History LargeHam / LiveActionTv

* ''Series/{{Community}}'': Professor of Drama Sean Garrity, played by KevinCorrigan.

* Pick a panelist from an episode of ''Series/AroundTheHorn''. Any panelist. Any episode. Odds are they will lapse into large ham territory at some point. Host Tony Reali can get pretty hammy himself.

---> "I'M A MONSTER!"

----> '''Vandal Savage''': Who are you to stand up to me, Vandal Savage, destroyer of empires?!\\
'''Snart''': Leonard Snart, robber of [=ATMs=]!

---> "Zeus has returned to Olympus"

---> "Will someone turn off ''THAT FRAKKIN MUSIC!!''

--> "How many times -- HOW MANY TIMES do I have to say it, Treelo?! I! AM NOT! A SNOW BEAR! I! AM A '''MOUSE'''! '''TUTTER THE MOUSE!'''"

--->'''Messenger:''' "My Lord, news: the Swiss have invaded France. "
--->'''BRIAN BLESSED:''' "EXCELLENT! WHILE THEY'RE AWAY, TAKE 10,000 TROOPS AND ''PILLAGE GENEVA''!!"
--->'''Messenger:''' "But the Swiss are our allies, My Lord."
--->'''BRIAN BLESSED:''' "Oh yes... Well, er, get them to dress up as Germans, will you?"

** Edmund's aunt, Lady Whiteadder, in "[[Recap/BlackadderS2E5Beer Beer]]," who spends most of her time making loud, sanctimonious pronouncements about how [[TheFundamentalist everything is the work of the Devil]], punctuated with bugeyed [[DeathGlare Death Glares]].

---> "Yes, shake, Earth! This is a sign! We are in the final days! My time is come! Glory! GLORY! [[BeatPanel *pause*]] [[MoodWhiplash What do you think? 5.1?]]"

** Olaf the Troll from "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E11Triangle Triangle]]". All his lines were written in [=ALLCAPS=], and it came across onscreen. The actor is clearly having a blast.

--->(Thumps dumpster) "MWAHAHAHAHAAAA! PUNY RECEPTACLE!"

--->'''Wesley''': "Oh, ''Buffy''..."
--->'''Cordy''': "Yes, Angel?"
--->'''Wesley''': "I love you so much I almost forgot to brood!"

--> "''IN YOUR FIREY THRONE PRESIDING OVER THE DAMNED!''"

-->'''Chef Gareth Blackstock''': Everton, please remove the maggots, rat carcasses, and corpses of shocked health inspectors and make the place fit for the preparation of sodding food!
-->'''Chef Gareth Blackstock''': Somebody bring me a knife, very long and razor sharp. I need to castrate the person who made this sauce and I don't want to cause any unnecessary suffering. I'm not a vindictive man, I'm not out to cause pain, but with this man's DNA in the gene pool, humanity is doomed.

** Ken Jeong as Senor Chang regularly hams it up yelling at students in the first season.
---> Pierce: You can't do that!
---> Senor Chang: HAVE YOU MET ME?!

* Keith Olbermann of ''Series/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann'' enjoys eating a large ham sandwich before delivering the news. He double doses before his Special Comments.

--> "'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948 YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!]]'''"

--> [[VampireVords So, ve are ze masters now, eh?]]

--> "USA! USA! '''U...S...AAAAA!!'''"

--> '''Steve:''' With all the ''pain'' and ''hunger'' and ''disease'' in the world, there's ''really'' no better use of my time than to make sure ''every blessed cup holder IS ROCK SOLID STEADY!!!'' SO THAT LITTLE WHINY PUNK-HOLES LIKE ''YOU'' DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT YOUR PRECIOUS LITTLE LEMONADE BEING A ''TEENY BIT UNBALANCED!!!''
-->'''Josh:''' ''[after a beat, nervously]'' I had the fruit punch.
-->'''Steve:''' Well, '''FROODY-DOODY-DOO!!! ''I QUIT''!!!'''

--> "YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK, JOHN?! YOU CAN TALK 'TILL YOUR TONGUE FALLS OUT! HE'S GONNA KILL YOU REGARDLESS! '''AAAAAAAARRRRRGHH!'''"

---> "'''NOW DIE!!!!'''"
* Creator/FoodNetwork's Anne Burell and Paula Deen are {{Large Ham}}s who will teach you how to make large ham. GuyFieri is an even Larger Ham who will teach how to make even larger ham, and will [[Series/DinersDriveInsAndDives show you where you can find ham even larger than that]].

-->''"All right. Anybody else gotta a problem? How about you chuckles? You think this is funny now?! How 'bout if I dance AROUND all covered in sauce, huh, you think it's funny now?! Take those salads to table four! And you, take the swordfish! And you! Get a haircut!"''

--> '''Ramsay:''' WHAT. IS. YOUR. NAME!?

-->'''Wright''': [upon meeting a bunch of Music/DirEnGrey cosplayers in Shinjuku] "ARE YOU GUYS MONSTERS?!"

---> [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "MY. NAME. IS. SYLAR!!!!!"]]

** Slan was a good example of this. Creator/AdrianPaul wandered into it once, during Darius's death scene.
-->'''Duncan''': DAAARRRRIIUUUSSSS! DARIUS! (check out the onscreen expression and it'll be clear).

---> Freddie: PONYTAILS!

---> Spencer: THAT IS NOT HOW WE CELEBRATE!

---> Goopy: SEDDIE! / SPAGHETTI!

--> "PUSH! THE! BUTTONNNNNNNN!!!!!"

-->'''River''': "You might want to find something to hang onto."

--> "I will be called back from the dead. ([[GigglingVillain laughs]]). I will kill you all...AND COME [[ImAHumanitarian FEAST UPON YOUR FLESH]]!"

--> "IT'S TIME... TO FACE... THE MUSIC!"

* [=PJ=] Katie from ''Series/PJKatiesFarm''. Just [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqeLf3oAGLo look]]!

---> '''Antonio:''' Now this... is a big moment. Man, this is gonna be so [[{{Pun}} golden]]! Now let's do this! Samurai Morpher! Gold power! ''[TransformationSequence]'' Gold is good to go! ''[Beat]'' That's it? No "Thanks for helping"? Or a little "What? What?" Alright, I get it. You ''need a minute''. What can I say? When I make an entrance, it's go BIG, or go home! Am I right?

-->Dad, please tell me you are wearing that shirt so someone can see you from SPACE!

---> "You're going to have a lot of time doing (insert action here) WHEN YOU'RE LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!"

-->''[[RunningGag "DONALD!]] [[BigNo NOOOO!!!"]]''

** [[{{Catchphrase}} Hey, hey, hey, what is going on here?]]

---> "''NO ONE TELLS FRANK CONSTANZA WANT TO DO''!"
---> "''SERENITY NOW!!!''"

---> "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zG_PN31YJU Alright! But hear me and hear me well! The day will come! Oh yes, mark my words Seinfeld! Your day of reckoning is coming! When an evil wind will blow through your little play world and whip that smug smile off your face! And I'll be there, in all my glory watching! Watching, as it all comes crumbling down!]]"

---> "''I am Booster Gold, the greatest hero you've never heard of... 'TILL NOW!''"

--> '''Chad:''' "You smell like ham."
--> '''Sonny:''' "I've seen your acting... so do you."

-->"''I know your destiny''...JOOOOOOHN SHEPAAAAAARRD!!!"

--> "[[WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw Ha HA! Baby got backfat.]]"
--> "''All of us are '''[[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uViRS1RwwDU TREEEEES!!!]]'''''"

--> "GERALD!"

--> '''Toby:'''' But! This ''administration'' is [[ItMakesSenseInContext gonna protect THE MUPPETS!!!]]

---> '''Johnny X-Treme''': '''IT'LL PUNCH YOUR BALLS OFF!''''

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' has many hammy scenes -- most of which are provided by Dennis Reynolds, who calls himself "The Golden God" and frequently goes on loud tirades befitting that name. (Actor Glenn Howerton went to Juilliard, and he definitely puts his theatrical training to heavy work.)

[[caption-width-right:250:[[MundaneMadeAwesome ALLEZ CUISINE!!]] ]]

* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':

** The TVTrops page for Astronema just lists "BigHam: Jiminy Christmas...". It's well-deserved.

* Series/{{Castle}} has been known to ham it up. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcYwBcU7K1s&NR=1 A prime example from the Season 2 episode "Vampire Weekend"]]. His mother Martha, being something of a WhiteDwarfStarlet, maintains some level of hamminess almost every time she's onscreen.

* ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E93TheLittlePeople The Little People]]" with Joe Maross as power-mad spaceman Peter Craig shouting "I'M THE GOD!, I'M THE GOD!" as he gleefully stamps on the little aliens' city. A line that was parodied by Dr. Forrester in the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] Movie.

** In the seventh season, John Voight played Jonas Hodges, an executive at the Private Military Corporation Starkwood, part of the Cabal that has been present since Season 5. He was also one of the hammiest villains with bizarre dialog like:

** He was nowhere near as OTT as Patsy Kelly ("The Night of the Big Blast" and "The Night of the Bogus Bandits"), Karen Sharpe in "The Night of the Ready-Made Corpse" -- "TERRIBLE! TERRIBLE!"[[note]] not a description of her acting in this episode, one of her actual lines of dialogue in it[[/note]] (this episode was directed by Irving J. Moore, who liked his actors to go into orbit -- tellingly, Sharpe's performance in "The Night of the Flaming Ghost" is ham-free) -- or John Harding as Thaddeus Toombs in "The Night of the Winged Terror," a man so hammy he had to have two episodes to fit all the porkiness in! (Coincidentally, this was the show's only two-parter.)

** Spike revelled in maintaining a permanent rockstar swagger in everything he did and liked to make a show of himself whenever possible, including a particularly flashy murder of the Anointed One. Fitting, for a former victorian poet-turned-FullyEmbracedFiend BloodKnight. It tones down considerably once [[spoiler: he gains his soul]], but even then, he's still prone to CasualDangerDialogue and moments of over dramatization... maybe it's [[InTheBlood in the vampiric line?]]

* ''Series/DanLeBatardIsHighlyQuestionable'' -- Both Dan and Papi are huge hams.

* Harry '''Ham'''lin's Uncle Marty in ''Series/HarpersIsland''. [[spoiler: Who goes to the abattoir at the end of the first episode]].

*** And once [[spoiler: the true BigBad Masamune Dan/ Kamen Rider Chronos]] arrives after he was detained in jail, there is no stopping him from even [[FeedMe chewing the scenery]] when he does what he does best.

** ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'' has got the Prophet Black Woz, who's the HammyHerald in his introduction of Zi-O after his first transformation is so bombastic that he practically steals the scene. Also, he introduces every new Ridewatch that Zi-O uses in this way and ''hates'' when someone interrupts him. He essentially serves as Zi-O's hype man, proclaiming his every action as if it came from a majestic tale. And he will make sure everyone within a five block radius can hear his proclamations. [[spoiler: He even hypes himself once he transforms into Kamen Rider Woz for the first time and also ham it up when Sougo, Geiz and him tranforms in to Zi-O Trinity everytime so much to the dismay of Geiz and Sougo.]]

* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' -- Damon Salvatore is what happens when you combine the Tropes of Vampires Are Sexy, AloofBigBrother, CainAndAbel and JerkassWoobie. He is ''delightfully'' hammy when he needs to be.

** Sanchez is often quite hammy sometimes, too. To the point where actor Matt Berry's voiceovers for a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvic_(mineral_water) certain bottled water commercial]] became a staple for WebAnimation/YouTubePoop.

* Most of the muppets from ''Series/TheMuppetShow''.
** Miss Piggy is a LargeHam in more ways than one, and an excellent female example.
** Link Hogthrob also deserves the epithet, although he was (as Captain of the Swine Trek) a pastiche of [[Creator/WilliamShatner Shatner himself]], so it's expected.
** While he's not a pig, [[AllDrummersAreAnimals Animal]] would also qualify. The Creator/BobHope episode would be the standout here, in which his reaction to Kermit telling him to get a hobby is to run around shouting "HOB-BY! HOB-BY! HOB-BY!", then take up alligator wrestling.
** Creator/FrankOz was often known to ham up his Muppet characters, including on ''Series/SesameStreet'', from regulars like Bert and Grover, to incidental and one-off characters appearing in segments in the 1970s and 1980s.
*** Also in evidence with Guy Smiley, America's favorite game show host. Apparently, Jim Henson strained his voice so much doing Smiley (as [[NoIndoorVoice he shouts everything he says]]) that all his earlier segments were pre-recorded.

* ''Series/That70sShow'' has [[CampStraight Fez]] and [[CampGay Fenton]].
-->"WHERE'S [[SweetTooth MY CAN-DY]], YOU SON OF A BITCH?!"
* Jenna Maroney on ''Series/ThirtyRock'' does this in-universe both on and off camera. She's apparently even petitioned the people who run the Tony Awards to add a category for "acting theatrically in real life." Tracy Jordan gets his moments, as well. Also, while Creator/AlecBaldwin is very capable of subtle acting, every now and then he breaks out a big old Irish ham.

* ''Series/TwentyFour'':
** The ULTIMATE ham of ''24'' is ''Jack Bauer''... the show wouldn't be a tenth as good if Creator/KieferSutherland played the role low-key.
---> '''"Who is the [[strike:ham]] man in Visalia!?!?"'''
---> '''"Where's the [[strike:ham]] bomb?!?!"'''.
** In the seventh season, John Voight played Jonas Hodges, an executive at the Private Military Corporation Starkwood, part of the Cabal that has been present since Season 5. He was also one of the hammiest villains with bizarre dialog like:
---> "''Stress is the fertilizer of creativity. Now, let's play some darts.''"
---> "''They're six year olds, Greg. And they need to eat their carrots.''"
** Although Creator/DennisHaysbert's performance was very subtle, President David Palmer was certainly not above snacking on scenery.
---> "That is an '''obscene''' suggestion!"
** Ham must be a Palmer family treat. Sherry, Wayne, and Sandra Palmer all bust out several plates of ham when they deem it necessary.
** Now compare the Palmers to total nut-case and ManipulativeBastard Charles Logan. Enough ham for days.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
** Near the end of the second episode, Lestat de Lioncourt (a sadist who enjoys "playing with his food" before killing his victims) has an outburst after Louis de Pointe de Lac objects to the former psychologically tormenting the tenor.
--->'''Lestat''': WELL, I DON'T SAY THAT YOU HAVE TO ENJOY IT! KILL THEM SWIFTLY IF YOU HAVE TO, BUT DO IT! EMBRACE WHAT YOU ARE! YOU ARE A KILLER, LOUIS!
** In the third episode, while in the presence of American soldiers who will soon be shipped off to France for UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, Lestat [[PlayedForLaughs hilariously]] adopts an exaggerated American accent when he exclaims, "All these murderous slobs want is more wine and a GERMAN ON THEIR BAYONETS! KILL THE HUNS!"
** After the soldiers depart, Lestat, who is extremely jealous over Louis hooking up with his OldFlame Jonah, then bellows with all the fury and heartache he can muster:
--->'''Lestat''': I HEARD YOUR HEARTS DANCING!!\\
'''Louis''': You watched the whole thing like some creeper!\\
'''Lestat''': AND THEN I WATCHED YOU PULL OVER AND DRAIN A DOG, AND RUN DOWN AN ALLEYWAY FOR TWO MORE RATS!! THIS IS NOT A LIFE!!\\
'''Louis''': THAT'S 'CAUSE YOU TOOK MY LIFE!
** In the fourth episode, Lestat can't sleep because of the scratching sound from Claudia's pen as she writes in her journal. He wants her to stop, but Louis defends her behaviour because it's a normal activity for a teenager. Lestat then yells in frustration, "''PUTAIN DE MERDE! BONNE NUIT!''" [[note]]It's French for "Fucking hell! Good night!"[[/note]]
** In the fifth episode, a sex-starved Claudia shrieks at her two vampire fathers, "[[IncestSubtext WHICH ONE OF YOU GONNA FUCK ME?!]]"
** Lestat, a CrazyJealousGuy and a JealousParent, is royally pissed off that Louis would rather go with Claudia to Europe than stay with him: "A thousand nights of sulking, and the first sight of her, YOU ARE JUST GONNA UP AND LEAVE ME?!"
** Lestat is downright ''terrifying'' when he roars "I AM TRYING TO RESTRAIN MYSELF!!" while [[DomesticAbuse bashing Louis against the walls of their house like a rag doll]].
** In the sixth episode, Lestat parodies the train conductor he has just murdered by hollering "TICKETS, PLEASE!" as he enters the baggage car.
** Lestat loses his temper when Claudia refuses to finish their chess match. He also rants in French at the top of his lungs, but Louis increases the volume of the wireless to drown out his voice.
--->'''Lestat''': ''(hits the table)'' FINISH THE GAME!! [...] HEEDLESS, DISAGREEABLE, OBNOXIOUS, REPELLENT, UNKIND, SPOILED TO THE CORE!!

** In the sixth episode, Lestat loses his temper when Claudia refuses to finish their chess match. He also rants in French at the top of his lungs, but Louis increases the volume of the wireless to drown out his voice.
--->'''Lestat''': ''(hits the table)'' [[SuddenlyShouting FINISH THE GAME!!]] [...] HEEDLESS, DISAGREEABLE, OBNOXIOUS, REPELLENT, UNKIND, SPOILED TO THE CORE!!

** While not necessarily the most iconic ham, a villain whose catchphrase is "Viva La Diva, baby!" has to be the Ur-example in this category. Some of Divatox's more memorable moments were "ARISE...AND MEET YOUR BRIDE!" and the somewhat famous "I LOVE it when a plan comes together!"