Kent+Brockman

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Kent Brockman is known in the Simpsons as the news anchorman on the Channel 6 weekday news. He is a minor character in the series and has no central to the work's plot really. His function in the story is that he is giving the news, mostly with focus on Springfield. So you don’t get to see him every episode. But still he is a known character as well. Most of those who see the series know who Brockman is. Brockman is more of a flat person, because we don’t get to know so much about his past, and about his feelings and so, or what other thinks about him and says about him. All we get to know is when he is on air giving the news. He is a reliable source for unreliable, humorous commentaries. He is always comes with funny quotes while he's giving the news. Like this one: "...and the fluffy kitten played with the ball of string all through the night. On a lighter note, a Kwik-E-Mart clerk was brutally murdered last night."  Kent Brockman is a static character, because he doesn’t change through the series. It seems like he have no problem with using bad or otherwise offensive language on air, and sometimes he has been fired for doing so. Kent ’s real name is Kenny Brockelstein, but he wanted to change his name into something more professional at some point in his career, that became “Brockman”. It isn’t so much to say about his family, but I can say that he has a daughter named Brittany, and a wife named Stephanie, who is the weather lady, and he also have a preteen daughter and a preteen son. Brockman has also mentioned his sister, who he seemed a bit jealous of, because she’s a White House correspondent for CNN.

Brockman is in many ways a stereotype and a satire of a typical newsreader. He has the look, and he is always wearing a suit with a tie. He is a successful and a rich man. He drives a blue Mercedes-Benz S420, and he has admitted that he’s making $500,000-a-year. He doesn’t get any less rich since he won the lottery jackpot on $130 million. This he found out while he was giving the news on air. Here’s what he says: “Recapping our day's top story, the winner of today's lottery is me, Kent Brockman ... In other news ... um ... tragic mixup today in Cleveland ... many people killed ... uh ... goodbye!" . Sometimes it seems through his body language that he doesn’t really care about the news, and seems a bit bored of reading them. Like when he won the lottery jackpot, he just runs off while he still is at work. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">This shows that he’s very careless with his actions.

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