ThisTroper had a history teacher who was extremely fond of mock trials and simulations. Two weeks into the class, I had to defend the Catholic Church during the Reformation. The result included me pretending to punch out one of my teammates in order to prove a point about divine forgiveness. Things only escalated from there. My final "performance" was as Robespierre in the trial of Louis XVI. My presentation opened up with me dramatically unveiling a homemade, working, miniature guillotine and only escalated from there. The result: I aced the class.

Today, my teacher called me (Phil) out on being this trope... he was comparing the dramatic nature of me and someone else in the class-- he said "Joe is more of an emotional dramatic, while Phil is just a ham."

I was in class and I could not resist when my teacher said the word "beg." I went "Beg, '''ON YOUR KNEES!!!!'''" A few people actually laughed.

''This Troper is the absolute epitome of this trope!'' I wear earphones often and loud is my natural volume of voice. Even his whispers are audible! Him being a CuteShotaroBoy with a voice that hasn't cracked yet, you could say that he's Yotsuba's SpearCounterpart.

His YaoiFangirl friend is also one: she's a lot like Yuki Nagato with more peppy. But ''she can yell!''

This troper and her sister are both incredibly large hams. Often we will get into spur of the moment ham fights, where we will spout inane quotes '''DRAMATICALLY''' at eachother, complete with poses and the occasional little jig.

ThisTroper has the honor and fortune of portraying the main character of the obscure comedy "The Foreigner," who begins rather meek but by the final scene is hamming it up so much it seems to distort reality.

This Troper is acting in a junior counselor at her church's summer bible camp. This year, the counselors and other volunteers are putting on skits based off the life of Saint Patrick. She gets to be the person who buys patrick from pirates, MIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLCHHHUUUUUUUUUUU, WHO IS DEEEEPLY OFFENDED AT THAT COMMENT, BUT HAS THE PEEEEEERRRFECT JOOOOB FOR YOOOOOOOUUUUUUUU. A SHEPARD, TO HIS FLLLLLLOCK.

ThisTroper has a literature professor. A very enthusiastic one who reserves the greater part of his enthusiasm for reading things aloud. So, when it's time for Main/TheEpicOfGilgamesh...

This troper's English teacher is also this way. What makes it even funnier is that he is a self-proclaimed antisocial.

If it has "Epic" in the title, this troper will bloody well MAKE IT EPIC. Reed hut, reed hut! Reading Caesar's De Bello Gallico with a teacher obsessed with the Godfather movies was an... interesting experience...

This troper is a large ham. Just ask the his co-stars in the plays he's been in.

This troper will confess to being a LargeHam at times, along with her younger brother and sister. Said troper loves reading aloud, even when no one is around/is listening. She and her siblings also love randomly quoting various movies and/or TV shows and/or singing showtunes.

This troper's normally very quiet husband is actually quite a big ham...he's just sneaky about it. When he was drafted to play the ghost of Hamlet's father at the Renaissance faire one year -- a role for which he was given all of five seconds to prepare -- he electrified all their friends in attendance by not only speaking more than four words at one time, but punctuating his speech with hand gestures, silly intonations, and goofy facial expressions. As one of their friends commented, "I think he's just spoken more at one time than in the entire three years I've known him."

This Troper's faction in ''The Matrix Online'' were in a player event where the objective was to defend an NPC, seems easy enough, until we realised that we were the ONLY faction on our side that had made it to the checkpoint in time, and that ''two'' full enemy factions were attacking. This Troper and his crew logged in about halfway into the event, our faction was pinned down but holding their own, we stealthily got on our factions teamspeak server, hearing everyone panicking, and set up our whole crew completely set up, buffed and armed. I Jumped down into the alley where the main fight was taking place, and to announce my presence I punted (A sneak attack that involves a groin kick from behind) the enemies leader and bellowed into the TS server "DID SOMEBODY ORDER A LARGE HAM!?" signalling the rest of the crew to jump down guns blaring. We managed to save the NPC in the end (just barely) and even managed to fully quote the 'big damn heroes' exchange during.

MadeOfWin And Awesome.

THis troper straddles between this and CloudCuckoolander at the drop of a hat, often at the same time!

This Troper acts like this when doing skits or making speeches in class. Its most effective when he doesn't feel like actually saying anything and just amusing people with over the top hand gestures.

This troper did an essay on vandalism for a school project on criminal activity and read it in an over-the-top Chris Farley-like manner.

The headmaster in this tropers school seems incabable of speaking in a normal tone of voice. Instead he tends to loudly bellow whatever he has to say, even when he just says hello when you walk past him in the hallway. He's a really nice guy but peopel who don't know him tend to get freaked out when he appears behind them and says something.

This Troper saw a production of Crazy For You just over a year ago. The guy who played Bobby was a large ham but un the best possible way. His quirky acting, awesome Hungarian accent, and how he had such a calm facial expression while he tapdanced up a storm. Completely over-the-top and in the best possible way.

Da_Nuke's social studies teacher. When he's teaching class... EVERYTHING HE SAYS, HE SAYS IT LIKE THIS, PEOPLE! And when describing the true story of a national hero, ''HIS ENTIRE! CLASSROOM! WAS PAYING! ATTENTION!!!'' Needless to say, his large-hamness and constant ''Main/TheElderScrolls III: Morrowind'' Shout Outs were so amusing, he quickly became the entire generation's favorite teacher and friend forever (just to let you know, he's currently dating the hottest, most popular girl from two generations below!).

The person This Troper is in love with from afar is a real life Large Ham, who has been known to do such things as randomly start speaking like Shaggy and Jack Sparrow, dance like Michael Jackson even though no one is playing any music, do snarky gestures mocking the director's big inspirational speeches, talk on his glasses like a cell phone and walk in Matrix-style slo-mo. This Troper jokes that the way to make a hit comedy is to lock him in a room alone for three hours with a video camera. Oh, and his initials are JC.

This troper is a real ham in general. So much so that he got cast as Gaston in his company's production of ''Beauty And The Beast'', it also helps that his catchphrase is "I EAT SCENERY FOR BREAKFAST!".

The hammier the voice, the better this troper can imitate it.

That is the precist reason why this troper here got cast as Gaston in his company production of ''Beauty And The Beast''.

'''"NOBODY CHEWS SCENERY LIKE GASTON!!!"'''

This troper's 11th Grade English classmate is a very large ham, and did a reading of Parris from the Crucible with a '''CAPTAIN GORDON, DEFENDER OF EARTH''' style of voice, and Foghorn leghorn's accent. Level-breaker? sure, but pretty damn hysterical.

Seriously? I think that guy must be my classmate's long-lost twin brother. He's one of exactly three people in our class that is actually ''good'' at reading things aloud...

This troper's college choir director was ''very'' hammy when he conducted. Some days it was all she could do to keep a straight face.

This troper was not blessed with an indoor voice.

Neither was this troper. Though, in his not-so-humble opinion, an indoor voice is not a "blessing".

This troper doesn't even need one. He's so loud and bombtastic that he got the part of Gaston in his company's production of Beauty And The Beast- he can also do Gaston's voice quite well and acted in character throughout the entire day.

This troper prefers to say she "projects well."

This best describes how this troper acted during a class production of ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. Justified, due to the nature of the play. If you had heard my laugh...

This troper is a {{Large Ham}}. I speak loudly, laugh maniacally because it's fun, and am generally a ham. I love it.

This troper does the same too, but sometimes he does beatbox and make various sound effects.

ThisTroper is a LargeHam, but only when he is acting. At Pinecrest, it is now a running joke to shout '''"HE IS A FAKE!!"'''

Pinecrest, New York? Is that you, or Robbie?

ThisTroper is such a LargeHam it's contagious, to the point that he can bellow '''Dramatic PAUSE!''' and everyone will immediately strike the most random, terribly dramatic pose they can think of and hold it.

This troper is also a large ham, and got cast as Stanley in a reading of ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' as a result. Too bad I can't do the correct accent, although nobody seemed to notice - they were all transfixed by my '''''incredible... HAMMINESS!!!'''''

A similar thing happened when this troper here got cast as Gaston in his company's production of Beauty And The Beast, and to make it even better- he stayed in character throughout the entire day of rehearsal. Several Crowning Moments Of Awesome and Funny occured on and off stage. It also helped that he could do Gaston's voice impersonation extremely well. #QUOTE# ''Casting Director: You, you'll be playing the part of Gaston. How good are you at acting?'' #QUOTE# ''Troper: (loudly) I'M GRRRRRREAT!''. #QUOTE# ''Casting Director: You'll need to act as arrogant and boastful as possible. Can you do that?'' #QUOTE# ''Troper: Sure. No problem!''. #QUOTE# ''Casting Director: Very good. Now say that again, but say it in a way that Gaston would say it''. #QUOTE# ''Troper (as Gaston): No one boasts like Gaston!''. #QUOTE# ''Casting Director: Bravo..... That!Was!Fantastic!.''

''This'' troper is amused by the number of people getting the part of Gaston on this page.

You stole my words, brother.

'''NOBODY STEALS WORDS LIKE GASTON!'''

This troper has been noting that the phrasing is always along the lines of 'my company's production of Beauty and the Beast', and thinks it's just one person repeatedly mentioning it.

This troper plays DungeonsAndDragons with a real life HotBlooded LargeHam who enjoys striking epic poses in the middle of otherwise mundane conversations. Not surprisingly, he's a Gurren Lagann fan.

I have two ecamples.

My High School Euro History teacher. To teach us about the French Revolution the man ''Set stuff on fire in the classroom.''

Myself, of course! It helps in my public speaking. However, to aid it I am going to take an acting class this upcoming term at my college.

This troper has been known to wax hammy on occasion while playing various video games, [=RPGs=] especially. The effect is somewhat ruined by the fact that ''no-one can hear him, the characters he's hamming at least of all''.

WVI: In my (seriously, people, quit it with the "This Troper" stuff) public speaking class, some of us wanted to ham up our speeches when we had to recite others'. However, in an unrelated case, when the whole class was just relaxing and gathering information from anywhere, the teacher got into a little argument with one of the speeches, where, some time in, he said in a rather loud voice, "I WANT THE TRUTH!". Naturally, this was the cue for practically the ''entire class'' to get up, fingers pointed, and yell back. The people next class over must've thought we were nuts. AND WE WERE! ''AH HA HA HA HA!''

This troper is more of a NoIndoorVoice person than a true blue LargeHam, but all the same - people start looking at her funny if she's not actively trying to speak quietly. More traditionally, she doesn't think she's ever had more fun in her entire high school career than when she played the villain in her group's melodrama in third year drama.

Normally, This Troper is more painfully shy than anything. But there was a point when someone even more painfully shy and asocial that she kind of dislikes had stammered that she wanted to be roommates. Hopped up on a strange mix of distaste, anxiety, and inner optimism, this troper hammered on her door, told her "We have to get to know each other!" and proceeded to forcefully lecture her on things like rules (Lights out by midnight! I get up early! No loud music!) and her personal preferences (Dragons are ''awesome''), complete with hand gestures and weird little aggressive head-jerks. She may have brought up Birds Are Dinosaurs, phyllogenically, and she may have said something derogative about fundamentalists. Would-be-roomate looked terrified, in retrospect, and withdrew the request. Crisis averted, thanks to a SURPRISE ATTACK... of HAM!

Depending on her mood (she has a reputation to uphold) and who's watching (due to a painful amount of stage fright), DarkInsanity13 can be this at times. She acts her hammiest around her family (particularly her brother), often spouting dramatic Shout Outs and other things. Give her the right part (and maybe blindfold her), and this troper's drama level will be '''OVER NINE THOOOOOUUUSAND!!!!''' Her brother is a ham when he can be one, often to get laughs out of people. Her father, on the other hand, is only a ham when it either scares people or freaks them out.

This troper is often rather soft-spoken. Key word: often. I fucking shook my house by yelling out '''"LEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOY JENKINS!!!!"''' over Xbox Live, and that isn't mentioning the time I was asked my name on the first day of Communications Application class... I started by saying "Hello..." and finished by shouting '''"MY NAME! IS! SEAN! TUCKER!!"''' at a volume that would give Sanger Zonvolt hearing loss. Teacher's response: "...sweet Jesus that was loud."

{{Temascos}} enjoys being hammy when bored or acting with friends. Even opening the fridge to get a beer became a 15 minute dramatic exchange between my friend and I! Shakespeare is also great to do, Mercuio's death in Romeo and Juliet resulting in me dying in an ultra-dramatic pose... easily topping everyone else who spoke in a static voice.

My best friend acts that way too, he's a ''Transformers'' addict and often starts singing the theme song at random and sometimes goes as far as imitating the characters. Also...he's known to do a terrifically hammy impersonation of Venom from ''Spiderman''.

This troper is known to combine incredible hamminess with her natural way of thinking, with [un]predictable results such as jumping on chairs, big "Nos", ''demanding a dramatic fanfare of humming from onlookers'' (and ''getting it'' on more than one occasion, in the form of the theme tune that plays when you open a treasure chest in TheLegendOfZelda), berating her own reflection for refusing to open a locked glass door, and giving many hammy motivational speeches. Plenty of times when appropriate, she also injects a healthy dose of PatrioticFervor.

I had so much fun dramatically reading PeterChimera fan fiction.

Same here! His book is full of awesome stuff its insane, including Einstein bellowing out ''MY THROAT!!'' before punching Thomas Edison through a wall. Oh, and SherlockHolmes battling a kraken and going home with the woman who hired him for some ''hot coffee''.

ThisTroper singlehandedly got the drama team' performance of ''The Crucible'' to go from a bunch of mumbling kids to an actual performance through the sheer power of ham. While trying for the role of John Proctor, I fell to my knees and shouted "LEAVE ME MY NAAAAAAAME!" Needless to say, I got the role.

This Troper is in academic decathlon. In it, we students teach each other the subjects (history, economics, science, etc.) and its usually rather boring. This Troper made everyone pay attention by YELLING EVERYTHING when teaching.

I think I fit the bill. #QUOTE#'''Me''': Just saying blandly, "Did somebody order a pepperoni pizza?" is not funny. Breaking down someone's door, wearing a Stormtrooper outfit, thrusting the pizza box into the air and then shouting, "Did somebody order a ''pepperoni and cheese'' '''''PIZZA!!??'''''" Now THAT's funny!

This troper's seventh-grade teacher. He was actually an odd blend of this and HandsomeLech. You could hear him from way across the hall if you were just walking along.

This troper's school fitness instructor Scott was an extreme example of this. He was exactly like Richard Simmons. And Monday, Wednesday and Fridays made the students take part in a ridiculous activity called Jump Jam where they had to dance like idiots to some extremely outdated music. He often showboated- in a most over-the-top manner. Then a group of the older students in the school put on a hammy showboating dance routine ''every breaktime'' by dancing to teen pop like Britney Spears, sometime it can be utterly ridiculous and poorly done but at the same time hillarious but other times such as when they play anything from High School Musical it becomes so irritating, idiotic and just plain bad that it's just so painful and unbearable to watch The funniest one is when they danced to "I Like Big Butts" by Sir Mix A Lot. They were like the dancing hippos in ''Fantasia''.

This troper once got the part of Scrooge in a seventh grade play. by going full force ham during the script reading. Awesome fun. Of course, the classmates were boring but still...

This troper once used mighty ham-energy to instruct her boyfriend on how to APPLY STAGE MAKEUP ... STEP! BY! STEP!!

Nearly all of {{Nausicaa}}'s English professors are like this, especially a certain Shakespeare expert who shall remain nameless. He combines hearty portions of ham, hot blood and a few Precision F Strikes often thrown in for good measure. And it is ''awesome''. He'll read passages from the play we're studying out in lectures, complete with dramatic gestures like standing up on a desk that he had ''specifically pulled to the front of the lecture theatre'' for that very purpose in our {{Hamlet}} lecture, pretending to have his eye gouged out in a KingLear lecture and generally hamming it up while reading Iago's EstablishingCharacterMoment. But that's not the best thing. He manages to do this at nine o' clock on a Friday morning. Every. Friday. Morning.

And she isn't immune to the power of '''HAM''' either. Especially when she decides to go into one of her riffs or Bono impressions.

This troper's raiding guild in ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has maintained a pretty consistent roster of officers since Blackwing Lair days, and the officers are pretty laid-back or business-like... with the exception of the druid officer and head healer, who also happens to be a massive lore geek. The concept of a hammy healer sounds strange until you hear him shouting "MALYGOS! I will HEAL these people UNTIL THEY KILL YOU! And I WILL HELP!" on vent.

This troper had a German teacher who also organized the theater club (and was very good at it, bringing plays by {{Shakespeare}} and Goethe's ''Faust'' on stage). He was very funny, too. And a good athlete (shot put) too. And a good pianist.

Go to a place where ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' is played, find a game where neither player is the SeriousBusiness type. Watch the ham fly.

This is my very favorite trope. Be it a grab for attention or the hilarity of glorifying the mundane, it's always lots of fun.

This Troper: Watch closely as I deftly flip these eggs in a needlessly dramatic fashion... ''WATCH CLOSELY! AS IF YOUR '''LIVES''' DEPEND ON IT!'' For, indeed, if you are as inept as I suspect you are, you would surely '''starve''' were it not for ''these... Very...'' '''Eggs.'''

This troper wishes he'd have a time machine. He'd make English class fun again, since he was far too shy to do it the first time around. Plus he's gotten a bit hammier when he's having fun of late.

this troper is normally rather soft-spoken and doesn't say much... unless he's around sufficiently silly people. . Then, he MORPHS into an epic... HAM! Apparently, by the reactions of some of the people in my school, hearing someone who's normally TheQuietOne talk like that IS. IN. ITSELF. ''FUNNY''!

Are you me?

No, he's obviously me.

A natural quality, further exaggerated by knowledge of Latin and an ominous look. I also have a tendency to shout "Innocentia nihil probat!" whenever the occasion manifests itself.

This troper just read all of the above examples out loud dramatically.

This troper is usually painfully shy, but once she gets comfortable enough, especially around fellow oddballs, her inner LargeHam manifests.

This Tropette's haminess really shines in her part in her class' production of The Wiz. As evidenced by the following exchange: #QUOTE# Crew Guy: Hey, we found a green suit for you to wear. #QUOTE# Me: YES! A GREEN SUIT!!! THAT'S THE LUCKIEST THING EVER!!!! #QUOTE# Crew Guy: Uhh.... Go try it on, then. #QUOTE# Me: *comes back wearing suit, freaks out* This IS JUST SO AWESOME!!!!! WOW!!!!!

This troper is a bit of a drama queen in real life, to the point where I overreact to things with loud exclamations of swear words. Usually at inappropriate times. Like wedding receptions. Weddings of family members, to be exact. To make things even better, I'm an actor, and am only rarely cast in a role that really requires hamminess. Naturally, when I got to be the Narrator / Mysterious Man in ''IntoTheWoods'', I had the time of my life, doing things like dramatically echoing my own lines as the Mysterious Man ("You'd be lucky to trade her for a sack of '''''BEANS!''''' '''Beans!''' ''Beans!'' Beans...") and Giving the Audience A Dramatic Phoenix Wright-esque Pointer Finger as I bellowed '''"To be continued!"''' Ahhh, I wish I got those kinds of roles more often.

I knew this one Catholic kid in 11th grade English class. When asked to read out a play script, he does it with terrifying enthusiasm. He's freaky by my standards (and that's saying something as I'm freaky and I don't give out such labels freely).

This troper is basically a British person, In America! So to me ''everyone'' is a LargeHam. This is worse because I am in 11th grade right now and SurroundedByIdiots.

While not always a LARGE HAM, this troper honestly believes that some things are ''made'' to be overacted. He enjoys doing his EvilOverlord voice, occasionally sweeps a towel back over his shoulder like a cape, and...well, if you see a set of double doors where a geek is attempting to replicate the classic movie look of someone pushing them open, that's him. Oh yeah, and there's his Scottish BriefAccentImitation whenever he gets a dwarf card in {{Munchkin}}, which may not be technically hammy but is just too much fun not to mention.

One of this troper's high school drama mates was a LargeHam... he actually played many of the parts listed in production, most memorabley Jonathan Brewster. The guy was so hammy that whenever she hears "The Lees of Old Virginia" all she can hear is his voice.

I once took a Shakespeare class over summer for my school (Mostly for going to London and Oxford for 10 days, but also because I genuinely liked Shakespeare) that had three professors. When we read King Lear, the oldest of the three, who sometimes seems to be a crotchety old man, read one of Lear's lines, he let it all out and nearly hit me with a table. He apologized later. (I also have had two other classes with him, and he does get hammy in those two.)

This troper runs several role-playing games, where he and many of his players can be guaranteed to be large hams. Including: 1) The Paladin (who is also the stereotype), 2) Whatever 1 of his players is, the character will be a bizarre type, and often is a large ham. 3) The party successfully acquires a magic sword. A talking magic sword. A loud, obnoxious talking sword... you get the idea.

Of course, this troper's Cthulhu game master takes the cake, with his various "Sean Connery" accent characters.

I have a relative who is a Large Ham. If attention is not being given to them at any given moment, they will collect it by any means. I love them and everything, but good lord they are loud.

This troper also has the potential for being a Large Ham, but mostly while at his job... as a cashier. Bringing coupons into my line will result in an epic declaration that you saved money when I'm done with them. I am now a favorite of many customers.

This troper knew full well, before reading a passage in ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' to her class, that nobody would pay attention. So... of course she resorted to reading it in a very Large Ham voice. (And resisted the urge to have Paul Baumer yell, "DID SOMEBODY ORDER A LARGE HAM?" in the middle of a bombardment.) People listened fairly closely and she became associated with "a dramatic reading of ''All Quiet on the Western Front''" for the rest of the year.

{{Excel-2009}}. In high school I took a public speaking class. The teacher is the same one who runs the theater and stage productions. He has gray hair and is well-loved for his slight eccentricity and outgoing nature. It's been a few years since then and my sister is in his theater class now. She tells me he is growing a beard. If that's true, then he's only one ripped shirt, oiled chest and magical sword away from the greatest medieval hero in the history of the world.

This troper learned he was a LargeHam in high school. Apart from his dramatic stage antics which brought this out, the most memorable instances involved a daily card game with his then circle of friends in which he went as over the top as possible: ->'''This troper:''' ''(upon moving up a place in the rankings from last to second last)'' My ridiculously complicated plot to win the game is '''ONE QUARTER ''COMPLETE!'' MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!'''

Hilarity usually ensued.

This troper further recalls a Crowning Moment of LargeHam from one of the last productions put on during his time in high school: ->'''This troper:''' ''(storms onto stage)'' Now '''JUST''' a minute, everybody! ''' ''WHO'S GOT MY SHOES!?''' ''' ->'''Actress:''' Shoes!? '''SHOES!?''' ->'''This troper:''' Now, come across! ''' ''SOMEBODY'' ''' in here's got them, ''' ''AND I MEAN TO KNOW WHO!'' '''

The very first time this troper spoke the first line in character, it was too much for the rest of the cast to take. It eventually reached the point where the sheer level of ham elevated every time we ran the scene. Of course, this was topped later by the even more over-the-top monologue delivered by another actress later in the play, but that's way too long for this troper to remember.

This troper remembers a classmate from middle school. He was one of the smallest boys in class but he got pretty hammy, ESPECIALLY when he talked about his story "Bob The Magic Caterpillar".

In eighth grade, this troper was in musical/infomercial called "We Haz Jazz!" It's about this kid who just loves jazz and all of his Jazzer Friends such as Louis Armstrong, Ma Rainey, Ella Fitzgerald, and THELONIOUS! MONK! His friends learn about the roots of jazz from the Jazzers, and the entire company is waiting for THE THELONIOUS MONK! to make his appearance, so this jazz jam can really get started. In eighth grade, I was a tall, busty, athletic, blonde, blue-eyed girl. Let's just say I felt extremely awkward playing a tall, lean, cool, black guy. But as soon as I realized I could use my Rev. Jeremiah Wright voice, I was set. I was only in the last scene, and boy, did I ham it up. I pimp-walked to the center of the stage, and I delivered my monologue about the future of jazz with great style and aplomb. And even though you could see my pale, white face, people said I sounded exactly like a black man crossed with William Shatner. Win!

I am a Large Ham indeed. My typical "opening line" when I see someone is either I HAAAAAAAAVE ARRIVED!" or "I AM HERE TO GRACE YOU WITH MY WONDROUS PRESENCE!" and so on. My friend has described me as a combination of this and CrazyAwesome, the second one literally worded.

This troper's father always puts a lot of emphasis on words that he thinks are important. He also tends to say words with an accent if he thinks that it'll make him sound funnier, and obsessively makes Incredibly Lame Puns and Shout Outs. I find him rather annoying.

This troper. The twist is that she uses it to disguise how melodramatic she is. Whenever she feels like she's overreacting she starts flailing and screaming things like "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!" or "WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA!?!?!?" to defuse the situation.

This troper, from a lack of better battlecry, shouted "I SHALL PUNISH YOU WITH A BLESSED LARRRRRRGE HAAAAAAM!" while rolling dice for damage during a LegendOfTheFiveRings session. Cue a lot of rerolls, aptly called "exploding dice", ending in a one-hit-kill. Against a heavily armored zombie samurai.

This troper is amazed (but not at all surprised) how many stories above imply involvement in some sort of theatrical production or department. He left a bit of a reputation himself in his high school theatre department, where, over the course of four years, he played such ham-tastic roles as a hyperactive monkey in ''The Jungle Book'', a crotchety old Merlin, an incredibly sleazy villain in an obscure children's play, and, to top it all of, an incredibly flamboyant Magic Mirror in a production of Snow White. He also dressed in full pirate regalia every so often, just for the hell of it.

This Troper was press ganged into a friend's production of Antigone as the part of Tiresias. He was later described by said friend as more like {{TheLionKing}}'s Rafiki than a blind prophet.

This troper commonly acts like a LargeHam to fool people into thinking he has one goal when he has another he does not want them to know about. I am a MagnificentBastard, and I am the same guy who said he set up a drugee on the Troper tales Chessmaster page. My most famous quote? "I will not break or move until I have what I desire...the power that I covet!"

This troper has had many a LargeHam moment in her life, but the most memorable was when I decided/was encouraged during a college English class to lisp the lines of Shakespeare's ''Richard III'', earning myself the nickname of "Gay Richard".

During a picnic for Kumon students, a water fight was planned. All the kids had decided that it was "Kids vs Supervisors". I had completely forgotten about the water fight...so I was given a water pistol. I chose to stand around and scream "FOR THE EMPIRE!" ala Commisar.

This troper is, by and large, a DeadpanSnarker. But put a controller in my hands and start up a round of SuperSmashBros or (even worse) MarioKart, and you'll be treated to a SlasherSmile, cries of "EXTERMINATE!", "WhyWontYouDie?", or "blood for the Blood God, skulls for the Skull Throne!", {{Evil Laugh}}s mixed with the occasional (genuinely creepy) giggle, and a variety of ridiculously bombastic threats. Then the game ends, and I return just as quickly to my normal self.

This troper, when attempting to act, alternates between this and acting a little bit too realistically. She has recently decided to spare the drama club from future auditions of hers....''until further notice''.

This troper's drama class was involved in a series of one-acts, and she got cast in the cheesiest play in the lot, as the ghost of a falsely-accused Salem witch. It was supposed to be very serious, but with lines like "Gallows Hill gave us fame; hate be the devil's name," she couldn't help but ham the heck out of it all. It was great fun.

This troper got to play the role of Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream earlier this year. Of course I was expected to be this, but I ended up hamming it all the way to Spotlight Stealing Squad status (the other cast members weren't mad, thankfully). I got a huge ovation, and it was probably my favorite role that I've ever played.

Whoa, are you me?

I didn't know I could be in three places at once.

This troper is quite a hammy actor. I've been proudly overacting my entire life. Most recently I managed to turn my role as a tree in a house play into a cross between The Great Deku Tree and William Shatner, (even adding a ridiculously melodramatic death scene modelled off Sniper Wolf's, complete with music) and disrupting an entire cluster of classrooms with a reading of TwelfthNight during an English class.

Jesus Christ, I stumbled across the page that describes me perfectly! Fond of throwing quips and making up ''epic'', sometimes intentionally melodramatic quotes to liven a day? That's me! Encouraging my friends with shamelessly cheesy, yet fun exclamations? That's my style! Described by a friend as resembling Kamina from TTGL in personality? No doubt about it. '''With sharpened mind, heightened teamspirit, hardened conviction... and friends standing by you, unshaken by the monstrous tidal waves of life... We'll conquer our way beyond the red horizon, pale green oblivion, dark blue oceans, silver star sky and the blackest abyss... to our deepest dreams!''' I challenge anyone to make up a quote of his own. Start a Ham-Fest, if you will.

When this troper plays Yu-Gi-Oh with his brother, we frequently say things like "After I summon my most powerful monster and reduce your Life Points to Zero, you WILL BE TRAPPED IN THE SHADOW REALM ''FOREVER''!!!!

Following the recent changes to terminology in MTG (Such as 'in play' or 'battlefield' and the addition of traps) this troper is incapable of playing MTG without sounding like someone from Yugioh.

This troper's History teacher will RAISE HIS VOICE TO UNDERLINE '''IMPORTANT WORDS''' and frequently breaks out in song.

This troper's history/science teacher was this at times, often resorting to hyperbole and arm waving to get a point across. This troper also firmly believes that this is the best possible way to teach science. Especially astronomy.

My 11th grade health teacher (a class which dealt primarily with sex ed) was often overly dramatic. For example, on the very first day of class, he told us that he didn't want us to be embarrassed. He told us to "GET UP THERE AND YELL PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Give or take a few vowels.

This troper has been known to become overly dramatic in front of old people, for no other reason then to give them heart attacks/cause them to think she is acting. And also because it's fun.

This troper's Social Studies teacher is so hammy, she could become a pro wrestler. She shouts a lot, makes overdramatic gestures, and occasionally bursts into song

ThisTroper worked in university theater and knew a group of actors who referred to themselves as the 'Too Big Club' because they were always turned down after camera auditions for being 'Too Big' for the camera. They wanted to be professional, yet seemed to take pride in this. One of our voice training professors diplomatically announced to the class that children's shows were a good gig, too. And it's true; just turn on Nickelodeon and see.

This Troper's synagogue's cantor, Cantor Goldstein, has a tendency to drown out the bar mitzvahs as they lead the prayers, and acts larger than life both working and mingling with the congregation. So much so, that this troper has nicknamed him "Shatner Goldstein"

I always went into LargeHam mode when reading aloud in HighSchool English, just to counteract the dull inexpressive monotone adopted by far too many of my classmates.

This troper's 8th grade U.S. History teacher was a definite LargeHam. #QUOTE#"Now it's time for you to go to '''THE PODIUM OF LIFE!'''"

An acquaintance of mine is such a LargeHam. Especially when he does public speeches. *camera pans to him being a LargeHam, quoting someone in a really bad Scottish accent and gesticulating wildly*

In This Troper's gym class, there is one student who embodies this trope. Examples: he breakdances during warmups, when playing baseball he does backflips from 3rd base to home plate, when something is even ''moderately'' funny he would start running around the gym while laughing like a maniac, and while the class was studying health he would ask really absurd questions about the chapter (the reproductive system, mostly) that the teacher needs to take at least ten minutes to answer. He REALLY enjoys making a spectacle of himself

Same Troper, here. My little brother is this, too. Lampshaded by both myself and my mother.

Do not play monopoly, do not play monopoly with this troper. He will not own hotels, he will own the bank. And he will abuse the fact that he owns the bank, he will give charity, bribes, and free money whichever players he likes. This troper may wear a white moustache, a monicle, and a top hat. Every line will end with (in nature of this trope, a large ham style) "I own the bank", and you will not forget. I own the bank!

This troper will be in a drama class next semester. This trope is a major reason he's looking forward to it.

This troper does this repeatedly, often at random MOOOOOOOOOOOOOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENTS! I AM THE GODDAMN RULER OF THE UNIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERSE. In fact, most of my teachers and fellow students break into this at random, especially my World History AP teacher. In fact...it might as well be a {{World Of Ham}}. #QUOTE# My World History AP Teacher: "Can somebody please describe to me what World War I allowed for?" #QUOTE# I raise my hand. #QUOTE# WHAP Teacher: "Yes?" #QUOTE# Me: "IT MADE THE WORLD SOOOOOOOOO MUCH RICHER AND ECONOMICALLY SOUND!! AND THE ROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAARING TWENTIES BOOSTED THE ECONOMY AS PEOPLE BECAME RICHER AND RICHEEEEEEER!" #QUOTE# WHAP Teacher: "AND SAIIIIID BOOST EVENTUALLY LED TO THE GREEAAAAAAAAAAT DEPREEEEEEEESIONN!!" #QUOTE# Me: "YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BOOOOOOOOY!"

The surprising part? Nobody wondered what the noise was.

This troper's old Algebra 2 teacher was this amped up to 11. He would have crazy hand gestures, act like he was crying when taking away a number in an equation, and referenced pop culture at the same time. #QUOTE# '''Teacher:''' *waving his hands around dramatically* I am practicing my Kamehameha!

If you want a HUGE, and I mean HUGE ham, check out my school play. The only hams were the King and Giant. Guess which two I played? Approach me PEASANT!!!. But I must say, The Tall One, voice of Ivan and Dad, did a very hammy job with them both. YOU ARE TOO MUCH OF A FOOL TO SAIL ONE MY EPIC SHIPS!

This troper, in his freshman year of high school, was in a one-act play for his theater class. He was playing the villain, and delivered his lines such as "WELL, MY NO-GOOD NASTIES! LET'S GO PUT OUR PLOT INTO ACTION!!!"

I would call myself one of these, as well as almost any character I run or create. Really.

This troper, several good friends of said troper, and said said troper's brother regularly engage in LargeHam LensmanArmsRace esque performances. While switching into complete Deadpan at a moments notice. This Troper is not very funny alone but works better with the group. When you can honestly answer a question with '''"THE''' ''SQUARE ROOT'' '''of''' '''''TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO'''''" you qualify for LargeHam.

Our English class had to read a scene from Macbeth in modern English. My pair went close to last, and this troper could see everybody was awkward and embarrassed. This troper's pair went up, the other girl said her part... and then this troper unleashed the hog with a Mike Meyers-style Scottish accent. Best part of this? Later the class was reading through the whole of Act 5, and he was cast as Macduff. This troper practically deafened the class, proving myself THE MOST CAPSLOCK MAN IN THE SCHOOL.

This troper is usually quiet during most of school, but get him near his friends, and expect to hear the large hamminess. For example, this is his usual answer to being asked what anime he likes: #QUOTE# Me: '''THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN AWESOME POWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER! ITS BURNING GRIP TELLS ME TO DEFEAT YOU! NOW TAKE THIS! MY LOVE, MY ANGER AND ALL OF MY SORROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW! SHINIIIIIIIING FINGEEEEEEEEEEER! GO! GO! GOOOOOOOO!''' #QUOTE# Friend: Huh. I prefer Evangellion myself.

I still have a loud and relatively unchanged speaking voice from when I was a child. Naturally, this meant I always played insane people in theatre. ANd made them more insane than theoretically possible.

This Troper averts this in real life where he is very shy,calm and quiet, but when he's on the internet this changes...a lot. He has two internet alter egos,one is a HUMONGOUS HAM evil overlord and the other is a giant ham Leeroy Jenkis Paladin of incorruptible pure pureness with knight templar tendencies. Most people thing he's wierd because of that but he has great fun doing it and he can understand why large ham actors are said to be having fun with their roles.

This troper's mother is normally pretty calm, but when something makes her angry or upset, she could rival Lelouch, Alex Louis Armstrong, and Kamina in dramatics.

This troper is normally really quiet (think mouse level), but he can sing VERY LOUDLY INDEED! He also has a habit of impersonating Large Ham's very accurately. Currently, I'm hamming up Lamar from Godspell (FOR MY FIRST TIME EVER) simply because it's fun (and it kinda makes sense for the show to have the loudest singer be the largest ham, in my opinion). Ironically, I was inspired by this wiki, as it revealed who was the large ham in Dawn of War (my favourite game) and I went for the chaplain's speaking style (HE HAS NO INDOOR VOICE, UNDERSTANDABLY).

In high school, everybody knew who I was, even though I was a nerd who never managed to get a date. I was known for my theatrics, culmainating in the conquest of a pep rally while wearing a neon green pimp jacket with zebra stripes. Yeah, I'm a bit of a ham. It's almost like I'm two different people: alone at home, or in a small group, I'm just a regular geek, but the ''moment'' that I go out into public, or even better in front of a crowd, I EXPLODE, BURNING THROUGH MY LIMITED CAUTION UNTIL I BECOME AN ENORMOUS HAM! NO, EVEN THAT DOES NOT DESCRIBE ME! NOT MERELY ENORMOUS, BUT AN '''''INCARNATE DEITY OF HAM!'''''

This Troper has been guilty of this in spades for years and being cast as Bottom in AMidsummerNightsDream did not make me tone myself down.

My ENTIRE FAMILY is this trope, to the point that each of us have VARYING LEVELS of SCENERY-CHEWING!

This troper used to take an acting class. One of our shows, an absolutely ridiculous rewrite of Frankenstein, was only good because so many actors were hamming up the bad script. However, we all agreed that the best part was the Monster, who lay motionless on a table for the entire play, only getting up and shambling around for a minute at the very end, with no real dialogue. And it was AMAZING!

Infipus is known for being "slightly" over-dramatic when the whole ShrinkingViolet thing gets boring. In fact, just the other day when she was at a beach trip and accused of being overly hammy... She belted out the quote from the main LargeHam page and started marching through the knee-deep ocean water. She was then hit with a 6-foot wave that came from nowhere, sweeping her sunglasses out into the unknown, never to be seen again. This Troper may take large steps, but the ocean takes LARGER ONES.

This Troper, although quiet, can be as vocally overreactive, loud and as hammy as possible when given the chance, mainly indulging in evil laughter. An example of this was doing one of the many monologues from Hamlet in a drama class. This trope is also true with a large number of her friends, most of whom are loud and hammy naturally. I love them for it.

This one guy in my English and religion classes... dear God. He had to give a report today. He hammed it up ridiculously, complete with walking around dramatically and hand gestures. The teacher stared. As someone who's been going to school with him for years, I can attest that he wasn't just putting on an act. He's all ham, all the time.

In my English class last year, we had three hams. Class discussions generally evolved into an EPIC HAM WAR.

When he was in sixth grade, this troper auditioned for the part of Mercutio in a school production of {{Romeo and Juliet}}. He did his audition as a Large Ham, because to his sixth-grade brain, over-dramatic inflection and {{No Indoor Voice}} were signs of a ''serious actor.'' Due to this bold decision, he was relegated to the ''non''-speaking role of "Passerby #4."

This Troper (CCharmanderK) recently landed the role of Ebeneezer Scrooge in his high school's renditio of Charles Dickens' AChristmasCarol. He has decided that, during his tenure with the Christmas Ghosts and after his HeelFaceTurn, he'll give Scrooge an overly dramatic, emotional performance. I mean, this is the first time in God knows how long that Scrooge has ever felt any emotions, so the reactions are likely to be quite intense.

Tropers/Optimusjamie here. My hamminess borders on NoIndoorVoice at times. This will probably get VERY evident if I ever get round to playing Warhammer40000.

This troper love to yell, she tends to speak very loudly as well. It may have something to do with her bad hearing, though.

This troper is renowned for being a bit of a {{Shrinking Violet}}. However, in the right circumstances, she becomes a Large Ham of truly epic proportions. This gets even cooler when she decides to quote plays, poems and the like. She utilises this whenever making a dramatic entrance - on and off the stage.

I have a reputation for my flair for the dramatic and such. BUT! It really shines on a stage. Be it the exercise to make a scene from Macbeth modernized (it became VERY Mafia-esque), or the five minute abridged Macbeth (HAM was an understatement, I even SUNG! for that bit!), my audition for the school musical (the angry hamminess got me my role), to the musical itself ("While three harpies outside my window SHRIEKED! 'We love you Conrad' FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY TWO TIMES!!!!!"). And that's the short list everybody!

This Troper's English class is currently reading DeathOfASalesman, and I usually volunteer to read aloud, usually as Biff. I use multiple voices, sometimes switching mid-sentence or even mid-''word'': ArnoldSchwarzenegger, Solid Snake, Nobunaga, Albert Wesker, and a completely calm voice. This is not the only class I do this in, and I'm mostly known for my Nobunaga voice, or "Viking voice," as someone referred to it as.

This Troper is the resident ham for his family and friends. I am often cracking jokes, laughing like a maniac, being needlessly dramatic for mundane things changing my voice and volume and quoting memes and other large hams.

This Troper's friend is a large ham of epic proportions. She yells almost everything she says, and is a hoot in the school play. I will never imagine the word "pearls" the same way again.

This troper is only a large ham when not in public. Generally this means only at parties and such, and has been repeatedly told he needs to quieten down, only to be loud again the next second. This also lends a bit to being comedic.

I, the young man seeking interesting insights, feel I am a rare calm, yet even more surprisingly, opportunistically selective version of this trope. There are lots of instances when I simply speak in my 'normal' tone of voice, state an opinion or tell a piece of insight I've learned and want to share with others without actually trying to draw attention to ''myself''. However, even then my voice frequently manages to sound like it comes from deep within and creates a slight echo. A few of my schoolmates have commented on how strong my voice sounds(about which I consequently feel very flattered). My philosophy teacher even once joked about how easy I am to be heard in the class now or how unintentionally scary I can sometimes be. When I really get going, however, I feel really alive and certain of myself and my habit of bettering myself in creating a compelling spectacle or sideshow is giving its own share. If there is any troper here, who'd like to have some hammy fun moments or develop their wit along with a sparring companion in a wit-sharpener duel, perhaps you'd like to send me a pm ;) or seek me out on Troper Updates.

While studying {{Medea}} in her sophomore English class, this troper managed to get the teacher and the majority of the students to be terrified of her for the better part of the year by reading the title role aloud as hammily as possible, with lots of HYSTERICAL SCREAMING and as good a RoaringRampageOfRevenge as she could do without leaving her seat. The fact that she's usually so much of a ShrinkingViolet that this reading was the first time most of the class had ever heard her ''speak'' probably helped, what with the shock value and all.

I do this all the time. I was sparring with my friend and I threw every hammy line I had in me at her. Some of these included, "YOU'RE A ''WOOOOOOORTHY'' OPPONENT! BUT DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO DEFEAT ME?" and, "I, [MYNAME] SHALL NOT BE DEFEATED! FIGHTING STRENGTH IS IN MY VEINS!" She was too busy laughing to fight. Guess who won?

If you put this troper in a good mood, He will do a wonderful impression of TheOldSpiceGuy, and talk with his hands in a GLORIOUS fashion. Spouting OneLiners like "This is where I get off." While jumping off of an Exit Ramp in Burnout.

I dabble in the arts of ham every now and then.

This Tropette is normally a polite, sensible, quiet and slightly amusing individual. But whenever she gets the opportunity, she becomes an outrageously LargeHam with wild facial expressions and gesticulation, alongside at least 3 different Ham voices resulting in NoIndoorVoice. Her boyfriend is also a Large Ham of proportions who is perfect for HamToHamCombat, through the power of his AudioErotica and GlassesPull, but sometimes cannot out-ham her and said to her once that she was the female version of a particularly famous British Ham aka BRIAN BLESSED! This pleased her =D

This Troper does not have an indoor voice, acts overly dramatic and makes everything hammy frequently.

This Troper is usually fairly average-volumed,but when she got cast as the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland Jr., she was compelled to, neigh, was REQUIRED to be a OVER! The TOP! '''AS!''' '''''POSSIBLE!!''''' Some of her best lines: #QUOTE# Troper: And JUST who do we have HERE, HMMMMMMMMM? #QUOTE# Actress: Uh,I believe you mean ''whom'' do we have here. #QUOTE# Troper: '''SILENCE!!''' WE speak the QUEENS English here, you NAMELESS! '''LITTLE!''' '''''WELP!'''''

This guy will frequently enter a conversation or greet his friends with a large, nice, "OH YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!"

{{AnneBeeche}}: I am this trope ''a lot''. In addition to shouting and making large, theatrical gestures, I also grossly exaggerate my tales and even boast Anglo-Saxon style about outlandish, epic things I have never done. For example, when talking about my weekend, I will boast about my exploits in the snowy mountains wrestling polar bears and slaying dragons when what I am actually describing is my ski trip.

Also, my English teacher (who spawned my all-consuming insatiable interest in Anglo-Saxons, by the way) is a serious Ham whenever he plays a part in the ''Hamlet'' we're reading in class. His death scene as Hamlet himself was both hilarious and epic. While reading Hamlet, since I also happen to be a Ham with a love for Shakespeare, I would have a Ham contest with him to see who could read their parts more dramatically. The teacher also (ironically enough) demonstrated what over-dramatization looked like by standing theatrically facing his podium and loudly proclaiming, "THIS IS A '''PODIUM!!!!"'''

ThisTroper auditioned for the role of Bottom in AMidSummerNightsDream and decided leaping onto a box on the stage would impress the director. It did and he got the parts. But, what was the best part about this was that every person who was either at the audtion or knew me would say "You're perfect for that part." It did sort of help that I have NoIndoorVoice and throw myself into roles. Scary that I'm not that different offstage. BUT WHY SHOULD THAT BOTHER ME?!!!

This troper (FulltimeD) played Mr. Toad in his 3rd grade class's production of a musical version of "Wind in the Willows."

both my sister and nephew have a history of being LARGE HAMS! i wouldn't know much about my sister being this way but i know my nephew will overreact at every chance he gets. my dad tells me he gets this from my sister... i wonder where she gets it from...

Several of my teachers were like this. I believe that all science teachers should be Large Hams.

This Troper is on a quest to out-ham both WilliamShatner and '''BRIAN BLESSED'''. Wish me luck!

This Veggie Troper, ironically, cannot stop hamming it up at every opportunity. My breakfast ham is signing Gilbert & Sullivan VERY LOUDLY in the shower, thus waking my housemates. Once in lectures, I'll look for any chance thrown my way to ham up an answer (even better, as my Inorganic Chemistry lecturer is quite hammy himself). When on teaching practice, I was told I need to project my voice more. Cue BRIAN BLESSED volume. My friends have come to love my ham, but woe betide those who are just getting to know me, and are exposed to my ham.

In an update, it seems that the course's top brass _don't_ take kindly to hams. The told me to come back to teaching when I get some maturity. THOSE FILTHY ROTTEN B*STARDS!!!!!

This Troper (TappitydaNoggin) is prone to this due to: 1) His tendency to project his voice when excited, 2) The extraordinarily loud laugh he inherited from his mother, and 3) his love of ham. It does make me a very receptive audience member though.

The history teacher at this Troper's school has a habit of singing "Total Eclipse of the Heart" rather loudly and dramatically whenever he asks the class to turn around. He also uses a broadsword to gesture to the board.

This troper is basically a non evil, Daleks excluded Davros. He argued with his ''math homework''. '''"CURSE YOU M-WORD!!!''', and '''"I'VE DEFEATED THE MATH NEMESIS!'''

The head of the Maths department at this troper's high school qualifies. An example: "If one of the brackets is equal to 0, then THE WHOLE EXPRESSION MUST EQUAL 0!" He tends to take large steps back and put his hands up when he does this. In one other instance, at the start of one year we were given a difficult question that threw us into the deep end straight away, and said "That...*dramatic pause* is not a difficult enough question to be in the exam."

This Troper does this from time to time...but usually only with my family and the closest of friends that would laugh at it rather than cringe in horror...XD

this Troper is currently writing a how-to speech for class about how to be a Large Ham. Her classmates don't get the joke, but I'll be too busy showing off my SUPAH HAM SKILLZ to care.

This troper got the part of JuliusCaesar when the Literature class was reading the play. He managed to out-act everyone else in the room combined, and forever got the hammiest parts whenever the class is reading any plays, and tries his best to make the parts as hammy as possible.

This troper can't help himself being one. Especially when he says "I will EAT THIS SAMMICH FOR LUNCH!".

This troper thends to do this in party situations. He claims that he gets drunk on social situations. He can also shout '''EXTREMELY LOUDLY!!!!!!!!!!!''', as anyone in his reenactment group can testify. Think "heard across fields" loudly.

This Troper, who's mostly quiet and snarky, can occasionally get into moments of ''eeeeeext''-'''''REEEEEEEEEME!!!''''' hammyness. One such moment of "turning on the Hammy" (as I like to call it) is when I was selected to read "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" by SIR! Walter Raleigh, in fromt of my entire 12th grade English class. The amount of ham I displayed would've made BrianBlessed proud. (Or at the very least, impressed enough to SHOUT A COMPLIMENT! Okay, I'll stop.) I also have a tendency of doing this: #QUOTE# Me: Isnt today your birthday? #QUOTE# Random Friend: Yeah! #QUOTE# Me: ''Welllllll theeeeen''... #QUOTE# Random Friend: Yes? #QUOTE# Me: '''''HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! DEAR FRIEEEEEEEEEEND!!!'''''

[MasqueradeActors This troper]] (Dreamer) was cast as multiple parts in his church's annual {{Godspell}} tour. This troper was told by another performer that "[He] hammed the parts up so much [he] smelled like salted pork." The king's servant (a minor part with lines that are meant to be ad-libbed) was performed completely by gestures and was still extremely hammy.

ThisTroper's family is frequently acting over dramatic deliberately for laughs. #QUOTE# Mother: Might it be behind the sink? #QUOTE# Uncle: OH "MIGHT IT BE" FORSOOTH?

Aaaaaand among others. #QUOTE# Dad: ''SOMEONE'' FORGOT TO REFILL THE ''ICE TRAYS.''

In seventh grade, this Troper's history group project involved creating a skit or series of skits about Colonial America. Everyone for the most part tried to make their skits at least somewhat informative, but first and foremost, everyone just wanted to make them funny. This resulted in some amazing LargeHam moments, such as when this Troper's character randomly went off on a tangent in the middle of a conversation about the "great nation of America" - only to realize that all the other characters in the scene had stopped talking and were staring at her.

normally this troper doesn't let her geeky interests get involved with non-geeky situations. however, this troper was once dropping multiple bad jokes around her friend and her friend's niece and nephews (nothing dirty, just jokes that were purposely lame)... deciding to go with the flow, after having watched FullMetalAlchemist and knowing they've probably never seen a single episode of it I decided to go ahead and make fun of the fact telling lame jokes is pretty much my family's hat and struck a pose and dramatically said "THE ART OF TELLING LAME JOKES HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THE JOHNSON FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS!!!!!" after their look of WTF I just said "if you watched FMA you'd at least be chuckling now..."

This Troper has Asperger'sSyndrome. As such, I'm loud, hyper, a geek to the core, and I LOVE quoting {{TengenToppaGurrenLagann}}. And singing. One way I take boredom out of work is to sing AT THE TOP OF MY FREAKING LUNGS. WE GOTTA POWAH DORAGONBOORU ZEEEEEEEETO!

This troper is usually fairly quiet, but does fit this trope at certain times, especially when reading out loud (my whole English class now knows me as 'the girl who does the voices'), acting or giving a speech. Most of the people who I know from theatre also fit to various extents. To top it all off, my school's theatre department just put on Urinetown, which when done right is basically this trope in musical form... we did it right.

Last year, in this troper's fall semester at community college, he had a sociology class. His teacher could be classified under this trope. Every time he would enter class, he would say, "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD..." pause for like two seconds, then continue, "MORNING, everyone! How are we this morning! Doing well? Yes? Fan-(claps) tastic. Once again, it is a pleasure to see your BRIGHT, and SMILING faces in this institution of higher education." Word for word. And when class would end, he'd go, "With that much said, ladies and gentlemen, HAVE! A! WONDERFUL! TUESDAY!" (or weekend if it was Thursday.) And he would repeat definitions that he stated, for emphasis. He was a pretty talkative man.

While not normally a ham, this troper, when playing intense games of Yu-Gi-Oh!, can sometimes reach ham levels that can put Jack Atlas to shame. Really.

When This Tropette is in a hammy mood, she can outdo InvaderZim.

In high school, this troper's English teachers would often have us read plays in class, assigning roles to do so. This normally soft-spoken troper enjoyed herself immensely, expecially as Creon in ''{{Antigone}}''. In my senior year, I did an ''actual'' theatre performance as the announcer for Motorwise Gasolines in ''ZombieProm''. An underclassman of mine saw the show and told me she was surprised by how powerful my voice was.