Large Ham/Radio

Examples of Large Hams in Radio include:

Sir Donald Sinden, in the BBC Radio adaptation of Death On The Nile. And the BBC Radio adaptation of The Hound Of The Baskervilles. The TV series Never The Twain was one long Ham-Off between him and Windsor Davies.
- From Spitting Image:

Sir Donald: Do you serve... a ham salad?
Waiter: We serve salad to anyone.

The radio version of The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy features a particularly hammy performance from their Zaphod Beeblebrox. This can also apply to the TV version, it used the same actors, but the low-budget second head tends to reduce the ham.
Daws Butler as THE FIRE-BREATHING DRAGON in St. George and the Dragonet. The dragon is arrested by St. George (Stan Freberg) for devouring maidens out of season and overacting.
Ray Goulding, one-half of radio satirists Bob and Ray, who used his classic theatrical baritone to great effect in skits calling for this character type. Partly justified by the medium he was parodying, but mostly just because he was having a whole lot of fun.
Edwin Blackgaard is an in-universe example from Adventures in Odyssey, but he's almost as bad off-stage. It makes for a very sharp contrast with his evil brother, Regis, who gives a quieter, more even-handed performance and is scarier for it.
- Regis even lampshades this when he's talking to Jason, saying "My brother may be a scenery chewing ham, but he does have excellent taste."
On That Michell And Webb Sound, both Mitchell and Webb have their moments:
- Webb's would be the title character of the recurring sketch, "The Surprising Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar", an insane hobo who thinks he is a dashing adventurer.
- Mitchell's more prone to histrionics, but is not likely to top the series 3 finisher, where he played a man with no arms, legs, torso, or neck, engaged in a feverish and increasingly ludicrous description of the world's most beautiful art object.
  - "ANGELA! SPIT VACUUM!"
Basil Rathbone: "I love Radio, but then I am an awful ham!"
Anthony Head (yes, Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as gloating Card-Carrying Villain Mr Gently Benevolent in Dickensian parody Bleak Expectations

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