac's Hungarian chef character Miklos Molnar would show up to host a Howdy Doody knockoff show as "Buffalo Miklos". In addition to treating the Claribel knockoff with utter contempt, Miklos would get drunk, cut Howdy's strings, and yell at the kids in the peanut gallery to shut up.

 

* Taken to pretty much its ultimate conclusion by [[The Burkiss Way|The Burkiss Way's]] "Childrens Favourites with Uncle Hitler."

 

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