Dumbass DJ: Difference between revisions

 

 

Stereotypical Dumbass DJs hold a morning slot for a Top-40 station, and try [[Lowest Common Denominator|(sometimes successfully)]] to amuse their audience with with [[Toilet Humor]], [[Refuge in Vulgarity]], and [[Large Ham|ridiculous overacting]].

 

Expect them to describe themselves as [[Chaotic Stupid|"wacky," "crazy," or "edgy,"]] insult callers and guests, and [[No Indoor Voice|scream half of their lines]]. See also [[Large Ham Radio]]; [[Shock Jock]].

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* A ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' comic centers around a DJ who keeps hearing voices in his head telling him that nobody likes him and he should kill himself, until finally he breaks down and does it. The coroner investigating his death explains that he was a dormant esper whose psychic powers were just surfacing, and the voices were what his listeners really thought of him. The coroner says the DJ didn't deserve to be hated that much... until he hears a recording of his radio show. Worse still, said DJ was able to air his show twenty four hours a day with the aid of a sleep machine and an extended mix of a particularly annoying record.

* Arguably, Adrian Cronauer in ''[[Good Morning Vietnam]]''.

* In the ''[[Comedians Of Comedy]]'' documentary, Patton Oswalt complains about his upcoming promotional stop at a radio show, predicting that the deejays are probably going to be blisteringly unfunny. When he gets to the radio studio in the next scene, a morning zoo crew has a [[Whoopee Cushion]] in the studio that they apparently use on-air.

** {{spoiler|The first sign he's finally escaped the loop? Their spiel changes.}}

* Ruby Rhod from ''[[The Fifth Element]]''.

* Johnny Crunch from ''[[The Adventures of Ford Fairlane]].''

* ''[[Shakes the Clown (Film)]]'' featured a brief bit with a pair of DJs who were actually ''named'' Loud and Obnoxious.

* Rockin' Roger from ''[[Suck]]'', played by [[Henry Rollins]] and proving to be [[Too Dumb to Live]] when he insults the vampire band in his studio on air.

 

== Literature ==

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* A sketch in ''[[Big Train]]'' is about a terrible pun making DJ who repeatedly interrupts the start of a song to make stupid puns on the word "Bean", until he runs out of puns and goes down into a basement to yell at a group of chained children who were supposed to be writing his jokes for him.

* ''[[Frasier]]'' has the radio station hire two of these in one episode.

 

== [[Music]] ==

* The song "Falling Down" by CunningLynguists is about three people who have a really, REALLY bad day on the same day, and eventually collide. In the beginning, a annoying radio DJ announces a traffic jam, then directly insults the listener, and to top it all "We're gonna play three full hours of the Baha Men!"

* David Cross recycled a bit of his stand-up routine (see below) to play an obnoxious DJ in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6XVbm0kS9c the music video for "Juicebox"] by The Strokes.

** A dumbass DJ closes "No One Knows".

* To a point, used in the beginning of the [[Dead Kennedys]] song 'M.T.V., get Off The Air'; ''Hi! I'm your video DJ! I '''always''' talk like I'm '''wigged out''' on '''Quaaludes'''!''

== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==

* [[David Cross]]' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK9bbLQZ3Bo bit] about Morning DJs.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* DJ Stryker in ''[[Burnout]] 3: Takedown''. Bonus points for being a ''real'' radio DJ.

* There's rather a lot of DJs in some of the venues on [[Second Life]] (at least outside the really professional, first-tier places like Dance Island) that Will. Not. Shut. Up. Some can pull this off; others, not so much.

 

== Web Animation ==

* One of the stock radio personalities mocked by Strong Bad of ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' in the Strong Bad Email "radio". In addition to "The AM Morning Crude Crew", whom he describes as "bad stand-up comedians you can't heckle... or jeckle... or throw high-ball glasses at", Strong Bad briefly makes Strong Sad act like a fast-talking shock-jock.

** Even Homestar, who's normally at least half-reasonable, drunkenly shouts at his radio while the morning crew is on and ultimately throws a glass at it (a tumbler glass, not a highball glass as he says).

 

* In an episode of ''[[Daria]]'', two wacky morning deejays ("Bing and the Spatula Man") set up camp for a week at Lawndale High, to Daria's obvious non-delight.

* On an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', two idiot DJs end up owing Bart Simpson an elephant or risk losing their job to a machine, which comes pre-programmed with "inane chatter":

'''Idiot DJ #1''': *laughs* [[Take That|How does it keep up with the news like that]]? }}

** The writers admit on a DVD commentary that they think Radio DJing is the lowest rung on the entertainment ladder, and attracts the worst performers.

** Many other types of DJs can fall into this trap, too. You've seen them - the ones who never learned to mix or put together a set, and drown their terrible music in clips of air horns, samples from old movies, and their own endless chatter - they're constantly on the mic, telling the guests to "get on the floor," yelling at women to shake their asses, and proclaiming their own awesomeness. Mobile and party DJs are particularly infamous for this.

*** [[Jersey Shore|Pauly D]] falls to this example well. And nearly every other "celebrity DJ" who is a guaranteed crowd-bringer simply on the fact that he/she is well-known and popular.

* Tim Westwood, an embarrassing 'wigga' who refers to himself as 'The big dog'.

* Chris Moyles, whose show mostly consists of playing top 40 music and news, and making fun of his cohosts. The show is quite funny on occasion but it doesn't change the fact it is lowbrow humour.

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Characters As Device]]

[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]