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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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* [[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 did this. What mads him stand out is that he 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.
** "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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