He is known for using news-speak in everyday language for example, he shouts "This just in: Go to hell!" when he is booed by the crowd when he is revealed to be one of the celebrity judges in the "Bout to Knock the Other Guy Out" final match between Homer Simpson and Drederick Tatum. He mentioned to Pye that he made some smart investments when Arnie complained about the size of Brockman's house.
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He also has an ongoing feud with traffic reporter Arnie Pye, and has been shown to criticize Pye's reporting indeed, he once chuckled sadistically upon hearing the news that Pye had been killed in an accident.
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meeting in Days of Wine and D'oh'ses.īrockman once won the multi-million-dollar ($130 million) state lottery jackpot and left the news desk while still on the air, but he remained a news anchor because he was under contract, though he also admitted that he likes making $500,000 a year. after he was seen present at Barney's A.A. It is suggested that Kent is an alcoholic, unsympathetic and not understanding of what some people have been through in their lives also can be a very resentful person when criticized and tends to hold grudges against people who have wronged him in the past even though they have apologized for their actions. Brockman owns a collie named Jessica, whom he had "fixed", and drives a blue Mercedes-Benz S420. He also frequently uses botox, having a saggy face without it and is also balding rapidly.īrockman has a preteen daughter and a preteen son, and has jealously mentioned his sister, who is a White House correspondent for CNN. He was also a war correspondent during the Vietnam War, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, and the Gulf War (although, as he just says "Iraq", he could have been referring to the Iran-Iraq War). Despite all of this, he has won a string a media awards, but is most proud of his unspecified trophy from Del Monte. His comments and views on people with mental illness has also not gone down well, saying in online sports forums that he is on his "two tablets a day and doing fine", which was meant as a put down to people with such conditions. He seems to command excessive levels of power within Channel 6, even having a segment of the news program to air his own (usually highly reactionary) opinions on current issues called My Two Cents. He has been seen throwing tantrums because he cannot find certain snack foods, and once blithely announced on-the-air that the boom operator on his news program was being fired the next morning (for which he took a clout on the head from the angry soon-to-be-ex-employee). (As with most Simpsons characters, Brockman's ethics and competence vary according to the needs of the episode.) Also he has conflicting personality traits one minute he claims to be a typical robust male who loves his steak and beer and yet he also has claims to be sci-fi geek who is a member of the Battlestar Galactica fan club (The new one. Kent Brockman represents the worst of his profession: frequently judgmental careerist to the point of absurdity and more than willing to film and sensationalize a schmaltzy, emotion driven puff piece for the sake of a few extra ratings points.
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He is also Stephanie's husband and Britney's father. Kent Brockman is a journalist of Channel 6 form the city of Springfield. Comedic Big Good Kent Brockman is one of the main characters on TV series The Simpsons.