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{{quote|''"[[Memetic Mutation|And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords]]. I'd like to remind them as a [[Delusions of Local Grandeur|trusted TV personality]], I can be helpful in [[The Quisling|rounding up others]] to toil in their underground sugar caves."''
|'''[[Trope Namer|Kent Brockman]]'''|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' }}
If TV writers need cheap exposition, the easiest way is to have a news [[Show Within a Show]] do it. Usually, the news anchors provide a [[Practical Voice Over]]. Sometimes, they do more than that (see [[Coincidental Broadcast]] and [[News Monopoly]]).
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* Feud with each other, or with the field reporters.
* Have a blatant [[Strawman News Media|political bias]], and bring it to every story they cover.
* Indulge in bizarre (usually sexual) habits when they [[Is This Thing Still On?|think the cameras aren't on]].
* Sometimes mutters what they truly think of their audience (thoughts that are downright nasty).
* Try to make their stories more interesting with [[Metaphorgotten|tortured metaphors]] and unfunny jokes, with bonus points when it's about something that isn't at all funny.
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* Are unable to finish their story because of sudden [[Dead Line News|crises within the newsroom]].
Though live-action comedies do them occasionally, these routines are much more common in animated shows. This may have to do with the fact that animated shows usually use multiple characters per actor, and can afford to have a diverse supporting cast (and also, of course, because it's infinitely easier to have [[Canon
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The characters on ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' sometimes got their info on new bounties from a news show called "Big Shot", which was ''aimed at bounty hunters''. The cowboy hosts were a black man with a Mexican accent ("Punch") and a blonde bimbo ("Judy"). In one of the last ''Bebop'' episodes, it's revealed this was all an act:
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'''"Judy", in a very different tone''': WHAT?! }}
** In the next episode, Faye sees Punch picking up his mother at the spaceport, but she cannot figure out why he looks familiar. Probably has difficulty because he doesn't have the weird accent. Note that [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|Punch's weird accent shifted from Mexican to Texan whenever he said the show's various catchphrases]] - in the sub, he simply said the catchphrases [[Gratuitous English|in English]].
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]]'', Melissa Claire is a ditzy type who dresses in a Fanservicy cowgirl outfit (with [[Bare Your Midriff| a midriff]] and [[Who Wears Short Shorts?| short skirt]]) and talks in a Southern accent; her job as a reporter seems to be tracking down interesting duels in Neo Domino and commenting on them, although it doesn't matter to her if she's covering a pair of "Dueltainers" in the city park or one of Sector Security's Duel Chasers trying to apprehend a fugitive - reporting from a helicopter for the second situation. No matter what the situation, she's always bubbly and cheery, but doesn't work very well with the rest of her production team.
== Fan Works ==
* ''[https://www.wattpad.com/story/173566505-final-stand-of-death Final Stand of Death]'' has [[Jackass|Johnny Knoxville]] in this one.
== [[Film]] ==
* The live-action movie ''[[Anchorman]]'' had one of these as its main character, although he was a consummate professional until the events of the film take place.
* Another live-action film example comes from ''[[The Kentucky Fried Movie]]'', where between skits a newscaster would pop up with oddball news flashes like "I'm not wearing any pants, [[Film At Eleven]]."
* The 1989 ''[[Batman (
* The two classic movie examples: ''[[
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** ''[[Starship Troopers (
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* The [[Woody Allen]] movie ''[[Bananas]]'' began with Howard Cosell himself presenting the "live, on-the-spot assassination" of the leader of [[Banana Republic|San Marcos]].
* One of the news anchors in ''[[
* In ''[[Bruce Almighty]]'', Bruce/God's "adjustments" to Evan Baxter's brain reduce Evan to babbling incoherence: "Caca poo poo pee pee..."
** Bruce's own live televised reactions to the news that Evan got the anchor position...
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* In the Live-action/cartoon movie ''[[Osmosis Jones]]'', cellular newscasters get into a brawl against each other as the film peeks into the stressful climax. When the ordeal was over, we see them again, but this time with bandages as a comedic result of their feud.
* ''[[Sesame Street|Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird]]'' has a scene where an anchorman, played by Chevy Chase, reports on the disappearance of Big Bird from his foster family's home in Illinois. He responds to a question by Grover [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|(who is watching the broadcast)]], has to be corrected by someone offscreen on the pronunciation of the word "sesame", and finally gives the weather report as [[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood|"It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine?"]] in a completely deadpan tone. It then cuts to Kermit the Frog reporting on the scene, and things just get more Kent Brockman-esque from there...
* In ''[[
== [[Live
* On ''The [[Weird Al]] Show'', while flipping through channels, Al would always pass by a newscaster (also played by Yankovic) who would be reporting on a mundane, nonsensical, or just plain pointless "story". ("This just in...Ping-Pong spelled backwards is Gnop-Gnip.")
* ''[[
* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' had the recurring "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBvbzQfMNik Muppet News Flash]" sketch, where a myopic commentator would deliver some odd bit of news, for example a downpour of anvils or localized tidal waves hitting people, and then [[Deadpan Snarker|snidely comment]] on how ridiculous it was. Whatever it was would then [[Dead Line News|happen to him]]. An alternate version had him interviewing some eccentric character played by that week's [[Special Guest]].
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* In the '70s ''[[Sesame Street]]'' would frequently send reporter Kermit the Frog to cover the re-enactment of some classic fairy tale or nursery rhyme; these would never go as planned.
* Miranda Veracruz de la Jolla Cardinal from ''[[Married...
* The improv show ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' features the game "Weird Newscasters," where the actors perform a quick bit of
** Not to mention "Newsflash", where the twist is that the 'reporter on the scene' has no idea what he's reporting on. The two "anchors in the studio" usually open the sketch with a vaguely sexual comment before they "realize" the cameras are rolling.
* The spoof news show ''[[The Day Today]]'' and its documentary spin-off ''[[Brass Eye]]'' both used pretty much every single one of these tropes.
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** More recent non-"Weekend Update" examples include a reporter (Kristen Wiig as Michelle Dison) who clumsily hits on her attractive female subjects in the middle of interviews, a promo for a Sioux City newscast that brags about being "America's most Youtubed news team", though it turns out to be for things like constant off-color bloopers, and Bill Hader's Herb Welch, an elderly reporter for WXPD New York who antagonizes his interview subjects by whacking them in the mouth with his handheld mic and feuds with the anchor (Jason Sudeikis) during the broadcasts.
** During the Kevin Nealon era, as a [[Running Gag]], a picutre of a figure in the news would appear, Kevin would name him, and then Kevin would cut to the next story.
* ''[[The Fast Show]]'' had a repeating sketch where a news reporter would appear to offer a special report, which was always something inane such as her American friend pronouncing "yogurt" differently. They also had "Chanel Nine" news, which seems to use some elements of this trope. It's hard to tell, since it's done entirely in [[Foreign Sounding Gibberish]].
* ''[[Mock the Week]]'' has done "Things a newscaster would never say" as an improv sketch, naturally almost entirely composed of examples of Kent Brockman News.
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* In the pilot episode of ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'', Maya gets fired from a news program after rewriting the teleprompter so that a pompous anchorwoman says that a decrease of gang violence was due "to the removal of the frontal lobe of my brain. And in related news, I wet myself."
* ''[[Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!]]'' has a carryover from their previous show ''Tom Goes to the Mayor'' in Jan and Wayne Skylar, the "Channel 5 Married News Team". They added John C. Reilly as Dr. Steve Brule (who has since gotten his own
* Robin on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' has done numerous silly things on the air: ridiculous [[Could This Happen to You?]] stories, [[Incredibly Lame Pun
** Also her job on the morning news show, in which she gives CPR to the weatherman after he and the green screen catches on fire. Then she helps a deliver the child of her guest that goes into labor.
* Minor version on ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', where after the [[Coincidental Broadcast]], the follow-up is bizarre: "Up next: kittens on parade!" and "Can apes drive? We'll find out!"
* ''[[Drop the Dead Donkey]]'' was mostly about the chaos ''behind'' the cameras, but occasionally Henry's temper or Sally's idiocy would carry through to the broadcast. There's also Damian's sensationalist field reports (which always resulted in the cameraman being injured).
* Occasionally seen in sitcoms set in TV/radio stations: ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'', ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'', ''[[Murphy Brown]]'', ''[[News Radio]]'', ''Back to You'', etc.
* The cases on ''[[Boston Legal]]'' are occasionally commented on by outspoken legal analyst Gracie Jane, a parody of Nancy Grace. One episode also featured a reporter named Wolfgang Blitzkrieg.
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' has actual Los Angeles [[Fox News]] anchor John F. Beard (who also appears in [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0063906/ several other Fox shows in the same capacity] in a landmark '''15''' episodes, which ties him with Henry Winkler/Barry Zuckercorn for the most appearances of a cast member/character not featured in every episode.
** "Next up; weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. Find out what this means for your weekend, after the break."
* An important part of Ken Finkleman's ''[[The Newsroom]]'', with Peter Keleghan's Jim Walcott serving as the Brockman.
* ''[[Lexx]]'' had a recurring anchor for the season set on present-day Earth, whose twin obsessions were fluff pieces and the US stock market.
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* An episode of ''[[The Flip Wilson Show]]'' featured Flip and George Carlin in a newscaster skit that allowed Carlin to use this bit (and I'm paraphrasing) "Scientists discovered a new number between 6 and 7. They're calling it bleem."
* Pretty much the entire news team in ''[[Back To You]]''.
* Brandy Barber (Gina Phillips) from the ''[[
* ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' has Joan Callamezzo, host of the morning show ''Pawnee Today'', who often tries to undermine or snark on her guests on air. (There's also Perd Hapley, who's just kind of a doofus.)
* On an episode of ''[[
* The French puppet show ''[[Les Guignols De L Info]]'', running since 1988, is entirely about this trope. The anchor Patrick Poivre d'Arvor never misses an occasion to make snarky comments just after interviews or shows naive agreement when explained horrible things by "officials" (like the marketing plan to sell… the War in Irak). He is not above bullying (puppets of) journalists of other channels who have been fired or suspended for some reason, like David Pujadas or recently Harry Roselmack, treating them like trainees who must learn from him. And sometimes, we switch to [[Kent Brockman News]] ''inside'' the show, presented this time by Jean-Pierre Pernaut, the anchor of the 13 o'clock news on TF1 (a channel considered blatantly rightwing, pro-government, anti-strikers and anti-public servants) which has a tendency to show anecdotes about the "deep traditional France" or the holiday departures rather than important news.▼
▲* On an episode of ''[[The Armstrong and Miller Show (TV)|The Armstrong and Miller Show]]'', there is a sketch wherein a reporter in the Middle East speaks over satellite, while the presenter in the studio uses the delay as an opportunity to accuse him of various unsavoury things.
* ''[[Attention Scum]]'' had a recurring skit starring [[Johnny Vegas]]: 24 Hour News, As Read By a Man Who Has Been Up for 24 Hours. It started as a reasonably coherent, if tired and slightly drunk sounding location anchor, but gradually devolved until it was just Johnny Vegas in a rumpled and soiled business with a bottle of cheap booze yelling "NEWS!" over and over again.
== Music ==
* [[Frank Zappa]]'s "Billy The Mountain" has running commentary from (a parody of real-life) "right-wing fascist radical creepo pig" newscaster [[Heteronormative Crusader|George Putnam]]:
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Roland Hedley from ''[[Doonesbury]]''.
== Puppet Shows ==
▲* The French puppet show ''[[Les Guignols
== [[Radio]] ==
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== Toys ==
* ''[[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Ratchet: Deadlocked]]'' had a male alien, Dallas, and female robot, Juanita, as news anchors and announcers, who alternate between snarky comments about each other, showing off their extreme personality flaws on camera, and [[Demonization|slandering the titular character]] (until he saves everyone after the [[Big Bad]]'s goes off the deep end and tries to [[Kill
** Earlier ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' games had recurring robot reporter Darla Gratch.
* Fehn Digler from ''[[Beyond Good
* [[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines|Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines]] has a TV in the protagonist's hideout. It's delivering pretty normal news... Except when you play as [[The Mad Hatter|Malkavian]], which turns the news into Kent Brockman variety.
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* There was an old FMV PC game about art trading that would end each level with a news report on current events that would affect the values of certain paintings. The news anchor would smirk triumphantly while delivering tragic news and scowl while delivering upbeat news.
* [[GTA Radio]] is full of this, especially WCTR in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''.
* ''[[Disgaea]] 2'' has a news show with two anchors - one of whom is entirely mute, between each chapter of the game, talking about demon-interest pieces or actual plot relevant information. Inverted in one such "episode", where only the mute character is present; the entire episode is spent in silence, giving absolutely no information at all.
* Trivia game ''[[You Don't Know Jack]]'' would often have fake bumpers for Kent Brockman News over the credits. "Coming up: I couldn't string two sentences together to save my life. Tonight."
* ''[[Midtown Madness]] 2'' had at least one announcer like this (out of three or four); one of their race-opening lines ended in "...probably because I'm not wearing any pants!"
* PC space shooter ''[[Galactix]]'' opened with this report: "In today's news, Brazilian lumberjacks cut down the last tree in the rainforest. A spokesman for the Acme Toothpick Company said, 'Gee, that's too bad.'" only to be interrupted by the alien overlord announcing his intention to conquer and enslave humanity. The anchor even looked a bit like Kent Brockman.
* ''[[
* The news show seen at the beginning of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'' doubles up as a fairly straightforward marine biology documentary, with the news relegated to bouncing, barely readable tickers displaying the weirdest stories ever (such as describing an accident victim as 'beheaded but in stable condition' and mentioning a 'Ghengis Khan impersonator spotted near Vancouver armed with an automatic machete').
* ''[[
* Jane Valderama in ''[[Saints Row]] 2'' speaks in the weirdly smarmy monotone and a WASPish accent that only slips when she says her Hispanic last name. Also indulges the tortured metaphors, especially while giving running commentary as an embedded reporter in the Gang
* The second ''[[Oddworld]]'' game, Abe's Exoddus, has the "Magog On March" news bulletins, where a Slig anchor (yes…) presents the latest crimes of the terrorist Abe and the declarations of Glukkon directors. Not forgetting the advertisement about Glukkon products sponsors.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' occasionally features stories by anchorman Randy Pinkwood, who will report on gaming news with the comic's characteristic farcical style. He ends each one by making some sort of reference to his incredible, and often bizarre, sexual escapades. (His name itself is, of course, a [[Double Entendre]].)
* ''[[Something
* The [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980202 Nifty News 50] team from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' fits this trope pretty darn well (one of them is even named "Qwirky").
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''(pause)''
'''Reporter:''' Well, while we are waiting, let's speculate wildly. Is Torg forming a cult? Is Riff a lesbian in a man's body? And what happened to that annoying "Sam" character? Foul play? }}
* [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=20 This] ''[[VG Cats]]'' strip.
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* Kelly, editorial cartoonist for ''[[The Onion]]'', is close to one of these. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100223081542/http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/dec-08-2008 This] is a good example.
* The news reports from ''[[
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* A news anchor in ''[[Tales Of Gnosis College]]'' shifts from a national security story to a discussion of deep issues about the meaning of human life to the local sports report, treating all as being about equally serious.
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' presents: "[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1623 How Science Reporting Works]".
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
* Act III of ''[[
* Segments on the ''[[The Onion|Onion News Network]]'' tends to run with this, especially ''In The Know'' and ''Today Now!''.▼
* From ''[[Fenspace]]'', ''The Chewy Gristle Commentary Hour'' featuring Momo von Satan and The Cock, in the ''best way possible.''
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Anchorman Kent Brockman of ''[[The Simpsons (
** At one point it's implied that Brockman only covered the fall of the Berlin Wall because his infant daughter convinced him to. This is referenced in an episode wherein, at the advice of said daughter, he dedicates his entire half-hour news broadcast to a children's doll (this reporter found it hard to ''stop talking''), and mentions only just before the fadeout that, on that same day, ''the president was arrested for murder''.
** The tail-end of a report: "...leaving the vice-president in charge." It's accompanied by a very small picture of the White House, with a thin trail of smoke leaking out. He then goes on to cover some plot-related local issue.
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*** Brockman's story about the military. "Tonight, on 'Eye on Springfield': just miles from your doorstep, hundreds of men are given weapons and trained to kill. The government calls it the "army", but a more alarmist name would be... '''The Killbot Factory'''."
** ''Springfield Action News'' is ''made'' of said alarmism, usually thanks to double-entendre: "Tonight's top stories, a tremendous ''explosion'' in the price of lumber. President Reagan ''dyes'' ...his hair". He then proceeds to hype up the "killer storm" bearing down on them, whose death count is currently zero but "is ready to shoot right up"
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*** When faced with the imminent destruction of Springfield by meteor, Brockman chooses to [[Last Day to Live|spend his final broadcast]] listing people who are secretly gay.
** In Brockman's defense, there ''are'' times when he is fairly competent in the newsroom, and his editors and camera crew are the ones who are screwing up. There was the time, for instance, when he wanted to show his interview with Pope John Paul II - and instead was presented with footage of ''a baby goat being fed a bottle of milk''.
*** Amusingly enough, when he ''is'' trying to be professional, he has to deal with Arnie Pye in the Sky, who can't seem to keep his personal feud with Kent off the air
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'''Arnie:''' [[I Am the Trope|You're not the time, Kent!]] ''YOU'RE NOT THE TIME!'' }}
** In the episode ''You Kent Always Say What You Want'', it is also subtly implied that he was not happy about having to interview Homer in regards to winning his 1,000,000th Ice Cream cone at the ice cream parlor, especially when it forced him to abandon doing a heated discussion on the War in Iraq, but he ended up having to do so due to one of his show's sponsors being the same Ice Cream company that Homer won the contest in.
* ''[[
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'''Morbo:''' (presiding over a presidential debate) "I now present puny human #1, puny human #2, and Morbo's good friend [[President Evil|Richard Nixon]]" }}
** The casual attitude taken to his threats could be explained by his behaviour with his wife - at a party she adjusts his bow-tie and he snaps at her, "Stop it, it's fine, I will DESTROY you!" This would suggest that's just the way his species acts normally. Then again, he has also stopped reporting to take a note about human weaknesses and referenced his people's mighty space fleet readying for an attack in the near future. You can't help but love him though; indeed, Fry said as much when seeing the news back in the 20th century in Bender's Big Score. "I miss Morbo."
* In the ''[[
** In an episode of South Park where a whale is stolen from an aquarium, one on-site reporter makes a fairly on-topic joke: "It certainly is a WHALE of a problem down here." To which the reporter at the desk responds, "Yes, I can hardly BEAR it." Cue odd looks.
** ''[[South Park]]'' also has a variety of weird field reporters, generally [[Twofer Token Minority|Threefer or Fourfer Token Minorities]], to do remotes. (Curiously, almost all the weird field reporters, when on-screen, appear to be consummate professionals for the most part: "Thanks, Tom!...") The form is usually "Live, with that story, is..."
*** "A quadriplegic Swiss man on a pony." (He's lashed to it with ropes)
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*** The "Simpsons Already Did It" episode even showed Kent Brockman himself as part of a hallucination where Butters sees the entire town as Simpsons characters.
** During the fourth season, a recurring gag in news stories was to have the scene begin with the character(s) watching the tail end of a story about the ever-increasing size of Hillary Clinton's ass.
* The ''[[Codename
* The reporters on ''[[
** Also poked fun at is the tendency of news organizations to relegate minorities to support staff, with "Asian Reporter Tricia Takanawa", and black weatherman Ollie Williams and his "Blacku-Weather Forecast," where he just yells out a succinct description. ("ISS GON' RAIN!" "ISS RAININ' SIDEWAYS!") Apparently he talks like that all the time, as demonstrated in his cooking segment ("EGGO!"), his helicopter traffic report ("EVERYBODY LOOKS LIKE ANTS!") and his adopt-a-pet segment. ("WHO WANTS THIS DAWG?!") One episode explains Ollie's speech patterns as the result of alcoholism.
** The second episode of ''Family Guy'' involves the TV transmitter getting destroyed, taking out TV for all of Quahog. This results in the following situation:
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'''Diane:''' Well, Tom, I just plain don't like black people. ''(the two chuckle)''
'''Camera Operator:''' [[Is This Thing Still On?|Uh, guys, we're still on in Boston.]]
''Cut back to Tom and Diane, who have [[Oh Crap]] looks on their faces.'' }}
** Then there was when the transmitter was fixed:
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'''Diane:''' ''(playfully)'' Oh, Tom, I don't think your wife will appreciate that.
'''Tom:''' Come on, Diane. That frigid cow lives in Quahog. She can't hear what I'm saying.
'''Camera Operator:''' Actually, we're back on the air in Quahog.
''Cut back to Tom and Diane, who have [[Oh Crap]] looks on their faces again, but this time, Tom has a wooden paddle in his hand and Diane is bent over'' }}
** Drunk Billy was the Quahog 5 News Traffic Cam helicopter pilot. In the episode "Dial Meg for Murder", Drunk Billy tragically dies in a fatal collision with a highway overpass. In anticipation for this moment, colleagues Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons present a pre-prepared collection of accidents and near misses from Billy’s career.
* In ''[[
* ''[[A Pup Named Scooby
* ''[[Darkwing Duck (
* ''[[The Fairly
* [[Those Two Guys|Johnny Gomez and Nick Diamond]] in ''[[
* ''[[Sheep in The Big City]]'' had two anchors, one of whom would give "unrelated" stories that were obviously related, once repeating the same story.
* ''[[
* ''[[Drawn Together]]'', of course, has several versions of
* Ace Palmero from ''[[The Replacements]]''.
* Hank Anchorman from ''[[Johnny Test]]''.
* A Realistic Fish Head from ''[[
** Also the regular newscasters (Bob and Barbara), who tend to laugh at whatever they report the few times they've shown up.
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'''Barbara''': (smiling) ...and there were no survivors. Back to you, Bob.
'''Bob''': Thank you, Barbara.
'''Barbara''': Thank ''you'', Bob. }}
* ''[[The Proud Family]]'' has Marsha Mitsubishi, who very clearly hates her job and frequently comments about it on air.
* Tovah Hernandez Carlson on ''[[Clerks the Animated Series|Clerks: The Animated Series]]'' is a newscaster of the monotone variety.
* Mike The TV from ''[[
* ''[[Planet Sketch]]'' has Mike Today and Sally Van who have gender related arguements when they do their newscasting.
* Hector Ramirez, the parody of investigative reporter Geraldo Rivera from ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'', ''[[Jem]]'' and ''[[
* Stan Blather from ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
* ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' - events on the show are often reported by news anchor Brian Pinhead ([[Its Pronounced Tropay|pronounced 'Pin-ADE']]).
* In an episode of ''[[
** And then it gets better as Phil and Lil whisper insults about each other to Chuckie.
* In an episode of ''[[Legion of Super
* ''[[
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* ''[[Generator Rex]]'' has the tabloid news show "Ultimate Exposure", which is also the focus of the episode "Exposed."
* Shandra Jimenez from ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' would, in most settings, be an Inversion of this Trope, as she would much rather focus on news that is important and believable. Unfortunately, she is stuck in a town that is notorious for rampant supernatural activity.
▲== [[Web Original]] ==
▲* Act III of ''[[Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]]'' gives us two rather hammy TV news anchors whose coverage of Captain Hammer's "inspirational acts of heroism" segues neatly into the following gem -- "Next up, who's gay?" (For extra humor, the [[Gilligan Cut|next line]] is sung by Captain Hammer's [[Camp Gay]] [[Fan Boy]].) They are later shown weeping uncontrollably on the air over {{spoiler|<s>Penny</s> What's-her-name's death}}.
▲* Segments on the ''[[The Onion|Onion News Network]]'' tends to run with this, especially ''In The Know'' and ''Today Now!''.
▲* Rod Putman in ''[[Bite Me (Web Video)|Bite Me]]''.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOc4XgBespw "I'll give you some lessons on how to become a reporter later."]
* Of the [[Worst News Judgment Ever]] variety, [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/us/28land.html we have this] [[Wild Teen Party]]. Obviously, it sucks that a house was trashed by some punk kids, but it doesn't become national news worthy of editorials and multiple headlines just because the house had belonged to Robert Frost.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Bc7eRTdWY&feature=related A rather awkward on air moment.]
* In an incident that fits this trope, but it not funny at all, on July 15, 1974, Christine Chubbuck, morning host for WXLT in [[Only in Florida|Sarasota, Florida]], began her show by covering three national news stories and then a local restaurant shooting from the previous day. The film reel of the restaurant shooting had jammed and would not run, so Chubbuck shrugged it off and said, "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first -— attempted suicide." She then drew a revolver from her pocket and shot herself behind her right ear, killing herself.
* Shepard Smith was talking about the Michael Vick dog fighting scandal on Studio B when [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlLdqMfZnhs the fire alarm] went off.
** Smith also yelled at the person in the news helicopter [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X9Dr-7-kuc for filming a suicide]. He didn’t want it on TV.
** Smith didn’t let Jane Skinner on the hold for this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLkQeuU1LmM fail]
* This reporter should’ve [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYAMDhVT50I watch her language]
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