History Main / ChattyHairdresser

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} book ''Discworld/TheLastContinent'', Rincewind acts like one of these... while shearing a sheep.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fics of Creator/AAPessimal, Conina Cohensdaughter-Harebut, [[note]]A canonical character in Creator/TerryPratchett's early novel, ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}''[[/note]] who having achieved her dream of retiring from being an active Barbarian/Thief to run a hairdressing salon, keeps her ear to the ground and provides information to a clientele of professional ladies, whose hair can get a bit mussed up in the course of normal work as a Thief, Assassin, Barbarian Heroine or Teacher. She [[KnowledgeBroker trades information with her clients]] as they relax over a session of post or pre-combat hairstyling, manicuring, pedicuring, and other little necessities for the active professional woman in Ankh-Morpork. Her husband Nijel is happy to be the token male in the salon, preparing beverages and sweeping up hair cuttings.

* ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'' has Fabien, who works at the high end of the fashion world and ''denies'' being [[http://www.sandraontherocks.com/strips-sotr/gosippy_hairstylist a "gossipy hairstylist from a cheap salon,"]] but who has all the associated mannerisms, plus a black belt in SnarkToSnarkCombat.

* Such a character appears in passing in ''[[Anime/FullmetalPanic Full Metal Panic: Second Raid'', where Sousuke has to ''get a haircut'' while living with his PTSD and in his stressed-out internal monologue he has to remind himself, this is a normal civilian -- he adjusts that after a second to "normal" for this profession.

* Mot, the blue-skinner barber on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', does this to various characters in the show, much to their chagrin.

* In Creator/AgathaChristie's Literature/HerculePoirot novel ''Death in the Clouds'', one of the characters is a hairdresser who has to tell her clients about the murder, over and over again. At least she negotiates a pay rise for it.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fics of Creator/AAPessimal, Conina Cohensdaughter-Harebut, [[note]]A canonical character in Creator/TerryPratchett's early novel, ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}''[[/note]] who having achieved her dream of retiring from being an active Barbarian/Thief to run a hairdressing salon, keeps her ear to the ground and provides information to a clientele of professional ladies, whose hair can get a bit mussed up in the course of normal work as a Thief, Assassin, Barbarian Heroine or Teacher. She trades information with her clients as they relax over a session of post or pre-combat hairstyling, manicuring, pedicuring, and other little necessities for the active professional woman in Ankh-Morpork. Her husband Nijel is happy to be the token male in the salon, preparing beverages and sweeping up hair cuttings.

* Subverted in the gay-themed comedy ''The Broken Hearts Club''. All the characters at one point go to their hairdresser (played by Jennifer Coolidge, better known for playing Paulette in ''Film/LegallyBlonde', a straight example of the trope) for a heart-to-heart. The main characters are pouring their hearts out with their problems; the hairdresser doesn't say *anything* beyond "Sit up straight" and "Turn your head to the side." At the end of the sequence, one character compliments her for always knowing the right thing to say, to which she modestly replies, "It's a gift."

* The hairdresser in ''The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency'' is gay and like this.

* OlderThanPrint: TheBarber in a series of tales in the ''Literature/ArabianNights'' is endlessly talkative, to the annoyance of his patrons, despite his constant insistence on being a very quite man.
* Partridge in ''Tom Jones'' is a schoolmaster turned barber-surgeon who is fairly talkative and has major KnowNothingKnowItAll tendencies. He is compared to the barber of ''Literature/ArabianNights'' at least once.

* In ''Creator/AgathaChristie'''s Death in the Clouds, one of the charaters is a hairdresser who has to tell her clients about the murder, over and over again. At least she negotiates a pay rise for it.

* Shelly the hair-styling nanite in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000".

* Antoine, who runs a beauty saloon in the ''Radio/OurMissBrooks" episode ''The Hair-do''. He admits to Miss Brooks that he doesn't like Miss Enright, though she sends him many customers. Later, Miss Enright leans on him to give Miss Brooks a funny hair treatment. The character is played by character actor Frank Nelson, in much the same way as Frank Nelson played opposite Creator/JackBenny.

* Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', where Peggy, feeling dejected, decides to spend Thanksgiving with her [[AlwaysCamp hairdresser]] under the assumption that he is lonely and family-less, but he turns out to a have a wife and baby.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'', the chatty hairdresser is actual an unwitting spy for Robotnik, using hypnotism to lull her customers into spilling their true feelings for the dictator.

* Literature/WhateleyUniverse example: The girl who does Jade's hair in ''Jade 6'' is chatty about the town of [[Creator/HPLovecraft Dunwich]], only a walk away from [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]], which may mean that she has planted more than one ChekhovsGun for later stories.

-->-- '''Sylvia''', ''TheWomen''

* VincentPrice briefly impersonates a CampGay hairdresser in ''Film/TheatreOfBlood''.

* According to Jimmy Carr on ''Series/{{QI}}'', one of the oldest Ancient Greek jokes that still "works" is:

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fics of Creator/AAPessimal, Conina Cohensdaughter-Harebut, [[note]]A canonical character in TerryPratchett's early novel, ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}''[[/note]] who having achieved her dream of retiring from being an active Barbarian/Thief to run a hairdressing salon, keeps her ear to the ground and provides information to a clientele of professional ladies, whose hair can get a bit mussed up in the course of normal work as a Thief, Assassin, Barbarian Heroine or Teacher. She trades information with her clients as they relax over a session of post or pre-combat hairstyling, manicuring, pedicuring, and other little necessities for the active professional woman in Ankh-Morpork. Her husband Nijel is happy to be the token male in the salon, preparing beverages and sweeping up hair cuttings.

* In the ''{{Discworld}}'' fics of Creator/AAPessimal, Conina Cohensdaughter-Harebut, [[note]]A canonical character in TerryPratchett's early novel, ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}''[[/note]] who having achieved her dream of retiring from being an active Barbarian/Thief to run a hairdressing salon, keeps her ear to the ground and provides information to a clientele of professional ladies, whose hair can get a bit mussed up in the course of normal work as a Thief, Assassin, Barbarian Heroine or Teacher. She trades information with her clients as they relax over a session of post or pre-combat hairstyling, manicuring, pedicuring, and other little necessities for the active professional woman in Ankh-Morpork. Her husband Nijel is happy to be the token male in the salon, preparing beverages and sweeping up hair cuttings.

* The women in ''SteelMagnolias''.

* ''Shampoo'' has Warren Beatty's character acting as one of these, and playing on the assumption that everyone thinks he's CampGay to seduce his female clients with ease.

* Appears in an episode of ''MamasFamily'' titled "Psycho Pheno-Mama". Mama and her family meet a self-claimed psychic who can supposedly channel a dead duchess' spirit, who knows all of the family's secrets. Turns out the "psychic" is actually a hairdresser who gleans all of her information from her chatty customers.

* OneThousandWaysToDie gives us Barry, a hairdresser from TheSeventies who not only was chatty, but also a HandsomeLech who often seduced his female clients with the help of a drink and some Quaaludes pills. The last detail ended up being ''fatal'', as he passed out on the hot hair curlers while drugged -- and the burns to his neck and throat killed him.
* According to Jimmy Carr on ''QI'', one of the oldest Ancient Greek jokes that still "works" is:

* In an episode of ''SonicUnderground'', the chatty hairdresser is actual an unwitting spy for Robotnik, using hypnotism to lull her customers into spilling their true feelings for the dictator.

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* Famed UsefulNotes/NewOrleans Voodoo queen [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Laveau Marie Laveau]] was a hairdresser by day, and her supposed psychic abilities most likely came from keeping her ears open during house calls to her wealthy clients.
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* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{WALL-E}}.'' The hair dressers were, of course, robots. They only had a set list of pre-recorded phrases they could say, and would still prattle on regardless if the customer was talking.

* Characters/BugsBunny does this twice in his cartoons with Gossamer and a MadScientist. In [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair-Raising_Hare Hair-Raising Hare]], he acts as a chatty ''manicurist''. On [=YouTube=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW7kEBLtx5g at 4:30]]. In [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water,_Water_Every_Hare Water, Water Every Hare]] he acts as a talkative hairdresser.

* Hilda on ''UglyBetty''.
* In ''TheNanny'' there was a PoorlyDisguisedPilot set in a salon full of chatty hairdressers. And of course there's TheNanny herself.

* Vanessa from ''EverybodyHatesChris''

* In the ''{{discworld}}'' fics of Creator/AAPessimal, Conina Cohensdaughter-Harebut, [[note]]A canonical character in TerryPratchett's early novel, ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}''[[/note]] who having achieved her dream of retiring from being an active Barbarian/Thief to run a hairdressing salon, keeps her ear to the ground and provides information to a clientele of professional ladies, whose hair can get a bit mussed up in the course of normal work as a Thief, Assassin, Barbarian Heroine or Teacher. She trades information with her clients as they relax over a session of post or pre-combat hairstyling, manicuring, pedicuring, and other little necessities for the active professional woman in Ankh-Morpork. Her husband Nijel is happy to be the token male in the salon, preparing beverages and sweeping up hair cuttings.

* Parodied in an episode of KingOfTheHill, where Peggy, feeling dejected, decides to spend Thanksgiving with her [[AlwaysCamp hairdresser]] under the assumption that he is lonely and family-less, but he turns out to a have a wife and baby.