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* His biggest role of the 2000s was as the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Adam West, Mayor of Quahog in ''[[Family Guy]]''.
{{quote|'''West:''' So it's a shouting contest you want, eh?}}
** 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 -- just a guy who shares his name. Then the actual Adam West came in to read for the part and the rest, as they say, is history.
* 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''.
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* 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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== 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 impersonators -- he has 107 as of this writing, with former U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]], actor [[Sean Connery]], real estate mogul Donald Trump, and a lot of [[George W. Bush]]'s Cabinet members [Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld] being the most popular and/or frequently seen) impersonating him. Of course, if you're worth two billion and change, you can afford some self depreciation.
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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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** 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]]''.
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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.
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