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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"My name isn't "Adam We"... or is it? Who am I? What number did you call? Don't ever call here again. ''[hangs up]'' I guess I told him! Nobody messes with Adam We!"''
|'''[[Adam West|The man himself]]''', on ''[[Family Guy]]''}}
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 [[Typecasting|playing certain roles]]
▲{{quote|''"My name isn't "Adam We"... or is it? Who am I? What number did you call? Don't ever call here again. ''[hangs up]'' I guess I told him! Nobody messes with Adam We!"''|'''[[Adam West|The man himself]]''', on ''[[Family Guy]]''}}
Or they can resign themselves to their fate, and make a career out of it by [[Adam Westing]].▼
▲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 [[Typecasting|playing certain roles]] -- or even worse, [[I Am Not Spock|only playing one role.]] Nobody will let them forget it. They can struggle mightily to earn a new reputation as decent people 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.
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See also [[The Danza]], where the character's name is clearly taken from the actor/actress portraying him/her. See also [[Parody Assistance]], when the actor works on a parody of whatever show/film/etc. made them famous.
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== Adam West ==
[[Adam West]], the [[Trope Namer]], couldn't get serious work after ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]''. He has embraced it; almost every role he's had since is either a parody of Batman the goofy [[Superhero]], [[Adam West]] the washed-up actor, or both at once.
* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|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 a cheesy [[Superhero]]. 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." A bit of a [[Batman: The Animated Series/Heartwarming|Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming]], to say the least.
** Supposedly, when he was done with the episode and all of The Gray Ghost's memorabilia is returned, Paul Dini and Bruce Timm handed Adam (instead of scale wage) a $25,000 check and the original Batman
* He played a washed-up superhero who turned out to be a deluded actor on ''[[Kim Possible]]''. His character was even named "Timothy North".
** This character was also a parody of the older Bruce Wayne from ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', making it a meta-[[Casting Gag]] (Will Friedle/Ron Stoppable previously played the ''new'' Batman on the show).
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* He was an overhyped pizza delivery boy in ''[[Meet the Robinsons]].''
* During one of the Thanksgiving Turkey Day Marathons of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', which not coincidentally debuted the lampooning of his film ''[[Zombie Nightmare]]'', he hosted a number of host segments loaded with bad turkey puns and [[Cloudcuckoolander]] moments. The episode itself features countless "I'm Batman!" jokes from Mike and the Bots, but no appearance from West (outside the movie of course).
* He played a goofy rendition of himself on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', in which he drives the Batmobile from the show (which is now a broken down wreck), complains about the [[Michael Keaton]] Batman films (Taps his pecs- "Pure West."), and dances the "Batusi" while the Simpsons slowly back away ("How come Batman doesn't ''dance'' any more?"). Another episode has the Simpsons view the TV series Batmobile in a Hollywood museum and comment on how lifelike the dummies sitting in it
** This is probably where the "Crazy" Adam West of ''[[Family Guy]]''/''[[The Fairly
* In ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'', West acts like a mix between a [[Conspiracy Theorist]] and exaggerated versions of his portrayal of [[Batman (TV series)|Batman]] and John Walsh from ''[[
* In the ''[[Histeria!]]'' episode "The Legion of Super Writers", he voiced a superhero-portrayed Ernest Hemingway.
* 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."
* His biggest role of the 2000s was as the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Adam West, Mayor of Quahog in ''[[Family Guy]]''.
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** Interestingly enough, [[Word of God|McFarlane]] has stated that he's gone out of his way to ensure that West's history as Batman is ''never'' addressed. The inspiration for the character was West's cameo as the mayor on ''[[Johnny Bravo]]''. (An episode he co-wrote.) He's simply playing a psychotic version of himself who was inexplicably elected mayor of Quahog.
*** Seth has gone so far as to claim that the character was never (originally) intended to be ''the'' Adam
* West played superhero the Galloping Gazelle in the TV episode and video game of ''[[Goosebumps]]'' story ''Attack of the Mutant''. In the TV version, the Galloping Gazelle was washed-up and bailed on the kid protagonist because he thought he was too old for the job.
* West starred as an aging TV Space Commando personality Captain Blasto in an episode of ''[[Rugrats]]''.
* 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, of course. It's like he doesn't even ''want'' to stop Adam Westing anymore.
* West appears in ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'' as the celebrity guest at Jack Donaghy's birthday party. After he flubs the introduction and gets thrown out, he complains that he was promised a meal.
* In ''[[Drop Dead Gorgeous (film)|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.
* 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''.
* In a 1995 episode of ''Hope and Gloria '' - a short-lived television series, he played himself doing a theatre performance of ''Love Letters '' with former ''Batman'' villainess Julie Newmar also playing herself. The main character was led to believe he was her father. The program referenced his autobiography and his real name of Bill Anderson.
* In ''[[The Fairly
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'''West:''' Where?! }}
* On ''[[News Radio]]'', he appeared as himself and was revealed to be legendary hijacker D.B. Cooper.
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== William Shatner ==
Almost every other role [[William Shatner]] has had since ''[[Star Trek: The
* His turn as Denny Crane in ''[[Boston Legal]]''.
* Taken to sublime levels in ''Free Enterprise'', in which he plays William Shatner.
** What's funnier still is that the credits only list his character as [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141105/fullcredits#cast "Bill."]
* 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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'''Martia''' [as Kirk]: Must have been your lifelong ambition. }}
* Shatner plays as a possum in ''[[Over the Hedge (animation)|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.
* Also, Jeff Burk wrote ''and published'' a very short literary work called ''[http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/30/shatnerquake-bizarro.html 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."
* During [[Comedy Central]]'s ''Roast of William Shatner'', when it was his turn at the podium, he donned his Shatner persona and jokingly berated everyone for making fun of him. He stated, "Do you know who I am? I'm William Tiberius Shatner!", and then begins to name some of his accomplishments, most of them actually being Captain Kirk's.
* Shatner plays this role to the hilt as the [[Punctuated!
* Certainly played with in his [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEZVwQptvWw Tribute to George Lucas].
* There's a fair bit of Westing in the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", made all the more hilarious by the existence of Zapp Brannigan, a parody of Shatner/Kirk who features prominently in this episode.
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* Takei had a more dignified cameo as Prowl's martial arts teacher Yoketron in an episode of ''[[Transformers Animated]]''.
* Also had a cameo as "Mr. Sulu" on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode where Homer joins the Naval Reserve.
* There is also a ''[[Muppets Tonight]]'' episode where Takei bores the pants off of Beaker and then some penguins on the
* Little-known Canadian sci-fi-com ''Alienated'' has him showing up and ordering a "Gin and... Gin."
* ''[[Adventure Time]]'''s Ricardio the Heart Guy appears to be Takei, giving "Best-Friend massages". They're completely... consensual.
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== [[Stephen Hawking]] ==
The quintessential [[Real Life]] [[Genius Cripple]] thoroughly
* He hit ''[[Star Trek: The
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** A few years later he ran into Brent Spiner, and immediately asked "Where's my money?"
* He showed up on ''[[Dilbert (animation)|Dilbert]]'' once - zipping in and out of wormholes just to annoy people.
* He has something going on with Matt Groening - he'll show up out of nowhere, and likes to "play" himself as a bit of a charlatan:
** One episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', where he claimed he had an IQ of [[Improbably High IQ|over 200]] and a bunch of [[Super Wheelchair|gadgets built into his wheelchair]], including an extensible boxing glove, an automatic toothbrush and a ''helicopter propeller''. (Homer mistook him for Larry Flynt, founder of ''Hustler'' magazine.)
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** He has twice appeared on ''[[Futurama]]'', once as himself and then as his preserved head.
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'''Hawking:''' [[Sure, Let's Go with That|Sure, why not]]. }}
{{quote|'''Hawking:''' Welcome. I am the pickled head of Stephen Hawking, on a way cool rocket.}}
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'''Hawking:''' You should have. }}
* He also showed up as himself in ''[[The Fairly
== Advertising ==
* Every time Tay Zonday has appeared on national TV he was definitely Adam Westing for himself... but nowhere is this more obvious than in the ''Cherry Chocolate Rain'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x2W12A8Qow video], which he did as an advert for Dr. Pepper's Cherry Chocolate flavoured soda.
* [[David Hasselhoff]] in the ''[[Command
* [[Michael Bay]] demands things [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXRCf9LbLM0 be awesome] in Verizon commercials. And by "awesome", he means "exploding". Particularly effective since his real-life persona is so close to what one would expect, given his movies.
* [[Donald Trump]] seems to revel in parodies of himself, even appearing in a series of OREO commercials with Darrell Hammond (Hammond was ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'''s longest-running white male cast member and one of the show's best and most frequently-used celebrity
* Mickey Rourke appeared in a commercial for a Dutch beer where he ruthlessly spoofs his own image, portraying himself as a childish, spoilt ass who loves only booze, little dogs and women. He throws a tantrum (and a minibar...) when he finds out they only serve alcohol free beer in his room, per example.
* Famous romance-novel-cover model and sex symbol Fabio did a stint advertising ''I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!'' in the most over-the-top, sexy manner ever. He even recorded personalizable dialogue for a promo website, ramping up the ridiculousness.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The [[Gag Dub]] of ''[[Super Milk-chan]]'' includes live action segments centered around the cast and crew of [[ADV Films]], in which they play themselves as a dysfunctional group of misanthropes and prima donnas.
* Seiyuu [[
== Film ==
* In the movie ''[[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 ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|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.
* [[Robert De Niro]] in ''[[Analyze This]]''
* [[Michael Madsen]] in ''Being Michael Madsen'' - a [[Mockumentary]] that implies he's just Mr Blonde as an actor, which is terrifying enough as a mental image. Some of his voice acting for video games counts too, as does the fact that in more recent movies (such as ''[[Kill Bill]]'') the movie almost relies on you to know what a Michael Madsen character is "supposed" to be like, so it can confound your expectations.
* In ''Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story'', a quasi-mockumentary about filming an adaptation of the novel, Gillian Anderson (as herself) gets the part of the Widow Wadnam because the producer loves her as Scully on the X-Files. Gillian wants to get away from her most famous role, and is later annoyed when her scenes as the widow are cut from the movie. Many, many more layers of meta in this film.
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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.
* In ''[[Machete]]'', [[Lindsay Lohan]] plays a drug-addicted porn star with daddy issues.
** And a dad who is obsessed with her.
* [[Stan Lee]] often shows up in non-Marvel-licensed movies as an excessively comic-obsessed Stan Lee with delusions of being a super hero himself. It's hard to tell how much is acting since his real life personality is almost an Adam Westing of himself anyway.
** His cameo in ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'' could be considered an Adam Westing of his renowned womanizing: Tony Stark mistakes him for Hugh Hefner. It's an honest mistake, really, as Stan was dressed in a bathrobe and surrounded by supermodels.
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* Ethel Merman's [[Cameo]] in ''[[Airplane!]]'' as a shell-shocked lieutenant who believes he's Ethel Merman.
* [[Ben Affleck]] and [[Matt Damon]] play themselves in ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' and poke fun at both themselves and their movies.
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'''Matt Damon''': "Jesus, Ben. Not again."
'''Ben Affleck''': "Noooo, bullshit! I wasn't WITH a hooker today! Aha-ha!" }}
** An even better example from the same movie, while [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] in the process (while doing a scene for the in-movie sequel to ''[[Good Will Hunting]]''):
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'''Ben Affleck''': Hey look, I'm sorry I dragged you away from whatever gay-serial-killers-who-ride-horses-and-like-to-play-golf-touchy-feely-picture you're supposed to be doing this week.
'''Matt Damon''': I take it you haven't seen ''Forces of Nature''?
'''Ben Affleck''': You're like a child. What've I been telling you? You gotta do the safe picture. Then you can do the art picture. But then sometimes you gotta do the payback picture because your friend says you owe him.
[They both take a beat and look at the camera]
'''Ben Affleck''': And sometimes, you have to go back to the well.
'''Matt Damon''': And sometimes, you do ''Reindeer Games''.
'''Ben Affleck''': See, that's just mean. }}
* [[Mark Hamill]] may have [[Captain Ersatz
** The costume, at least, was probably inspired by his role as the Trickster in the 90s TV series ''[[The Flash (TV
* [[Neil Patrick Harris]]'s appearances in the ''[[Harold
* Alan Alda, in ''[[And the Band Played On]]''. After becoming famous as the Good Guy doctor in ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'', in this film he plays a jerk doctor who is arguing with other doctors over the discovery of HIV.
* Paris Hilton in ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]''. She plays an airheaded heiress who prostitutes herself for drugs, to numb herself during the plastic surgery she's addicted to, because she wants to be a singer but keeps getting booed off the stage. Although the part wasn't originally written for her, she ''insisted'' on getting it and played it with great enthusiasm.
* [[Jean
* [[Michael Cera]] is turning into this, particularly when he plays "himself" in ''Paper Heart'', a Mockumentary in which, technically, he is merely playing his typical role.
* ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' has [[Tom Cruise]] playing a [[Prima Donna Director|Prima Donna Producer]] that seems to be inspired by some of the star's [[Never Live It Down|more embarrassing public appearances]].
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** One of many Adam Westing ''Degrassi'' (and ''[[Instant Star]]'') commercials from the sixth season: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTHfFfyYZXY "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 [[Flanderization|even dumber]] than he is on the show.
* 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.
* 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
* [[Tom Baker]]'s 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."
* 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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* 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]]'' and other films who tend to be rather icy and brutal.
* ''[[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 [[Hilarious in Hindsight|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?"
** [[Daniel Radcliffe]] as a [[Former Child Star]] ready to nail anything that moves.
** Chris Martin of Coldplay plugging the (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 tells him she doesn't find him attractive and so he is therefore absolutely determined to enlighten her as to his hotness.
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'''Maggie''': Well okay, if it'll shut you up. }}
** 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 Xavier of ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]''... who used his vast mental powers primarily to make the clothes of nubile young women spontaneously fall off.
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** Ronnie Corbett and Moira Stuart as cokeheads,
** Keith Chegwin as a hardcore racist and homophobe.
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* '''[[Brian Blessed]]''' as a very, very [[Large Ham]]. This was most obvious when he hosted ''[[Have I Got News for You]]''.
* [[Anthony Stewart Head]] appeared on ''[[Spooks]]'' as a smart, well-educated international terrorist who was notorious for duping naive young women into helping him carry out his attacks. He apparently had a particular thing for [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|blondes]]...
* On ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'' [[James Franco]] <ref>who in [[Real Life]] has been rumored to be gay</ref> portrayed himself as a [[Moe]] fan who needs Jenna to act as his [[The Beard|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) basically 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.
* 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.
* [[Jeff Goldblum]] on ''[[Friends]]'', running his own style of acting into the ground.
** Goldblum also makes several short appearances on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', where his topic of conversation will always abruptly turn to promoting ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]''.
* Jennifer Grey as Jennifer Grey on ''It's Like, You Know...'', an out-of-work actress who had just received a rhinoplasty... much like the real Jennifer Grey.
* In ''[[The Colbert Report|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 [[The O'Reilly Factor|Bill O'Reilly]]'s declaration of a "war on Christmas." He also enters and exits the holiday special ''carrying an assault rifle.''
* [[Saturday Night Live|Celebrity Jeopardy]]: [[Tom Hanks]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|as]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130526083326/http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/jeopardy/17w4d075m Tom Hanks].
* [[Wil Wheaton]]'s [[Celebrity Star]] appearances in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' features a mean and snarky Wil Wheaton, which is really not what the guy's like. [http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2009/10/the-creepy-candy-coating-corollary.html He promises]. Game over, Moonpie!
** [[Wil Wheaton]] also plays a snarky jackass on ''[[The Guild]]'', ''[[Eureka]]'', and ''[[Leverage]]''.
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* Matthew McConaughey did this in an episode of ''[[Sex and the City]]'', playing the classic Hollywood jackass.
* During Comedy Central's roast of Larry the Cable Guy, Gary Busey spends a good 5 minutes insulting himself.
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* Duncan James, previously of the [[Boy Band]] Blue, played an obvious parody of himself and how he is perceived in the media in the UK [[Sitcom]] ''Plus One'', to the extent that his character was only ever referred to (even in the credits) as 'Duncan from Blue'.
* Olivia Newton John on ''[[Glee]]'' plays an uber-[[Jerkass
* 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.
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* "Voiceover Man" Peter Dickson, known for his work on [[Channel 4|E4]], ''[[The X Factor]]'', ''[[Britain's Got Talent|Britains Got Talent]]'', ''[[Family Fortunes]]'', ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' and many more, loves to play up his [[Large Ham Announcer]] role. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJTKNRSZspQ The X Husband] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP2AFRuhQyk Voiceover Man Needs A Job] for examples.
* Isaiah Mustafa (aka Old Spice Guy) appears in ''[[Chuck]]'' as a character almost as implausibly awesome as he is in the Old Spice adverts - super confident, imposingly strong, and a perfect shot with a sticker gun at 30 feet (shooting behind his back). He even gets a tooth-gleam effect when smiling.
* Chevy Chase, known for his prima donna antics and sour egotism around his co-stars (leading to his permanent ban on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'') revived his career playing Pierce Hawthorne in ''[[Community]]'', whose selfishness, bordering on psychopathic, wreaks havoc on the show.
** Jack Black's character in ''[[Community]]'' is an overenthusiastic, deluded, half-crazy [[Large Ham]] who breaks into song at inappropriate moments. When trying to persuade the group of his value, he describes himself as a "Chubby agile guy" before accidentally high-kicking Jeff in the face.
* Charles Grodin, actually an extremely nice guy by all accounts, adopts the same curmudgeonly, cynical, easily annoyed persona in his public and television appearances that he became known for in film. It got really confusing when he hosted an ostensibly non-comedic cable chat show as the comically serious and bitter "Charles Grodin" instead of as himself.
== Music Video ==
* [[David Bowie]]'s ''Jazzin' for Blue Jean'' (1984), a [[Short Film]] / long-form video, is partially built around this via his [[Acting for Two|playing two roles]]. One is [[Adorkable]] hero Vic, who is trying to maintain a [[Celebrity Lie]]. The celebrity in question is Bowie's other character, Screamin' Lord Byron, a rock star with an elaborate, [[Arabian Nights]]-inspired onstage look and a way with the ladies...plus a diva-ish attitude and presumably decadent offstage
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== Web Original ==
* Lindsay Lohan's [https://web.archive.org/web/20100301130126/http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0d646e2edb/lindsay-lohan-s-eharmony-profile eHarmony ad].
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjPzd1D9Cbc See You Again]", a [[YouTube]] video episode of ''[[Miley Cyrus|The Miley And Mandy Show]]'' on [[YouTube]]. Certainly [[Self-Deprecation]] if not Adam Westing, at least in the beginning.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130620192920/http://www.jamesvandermemes.com/ James Van Der Memes].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8go0IBBeTSg This] [[Shane Dawson]] [[YouTube]] video, with a guest appearance by [[Lizzie McGuire|Lalaine]].
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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 is the only one with original lines.
* The ''[[Futurama]]'' movie "Into the Wild Green Yonder" featured [[Penn & Teller|Penn Jillette]] as a head who barely fit in his jar and worked with a [[The Speechless|Teller]] who was dead and the act was pretty much the same.
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "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 [[Ax Crazy|Gary Busey]], who enters on a motorcycle, introduces himself with an [[Evil Laugh]], and concludes his parable on restraining orders thusly;
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** In another episode, [[Stan Lee]] plays a slightly crazy version of himself who will not leave Comic Book Guy's shop, breaks a toy Batmobile in an attempt to make a The Thing figurine fit inside it, thinks he "made it better" and believes he can turn into the Hulk.
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'''Comic Book Guy:''' ''Please.'' You couldn't turn into [[Shout-Out|Bill Bixbi.]] }}
** 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:
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'''Homer''': Hey, I thought you never talked.
'''Teller''': Uh, I didn't mean to. It just slipped out. Oh, God, now Penn's going to beat me.
'''Penn''': ''[laughs]'' [[All Part of the Show|Folks, it's all part of the act!]]
'''Teller''': No it isn't! Don't leave me alone with him!
'''Penn''': ''[to Homer]'' You've ruined the act! I'm going to kill you!
'''Teller''': He'll do it! I'm not the first Teller! }}
** They made a return appearance during "The Great Simpsina", a stage-magic-based episode. This time, Teller's the domineering one (claiming that Penn [[Nice Character, Mean Actor|"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.
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'''Penn''': I can't! I never learned how! }}
** 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. When Apu returns to his job, Woods leaves to "battle aliens on a faraway planet", and gives a [[Sure Why Not]] reaction when Marge thinks he's talking about another role.
* [[Patrick Stewart]]'s role in the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode where the cast of ''[[Star Trek: The
** Also plays the Director of the CIA Bullock in sister show, ''[[American Dad]]'' (based on his character from [[Conspiracy Theory]])
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** ''[[Family Guy]]'' also has James Woods, who plays himself as a recurring psychotic villain. In one episode, [[Rush Limbaugh]] also showed up playing himself (well, Fred Savage in a suit, but that's another episode....)
* 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 [[Evil Dead|chainsaw-and-]][[Evil Dead|-shotgun]]-toting mech!
** Which looks like [[Bubba Ho-Tep|Elvis]].
* Gary Owens was known for voicing [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s limited animation superheroes like Space Ghost and Blue Falcon. In Disney's ''[[Raw Toonage]]'', he voiced a parody of those guys: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4BOBkbjfvM "Badly-Animated Man."]
* ''[[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 from a [[Joss Whedon]] as an overly dramatic [[Small Name, Big Ego|egotistical]] nut-job who thinks he has the right to kill them, a Ron Moore who writes ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** 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 building to her death; Joey Fatone playing himself as [[the Karate Kid]] to revenge the deaths of his fellow N'Sync bandmates (and also poke fun at his weight
** Ryan Seacrest parodied his own public image during a guest spot on this show.
* [[Al Gore]], ever since he made ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'', has appeared a few times in cameos on ''[[Futurama]]'' as an over-the-top parody of either a environmentalist super-hero ([[30 Rock|"A whale is in trouble!"]]) or as a super-egotist who claims credit for everything (as he was mocked for after his [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|'invented the internet']] comment was misconstrued).
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'''Gore:''' "If we don't go back there and make that event happen, the entire universe will be destroyed... [[That Makes Me Feel Angry|And as an environmentalist, I'm against that."]] }}
* In ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', [[Kevin Conroy]], the voice of [[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]], 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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* Nearly every role [[R. Lee Ermey]] has played in the last couple decades is a pastiche of his role in ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]''.
** Could be [[Justified Trope]], since R. Lee Ermey was an [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|actual drill instructor]].
* [[Leslie Nielsen]]. Though he did the occasional comic-relief role here and there, [[Leslie Nielsen Syndrome|he was mostly known as a serious actor before the 1980s]]. Then came ''[[Airplane!]]'', in which he played a comedic role in the same deadpan
* [[Bob Saget]] [[Career Resurrection|revived his career]] by Adam Westing the family-friendly image he built up from his roles in ''[[Full House]]'' and ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'' by portraying fictionalized, foul-mouthed, substance abusing and sex-craving versions of himself in [[Entourage]] and Jamie Kennedy's comedy rap song "Rollin With Saget". Since then, he has built a new image for himself as a dirty, hard-edged comic by frequently Adam Westing (and often downright trashing) his previous career in his stand-up and subsequent television and film appearances.
* [[Jerry Lewis]] occasionally
* With [[Willie Nelson]], it's hard to say where the personality ends and the Adam Westing begins. Some guest-starring self-parodies are obvious, like making fun of his pigtails on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' or his tax problems on ''[[King of the Hill]]''. His frequent marijuana jokes anytime he appears in person might be a self-parody (he's pretty old to be smoking anything at this point), or might just be himself talking about himself.
** "Do you smell that?" "No I don't, and you don't either."
* Ichiro Mizuki of [[JAM Project]], in works he appears, is known for being a [[Large Ham]] and reveling in it.
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* [[Michael Bolton]] gets a pretty hilarious one in [[The Lonely Island]] song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY Jack Sparrow]"
* [[Former Child Star]] [[The Partridge Family|Danny Bonaduce]] worked his way into radio by Adam Westing his life after acting, particularly his notorious coke habit.
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