Large Ham / Web Videos

There Are No Girls on the Internet. Hams, on the other hand...

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• The Angry Video Game Nerd alternates between somewhat constrained and really exaggerated Unstoppable Rage (particularly during rants, and sometimes even silent, like his Kaiju impersonation during the Godzilla video).
  "I'm the LORD of the HARVEST!"
  "BRING IT DOWN, BRING IT DOWN!"
• Many of Let's Player azuritereaction videos have over-the-top rages, loud voice acting, and tons of randomness, such as here, here, and here.

• Caddicarus can be quite hammy at times.
  Caddicarus: (to Brutalmoose) YOU MUST SUFFER!!
• Killsin, from The Call of Warr, overreacts to almost everything, and shouts constantly; in-universe, this only serves to startle or annoy the other characters.

• Channel Awesome is a World of Ham:
  • The Nostalgia Critic himself whenever he starts whining, like his extended run of screams at the beginning of his Avengers review. In his review of Ponyo, this becomes literal ham
  • But Doug Walker's hamminess really shines as Chester A. Bum of Bum Reviews, who has speaks really fast with No Indoor Voice.
  • The Spoony Experiment: Spoony can serve up the ham, especially as Dr. Insano and Terl (already discussed in the original).
  • The Angry Joe Show: Angry Joe can be as passionate as his name suggests.
  • Atop the Fourth Wall:
    • Linkara: for HE is A MAN!, and Lewis also has Longbox of the Ham. Proving it's genetic, Linkara's dad as Whately in the Silent Hill: The Grinning Man review, in a wig that wouldn't look out of place in Spinal Tap, and it is glorious.
  • Out of the women on the site, The Nostalgia Chick's sidekick Nella is the one who revels in ham delightfully. Even silently, as The Chick's review for The Little Mermaid (1989) has her mute but mugging and gesturing a lot to compensate.
    Nella: For Side-Kickassia! And geekery! [races away bearing a sword]

• Elisa, as Dr. Tease and The Makeover Fairy, can hold her own too and even the Chick has a fair amount of moments. To see Elisa really bringing home the ham, ve don't need to search further than ze Maven of the Eventide of Vampire Reviews, who along with that fake accent is always flourished as hell.
• Speaking of vampires, Obscurus Lupa already gets carried away in her videos and does hammy guest voice work for other reviewers. But her impression of Radu from Subspecies is so gloriously over the top Lupa opted to give Radu his own show!
• While not a reviewer, Bhargav "Bargo" Dronamraju could very easily be the hammiest on the site.
  Bargo: A sci-fi movie so terrible it makes my nipples TINGLE with FEAR! [...] YYYES! BATTLEFIELD EARRRRTH!!!
• Phelous in general, especially when he starts growling his words. Along with his overacting (sometimes multiplied in moments where he adds in himself as another character, usually Scorpion and Sub-Zero), his editing style adding funny sound effects to horrific actions is also hammy.
• Diamanda Hagan could easily give Nella a run for her money. She's a dictator and thus commands every scene she's in.
• The Un-Cancelled Nostalgia Critic episodes include the two actors hired for Demo Reel, Malcolm and Rachel. They also ham up like there's no tomorrow, best case so far being in the Son of the Mask review, where they are the Devil and his daughter.
• After Rachel left before an entire month of hammy Nicolas Cage movies, she was replaced by Tamara in NC's The Wicker Man (2006) review, and quickly showed she was a great and hammy replacement. Even outside the show Tamara is over-energetic and full of herself.
• Todd in the Shadows:
  • He is mostly laidback, but unleashes the ham in his occasional dips into Angrish and short-lived lapses into Deep Critical Analysis.
    Todd: And then, the uncultured harlot was so overwhelmed, she attempted to consume her vichysoisse with a desert spoon! A-HWAH-HWAH-HWAH-HWAH!
  • The opening of his "Hey Soul Sister", when he attempts to invoke Tranquil Fury. Especially when he briefly brings up the song "This is Why I'm Hot": "I haven't heard it in years, and that suits me fiiine!"
• The Cinema Snob is more contained than most other reviewers, indulges in ham in moments of shouting, smooth "snobby" voice, or impersonations (just see him imitating Sylvester Stallone). Special mentions goes to when he either fake laughs or angrily laughs.
• Admiral Crackers of Brad Jones' Demo Reel is larger than life in his mannerisms and dialog.
• Nowhere are they hammier, however, than during the anniversary movies. TGWTG Year One Brawl is literal Ham-to-Ham Combat, Kickassia adds in a story to allow for many overly dramatic scenes (Linkara saying to MarzGurl "Take comfort in my masculine arms!", Marzgurl herself as a Drill Sargeant Nasty, Dr. Insano vs. Nostalgia Critic chanelling M. Bison...), Suburban Knights has them cosplaying as fantasy characters (Phelous as the Rockbiter and Paw as Profion - a character well discussed in the Film page) and To Boldly Flee went similarly, only with sci-fi (antagonists Spoony/T̶e̶r̶l̶ Turrell, Rob/P̶a̶l̶p̶a̶t̶i̶n̶e̶ The Executor and Doug/Zod take the cake, as subtlety is nowhere near them and even those around them start to ham up as compensate).

• Critical Role is a D&D campaign played by a group of famous voice actors. Ham is inevitable.
  • First, of course, Matt. Matt, Matt, Matt. From the villainous speeches to his excellent descriptions and metaphors to the dramatic death scenes, Matt goes through every possible flavour of ham - but the fan-and-player favourite is probably Gilmore.
    Matt: [narrating] The beaded curtain swishes open with a grandiose gesture of one slightly meaty hand, and stepping out in his fine, gold-trimmed purple robes...
    Matt as Gilmore: I'm sorry, was I being summoned?
  • The first campaign is nothing but hams. Almost everyone has gotten in on it except for Vax and Pike.
    • Grog is a master of the No Indoor Voice style:
      Grog: THERE IS NO PHILIP! THERE IS ONLY... GROG THE VENGEFUL!!!
    • Scanlan, being a bard, loves to randomly break out into song and has a flair for the dramatic:
      Scanlan: YOU LEAVE WHEN BURT REYNOLDS TELLS YOU TO LEAVE!
    • Tiberius is generally a kind of Absent-Minded Professor archetype, but he can often be hammy for the sake of comedy - and occasionally, intimidation:
      Tiberius: Nobody threatens a goddamn STORMWIND!
    • Keyleth usually does this in situations where her No Social Skills flaw gets her into trouble.
      Keyleth: I'M SORRY. I'M TRYING TO REMAIN CALM!
    • Percy is usually the Only Sane Man, but his gadgets tend to make him go a little nuts. At one point he goes on a shooting rampage in his pajamas. Then, of course, there's his Ax-Crazy rampage in Episode 25:
      Percy: Your soul is FORFEIT! DIE, DIE!
    • Similar to Keyleth, Vex is usually the group Genki Girl - but she's also got a large case of Gold Fever, and her reactions to things going wrong can be fantastically passionate.
      Vex: [after Grog "haggles" away a good chunk of their money] YOU'RE SUCH A DICK!
    • The cameo characters get in on it too, particularly Zahra, who is an Ice Queen until she kills Rimefang.
      Zahra: Yes I FUCKING CAN!
  • The Mighty Nein, save for Caleb and Caduceus, can also ham it up.
    • Mollymauk is probably the loudest of them, which comes with the territory of being a circus performer. Best illustrated when he is creating a distraction during the hospital infiltration scene — by spewing fake vomit all over himself, cutting himself to make himself bleed, and rolling around on the ground while screaming that he doesn't need medical help.
      Molly: YOU HAVE NO LEGAL AUTHORITY OVER ME!!!
    • Fjord, while usually calm and collected, gets in on it too on occasion, especially once his Ring of Fire Resistance finally comes in useful by saving Jester.
      Fjord: SAVED MY BITCH!!! (cackles)
    • Beau is a perpetually angry woman with a Hair-Trigger Temper, so it doesn't take much for her to start yelling.
      Beau: Wow! WOOOOOWWW! FUCKING COOL, CALEB!
    • Nott, whose voice is already rough and shrieky, has a habit of screaming at the top of her lungs, especially after the invention of Fluffernutter.
      Nott: FLUFFERNUTTEEERRRRR!!!!
• TotalBiscuit is a natural ham to begin with, so you can probably imagine how things get any time something excites him.
• Daym Drops, providing SUPER OFFICIAL fast food reviews with even more ham than the food itself contains (which admittedly is not hard, since the food usually contains bacon, not ham). He once did a video in his normal voice, just to prove he actually has one.
• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog:
  • Nathan Fillion puts the "ham" in Captain Hammer. But he's playing a smarmy, self-absorbed superhero caricature—it would be impossible to portray the character any other way. Fillion remarked that it was the only time in his career a director had to tell him to be more of a ham.
    Captain Hammer: [singing while giving Dr. Horrible the finger] Everyone's a hero in their WAAAAAAAY?!?
  • Doctor Horrible himself becomes Doctor Hamible in the last act, during the song "Slipping", and Act II - Brand New Day is a delicious slice of ham.

• Pipes! of the Freelance Astronauts. "Whenever the mic input volume meter jumps up into the red, I know I've told a good joke."
• Both Egoraptor and JonTron have a good amount of ham in their works, so quite naturally the Game Grumps can ham things up, for instance breaking into song at quite a few moments and interacting with Barry for the Caption Humor.
  "Fuck you!... I AAAIIINNN'T HAVIN' THAT SHIT!"
• Big personalities are a common sight at Games Done Quick. For example, the acting in the 2013 Final Fantasy IX run is a hilarious cross between Large Ham and Bad "Bad Acting".
• Internet Personality Vangelus, reviewer of Transformers and Kamen Rider toys alike. Likewise, his alter-ego The Milk Daddy.
  "YOU'RE ABOUT A THREE MISSISSIPPI COUNT AWAY FROM THE WRONG SIDE OF A RAPE, BROTHER."
• Jacksepticeye: "*WHA-PSH* TOP O' THE MORNING TO YA, LADDIES!"
• Jimquisition: Jim Sterling just loves to ham it up, in case the "steampunk Green Day" outfit wasn't enough of a clue. Sometimes they will create or borrow entirely new personae, such as Blue Blood Manchild Duke Amiel du H'Ardcore or deranged Serial Killer Jimsaw or wrestling Heel Sterdust or literally just Skeletor, in order to ham it up in whatever new way they think will be funny.
  "It's Friday morning as I record this. The video itself will be up on Monday, too early to do E3 reactions and too late to do E3 predictions. But it's gotta be something to do with E3, what would you have of me? Oh if only Microsoft had done something stupid and vile to such a degree it didn't matter whether it was E3 or not, and I'd have material for weeks! Oh, Wait! YES THEY DID!" [produces massive knives and starts scraping them against each other] "Oh, this is gonna be SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOD!" [evil laugh]
• JonTron, aka, Jon Jafari, he spends most episodes with hilarous bursts of No Indoor Voice, or other such forms of Comical Overreacting.
  Jon: Snow White and the Seven Clever Boys, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN CLEVER BOOOOOOOOOOYS!! WHAAAT IS THAT FUCKIN' NAME?! WHOOOO MADE THIS?! I'm not gonna get over that, I-I absolutely guarantee you I am NEVER gonna get over that name.

• Gaylord Steambath, the antagonistic, sociopathic griefer server operator from Minecraft The N00b Adventures, who constantly alternates between a theatrical, grandiose shout and a creepy, low and somewhat flamboyant tone with random pauses and who, on a slight off note, may or may not be gay, is quite a straight example of this trope. For further explanation, read the following quotes (but be wary of the major spoilers on the second one):
  Gaylord: They call me Gaylord Steambath... I am the operator of this server. But... you may refer to me as... god...
  
  Gaylord: Fine! You win this battle! But heed my words, and heed them well, inferiors! You may think removing my powers will save you from grief, but there are hundreds, thousands more just like me! Enjoy your moment of serendipity, for I, Gaylord Steambath, Eater of Worlds, shall—
  Lord Server: Uhuh, yeah, that's nice, bye!
  Gaylord Steambath has been banned.
• Judge Dead from the Noob franchise, whose onscreen actions usually consist of acting as Judge, Jury, and Executioner due to his MMORPG Game Master profession. When he has to carry out a sanction, he exposes the fault and the punishment in a very loud, enthusiactic and microphone-altered towards being deep voice while moving his arms around. He sometimes throws in an Evil Laugh or two.
• Phantom Savage: "HELLO MY LOYAL SUBSCRIBERS! THIS IS PHANTOMSAVAGE AND WELCOME BACK TO—" (insert LP here)
• raocow:
  "I GOT A HEART!"
  "JUMP HEIGHT! UPGRADED!!!!"
• Retro Replay teams up Nolan North and Troy Baker while playing old games, and showing why they are so request in the voice acting business given the high amount of hammy outbursts, sometimes in song form. Altered beeeeeast!
• Rooster Teeth is full of people enjoying themselves too much:

• Geoff can get very shouty when things don't go his way, and when he becomes the M.C in contests, there's even less limits.
• Ray for his iconic "LLLLLLLLLET'S PLAY!" Once an Episode.
• Whenever he assumes his Mad King persona, Ryan takes a hold of every single piece of pork, and refuses to let go. Taken to even more extreme levels for his appearance in X-Ray & Vav.
• But the crown has to go to Michael. Here's why:
  "GAVIN, YOU FUCKING DUMB SHIT!! I'M GONNA BREAK YOUR HAND!!"

• The therapist in Scott The Woz, first introduced in The Dark Age of Nintendo trilogy, loves hamming it up with his dialogue. His voice is so loud that his audio often clips whenever he talks.
• Cristine of Simply Nailogical, who never stops mugging and is always doing funny voices - if not singing with them.

• SMPLive frequently employs this trope, but there is no greater example than Schlatt. Comedic overreacting is his bread and butter. Just be ready for when he turns on his "funny mic", because it's extremely loud.
• There Will Be Brawl is a series that plays melodrama so straight that it's almost a parody, so this kind of acting is a requirement. Ganondorf and Wario (played by Ham extraordinaire Kyle Hebert) deliver.

• UNHhhh: Both Trixie and Katya are large hams on their own, although Katya definitely takes the cake, frequently flailing wildly, screaming loudly, and dancing erratically, among other things.
• UrinatingTree, who channels a wrestling announcer and says everything bombastically, and given he normally talks about failure, the discrepancy between subject and delivery makes everything even funnier. The ham is incredibly taken up a notch with the "Hurricanes Man".
• The Weather: The host for the "AB 95" tech demonstration spends the scene yelling, chanting, pounding on the floor, and even uses a random Precision F-Strike against the audience. He then invites the technicians on stage and they all dance quite ham-ily, before fawning over a PC.
• Bottom of Wormtooth Nation hams it up in every scene. This is understandable since he is based on the character of the same name from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• The Yogscast provides a few, although most members do have a degree of hamminess.
  • Simon Lane takes the cake even by his group's standards. He takes No Indoor Voice to the extreme, often disrupting other people's recordings because he's screaming from several rooms away, once setting off a car alarm outside. Yogtowers is in an office block and a few floors off the ground.
    Duncan: [after Simon has spent several seconds screaming in Prop Hunt] That was loud, even from the next room!
  • Sips enjoys hamming it up from time to time, most commonly in Garry's Mod's Murder mode when he's Drunk on the Dark Side.
  • Duncan Jones gets in on the ham whenever he does an Evil Laugh.
  • Lewis Brindley often freaks out over the straw that broke the camel's back.

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