History Main / LoungeLizard

** Even the ImpossiblyTackyClothes are downplayed. During performances he often wears something painfully sparkly, but the rest of the time he tends to wear suits that wouldn't be too bad if not for the overly bright colours. (Like this: https://dvdbash.com/2013/10/03/angel-2013-gallery-4-lorne-faith-misc-photos/angel-2013-lorne-andy-hallett-dvdbash8/) They tend not to have the cheap, ill-fitting look of more stereotypical examples.

* Lorne from ''Series/{{Angel}}'' (not quite an [[IncrediblyLamePun actual lizard]], but a green scaly demon) turns out to be a subversion. He sings in a club, and dresses the part (although his clothes wouldn't really be [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes Impossibly Tacky]] if not for the clashing colours), but while he at times makes some questionable/dated choices of songs, he is actually quite a good singer (and "Spin The Bottle" shows he can play the piano as well) who at one point has a fairly successful career in Las Vegas (he had huge numbers of fans, even if he did end up being [[spoiler: kidnapped and imprisoned]]) and has released at least one album. He's also a NiceGuy who isn't really smarmy or sleazy and is much more intelligent than first impressions might suggest. Also, no facial hair.

* Lorne from ''Series/{{Angel}}'' (not quite an [[IncrediblyLamePun actual lizard]], but a green scaly demon) turns out to be a subversion. He sings in a club, and dresses the part (although his clothes wouldn't really be [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes Impossibly Tacky]] if not for the clashing colours), but while he at times makes some questionable choices of songs, he is actually quite a good singer (and "Spin The Bottle" shows he can play the piano as well) who at one point has a fairly successful career in Las Vegas and has released at least one album. He's also a NiceGuy who isn't really smarmy or sleazy and is much more intelligent than first impressions might suggest.

* Lorne from ''Series/{{Angel}}'' (not quite an [[IncrediblyLamePun actual lizard]], but a green scaly demon).

* Dimitri in [[Series/SlyCooper Sly Cooper]]... Literally.

->'''Ryan Stiles''': Thank God you're here, Captain Lounge Act.\\
'''Colin Mochrie''' ''[puts on smarmy face]'': Have you ever felt it as hot as this. It's amazing, isn't it? And where are you from?\\
'''Greg Proops''': There's no time for that! The temperature's getting too hot! Can't you see?\\
'''Colin Mochrie''' ''[singing horribly off key]'': It's too hot!

'''Colin Mochrie''' ''(puts on smarmy face)'': Have you ever felt it as hot as this. It's amazing, isn't it? And where are you from?\\

'''Colin Mochrie''' ''(singing horribly off key)'': It's too hot!

* Another literal example is the Cantina lounge keyboardist in the first SpyFox game, who becomes crucial to the plot when you need to [[ItMakesSenseInContext swap sheet music with a cruise ship orchestra]].

* ''It's A Living'' was about the wait staff at a restaurant and also one of these, Sonny.

In the world of fiction, not only does that 90% rule apply, but it seems that lounges give this job almost exclusively to people (sometimes {{Casanova Wannabe}}s) who are not only [[SmugSnake insufferably smarmy]], but their [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes fashion sense]] (particularly a TackyTuxedo) seems to have a bet with their [[DreadfulMusician singing]] and their [[PornStache facial hair]] to see which can be [[StylisticSuck more godawful]].

In the world of fiction, not only does that 90% rule apply, but it seems that lounges give this job almost exclusively to people (sometimes {{Casanova Wannabe}}s) who are not only [[SmugSnake insufferably smarmy]], but their [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes fashion sense]] (particularly a TackyTuxedo) seems to have a bet with [[DreadfulMusician their singing]] to see which can be [[StylisticSuck more godawful]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' episode "The Uncrashable Hindentanic" was a pastiche of 1970s disaster films, complete with an actual lizard being a lounge lizard.

Note that this has very little to do with the original twentieth-century meaning of "lounge lizard" in British English (a sleazy, would-be "sophisticated" seducer, with implications of social-climbing).

* ComicBook/{{Lucifer}} averts this in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' - several characters remark on how very good he is. (It doesn't hurt that he knows things like the songs ColePorter only ever played for close personal friends and such.)

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltWZpXgcPro One of these]] (wearing a [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes truly awful suit]]) sings during the opening credits of ''TheFastShow''.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', where Filburt turns out to be a fairly good singer - though he ''is'' a turtle, not a lizard.

* Subverted in ''RockosModernLife'', where Filburt turns out to be a fairly good singer - though he ''is'' a turtle, not a lizard.

* "RichardCheese and Lounge Against the Machine" is a band that plays many types of songs, including rock and metal, as if they're lounge music. It's all done [[RuleOfFunny for the lulz]], of course.

* The term lends its name and music style to the satirical band ''TheAustinLoungeLizards''.

For decades, clubs and hotel and airport lounges have hired singers for entertainment. In the 1960s and 1970s, a lot of them [[FollowTheLeader incorporated the jazzy style]] of singers like those in the RatPack.

* Eventually, {{Satan}} becomes one of these in ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.

* A subplot in ''ErnestGoesToCamp'' concerns a LethalChef with MadScientist tendencies trying to perfect a dish called "Eggs Erroneous" (which doubles as high explosives). In TheStinger, he force-feeds the final batch to his assistant, who is transformed into a lounge singer.

* ''{{Sockbaby}}''. We don't know if Ronnie Cordova can sing, but he dresses the part.