This Troper does this all the time in a performance. And gets praised for it greatly.

This troper got shanghaied into acting in a few videos some people in his TV 2 class were working on. He was made to act in some of the dumbest, most idiotic roles ever, and he knew it. He hammed it up accordingly.

This troper read through the play TheCrucible in junior year and at one point was given the role of Mary Warren one of the paranoid servant girls who said some of the weirdest things,and so he read it accordingly,with a nice falsetto to match

This troper's camp once did a rendition of HighSchoolMusical for its annual upper-camp play. I got to be one of the weird interpretive-dance kids in the part with all the bad auditions. (And may I just say: ''Best. Bit part. Ever.'') The epic ham-and-cheese sandwich I made from the role literally got more audience reaction than any other part of the play.

This troper was once appointed as the director of a school drama about a certain historical event in the [=40s=]. I and most of my class didn't exactly like the "good guys" as the school staff wanted them to be depicted, so we went on to defile the source material with extreme prejudice (or in layman's term, wreck the shit out of it). I told the "good guys" and the main "villains" (one of which I also played) to ham it up and the secondary "villains" and {{Mooks}} to maximize deadpan delivery of deliciously snarky lines. I inserted sex jokes, references to my favorite works and subtle insults to multiple groups and individuals to the script and gave a weird film noir tone. The costumes, made from spare materials we found lying around, ''look'' like clothes from the time period, but they didn't quite look right either. The "villains" are given cardboard replicas of period-appropriate weapons such as Lee-Enfield, Mauser Karabiner and Owen submachine gun, but the "heroes" got cardboard replicas of modern weapons such as FN SCAR-H, FN P90 and Steyr AUG. The whole thing ended up costing exactly $2.50 and feeling like an over-the-top police state propaganda, which is exactly what it would've been like had we done it the way the teachers wanted it. The school staff, not knowing ''that'' much about history, failed to notice the anachronism, but the production staff and the students had a ''magnificent'' time.

This troper's university has the serious theatre types, who only fall into this by embarrassing accident, but then there are the intrepid members of the Light Entertainment Society. Where WorldOfHam meets HamAndCheese, there's a standing order for a LargeHam and the HurricaneOfPuns is considered a fine art. Our kind of people.

It happens to be This Troper's favorite kind of sandwich.

This troper (the school drama director above) prefers tuna and cabbage (yeah, call me crazy). HamAndCheese is a close second, though. Especially with eggs. Yum.

This troper, during rehersals for Death of a Salesman, had to step in for both Uncle Ben and Happy Loman (not at the same time) when the actors were unable to be there. Both performances, despite no knowledge of their blocking and with a very poor accent, were regarded as better than the actual actor's performances. How did he do this? By letting his inner self run rampard with the parts upon being informed about standing in. Slight subvertion, as the play was actually looking really good at the time of my stepping in, although Uncle Ben's standing in was definately this, as we had been having a line problem on the same night I stood in for Uncle Ben (the director, who is hard to impress, was actually smiling throughout my stand in: he had actually yelled (and he has a VERY LOUD voice) during the line mess up which had happened during Biff and Happy's first conversation).

Also, he pulled this off while in a performance of Dracula Spectacula (he was Ghengis, for the people who have seen the play). He had to say the line "Nobody understands me" before leaving the stage after overeacting. He failed to overeact (he was 13 (well, 14 on the last night), to be fair), but his line was said in an impersonation of Vincent Price, which was a vast change from his alto voice at the time. The actor who was playing the part of the priest informed him that the line got the first audiable laugh from the audience. This was actually a thrown in idea, as he had decided to lower his voice on the line just for the drama when the scene had first been performed.

9th grade English final: reenact a scene from RomeoAndJuliet. This troper's group got the final scene and, since nobody else wanted to play the titular roles, this troper ended up playing Romeo AND Juliet (made it work) and killed himself twice in one scene.

I will find a way to act this way in no matter what role im put in.

This Troper got involved in a school play. Which was some really bizzare between ''Scooby Doo'', ''Lazytown'', and lord knows what else. '''NO ONE''' took it seriously, even the '''director''', and all hammed it up spectacularly. This Troper played Robby Rotten and hammed every scene to such unheard of levels a whole lot of it underwent local MemeticMutation. Even the dance scenes!

ESPECIALLY the dance scenes. There was one in which this troper was trying to prevent a fat, lazy Sportacus from doing exercise again. To the tune of the ''Rocky'' theme.

And there was another one in which this troper proclaimed how deliciously evil he was while dancing to MichaelJackson's ''I'm Bad''.

This Troper's senior play was TheSoundOfMusic, I should mention we are an all girl's school. The romance was awkward and hammy enough, but the Nazis, Good Lord the Nazis. During rehearsal, I took every opportunity to watch their scenes as the girls playing them were hilarious. Then there was the time the head Nazi had to leave rehearsal early and I was called in to read her lines, wearing her armband and hat over my nun's habit.

This tropette once had to do an extra credit project with a friend on the water cycle. One of the allowed choices was a video. Since most videos I take are crappy, I decided to make it extra, '''extra''' hammy. One memorable line that made the entire class laugh was '''"OH RAIN GODS FROM ABOVE, I CALLETH UPON YOU TO RAIN DOWN UPON US WITH YOUR RAINY RAIN."''' Another was "Oh hey, I'm turning to liquid...'''OH WAIT I'M TURNING TO LIQUID?!?!" ''' And yet again, another one was ''' "AGHHH MORE FLOODS?! AGAIN?! OH MIGHTY RAIN-THING-PEOPLE, I ASKETH YOU TO RESTORE BALANCE, PEACE AND HARMONY TO THE LANDS!!!!!" ''' Both me and my friend felt very stupid afterward. We did get good extra credit, and those lines reached MemeticMutation at my school.

This very hammy troper got sucked into the role of Polonius in Hamlet. While I tend to comedy for the sake of hamming it up I took the role of Polonius on a bet. I did a minimal ham job in acts one and two. I went above and beyond the call of ham in act three. specifically Polonius' death scene. Shouting "I'VE BEEN SLAIN" followed by falling over as if someone knocked me out cold sold the scene. Bad news is in our final night I fell off stage and dislocated my right shoulder. I did win the bet though.