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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]]''}}

Or they can resign themselves to their fate, and make a career out of it by [[Adam Westing]].

** This is probably where the "Crazy" Adam West of ''[[Family Guy]]''/''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' came from.

* 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 ''[[America's Most Wanted]]''. The story was written by [[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents|Butch Hartman]] and [[Seth MacFarlane]], [[Sarcasm Mode|not like he ever worked with them again]].

* In ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'', he plays Adam West, who believes he's a super hero named Catman.

Almost every other role [[William Shatner]] has had since ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' is him playing [[William Shatner]] the egotist, or an [[Expy]] of that character under a different name. He specifically avoids the [[I Am Not Spock]] effect, by virtue of [http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2009/may/22/television-television1 creating a "SHATNER" persona], of which Kirk is but one mere part. One must wonder, however, if it has reached the level of enlightened self-parody or if he has become genuinely unhinged (''[[Mad]]'' once put it that he is trying, thirty years too late, to prove to everyone that he was always "[[Parody Retcon|in on the joke]]") -- see his appearance on ''Friday Night with Jonathon Ross.''

The quintessential [[Real Life]] [[Genius Cripple]] thoroughly enjoysenjoyed cameos as himself. One comes to suspect that the reason he refusesrefused to upgrade his vocalizer is because of the sheer awesomeness of snarking in a [[Machine Monotone]] (although he did get an upgrade to give it a better British accent).

* He hit ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' just to play poker with Data, [[Albert Einstein]], and [[Isaac Newton]] (thus becoming the only example of [[As Himself]] in the history of ''[[Star Trek]]'', though Joe Piscopo comes ''ever'' so close). Behind the scenes, he toured the set and remarked on the ship's warp core:

* He also showed up as himself in ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'', hired by Remi Buxaplenty to prove that 2+2=5 to Mr. Crocker, Hawking's old college roomie.

* Seiyuu [[YukoYūko GotoGotō]] in ''[[Lucky Star]]'' playing as hyper masculine biker gang member called 'Gothouther-sama', named after her favorite character in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', making fun of how she is always cast as sweet, [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] girl, while in reality, she's a hardcore biker.

** The costume, at least, was probably inspired by his role as the Trickster in the 90s TV series ''[[The Flash (TV series1990)|The Flash]]''.

* [[Neil Patrick Harris]]'s appearances in the ''[[Harold and& Kumar Go to White Castle]]'' movies portray his former child star self as a womanizing (even though Harris is gay in real life) drug addict.

* [[Jean -Claude Van Damme]], 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.

* 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.

* [[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].

* Lindsay Lohan's [https://web.archive.org/web/20100301130126/http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0d646e2edb/lindsay-lohan-s-eharmony-profile eHarmony ad].

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130620192920/http://www.jamesvandermemes.com/ James Van Der Memes].

* 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;

'''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!

* [[Patrick Stewart]]'s role in the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode where the cast of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' are all present is a hilarious one, with him being egotistic, violent (Wesley asks for something from the take out and receives a brutal smash into the window [[Caddyshack|'You'll get nothing and like it!']]) and all round [[Crazy Awesome]].

* ''[[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 Reimagined(2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' by throwing darts to decide who's a Cylon (and decides to kill Seth Green because he thinks he could be one) and [[Seth MacFarlane]] as a guy with the reality-warping power to [[Flashback Twist|rewrite history to include any random past event he offhandedly mentions]], which he does constantly. ''All of them'' were voiced by the actual people.

* [[Jerry Lewis]] occasionally doesdid this. What makesmads him stand out is that he's played this for ''tragedy'' rather than comedy, using an exaggerated version of himself rather than the wacky characters from his earlier comedy films. In his appearance on ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' he played Detective [[John Munch]]'s mentally disturbed uncle Andrew, drawing on his experience with ''his own mental decline'' to give what is widely regarded as one of [[Tear Jerker|the most moving performances in the franchise's history]].

* 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.

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