History Main / WITTYBANTER

* By 2019, Creator/FoxNewsChannel has adopted a similar approach to transition between shows on their primetime lineup, thus it's now common to see at the end of ''Tucker Carlson Tonight'' Tucker Carlson chatting with Sean Hannity before ''Hannity'', with Hannity doing likewise with ''The Ingraham Angle'' host Laura Ingraham before Ingraham started her show.

* This is one of the trademarks of the WebVideo/{{Sidemen}}, bantering with one another as they compete against each other in various games and laughing about it (especially [[TheHyena Ethan Payne]]). Sometimes, the banter gets so great that they wouldn't even care about the game they're playing and who wins or loses.

* In ''TheSimpsons'' the two [=DJs=] from the radio station KBBL engage in this all the time- it often devolves into passive-aggressive (sometimes without the "passive") sniping at each other. The station's motto serves as a LampshadeHanging; "No sports, no talk, no information -- for mindless chatter, we're your station!" In "Bart Gets an Elephant", the voice-tracking machine that is going to replace them if they don't [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin give Bart an elephant]] comes pre-programmed with several different kinds of inane babble.

* Conversely, Witty Banter, when breaking down, can be funny. Case in point, NJ News Channel 12:
-->Scene reporter: [rambling monologue about New York City's Waldorf Astoria Hotel in relation to the Eddie Murphy movie ''Coming to America'']
-->Anchor: ... Yeah...
* Similarly, MSNBC:
-->Entertainment goon: [presenting 17-year-old Daniel Radcliffe's half-naked promotional pictures for ''Equus'' to an audience of millions and explaining with numerous Harry Potter references]
-->Anchorwoman: He doesn't look that Hairy to me.
-->Entertainment goon: I wouldn't have noticed that. (Summed up by Anthony of ''Radio/OpieAndAnthony'' as "[[NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat Nohomo]]. Back to you, Diane.")

* The WNYC program RadioLab uses this very well. Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich explain the day's topics to each other in a lively conversation, which makes it more engaging than presenting the pieces with a matter-of-fact announcer.

* WordFunk is a podcast where the three presenters (one of which presents the very informative speculative series RenegadeCut) try to talk about news stories, movies, television and video games, but more often and not descend into this, teasing and joking about random topics that have nothing to do with the things they are meant to be talking about.

Witty banter came up in the season one episode four Andi Mack episode dancing in the dark Buffy was serving herself some food and the character Marty walked up to her and the pair of teens began to flirt (but if you ask Buffy she definitely won’t tell you that it was flirting she’ll definitely call it one uping Marty) and Marty later asks Buffy is she’s staying for the witty banter and Buffy’s response is “when does that start” to which Marty says in a minute over there with someone else causing Buffy to walk off

-->Entertainment goon: I wouldn't have noticed that. (Summed up by Anthony of the ''Opie and Anthony Show'' as "[[NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat Nohomo]]. [[BackToYouDave Back to you, Diane]].")

In real life many teens are witty (ps a teen wrote this and I’m often described as witty plus I have many friends who I would also describe as witty)

Witty banter came up in the season one episode four Andi Mack episode dancing in the dark Buffy was serving herself some food and the character Marty walked up to her and the pair of teens began to flirt (but if you ask Buffy she definitely won’t tell you that it was flirting she’ll definitely call it one uping Marty and Marty later asks Buffy is she’s staying for the witty banter and Buffy’s response is “when does that start” to which Buffy says in a minute over there with someone else causing Buffy to walk off

* Two [=DJs=] on BBC Radio 1 (probably Mark Radcliffe and Mark Goodier) often used to do the handover as "Right, witty banter, witty banter, see you tomorrow."
In real life many teens are witty (ps a teen wrote this and I’m often described as witty plus a have many friends who I would also describe as witty

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* This is one of the trademarks of the Creator/UltimateSidemen, bantering with one another as they compete against each other in various games and laughing about it (especially [[TheHyena Ethan Payne]]). Sometimes, the banter gets so great that they wouldn't even care about the game they're playing and who wins or loses.

* The UK cable channel Dave is supposedly called this because they ran a survey and discovered that almost everyone in the country knew at least one person called Dave. It touts itself as being "the home for witty banter". In other words it shows endless reruns of ''TopGear'', ''Series/RedDwarf'' and several different [[PanelGame panel shows]] that they've got their hands on, often the exact same episodes day after day.

* SportsCenter or any likewise talk show on ESPN or any other channel devoted to sports, if there isn't a game on you can expect this in between sports-related news, highlights and analysis.

* Smashie and Nicey on ''Series/HarryEnfieldAndChums'' are a parody of radio [=DJs=] who seem to spend more time engaging it WittyBanter than actually playing records. Or, rather, ''[[SmallReferencePools a record]]'', "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet".

::However, Murphy's mic was ''not'' turned off so the fake banter is broadcast live nationwide, causing a micro scandal.