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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!"''
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.
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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].
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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;
{{quote|'''Busey:''' I'm gonna let you in on a little secret; [[And That Little Girl Was Me|John is me]]. And Mary is a composite of twelve women and one major film studio that couldn't deal with me because '''I'm too real'''.}}
** 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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** 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 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.
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* [[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 manner—and the rest is history...
* [[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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