The Overt Narrator

Today in class when we talked about the narrator in the analysis of discourse and how it can be either overt or covert, two examples of overt narrators came immediately to my mind. First, the one from "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens and then, I thought of Lemony Snicket in "A Series of Unfortunate Events".
This is an extract from the first book of the series: "The Bad Beginning: Book the First"

"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes."

There's a popular movie based on this series of books and here's a link to its first part, where we can also distinguish this overt narrator:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9mZZqaQYc
Enjoy Handsome Jude Law's beautiful British accent ;)

"I'm sorry to say that this is not the movie you'll be watching. The movie you are about to see is extremely unpleasant. If you wish to see a film about a happy little elf, I'm sure there is still plenty of seating in theatre number two. However, if you like stories about clever and reasonably attractive orphans, suspicious fires, carnivorous leeches, Italian food and secret organizations, then stay, as I retrace each and every one of the Baudelaire children's woeful steps. My name is Lemony Snicket, and it is my sad duty to document this tale."