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Some actors get reputations that just won't go away. Maybe they're famous for being divas on the set. Maybe they're famous for only playing certain roles — or even worse, only playing one role. Nobody will let them forget it. They can struggle mightily to earn a new reputation as decent actors who can play a variety of roles. Or they can resign themselves to their fate, and make a career out of it by "Adam Westing". Adam Westing is a form of Self-Parody where actors play either themselves, or a Captain Ersatz of themselves, or a Captain Ersatz of their most famous role, and they play it as a total Jerkass, a total idiot, or both. More rarely, they play the character as the exact opposite of what they're most famous for, but still a Jerkass and an idiot. While this can be an Affectionate Parody, it can also be a way for the actor to vent their spleen against a part that got old fast and/or ruined their career, until it amounts to blatant Self-Deprecation. Particularly bitter actors will make the parody a Deconstruction of their old part, explaining how it was a horrible role and nobody should watch it. Like all Deconstruction, this can come full circle, with the actor doing a Reconstruction Self-Parody. Sure, the role was stupid, but they enjoyed it. Compare closely to the use of Meta Casting, where this can be turned around and made impressionable by playing off this personality. Adam Westing is most often found among actors who have had certain forms of Typecasting: Actors who had to act goofy all the time and never got a chance for serious work. If they must be goofy, let it be in mocking goofiness. Actors known for an incredibly hammy persona, and people expect them to play the same over-the-top role in everything. Actors who had to act dreadfully serious all the time, until it was impossible not to laugh at their own work. Actors who had been subjected to Contractual Purity, who couldn't so much as have a glass of wine in public without causing a scandal and need to cut loose. See also The Danza, where the character's name is clearly taken from the actor portraying them. See also Parody Assistance, when the actor works on a parody of whatever show/film/etc. made them famous. Very closely related to Playing with Character Type, which is when a typecast actor takes on a role superficially similar to their "type" in order to subvert, deconstruct or otherwise play with it. Compare to Self-Deprecation and Leslie Nielsen Syndrome. Contrast Gushing About Guest Stars, where the guest star appears as a subject of praise, not mockery. Might overlap with Put a Face on the Company (a product's ads strongly associated with something else, like a celebrity). |
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In Episodes, Matt Le Blanc plays a (presumably) fictional Jerkass version of himself, using his own name and Friends backstory, but with some fictionalized elements including (presumably) a Gag Penis, and two sons instead of his real singular daughter. | |
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Adventure Time's Ricardio the Heart Guy appears to be Takei, giving "Best-Friend massages". They're completely... consensual. | |
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In Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), Stan Lee plays a school janitor who is prone to delusions of grandeur and frequently talks to himself when nobody else is around. The students seem to think he is insane. | |
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In Megas XLR, the character Magnanimous was, as a whole, a parody of Bruce Campbell... voiced by Bruce Campbell. His second appearance even had a chainsaw-and-shotgun-toting mech. Which looks like Elvis. | |
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In Clone High, Marilyn Manson plays a cartoon version of himself who, in addition to being an Industrial Metal artist like in real life, is also a licensed doctor, and even gets to sing a song about the food pyramid, complete with a great Double Subversion, starting as jaunty, then abruptly switching to a death metal guitar riff, then back to jaunty. | |
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Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1983) as "J.B." — an unnamed spy wearing a tux who drives a weaponized Aston Martin DB5. | |
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Subverted in Loaded Weapon 1 where he plays General Mortars. Although the acting is pure Shatner, no Star Trek references were made, and he's surprisingly hard to recognize with a mustache. | |
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Wayne Brady appears in an episode of Chappelle's Show as an over-the-top, violent and vulgar comedian out to steal the title character's show — a complete opposite of what Wayne Brady is like in real life, and a result of one of Paul Mooney's characters saying, "White people love Wayne Brady, because he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X." | |
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Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt, starring Adam West and Burt Ward as themselves but with their Batman and Robin personalities, where they try to figure out who stole the Batmobile, recalling various moments of their time filming the Batman television series along the way! | |
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When voicing Spider-Man Noir in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the first few recording sessions were reportedly not what the filmmakers wanted. In response, Cage asked if they wanted him to "go full Cage.", and that is the performance that is in the movie. | |
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YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG has Rory Mancer (portrayed by Yuriofwind), whose mannerisms and behavior make him his voice actor without the YouTube account. | |
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Shrek the Third does this with Julie Andrews who reveals that Queen Lilian is an Action Girl who escapes from her cell by head-butting all the walls down. All while humming "A Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins. | |
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While attending UC Berkeley, Jeff Cohen, who played Chunk in The Goonies, became student body president, using "Chunk for president!" as his campaign slogan, and would also do the "Truffle Shuffle" at home games, even though he had lost weight as an adult. | |
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And in Psych, he plays a pompous, egotistical version of himself who simply has to be in the limelight. This allowed Shawn and Gus to infiltrate the convention where he was the guest of honor. How did they do it? They pretended to be Takei's personal assistants. When they were confronted by Takei himself, Shawn explained that Takei had fired his previous assistants for incompetence, which he fully believed. | |
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In Party Down, Steve Guttenberg plays himself as a cartoonishly enthusiastic and accommodating host who takes a bunch of clueless waiters under his wing for a night. No matter how idiotically his guests behave, he continues to smile indulgently and congratulate them for sharing. After spending the whole night encouraging his guests to "go for it," he steals one of their dates. | |
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Batwheels: All the other Batwheels are captured, so a previous model of the Batmobile is brought to life. It is the 1960s TV version and voiced by Adam West in the style he used in the show. The car was even named "A.D.A.M". | |
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Michael Rosen is well aware of YouTube Poops, and since finding out about them he often appeals to people who make them by hamming up his act for camera. The most infamous example is this one. | |
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In the years between his initial burst of fame as the star of Doogie Howser, M.D. and his comeback role as Barney in How I Met Your Mother, Neil Patrick Harris guest-starred in an episode of Static Shock as a washed-up teen sitcom actor who turned to a life of crime after failing to find more acting work. As Harris himself was still struggling to get a steady gig, this casting could be seen as an allusion. | |
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The Simpsons: The genuine article appears in the immortal episode "Mr. Plow". The camera slowly tilts as West's Mask of Sanity starts slipping, whereupon the family cautiously backs away from him. In "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister," Lisa gets a restraining order against Bart and Bart is given an instructional video on restraining orders narrated by Gary Busey, who enters on a motorcycle, introduces himself with an Evil Laugh, and concludes his parable on restraining orders thusly; In "I Am Furious (Yellow)", Stan Lee plays a version of himself whose "mind is no longer in mint condition", and who will not leave Comic Book Guy's shop, breaks a toy Batmobile in an attempt to force a The Thing figurine inside it, thinks he "made it better", and believes he can turn into the Hulk. They also had Michael Moore respond to a request for a source on his claims, with "Your Mom!" In "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder", Penn & Teller also appear as themselves with Penn portrayed as Ax-Crazy and Teller as an abused victim: They made a return appearance during "The Great Simpsina", a stage-magic-based episode. This time, Teller's the domineering one (claiming that Penn "only does the talking on stage.") Also, when a variety of dangerous objects are thrown at Penn as a distraction, he starts juggling them, seemingly on instinct alone. Before Family Guy, James Woods played himself-as-a-lunatic in "Homer and Apu", replacing Apu at the Kwik-E-Mart and claiming to be researching a movie role. During the interview he even claims to have traveled through time to research for his cameo in Chaplin. When Apu returns to his job, Woods leaves to "battle aliens on a faraway planet", and gives a Sure, Let's Go with That reaction when Marge thinks he's talking about another movie. Neil Gaiman appears as himself in "The Book Job" wherein he plays a crazy Diabolical Mastermind who Never Learned to Read. "Husbands and Knives": Before Gaiman, Alan Moore showed up at a comic store opening, displeased at being asked to sign a copy of Watchmen Babies in "V for Vacation". "Trash of the Titans" pokes fun at U2 frontman Bono's political activism. Tom Arnold appears as himself in "Treehouse of Horror X", as one of the obnoxious and mediocre celebrities being sent on a rocket into the Sun. In the same episode, Dick Clark (who was infamous for never seeming to age) disintegrates as the Y2K glitch goes into effect; he turns out to be a robot. |
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Eureka: Wil Wheaton plays a jerkass version of himself. | |
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Extras was a show devoted to this, with highlights including: Kate Winslet as a calculating Oscar climber playing a nun in the Holocaust for Oscar Bait. This was made even more delicious with her Oscar win for starring in a film centered around the Holocaust (The Reader). Ricky Gervais called her on it when he hosted the Golden Globes — "Well done, Winslet, I told ya, do a Holocaust movie, the awards come, didn't I?" — with the result of her turning beet red and nearly falling off her chair laughing. Daniel Radcliffe as an immature Former Child Star desperate to nail anything. Chris Martin of Coldplay plugging the band's then-new Greatest Hits Album on everything from a sitcom to a public service announcement to his shirt in every scene he's in. Orlando Bloom as an egotistical heartthrob who starts pursuing Maggie because she doesn't find him attractive and he is therefore absolutely determined to enlighten her as to his hotness. Comedian Les Dennis as a pathetic, broken shell of a man. Les himself contributed several anecdotes from his own life to make his character even more pitiable. Patrick Stewart talking about how he wanted to do a movie as a character based on Professor X of the X-Men Film Series... who used his vast mental powers primarily to make the clothes of nubile young women spontaneously fall off.note What makes this even more hilarious is that the younger Charles Xavier is depicted as a Chivalrous Pervert who's aware of his telepathy's Power Perversion Potential. Ronnie Corbett and Moira Stuart as cokeheads. Keith Chegwin as a hardcore racist and homophobe. Warwick Davis being extremely bitter and angry about his dwarfism. Shaun Williamson having only one notable role: Barry from Eastenders. He's referred to as Barry constantly by the other characters, and he's even called that in the credits. Liam Neeson is a dramatic actor obsessed with becoming a comedian, despite the fact that he has No Sense of Humour and Cannot Tell a Joke to save his life. Johnny Depp is a hysterical prima donna who Can't Take Criticism and is nothing short of abusive to those that don't grovel to him. |
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Averted in Allegiance (2012) which, as a musical set during one of the darkest events in recent US history (the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War 2), both of his characters are played completely straight. | |
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Surprisingly averted in Heroes, where he plays Kaito Nakamura, a typical Japanese businessman and the father of Hiro Nakamura, one of the protagonists. Kaito has nothing in common with Sulu (except for his fondness of swords). Although Hiro Nakamura is a huge Star Trek fan... Kaito's license plate reads "NCC-1701", the registry number that also appears prominently on the hull of the Enterprise. |
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Jane the Virgin: An As Himself version — Britney Spears guests as a hammy pop diva whose every move is mimicked by her troupe of backup dancers. Brooke Shields as "River Fields", a Soapbox Sadie actress widely considered "America's Sweetheart". |
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He was an overhyped pizza delivery boy in Meet the Robinsons. | |
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They also had Ricky Martin in an episode as himself where he was shown as being in love with Roger. | |
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A Late Night with Conan O'Brien skit from the same year has him lured onstage with a salt lick, as O'Brien narrates the resultant rare footage of a celebrity in the wild. Among other things, he scavenges the guest chair cushions for awards (but only turns up a People's Choice Award) and woos a female of the species (Rachel Dratch). | |
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In Airplane II: The Sequel Shatner plays the moon base commander trying to help Ted Striker land the shuttle. When he looks into a periscope, the camera cuts to what he sees - the Enterprise. After reacting with surprise, he looks again and we're back to the normal space scene. | |
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Incident At Loch Ness: Werner Herzog and Zak Penn play themselves as an uptight eccentric director and an incredibly sleazy producer. Herzog and Penn wrote this movie. | |
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Pain and Terror in Borderlands 3 are essentially Penn & Teller voicing themselves (or not, in Terror's case) as the hosts of a Desert Punk Circus of Fear. | |
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Mex Urtizberea had a huge success as "Tuca" in Graduados (2012), and sported an artificial beard. Two years later, working in Viudas e hijos del Rock and Roll, he let his true beard grow. | |
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This Is the End employs this heavily as it involves the coming apocalypse during a celebrity filled party at James Franco's house. Featuring Franco, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, and Jay Baruchel. | |
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Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero: West voices Captain Super Captain, who is an iconic superhero in his dimension; as well as Captain's arch-nemesis and twin brother, Professor Evil Professor. | |
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The Shrek films do this a lot, overlapping with Ink-Suit Actor. The most obvious was Antonio Banderas' Puss in Boots played as a Zorro type. This was also intended with Shrek himself. He was to be played by Chris Farley (a classic Farleyesque role) before his death. The straightest example is Simon Cowell who did play himself in the Far Far Away Idol bonus film on the Shrek 2 DVD. Shrek the Third does this with Julie Andrews who reveals that Queen Lilian is an Action Girl who escapes from her cell by head-butting all the walls down. All while humming "A Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins. |
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In Drop Dead Gorgeous, he plays the lowest-possible-budget "celebrity" on the video promoting a beauty pageant, complete with words to the effect of "You might even get to meet a... CELEBRITY!" Perfect for the role, too. | |
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In 2022, he played a fictional version of himself in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. | |
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Boomerang (1992): Eccentric, hot-tempered model-turned-musician-and-actress Grace Jones plays eccentric, hot-tempered model Helen Strangé. | |
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In Machete, Lindsay Lohan plays a drug-addicted porn star with daddy issues. | |
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Arrested Development: Carl Weathers is a shameless cheapskate who is always finding ways to pinch pennies, cheat businesses and mooch off of others. Conan O'Brien plays himself as a Jerkass who doesn't respect his female writers or Andy Richter. Andy Richter plays himself and his four quintuplet brothers on the show. |
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"Bendin' In The Wind" features Beck making fun of his tendency for Word Salad Lyrics as well as his general stage persona. Apparently his one note on receiving the script was that they should add more jokes at his expense. | |
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He appears in an episode of Scrubs as the unnamed priest who Turk wanted to officiate at his wedding to Carla, purely on the basis that he "looked exactly like Sulu!" | |
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The central point of Staged, a BBC short-form dramedy series written and directed by Simon Evans about himself, Michael Sheen, and David Tennant trying to rehearse a play over Zoom. Michael is an extremely intense actor who intimidates Simon, David is flippant and has no attention span, and Simon isn't assertive enough to keep the Vitriolic Best Buds working together. There are also guest appearances by a Cluster F Bombing Samuel L. Jackson, who doesn't remember that he's worked with Michael before; an Adrian Lester who is on the edge of a breakdown, and has a Suspiciously Specific Denial that he hasn't started exaggerating his Brummie accent; and a Dame Judi Dench who is extremely aware that she is a National Treasure, and swears. | |
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In the Supernatural episode "The French Mistake", Dean and Sam are transported to an Alternate Universe where their adventures are actually a television show. A lot of the real-life cast and crew members are portrayed as complete jerks and idiots, with Misha Collins probably getting the worst of it as a twitter-obsessed douchebag who is bullied by actors Jared and Jensen (who don't appear). Sam is also very shocked to learn that his actor counterpart is married to ditzy but hot Genevieve Padalecki, the actress who played the villainous Ruby and that they have a pet alpaca. | |
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In a The Catherine Tate Show sketch for Comic Relief, Tate's character of Elaine Figgis was in a relationship with Daniel Craig but had no idea who he was and seemed put off by Craig's constant affections. This was definitely more along the lines of affectionate self-parody, as the character (and Craig's participation) shows him as a normal guy, in contrast to his characters in Layer Cake, Casino Royale (2006) and other films who tend to be rather icy and brutal. | |
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Luisana Lopilato in Casados Con Hijos (the version of Married... with Children licensed for Argentina) spoofed the teenage starlet characters she played in shows such as Rebelde Way and Floricienta. | |
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His appearance in The Love Guru is essentially a self-parody of his role in Gandhi, and as practitioners of exotic ancient mysticism. | |
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The Justice League Action short "Missing the Mark" features Mark Hamill, who voices the Joker, the Trickster, and Swamp Thing on the show, being kidnapped by the former two and saved by the latter. Fittingly, the in-universe Hamill manipulates Joker and Trickster against each other by mimicking their voices and tricks them into driving onto some grass so Swamp Thing could capture them. | |
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He does this on The Daily Show as well. In fact, he seems to Adam West himself everywhere except for NBC Nightly News and Rock Center. | |
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The Big Bang Theory Wil Wheaton's Celebrity Star appearances features a mean and snarky Wil Wheaton, which is really not what the guy's like. He promises. Game over, Moonpie! Brent Spiner does this as well in a brief appearance, opening the package of a signed Wesley Crusher action figure given to Sheldon by Wheaton, and thus taking Wheaton's place as Sheldon's mortal enemy. James Earl Jones portrayed himself as a party animal in the Season 7 episode "The Convention Conundrum", becoming fast friends with Sheldon and taking him to the carnival, a strip club, a sauna, and to Carrie Fisher's house to play Ding Dong Ditch. |
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In Video Game High School, Freddie Wong plays himself, as a pompous Jerkass intent on keeping his son Ted in his shadow, making fun of his usual role as an arrogant, over-the-top action hero. | |
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Just Shoot Me!: Finch, a big Star Wars fan, meets Mark Hamill and pesters him. Hamill agrees to spend the day with Finch at his job in the Blush magazine offices. After a while Hamill annoys Finch to the point where Finch asks him to leave and Mark reveals he was just acting so irritating to teach Finch a lesson. | |
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And 2016, Jean-Claude Van Johnson. | |
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Columbo featured Johnny Cash and Janet Leigh portraying characters that were very similar to themselves. | |
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Trainwreck has LeBron James as a heightened version of himself. And most reviewers were surprised in that in a sharp contrast to sportspeople failing at acting, James actually gives a good performance that manages to hold his own and be funny against a cast of established comedians. | |
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Lazlow Jones is a hacker, radio host and privacy advocate who moonlights as a writer for the Grand Theft Auto series. He voices one of the recurring radio hosts (also called Lazlow) and happens to be one of the unluckier characters of the franchise, routinely getting threatened and insulted by his callers and guests. By Grand Theft Auto IV, Lazlow has been fired half a dozen times from various stations in nearly every corner of the United States and has become increasingly bitter and alcoholic. In the fifth game, Lazlow finally shows up in person where he's not only portrayed as cartoonishly pathetic but also ends up getting humiliated at the hands of the protagonists on two occasions. Lazlow's colleague and friend, Couzin Ed, has a cameo in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as the previous host of V-Rock who crank calls his replacement. |
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The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: Bruce Willis shows up, apparently indistinguishable from John McClane. Willis repeatedly insists that he's not homeless and he actually doesn't live in air vents. | |
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Quite a few examples in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Riggan's history as "the guy who played Birdman two decades ago" is similar to Michael Keaton's portrayal of Batman. Edward Norton plays a brilliant but difficult method actor, similar to his own reputation. Keaton was initially off-put by the role because he thought it was an invoked example of this trope, thinking the casting choice was specifically mocking him. However he came around after reading the script. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun: Mark Hamill is hounded by the main cast for his performance as Luke Skywalker. While he publicly bemoans his fans only remembering that part, he's shown alone in his hotel room re-enacting it in front of his mirror with a hair dryer as a blaster. | |
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The Real Husbands of Hollywood revolves around Kevin Hart and numerous other celebrities playing outrageously flanderized versions of themselves, with Kevin himself being seen as an annoyance and The Friend Nobody Likes within the show. One episode even refers to him as the most hated person in America. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: David Hasselhoff is an idol for Peter Quill, who wondered if The Hoff was his father since he never knew his real one. When Ego, Peter's blood progenitor, reveals his evil nature, he briefly changes into Michael Knight during a rant about going out of his way to assume A Form You Are Comfortable With. | |
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Coffee and Cigarettes is an All-Star Cast series of vignettes with celebrities parodying themselves, their stage personas or best known roles, sometimes by inverting them. It begins with Steven Wright getting amped up on caffeine and Roberto Benigni patiently trying to make sense of his babbling. Other highlights include: Bengini going to Steven Wright's dentist appointment for him. Jack White is a budding Mad Scientist who built his own Tesla Coil. Alfred Molina is an incredibly needy guy who is really excited to find out he's related to Steve Coogan, who is a jerk and couldn't care less. The RZA and the GZA are health nuts and Bill Murray is a weirdo who likes waiting tables. |
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: Cher plays a larger-than-life pop star (and Sophie's grandmother). Colin Firth (known best for serious, critically-acclaimed roles) hams it up in his dramatic scenes, then leads a fleet of ships in Dancing Queen. | |
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In the family comedy Hop as himself, host and judge of the talent competition "Hoff Knows Talent" - riffing on his recent exit from America's Got Talent. | |
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S.O.B. she plays an actress with a sugary sweet reputation who is convinced to go topless in a movie - which she can only do while on drugs. | |
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In Ted, the eponymous teddy bear and his best friend do whiskey shots and cocaine with Sam Jones, who saved us all. | |
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Olivia Newton-John on Glee plays an uber-Jerkassish version of herself in the episodes "Bad Reputation" and "Journey". | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas, singer Wayne "Mr. Las Vegas" Newton appears as Radio New Vegas' DJ, Mr. New Vegas. | |
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Tim Stack as "TV's Tim Stack" on My Name Is Earl. The character is a narcissistic drunk who holds beauty pageants and parades. Tim Stack is actually a writer for a few of the episodes. | |
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Chris Jericho, in his web series But I'm Chris Jericho!. | |
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Saints Row: The Third has Burt Reynolds as the Mayor of Steelport. Unlike Adam West, however, Mayor Reynolds is an in-universe Memetic Badass. | |
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert continued the magic in 2019 with an income tax preparation service where filers can video chat with Jeff Goldblum. Sure, he doesn't know much about filing taxes, but he has all sorts of anecdotes about his career to share...at all times of day and night... | |
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In Funny People, he gets a crucial, poignant scene playing himself as a washed-up, suicidally-ideating misanthrope, driven so insane by his rap beefs that he goes around starting shit with mediocre light-entertainment celebrities, convinced they're going to get him popped. | |
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In Stuck on You, Cher plays herself as a has-been that the public doesn't care about. | |
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And in Inspector Gadget, where he offers a glimpse of what RoboCop might have been if he'd been rebuilt out of Maxwell Smart instead of Alex Murphy. | |
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Mad Magazine's parody of "Batman: The Animated Series" ends with Adam rubbing out Batman and Calvin as Robin, along with other characters, so he can finally get a decent job. | |
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American Dad! has, not only Patrick Stewart, they also had the members of the band My Morning Jacket play themselves, having to deal with Stan's slightly-stalkerish obsession of them, especially the singer Jim James. They also had Ricky Martin in an episode as himself where he was shown as being in love with Roger. Danny Devito voices himself as a robot in "Tearjerker". Another episode sees Nicki Minaj and Bruno Mars playing themselves attempting to destroy his career. |
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He was also the voice actor for Lord Hakkera in Freelancer, and was most often met with in a bar. | |
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"Stone Cold" Steve Austin appeared in the animated adaptation of Dilbert as the judge during a child custody hearing over Dilbert's baby. | |
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In Zombie Land Saga, Saga-born actor and musician Hakuryu voices White Ryu, an exaggerated version of himself who goes around riding on the hood of his 1960s Cadillac convertible and constantly spouts Ice Cream Koans. | |
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Also, Jeff Burk wrote and published a very short literary work called Shatnerquake—"It's the first ShatnerCon with William Shatner as the guest of honor! But after a failed terrorist attack by Campbellians, a crazy terrorist cult that worships Bruce Campbell, all of the characters ever played by William Shatner are suddenly sucked into our world. Their mission: hunt down and destroy the real William Shatner." | |
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In The Interview, he gives the same interview about his inappropriate lyrics that everyone has heard him give a hundred times... until he admits the famous homophobia in his lyrics is because he's gay. He is confused that everyone seems so surprised by this, since as far as he was concerned it was obvious. | |
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Sometimes the guest stars on Entourage will do this. Matt Damon is the best example, with one episode ending with him begging for donations to a child charity on his phone, becoming more and more overly emotional each time and going further into overblown ham comedy. | |
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The 2006 Mockumentary Pittsburgh is built around his participating in an actual 2004 regional production of The Music Man that he joined in part to help get his then-girlfriend a green card; it alternates actual audition, rehearsal, press tour and performance footage with staged, improvised scenes that see him ostensibly risking his Hollywood career by taking the more modest gig. (His co-star and longtime friend Ed Begley, Jr. gets in on the fun in the latter scenes by poking fun at his reputation for environmentalism.) | |
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The Cry of Mann: Sam Weiner, who plays as himself, the actor playing the mailman on Cry Of Mann, and is portrayed as an outright Narcissist. | |
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While generally not limited animation, Owens also voiced Powdered Toast Man, whom was a semi-parody of such superhero characters. | |
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Screenwriting example: Mavis Gary, the protagonist of Young Adult, is a thirtysomething womanchild and Jaded Washout who writes Young Adult Literature so that she can continue to nostalgically relive her teenage years when she was the Alpha Bitch of her high school, and whose writing is filled with cringeworthy Totally Radical dialogue... in short, an Author Avatar for the film's writer Diablo Cody, who had received the exact same criticisms for her work on Juno and Jennifer's Body as well as for her own flamboyant public persona. | |
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Lucky Star's anime adaptation does this during the Lucky Channel segments: Daisuke Ono, who was known for his roles as smooth-talking Bishōnen characters at the time the anime first aired (though he's branched out more since then), voices an exaggeratedly handsome version of himself who's always holding a rose. He's also rather dismissive of Shiraishi due to being a more successful voice actor than the latter. Yūko Gotō plays herself as a hyper masculine delinquent biker called "Gothouther-sama", in reference to Souther from Fist of the North Star (who's her favorite character from said series). This pokes fun at how she's typically cast as characters who are soft-spoken Nice Girls, while in reality, she's a hardcore biker. |
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Archer did it with Burt Reynolds, who turns out to be just as much a crack stunt driver and world-class ladies' man in real life as in the movies that Archer is obsessed with. Kenny Loggins, portraying himself as an egoist disinterested in any fan contact. He also has some shady uranium deal going on and insists (unsuccessfully) on being addressed as "K-Log." |
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Elements of Adam Westing are incorporated into Tropic Thunder: Robert Downey Jr.'s character, an award-winning Australian actor, was revised after he was cast to include attributes of the real-life actor, including his propensity for staying in character for extended periods of time and a turbulent relationship with the press. In the same movie, Tom Cruise plays a Prima Donna Producer that seems to be inspired by some of the star's more embarrassing public appearances. | |
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One episode featured Lauren Conrad playing herself as a genius who only pretends to be an idiot due to America's anti-intellectualism. | |
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The Jack Benny Program: Rod Serling once appeared as an eccentric man known only as "Mr. Zone". One episode has Raymond Burr reprising his role of Perry Mason - a much more incompetent Mason who insists on wearing an Abraham Lincoln hat and also turns out to be the real killer! Jack Benny's screen (and radio) persona was also an example, what with the whole "vain, egotistical miser" bit. |
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The Nanny: Shari Lewis essentially played herself as The Ventriloquist. She seemed to legitimately believe Lamb Chop had a will of its own and acted as if she had no control over Lamb Chop's actions; near the end of the episode, Lamb Chop even argues with and threatens Shari, claiming to hold a majority stake in their partnership. Lynn Redgrave appeared as a Jaded Washout who would do any favour for anyone who mildly complimented her work. |
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Virgin Money UK ran an advertising campaign starring various British celebrities from the 1980s (Geoffrey Hayes, presenter of Rainbow; ska icon Buster Bloodvessel; and David Van Day from the pop duo Dollar) lampooning the fact that they had blown all their money and were now reduced to working menial jobs - respectively, as a taxi driver, guest house owner and running a mobile burger van. Another Virgin campaign involving David Tennant actually led to the BBC lodging a complaint due to the campaign apparently suggesting the BBC, who have strict policies regarding adverts, endorsed the service. The advert in question involved Tennant using Virgin's TiVO service to record episodes of Doctor Who, saying how the service is useful for watching sci-fi, while Richard Branson disappears in a clear Captain Ersatz version of the TARDIS. | |
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Teen Titans Go! To the Movies: Stan Lee shows up to parody his constant cameos in various Marvel-based productions; his "subtle cameo" is heralded with neon lights and him doing flashy poses, only for him to book it when he's informed that he's in a DC movie. He shows up again during the climax, declaring that he doesn't care if it's a DC movie — he just loves doing cameos! | |
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In A Colbert Christmas, country singer Toby Keith appears as himself, singing an even more hyperbolic take on his post-9/11 hit "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" meant to spoof conservative pundit Bill O'Reilly's declaration of a "war on Christmas." He also enters and exits the holiday special carrying an assault rifle. | |
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The cold open of the December 4, 2018 episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden has him being surprised but terribly flattered by the elaborate tribute "thank u, jeff", a spoof of Ariana Grande's "thank u, next" that heavily plays up his Mr. Fanservice image. But the hijinks don't end there... | |
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Between Two Ferns: The Movie: Most of the celebrities featured are made fun of (eg. Jon Hamm is played as an idiot, Benedict Cumberbatch's name is unpronounceable, Peter Dinklage is an obnoxious rich party animal, Will Ferrell is an asshole coked-up media exec). Zach Galifianakis in particular plays himself as an oblivious, incompetent Small Name, Big Ego host. | |
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Lazlow's colleague and friend, Couzin Ed, has a cameo in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as the previous host of V-Rock who crank calls his replacement. | |
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The Bronies React review for the season 5 premiere of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic features a Creator Cameo by M.A. Larson, where he portrays himself as a money-grubbing lackey of Hasbro. As well as ignoring some basic things about the show. | |
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During an Area 11 skit, "Monopoly", everyone (except perhaps Leo) does this. Special mention goes to Parv, who plays himself as a deluded man-child who is completely absentminded (an exaggeration of his online persona), as well as Hat Films, who cameo as prima-donna versions of themselves that argue pettily about whether or not they should get to play as the top hat. | |
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In the Saints Row 2 DLC pack Ultor Exposed, the Boss teams up with ex-porn star Tera Patrick, playing herself as an Ultor microbiologist-turned-whistleblower. | |
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By the end of the fifth season of Degrassi: The Next Generation, the show had gotten so melodramatic and earnest that the actors (and the writers) needed to relax and let off steam. They did it with a truly epic amount of Adam Westing, both on their show and others. To take maybe 1 percent of what they did: Craig, the show's Tragic Hero, is a sensitive, emotional musician who has very tragic teen romances and often ruins things with his grandiosity. Craig's actor guest-starred in Radio Free Roscoe as an incompetent wannabe musician, dripping with self-indulgent Wangst and more-artistic-than-thou pretentiousness, whose "sensitive, tortured soul" is an act that he uses to seduce girls. In TV specials and "behind the scenes" pieces, actress Stacey Farber (who played the show's grim Goth) never lost an opportunity to point out that in real life, she's a preppy fashionista who loves all the things the goth found phony. One of many Adam Westing Degrassi (and Instant Star) commercials from the sixth season: "I'm a Degrassi, and I'm an Instant Star." (A lot of the humor is lost if you don't know the show, unfortunately.) It ends with Too Dumb to Live Derek somehow becoming even dumber than he is on the show. |
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On a special Star Trek edition of The Weakest Link (back when Anne Robinson was hosting the American version), Wheaton did this and it worked a bit too well. One of the other celebrity contestants was actually upset and creeped out by his behavior. | |
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The Running Man: Damon Killian, host of the in-universe game show The Running Man, is an over-the-top Jerkass parody of his actor, Richard Dawson, as the longtime host of Family Feud. | |
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The RZA and the GZA are health nuts and Bill Murray is a weirdo who likes waiting tables. | |
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EDENS ZERO has a handful of "B-Cubers" who are based on real-life YouTubers, who were called in to voice their respective selves in the anime adaptation: Japanese duo Icchy and Naru from Ichinaru TVnote replacing the manga's Ricchan and Nacchan from Bom Bom TV, from which Icchy and Naru also originate play hostages who are trafficked to the planet Guilst; Bom Bom TV host Yocchi is a competitor at the Mildian battle coliseum; and German anime newscaster Nino "Ninotaku" Kerl voices an anime Otaku and friendly member of Madame Kurenai's Zaiten Three in the German dub. | |
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Creed Bratton's self-named character in the American version of The Office. In one of the final episodes, it's revealed that Creed (the character) used to be in the band The Grass Roots. Though in another episode Creed (the character) heavily implies that he killed the real Creed Bratton and stole his name. | |
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In universe example is Mario in the RPGs. Some local will recognize him as the Mario and he'll have to do various jumps, plumbing, or "heroics" to appease them to continue the real heroics. | |
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And an episode of Will & Grace where he played a version of himself still in the closet until he was 'finally outed' on a public TV show. | |
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Black Mirror "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" has Miley Cyrus as Ashley O, a teen pop star who wears a wig and lives a double life, seeking to break free of the strict control of her Stage Mom so she can write more personal songs. In short, it's the premise of Hannah Montana combined with Miley's own rebellion against her Disney Channel-era Contractual Purity. This being Black Mirror, it's Played for Drama, but even then, the episode is one of the show's more lighthearted ones. "Joan is Awful": Salma Hayek plays a simulation of herself who self-describes as a "dyslexic, talented actress with questionable English". Throughout her scheme with Joan she's coming up with airheaded ideas and inserting Spanish words into her dialogue for humor ("quam-puta"). |
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Taken to sublime levels in Free Enterprise, in which he plays William Shatner, in an I Am Not Spock role. (Bill is luckless with women, for instance.) What's funnier still is that the credits only list his character as "Bill." It's appropriate, since everything else in the film is a Roman à Clef of Full Moon Features, the production company of the film - so the entire film and production is Adam Westing. |
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In Darling Lili she plays a beloved English Rose celebrity who's secretly a German spy in World War I, and eventually does a striptease on stage. Even when she confesses to her crimes, the police refuse to believe her. | |
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Dix pour cent is a French series about a talent agency. Every episode had at least one real-life French star appearing as themselves, a client of the agency. One episode featured Jean Dujardin as a client of the agency who gets way, way too much into method acting when shooting a World War I film. | |
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In the 2011 FOX sitcom New Girl, Zooey Deschanel plays a character who can't get a guy because she's too weird. Most of her fans like her because she's so weird, but that's beside the point. | |
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30 Rock: James Franconote who in Real Life has been rumored to be gay portrayed himself as a Moe fan who needs Jenna to act as his beard to cover up his relationship with an anime body pillow. Half the regulars on 30 Rock (Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Jack McBrayer, and Judah Friedlander) play comically exaggerated versions of themselves. NBC newscaster Brian Williams shows up frequently on the show as himself, and his character is wackier each time. He does this on The Daily Show as well. In fact, he seems to Adam West himself everywhere except for NBC Nightly News and Rock Center. |
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In I Summoned Cthulhu to Fund My Kickstarter, author Pat Shand writes himself as a perverted bottom-feeder who's desperately trying to milk the fact that he wrote two pages in Angel (IDW) for all it's worth. | |
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In Blubberella, Uwe Boll appears in a dream sequence as Hitler. | |
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Robert Goulet guest starred on several sitcoms as a fading version of himself, somehow becoming involved in the lives of the series regulars who came to hear him sing, notably on The King of Queens, George & Leo, and Mr. Belvedere. | |
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Perhaps the best part of Go On is the appearances by Ryan's intern/temporary assistant, Terrell Owens, playing himself as a fun-loving and enthusiastic version of himself, unlike his Jerkass real life persona | |
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This has happened to a certain extent to most of the actors in the M*A*S*H television series. Jamie Farr once guest-starred on That 70's Show as himself, and joked about his character's...eccentricities. Alan Alda appeared on 30 Rock as a die-hard liberal. His former work was practically noticeable when he walked in on Tracy sobbing about his repressed inferiority complex over his failure to dissect a frog, and uttered the following line: William Christopher played "Chaplain Olson" in an episode of Mad About You. At the tag at end of the episode, he is still in his character's wardrobe, but is now playing himself. He is praying and asking God, "but what I most want to know is 'Why do I always have to play a priest?!'" |
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Lorenzo Lamas in the third season of The Joe Schmo Show plays an exaggerated version of himself as a contestant in a fake bounty hunter type competition. | |
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Shaun Williamson having only one notable role: Barry from Eastenders. He's referred to as Barry constantly by the other characters, and he's even called that in the credits. | |
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In the attempted reboot of Knight Rider, Knight Rider 2000 he plays himself as an old crazy man spewing lines from the TV show while trying to pull large sums of money from an ATM machine. To be fair, he just seems crazy, because (due to being cobbled back together and being incomplete) KITT mistakes him for someone trying to rob the ATM and stuns him, and it's while he's stunned that Doohan starts quoting Scotty. | |
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In Liar Liar, after his son asks if his face can really get stuck if he makes silly faces, Jim Carrey denies it and mentions that "some people" make a living by doing just that. | |
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In Kim Possible, he played retired actor Timothy North, who had become deluded into thinking he really used to be the Batman-like superhero he played on TV, and trains Ron to be his successor. Ron, having never heard of such an old TV show, takes North's claims at face value and eagerly jumps at the call, ending up very disappointed when he finally learns that North is just a senile old man. As a bonus Actor Allusion, Ron is voiced by Will Friedle, the voice of Terry McGinnis, successor to the actual Batman. | |
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In Batman: The Animated Series' "Beware the Gray Ghost", he plays a washed-up actor who can't get any decent work because everyone associates him with his role as the superhero (or rather proto-hero) The Grey Ghost. Turns out that Bats is a huge Gray Ghost fanboy and it inspired his motif and operations (taking the place of Zorro). Incidentally, this portrayal was much more sympathetic and slightly less funny than normal simply because it was the show's way of saying "if that cheesy superhero show didn't exist, this show wouldn't exist." This is even hinted in-universe as his assistance of Batman led to the Grey Ghost becoming popular once more, even with a movie being seen in Batman Beyond, which in turn, mirrors the West show helping to launch Batman into the greater mainstream where it maintains a very strong following. Supposedly, when he was done with the episode, Paul Dini and Bruce Timm handed Adam (instead of scale wage) a $25,000 check and the original Batman costume — which Paul bought for an "undisclosed sum" at an auction. Also of note - according to Word of God, if they couldn't get West to voice the part, that episode would have been scrapped. |
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The straightest example is Simon Cowell who did play himself in the Far Far Away Idol bonus film on the Shrek 2 DVD. | |
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In Postal, Uwe Boll claims to be a child molester who finances his films with Nazi Gold, gets shot in the dick, and dies while screaming about how much he hates video games. | |
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The Congress is a very unusual case as it is played for pathos rather than comedy. Robin Wright plays a version of herself whose career declined much more steeply than real life and whose poor choices and unreliability as an actress are thrown in her face. | |
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West played a lawyer defending R. Kelly who made a video of himself whizzing on a schoolgirl in The Boondocks. In typical over-the-top West fashion. It's like he doesn't even want to stop Adam Westing anymore. | |
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When he chaired Have I Got News for You, he spent a fair amount of it pretending to be psychotically jealous at David Tennant for stealing his job, and the rest of it being the Fourth Doctor playing Tom Baker. | |
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He appears as a parody version of himself on Malcolm in the Middle in "Hal Grieves," reduced to some demeaning job of some kind and drinking from a garden hose. | |
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At least two Dawson's Creek veterans. James Van Der Memes. Pacey Con. |
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On NewsRadio, he appeared as himself and was revealed to be legendary hijacker D.B. Cooper. | |
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There is also a Muppets Tonight episode where Takei bores the pants off of Beaker and then some penguins on the subject — his role in Star Trek! | |
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West starred as an aging TV Space Commando personality Captain Blasto in an episode of Rugrats. | |
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Keith's They Live! costar Roddy Piper shows up in the former's personal simulation and eventually becomes a recruitable party member. | |
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Chris Hansen appeared As Himself on the short-lived truTV show Fameless in a skit that pranked someone into thinking they were in a To Catch a Predator sting. | |
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"Futurama": "Into the Wild Green Yonder" featured Penn Jillette as a head who barely fit in his jar and worked with a Teller who was dead and the act was the same. "Bendin' In The Wind" features Beck making fun of his tendency for Word Salad Lyrics as well as his general stage persona. Apparently his one note on receiving the script was that they should add more jokes at his expense. While he plays himself as a Sophisticated as Hell scientific genius in "The Cryonic Woman", Pauly Shore also parodies his own act. Al Gore, ever since he made An Inconvenient Truth, has appeared a few times in cameos on as an over-the-top parody of either a environmentalist super-hero ("A whale is in trouble!") or as a super-egotist who claims credit for everything (as he was mocked for after his 'invented the Internet' comment was misconstrued). |
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In Hannah Montana, Billy Ray Cyrus plays his own Captain Ersatz. Particularly in one episode where the family is trying to throw off a reporter who nearly discovers Miley is Hannah Montana. Miley pretends to be a delusional girl who only thinks she's Hannah Montana, while Jackson pretends to be Elvis. The final straw however, is when Billy Ray's character throws on a huge mullet wig and says he's Billy Ray Cyrus. The reporter declares that the whole family is crazy and leaves. Miley, to an extent derives much humor in doing this to her own Real Life self in the Miley Stewart and "Hannah" roles throughout the show, in particular her Deep South roots and celebrity status (along with the occasional stealth humor on her run-ins with scandal, and her Teen Idol image). |
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Best of the Worst: Macaulay Culkin appears as a cameo where he plays himself as the bizarre cult leader of an order devoted to him, seeking out rare VHS tapes of 90s kid movies that he drains of their energy to sustain his "eternal youth" | |
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Riley Bina in Don't Look Up sees her actress Ariana Grande playing much of her public persona for meanness: an airheaded and seemingly sweet girl (who turns on Dr. Mindy quickly) who supports good causes (without any depth) and has a well-publicized love life (that she ruthlessly exploits to advance her career). | |
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In The Venture Bros., Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman in the DCAU, does an absolutely hilarious parody of his performance as the caped crusader, in the form of Captain Sunshine, complete with massive Ho Yay directed towards his deceased sidekick, Wonderboy. While directing his performance, the creators were adamant that Conroy not "be afraid to be Batman." | |
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Repossessed has Linda Blair spoofing herself in The Exorcist, playing a housewife who is possessed by the same demon who was exorcised from her teenage self. | |
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There was also a gruesome spoof of Scooby-Doo, with Frank Welker reprising his role of Fred. | |
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The Guild: Wil Wheaton becomes a recurring character in later seasons as a pompous, jerkass version of himself. When busy writing his memoirs, he'll answer his phone with a testy, "Journaling!" | |
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Jack and Jill prominently featured an exaggerated and narcissistic version of Al Pacino, played by none other than Al Pacino. | |
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In The Fairly OddParents!, he plays Adam West, who used to play Catman on TV. Like in several of the other examples, he's delusional and thinks he really is Catman. | |
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In the short-lived sitcom Stacked, Pamela Anderson played a character who is an exaggerated parody of herself: a ditzy blonde party girl with big boobs who has a habit of dating rock stars. | |
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Eerie, Indiana: In "Reality Takes a Holiday", Justin Shenkarow, Mary-Margaret Humes, Francis Guinan, Julie Condra and Joe Dante each play an exaggerated (if not outright deranged) version of their real life selves. | |
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The Princess Diaries has most of the humor coming from dignified Julie Andrews having to deal with a bumbling American teenager. Both films delight in giving her several Not So Above It All moments - such as making up a fictional order to knight the police to in order to stop Mia getting arrested, and giving a Big "SHUT UP!" to a courtroom full of lords. | |
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He was one of several Law & Order franchise alumni to appear in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver spoof Law & Order: Civil Asset Forfeiture Unit. | |
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This can happen at any time on Saturday Night Live. Examples include Lindsay Lohan as a prisoner who seems to think her movies are real and Elliot Page as a girl full of lesbian stereotypes. | |
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After years of getting typecast as a hero in straight-to-DVD action movies, had JCVD, in which he plays himself reacting to a bank robbery mostly with fear and begging. | |
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Then, in 2013, Welcome to the Jungle. | |
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In Chad Vader, Brian Krause plays himself, and is annoyed that the characters only recognize him for his role as Leo Wyatt in Charmed and not his other work. | |
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The same episode as Naomi Watts had Wallace Shawn (better known as Vizzini) playing Bojack in order to fund his Rothko painting habit. | |
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Some of Ted Nugent's guest appearances on TV shows border on this. Notably, he's appeared As Himself on The Simpsons, making fun of his pro-firearms position in "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and his support for the Republican Party in "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson". | |
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Robot Chicken does this a lot, as a surprising number of the celebrity parodies feature the actual celebrity. Special mention has to go to the fourth season premiere, which starts with co-creators Matthew Senreich and Seth Green (himself someone that can't stand the thought of only having a major role in a hit TV show paying hundreds of thousands) looking for jobs after the (in-universe) cancellation of Robot Chicken from a Joss Whedon who is an overly dramatic, egotistical nut-job who believes Seth is one of his "creations" for starring in Buffy, which quickly devolves into attempts on their lives, believing Seth is really a werewolf; a Ron Moore who writes Battlestar Galactica by throwing darts to decide who's a Cylon, and decides to attack the duo as well when he takes Seth's suggestion that "I could be a Cylon" too literally; and a Seth MacFarlane with the power to rewrite history to include any random past event he offhandedly mentions, which he does constantly. All of them were voiced by the actual people. Some other memorable examples have been Rachael Leigh Cook in a parody of her "This is your brain on drugs" PSA where she goes completely bonkers and starts running around destroying things with the frying pan until finally leaping off a building to her death; Joey Fatone playing himself as The Karate Kid (1984) to avenge the deaths of his fellow *NSYNC bandmates (and also poke fun at his weight problem — the sketch is called "Enter the Fat One"); Corey Haim and Corey Feldman as failed-child-actor would-be superheroes; Tila Tequila in her MTV reality show, revealed to be a Terminator-esque cyborg programmed with the sole goal of being a pop celebrity; Stan Lee and Pamela Anderson as the co-hosts of a comic book gossip show, with Stan making increasingly un-subtle innuendos until finally leaping out a window to prevent anyone from finding out his "secret identity". Ryan Seacrest parodied his own public image during a guest spot on this show. Morgan Freeman reprised his narration of March of the Penguins in a spoof that followed the day to day life of The Penguin. Mark Hamill appeared as himself in a sketch called "Meteorgeddon", where Harrison Ford is chosen to lead a mission to blow up a rogue asteroid (along with Aerosmith as the crew) because of his role as Han Solo in Star Wars. He tries to back out by saying he's not qualified, but a Star Wars fan cheers him on with "Go get 'em, Han Solo!" Then there's another press conference called by Hamill who thinks he should lead the mission: A missed case occurred when they did a sketch where the writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation attempted to make Wesley Crusher more likable by introducing an even worse character - a banjo-playing Great Gazoo-esque creature named Snirkles - only for fans to want them to kill Crusher and keep Snirkles. Wil Wheaton later said he'd have been happy to voice Wesley if they'd asked. 50 Cent appears to voice himself in the "PaRappa & 50" sketch, in which PaRappa becomes famous and joins G-Unit Records simply by repeating some of Chop Chop Master Onion's lines regardless of context. Eventually Master Onion becomes jealous over PaRappa having not returned his calls and opens fire on the two. He only manages to hit 50 Cent, who is completely unamused. |
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In Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, every main character was the voice actor doing a self-parody. The patients were all stand-up comics replaying the 'total neurotic loser bits' from their own stand-up acts, to animation. Dr. Katz, Ben and Laura were the only ones with original lines. | |
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Leverage: Wil Wheaton plays a jerkass version of himself. | |
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Kung Fury: This crowd-funded parody of everything 1980's features Hasselhoff as the voice of HOFF9000, the hero's talking car. He also provided a song ("True Survivor") for the film, and appears as an over-exaggerated version of himself in the music video. | |
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His work on Little Britain as The Narrator is an exaggeration of his on-and-off-screen eccentric personality. "Have you ever done it gaywise? It's a hoot." | |
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Stevie Nicks, who has long been rumored to be involved in witchcraft and/or Wicca in real life (a rumor that she's always denied), guest-starred on an episode of American Horror Story: Coven As Herself... where it turns out she really is a witch. | |
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William Christopher played "Chaplain Olson" in an episode of Mad About You. At the tag at end of the episode, he is still in his character's wardrobe, but is now playing himself. He is praying and asking God, "but what I most want to know is 'Why do I always have to play a priest?!'" | |
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The Proud Family has an oddly mean-spirited example. One of Season 2's recurring character is Al Roker, the weatherman most might recognize from Today. Instead of portraying him as the Nice Guy he is in real life, and as a normal human being, Al plays himself if he was a complete Jerkass Genie, who's an expert at reality warping and has no problems putting people into slave labor.. including babies! Even when he's not doing that, he's just a plain egotistical jerk who's not a nice person to be around. | |
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He voiced a young Mermaid Man in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Back to the Past", with Burt Ward playing the young Barnacle Boy. This one is also an interesting inversion, because while Mermaid Man as he usually appears in the show is an aging washed-up superhero, Adam West instead plays the hero back in his glory days, with Ernest Borgnine playing the present-day elderly Mermaid Man. | |
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Takei had a more dignified cameo as Prowl's martial arts teacher Yoketron in an episode of Transformers: Animated. | |
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Jack Slater in Last Action Hero is an over-the-top parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger's "action hero" roles. The actor also appears as himself in that movie, prompting a brief encounter between Refugee from TV Land Slater and Arnold. | |
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Men in Black II has a cameo from Michael Jackson as an alien who wants to become an MIB agent. | |
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His turn as Denny Crane in Boston Legal. | |
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In the I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again 25th Anniversary Reunion Show, most of the cast parody themselves to an extent (Graeme and Bill have given up comedy for medicine and birdwatching; Tim now lives in a a very twee, middle class sitcom town), but the Adam Westing comes from John Cleese, played as a Howard Hughes-style millionaire recluse with an obsession with silly walks. | |
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The LoadingReadyRun crew play essentially Adam Wested versions of themselves in their sub-series commodoreHUSTLE. The characters they play are themselves, if they were jerks and regularly resorted to fart humor. In Friday Nights, they play versions of themselves that are not as mean as their cH versions, but are completely obsessed with Magic: The Gathering. | |
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In The Simpsons Game, Will Wright of SimCity and The Sims fame (with both franchises owned by Electronic Arts, who published this game) makes an appearance as a minor antagonist who wants to destroy the 8-bit Simpson family, and proclaims himself as "the nerdiest nerd in the computiverse". | |
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Episodes of the tenth season of Two and a Half Men have featured guest appearances by ex-Disney Channel stars, including Miley Cyrus, Emily Osment and Hilary Duff (though not together). Each of them play promiscuous and often ditzy or eccentric girlfriends or (soon-to-be-girlfriends) of Jake or Walden, and the actresses are certainly both Playing Against Type while sending up their squeaky-clean, family-friendly Disney images in their roles. | |
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A number of real-life celebrities make cameo appearances in Zoolander. Notably, Fabio appears at the beginning of the film, accepting the "slashie" award for "best model slash actor" and "not the other way around". | |
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He was also like this in Aloha, Scooby-Doo!, voicing Jared Moon. | |
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During the 30th anniversary for Jurassic Park, at Universal Studios Florida, the tribute store had for sale a signed 11x14 photo of Goldblum's shirtless scene from Film/Jurassic Park for a whopping 1225 dollars. | |
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In Penguins of Madagascar, Werner Herzog plays a particularly Jerkass version of himself who pushes the penguins off a cliff to get the shot he wants. | |
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Pretty much anyone involved with Doctor Who gets this treatment in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, which is full of Self-Deprecating Humor: Peter Davison and Colin Baker are depicted as has-beens who are desperate to relive their glory days and aren't respected by their families. Davison, meanwhile, fantasizes about being idolized by Steven Moffat, Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman. Sylvester McCoy won't shut up about his role in The Hobbit films, and is considered a nuisance by both Peter Jackson and Ian McKellen. John Barrowman has a huge ego, never stops singing show tunes, and is constantly giving away copies of his music, which happens to be legal tender at the Doctor Who Experience. Also, his dark secret is that he is straight and has a wife and two kids. Steven Moffat is depicted as a Manchild who still plays with his Doctor Who action figures. Russell T Davies is more desperate to be included in the 50th anniversary than the former Doctors, and throws out a bunch of horrible ideas to work himself into the plot. David Tennant is so focused on "The Day of the Doctor" that he's forgotten his wife is giving birth. Tom Baker is a terrifying figure and totally convinced he actually is the Doctor.note Though this doesn't really count as it wasn't Tom Baker but Jon Culshaw playing the part. Paul McGann is the only one depicted as remotely professional, but he's secretly Not So Above It All and keen to get into the 50th anniversary. |
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A notable (although minor) exception was his role as the villain Breathtaker in the movie and TV series Black Scorpion. | |
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In Red Alert 3 as the Emperor of Japan, he's Sulu-ing it in a set of art-deco techno robes, with the cheese-factor cranked as high as it will go. But, compared to the other faction leaders and prominent characters, he's downright sedate. It gets kind of meta since the Emperor also seems to be playing it up in-universe; when he learns time travel is possible (which shatters his world view) he drops it until the end of the campaign when he regains his composure. | |
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The Nightmare Room: Fear Games has Tippi Hedren, who had been playing a witch in story. When this is revealed she says "First birds, now this!" | |
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In the unsold pilot Heat Vision and Jack, Ron Silver plays Ron Silver, government assassin and movie actor. | |
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In Fanboys they are shocked to find that his contact is none other than William Shatner. | |
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Witness his cameo in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story as the coach of the German dodgeball team, screaming that the team's loss shames Germany, their families, and David Hasselhoff! | |
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Everyone who appeared as a guest on the spoof talk show The Larry Sanders Show was doing this. Worth mentioning is David Duchovny, who played himself in love with Larry, propositioning him backstage wherever he appeared. | |
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In Johnny Bravo, West acts like a mix between a Conspiracy Theorist and exaggerated versions of his portrayal of Batman and John Walsh from America's Most Wanted. The story was written by Butch Hartman and Seth MacFarlane, not like he ever worked with them again. | |
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The ABCs of Death: In "Q is for Quack", Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett enjoy playing coke-sniffing, hypocritical versions of themselves. | |
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Tommy Chong appeared as a guest on The George Lopez Show and as a semi-regular on That '70s Show, playing essentially the same character: A burned-out not-so-ex-hippie stoner. | |
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An episode of The Golden Girls featured Lyle Waggoner and Sonny Bono as caricatures of themselves fighting over Dorothy's affections. In the end, it's revealed that the whole thing was All Just a Dream... and a recurring one, at that. | |
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American Dreamz: Mandy Moore, best known at the time as a wholesome former Teen Idol from the late '90s and early '00s whose biggest hit was titled "Candy" and is about as bubblegum and sugary-sweet as it sounds (though she would later develop a more mature sound and image), plays Sally Kendoo, a fame-hungry Bitch in Sheep's Clothing contestant on a Reality TV singing competition who merely pretends to be a wholesome teen idol, exploiting both her Farmer's Daughter image and her handicapped "war hero" boyfriend to win the sympathy of viewers and voters in Middle America. | |
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Space Jam: Bill Murray freely admits he has no place in this story. | |
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His appearance on Big Time Rush was played straight... apart from the quirk that he was promoting a pocket-sized portable grill, and so was constantly producing different varieties of grilled meats (stop smirking) from his pocket, and offering them to people. | |
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A super-swimming lifeguard in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. | |
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Baywatch | hasFeature |
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The full motion video game Ripper features Christopher Walken doing what appears to be a Christopher Walken impression. His distinct speaking style is dialed up to 11. | |
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In "50 Facts You Can't Even" by Jacksfilms, Matthew Santoro stars as himself, parodying his own "50 Amazing Facts To Blow Your Mind" videos. | |
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The episode of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt that is a homage to Transformers has the Japanese voice actors of both Optimus Prime and Megatron voice versions of themselves. This being the show it is, things don’t work out well for them... | |
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In Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Brendan Fraser plays D.J. Drake, a security guard and former stuntman. When Daffy doesn't believe the latter, he claims he was in the Mummy movies "more than that guy Brendan Fraser was." At the end of the movie, he meets the "real" Brendan Fraser (obviously also played by Fraser), who acts like a total Jerkass to D.J. prompting him to punch Brendan in the face. | |
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Before Family Guy, James Woods played himself-as-a-lunatic in "Homer and Apu", replacing Apu at the Kwik-E-Mart and claiming to be researching a movie role. During the interview he even claims to have traveled through time to research for his cameo in Chaplin. When Apu returns to his job, Woods leaves to "battle aliens on a faraway planet", and gives a Sure, Let's Go with That reaction when Marge thinks he's talking about another movie. | |
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Shatner plays as a possum in Over the Hedge, who gives an overly emphasized "death speech" while playing dead. Can be seen as a parody of his entire comedy routine style. | |
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This was even played with once in Star Trek itself. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Kirk's latest (and last) Green-Skinned Space Babe turns out to be a shapeshifter and takes on the form of Kirk, resulting in this exchange: | |
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Saints Row IV gets rid of the fan favorite Zombie Voice and replaces it with a "Nolan North" option instead. It's Nolan North playing Nolan North. Keith David also voices himself as the Vice President. Since he also voiced Julius in the first two games, comparisons eventually get brought up. Keith's They Live! costar Roddy Piper shows up in the former's personal simulation and eventually becomes a recruitable party member. |
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One of the stranger cases. Saget started out as a blue comic before landing the family-friendly roles on AFHV and Full House. Then came the Adam Westing. After that, Saget's most notable role is the reminiscent dad on How I Met Your Mother, where he very often bowdlerizes the booze-and-sex-fueled romps enjoyed by himself and his friends. | |
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Lyle Talbot, former matinee idol turned B-movie actor, portrayed "State Senator Lyle Talbot", a former matinee idol turned B-movie actor turned politician in Green Acres, parodying both himself and then California governor Ronald Reagan. He later portrayed the unnamed state's governor who would host marathons of his own films on a local TV station. | |
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The Batman: While he plays the role straight with no parody, his role as Mayor Grange is primarily so one of the most famous people to don the cowl can interact with the current holder of the mantle. | |
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In one episode of Diagnosis: Murder, he cameos as a washed-up actor who was made famous by playing half of a crime-fighting duo, Tuttle and the Mummy. | |
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Diagnosis: Murder | hasFeature |
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In the Histeria! episode "The Legion of Super Writers", he voiced a superhero-portrayed Ernest Hemingway. | |
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He did a guest spot on The Critic, as a last-minute guest on Jay Sherman's show. He's quickly bumped off because they managed to book someone else that it turns out is dead, prompting him to lament, "Man I wish I had his agent." Made doubly funny in the DVD commentaries when the writers mention how Jon Lovitz pulled a What the Hell, Hero? on the writers for making fun of Mr. West. | |
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Friends: Gary Oldman appeared in a two-parter as Joey's alcoholic Large Ham co-star. | |
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The Sopranos: Jon Favreau appeared in "D-Girl" as a name-dropping, overly-pretentious jerkass version of himself who'd come to New Jersey to make a movie. Star-struck gangster Christopher was delighted to hang out with "Jon"... until "Jon" stole all his ideas. The real Favreau is a much nicer person. Frank Sinatra couldn't show up to lampoon his own mob ties, on account of being dead, so instead we get Frank Sinatra Jr. playing poker in "The Happy Wanderer". When Christopher pitches his idea for Cleaver to Sir Ben Kingsley in "Luxury Lounge", the actor comes off as a total materialistic snob, completely disinterested in anything Christopher's saying. So instead, they have to settle for Daniel Baldwin. The same episode stars Lauren Bacall, who seems nice at first but turns out to have quite a dirty mouth (granted, she was being mugged at the time, but it's quite hilariously shocking to hear the F-word coming from her). |
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The Babylon 5 episode "Day of the Dead" guest stars Penn & Teller as Rebo and Zooty, an even more irritating comedy duo of the future. | |
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The game avatar of Smolder Bravestone Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle seems to have been written with Dwayne Johnson in mind. He's the Ace of the game characters, with no weaknesses and Smoldering Intensity as an explicit power. For bonus points, Spencer, the character playing as him, is a scrawny nerd in real life, so when he first lands in Jumanji, we get a scene of the Rock marveling at how buff he is. | |
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The "behind the scenes" promos for Osomatsu-san season 3 had the voice actors for the sextuplets, already famous for playing beloved (and attractive) male characters, "admit" to returning to the roles of cartoony, vulgar, desperate NEETs for the cash. | |
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A comic promotional video for 2016's Independence Day: Resurgence dispels the in-universe conspiracy theory that David Levinson and Jeff Goldblum are the same person by having them meet. While Levinson doesn't know much about Goldblum (confusing him for both Dabney Coleman and Bowser from Sha Na Na), Goldblum is a total fanboy, even praising Levinson's mahogany eyes! | |
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One of many Adam Westing Degrassi (and Instant Star) commercials from the sixth season: "I'm a Degrassi, and I'm an Instant Star." (A lot of the humor is lost if you don't know the show, unfortunately.) It ends with Too Dumb to Live Derek somehow becoming even dumber than he is on the show. | |
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The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1989, 1 episode entitled "Diamonds Aren't Forever") as James (a spoof of James Bond) | |
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This can be seen as early as his legendary appearance in the 1998 film Half Baked. | |
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Triple H had a role in an episode of Pacific Blue as a porn king's bodyguard. He's apparently playing himself, since not only is his character referred to as "Triple H" by the others, but he even wears a D-Generation X shirt. Maybe in this universe he fell on some hard times? | |
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A missed case occurred when they did a sketch where the writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation attempted to make Wesley Crusher more likable by introducing an even worse character - a banjo-playing Great Gazoo-esque creature named Snirkles - only for fans to want them to kill Crusher and keep Snirkles. Wil Wheaton later said he'd have been happy to voice Wesley if they'd asked. | |
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