Is there a term for this kind of person?

Grandpa!

British

Wizard

Sounds like the host of Masterpiece Theater.

Mr. Burns.

Raconteur.

Slippers and Pipe man.

Hugh Hefner?

The term for these people is “Robert Osborne”.

@ekans beat me to it.
I need to step my game up tonight.

Totally Masterpiece Theater.

Even without the satin smoking jacket, Alistair Cooke fits that description as the host of Masterpiece Theatre and was often parodied.

@Jeruba I was thinking more along these lines…

What exactly is in that pipe and does he have long curly hair….....like me?
See ya…..Gary/wtf

Please forgive my ignorance, but could it be a Shriner?

high roller

Not me?

Narrator

Probably an evil genius. But it also reminds me of The Great Mouse Detective and those old London mystery novels. I’m not sure where it originated though. But it is a cliched image, one I personally <3

According to this site they are the hosts.

Armchair Gentleman

Distinguished gentleman?

aristocrat?

I’ve always called them, “sitting in a big, leather padded chair in a study guy”.

Professor

Insulated by wealth and circumstance.

Eminance Gris

Snob?

Upperclass twit?

I think we all missed the point here, in that he has his own study, robe, pipe, and PBS show. Therefore: he = badass.

I’m jealous.

In Britain, he’d be called the compère.

Playboy?

Hugh Hefner is one of the most famous smoking jacket wearers. The image of a man in a smoking jacket suggest that he is relaxed, wearing few clothes underneath, wealthy and perhaps pretentious. It is an affectation that symbolizes both sexiness and wealth (or aspirations of the appearance of wealth).

Bon Vivant?

Someone who lives the good life. Similar to Playboy, except a little jauntier and a little more frivolous.

If you are looking for a term that confers more gravitas upon the garment, I’m afraid I couldn’t find one.

You left out the parts about the thick carpeting and fireplace. This is very much an image from the nineteenth century, when things were slower and more relaxed and contemplative. It fits a character like Henry Higgins from Shaw’s Pygmalion (My Fair Lady) or a combination of Holmes and Watson. In my mind it always conjures up Badger from Wind In The Willows, though Badger is not very sociable.

El Jefe.