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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 ''[[Die Hard]]'' speculate that the hostages have developed "Helsinki Syndrome, named after Helsinki, Sweden," and the other corrects him - [[Completely Missing the Point|Helsinki's in Finland]]<ref> They're talking about [[Stockholm Syndrome]]</ref>. Then the cut back to Nakatomi Plaza shows quite clearly that they're talking out of their asses.

* One of the news anchors in ''[[Die Hard]]'' speculate that the hostages have developed "Helsinki Syndrome, named after Helsinki, Sweden," and the other corrects him - [[Completely Missing the Point|Helsinki's in Finland]].<ref>They're talking about [[Stockholm Syndrome]]</ref> Then the cut back to Nakatomi Plaza shows quite clearly that they're talking out of their asses.

* 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 '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... with Children]]'', who really didn't like her job.

* The improv show ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' features the game "Weird Newscasters," where the actors perform a quick bit of [[Kent Brockman News]].

* The improv show ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' features the game "Weird Newscasters," where the actors perform a quick bit of Kent Brockman News.

** 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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{{quote|'''Russell Howard:''' Next on News 24, I'm gonna punch a zebra. Who cares? No one's watching.}}

* 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 ~~bits--and~~ eventually [[Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule|his own show]]) who provides useless health information.

* ''[[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 bits—and eventually [[Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule|his own show]]) who provides useless health information.

* 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~~|Incredibly Lame Puns~~]], and bizarre fluff pieces, especially when Barney's getting her to do a bet. When she transferred to Japan, Robin got to report actual ~~news -- with~~ a chimpanzee.

* 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]]s, and bizarre fluff pieces, especially when Barney's getting her to do a bet. When she transferred to Japan, Robin got to report actual news—with a chimpanzee.

** 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!"

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* Brandy Barber (Gina Phillips) from the ''[[Monk]]'' episode ''Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa'' definitely qualifies. For one thing, most of her reports are emotionally charged rather than done rationally, and often has her skewing the story to humiliate the interviewee. It's because of her that Monk and Natalie get harassed by people jeering at Monk for shooting and wounding a [[Bad Santa]] with his own gun. For some reason, despite this, pretty much everyone seems to [[Idiot Ball|believe this broadcaster]].

* ''[[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.)

* 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.

* 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]]'', 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.

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* 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').

* ''[[Sim City]] Enhanced'' had [[Full Motion Video]] clips including reports on the disasters that you unleashed, [[Verbal Backspace|er]], happened to befall your city, which were usually happening [[Dead Line News|right on top of the newsroom]]. The news anchor thinks that reports of a rampaging monster are all just a joke [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo0L3QqLAk0 until it squashes her], reports a plane crash with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfouzLxyWyc some odd details], fails to take her own advice over remaining calm [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZj5VfJHVtY in the face of a meltdown] and also reports the meltdown at a nuclear power station [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZj5VfJHVtY next door to the studio]: everyone else has been rushed to hospital except her because "[[Black Comedy|I don't have insurance]]".

* 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 ~~War -- she~~ rides shotgun with the Boss, bringing her own shotgun.

* 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 War—she rides shotgun with the Boss, bringing her own shotgun.

* 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.

{{quote|''Although Soulstorm Brewry's profits are plumetting, Mudokkons keep on disappearing here and there [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and the toilets are flowing back]], our direction assure us that everything is alright! Huhun… I'm off.''}}

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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: Kids Next Door]]'' episode "OP CAKED-FOUR" features an annoying, pointlessly judgmental reporter who speaks in a smarmy monotone [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|reminiscent of Howard Cosell]] no matter what's ~~happening -- until~~ he gets scared, which promptly reveals that the monotone isn't his real voice.

* The ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' episode "OP CAKED-FOUR" features an annoying, pointlessly judgmental reporter who speaks in a smarmy monotone [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|reminiscent of Howard Cosell]] no matter what's happening—until he gets scared, which promptly reveals that the monotone isn't his real voice.

* The reporters on ''[[Family Guy]]'' are constantly blurting out odd things that they would never say if they remembered that the cameras were still on. They also have a blatant hatred for one another ("We now go live to Diane being a bitch. Diane?"). During an early episode where [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] was incapacitated, they took the opportunity to get violent with each other.

** 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.

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* ''[[Sheep in The Big City]]'' had two anchors, one of whom would give "unrelated" stories that were obviously related, once repeating the same story.

* ''[[American Dad]]'' features two news anchors who are gay and married, who move next door to the Smiths early on in the series. They often bring their domestic lives into the news.

* ''[[Drawn Together]]'', of course, has several versions of [[Kent Brockman News]], which, like ''every other'' aspect of the show, is deranged and nonsensical. The anchors usually state something that either [[Crosses the Line Twice]] or inexplicably correlates to the characters directly.

* ''[[Drawn Together]]'', of course, has several versions of Kent Brockman News, which, like ''every other'' aspect of the show, is deranged and nonsensical. The anchors usually state something that either [[Crosses the Line Twice]] or inexplicably correlates to the characters directly.

* Ace Palmero from ''[[The Replacements]]''.

* Hank Anchorman from ''[[Johnny Test]]''.