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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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* [[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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