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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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** 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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