History Main / LargeHamRadio

--> '''Marco:''' That's THE HAMMER! [[LampShadeHanging Once again your stupidity has killed us all!]]

* DJ Professor K. [[VideoGame/JetSetRadio JET SET RADIOOOOOOOO!]]

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''

** And Best Friend Tabitha from VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas [[note]]Threats all around us! Converging, like a noose! Tightening! Two-head bear people astride battle cattles!!![[/note]] takes it [[AxCrazy one]] [[SplitPersonality step]] [[FunnySchizophrenia even]] [[UpToEleven farther]] than that.

* Vince Fontaine in ''Film/{{Grease}}'' is an expy of the Dick Clark archetype; a radio DJ fronting a Bandstand-type programme. Nearest UK analogue would be Tony Blackburn or other Radio 1 [=DJs=], who fronted TopofthePops.

Anyone put in front of a radio mic, even if he's never seen one before, will instantly switch into a confident DJ-persona, complete with nickname, {{Catch Phrase}}s and [[DangerDeadpan a smooth]] [[BadassBaritone baritone voice]]. Otherwise they might become an abrasive DumbassDJ. Whatever style he chooses, there won't be a second's hesitation, confusion, dead air or any other problems you might expect of a NaiveNewcomer.

* In ''Series/{{Mash}}'', the outfit obtains a mess of swing records. Radar (the normally timid type) takes the records and creates a makeshift radio station over the speakers, with him as DJ. That is, before [[spoiler:[[EarWorm Colonel Potter makes him play "Sentimental Journey" over and over and...]]]]

* Vince Fontaine in ''Film/{{Grease}}'' is an expy of the Dick Clark archetype; a radio DJ fronting a Bandstand-type programme. Nearest UK analogue would be Tony Blackburn or other Radio 1 DJs, who fronted TopofthePops.

** Travis from ''VideoGame/{{Fallout4}} is a deliberate inversion, coming across as shy and awkward, if not cringeworthy. The player can boost his confidence through an optional sidequest.

* Double subverted with ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': One episode had Brian end up with a radio show after criticizing the local {{Dumbass DJ}}s. His show started off intelligent, {{NPR}}-ish, and performing poorly with listeners. After Stewie prank calls him a couple of times, the [[ExecutiveMeddling executives force Brian to add him to the show]], at which point it devolves into exactly the kind of thing he was complaining about earlier, complete with HowardStern-esque antics and annoying sound clips from films including ''Film/SixteenCandles'', ''Film/AnimalHouse'', and the CrossesTheLineTwice example of ''Film/{{Philadelphia}}''.

* Rose, aka Mother, the communications officer of ''PhulesCompany''. In person, she's so cripplingly shy that hardly anyone has ever managed to speak to her face-to-face, but over radio equipment she becomes talkative and even flirtatious. Apparently she had a stutter as a child and became afraid of the sound of her own voice, but later discovered that she didn't mind so much when she was speaking into sound equipment.

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh5xu35bAxA this Berlitz ad]] (which is actually a Norwegian commercial, not German).

* DJ Condor from ''OretachiNiTsubasaWaNai''. Voiced by none other than Creator/TomokazuSugita.

* There's a character like this in ''Film/HighSchoolMusical''.
** The character of Jack Scott is endemic to the stage version. There's no such character in the movies.
* Lee Jordan of ''Film/HarryPotter'', who regularly loses control of his temper when commentating at quidditch, becomes incredibly smooth when it comes time to be the VoiceOfTheResistance.

* RobinWilliams character in GoodMorningVietnam is the film embodiment of this trope.
* Vince Fontaine in Grease is an expy of the Dick Clark archetype; a radio DJ fronting a Bandstand-type programme. Nearest UK analogue would be Tony Blackburn or other Radio 1 DJs, who fronted TopofthePops.

-->'''Strong Sad:''' Hey hey hey! It's the Deathly Pallor, coming at you on Numbity 902, WA3D FM, "The Sturge"! Coming up next, we got some hot new tracks from double-O ballyhoo!

-->"Take them away, and teach them to talk like me: ''reallll sexy!''

* Hal on ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' does this when he buys a ham radio.
* ''ThirdRockFromTheSun'' had (usually mild-mannered CloudCuckoolander) Harry turn into an abrasive talk-radio jock when he and Tommy take over the college station for the holidays.

* The Music/DavidBowie song "DJ".

* MyChemicalRomance's Danger Days has one of these providing narration.

* The BlueOysterCult's ironic song about a dreamer whose ambition outstrips his talent, ''The Marshall Plan'', has a spoken interlude from veteran DJ and music presenter Don Kirschner.

* One of the earliest musical examples: ''Chantilly Lace'' by The Big Bopper "'''''HELLOOOO BAY-BEE!!!!!'''''"

* [[TheSpaceGypsyAdventures The Space Gypsy Adventures]] episode ''Leah's Wedding'' sees a brief appearance by one of these, 'Terrific Terrence', when Gemma requests a record for Leah and Randy. Described as being 'the kind of DJ who spouts a lot of verbal nonsense between records', one of his more notable examples of such nonsense is this little gem:

** In the StrongBadEmail "Radio", Strong Bad claims that radio announcers [[VocalDissonance should look absolutely nothing like how they sound, and demonstrates by forcing his brother Strong Sad, who usually speaks in a whispery drone, to talk like a rapid-fire shock jock.

--> That's THE HAMMER! [[LampShadeHanging Once again you've gone and got us killed!]]

* Done in ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', with Strong Sad, whose usual droning, whispery voice changes to a rapid-fire shock jock when on the radio, during one of the Strong Bad Emails.
** Which was entirely involuntary on Strong Sad's part. [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail120.html Here's the sbmail]].

--> If ''I'' was getting married, I wouldn't request a record-I'd request a blindfold and a cigarette!//

* Harry Chapin's bittersweet ballad ''I am the Morning DJ'', in which a middle-aged crisis plays itself out.
--> ''I am the morning DJ//
--> on W-O-L-D;//
--> Feeling all of forty-five,//

Another common variant, more popular in the United Kingdom, is the Tony Blackburn-esque ([[WeirdAlEffect probably better known to younger generations]] as [[HarryEnfieldAndChums Smashie and Nicey]]-esque) cheesy 1970s pop DJ.

* Double subverted with ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': One episode had Brian end up with a radio show after criticizing the local {{Dumbass DJ}}s. His show started off intelligent, {{NPR}}-ish, and performing poorly with listeners. After Stewie prank calls him a couple of times, the [[ExecutiveMeddling executives force Brian to add him to the show]], at which point it devolves into exactly the kind of thing he was complaining about earlier, complete with HowardStern-esque antics and annoying sound clips.