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* [[David Hasselhoff]] in the ''[[Red Alert 3]]'' commercial as an egotistical [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWiCo3XHl6Q informercial star. With a yacht].
* [[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 (TV)|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.
* Mickey Rourke appeared in a commercial for a Dutch beer where he ruthlessly spoofs his own image, portraying himself as a childish, spoilt ass who loves only booze, little dogs and women. He throws a tantrum (and a minibar...) when he finds out they only serve alcohol free beer in his room, per example.
* Famous romance-novel-cover model and sex symbol Fabio did a stint advertising ''I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!'' in the most over-the-top, sexy manner ever. He even recorded personalizable dialogue for a promo website, ramping up the ridiculousness.
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** In TV specials and "behind the scenes" pieces, actress Stacie Farber (who played the shows' grim [[Goth]]) never lost an opportunity to point out that in real life, she's a preppy fashionista who loves all the things the goth found phony.
** One of many Adam Westing ''Degrassi'' (and ''[[Instant Star]]'') commercials from the sixth season: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTHfFfyYZXY "I'm a Degrassi, and I'm an Instant Star."] (A lot of the humor is lost if you don't know the show, unfortunately.) It ends with [[Too Dumb to Live]] Derek somehow becoming [[Flanderization|even dumber]] than he is on the show.
* The ''[[
* Wayne Brady appears in an episode of ''[[Chappelles Show]]'' as an over the top, violent and vulgar comedian out to steal the title character's show -- a complete opposite of what Wayne Brady is like in real life, and a result of one of Paul Mooney's characters saying "White people love Wayne Brady, because he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X."
* [[Tom Baker]]'s work on ''[[Little Britain]]'' as The Narrator is an exaggeration of his on-''and''-off-screen eccentric personality. "Have you ever done it gaywise? It's a hoot."
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* Luisana Lopilato in ''Casados Con Hijos'' (the version of ''[[Married With Children]]'' licensed for Argentina) spoofed the teenage starlet characters she played in shows such as ''Rebelde Way'' and ''Floricienta''.
* ''Cybill'' had Cybill Shephard, fallen actress... as Cybill Sheridan, fallen actress.
* Christopher Eccleston parodied ''[[
* Carl Weathers plays himself as a constantly broke, scheming and cheapskate opportunist on ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|Arrested Development]].''
* ''[[Saturday Night Live (TV)|Saturday Night Live]]'' guests frequently invoke this trope, especially in opening monologues: eg. Bob Saget gives an autograph to a child fan (though the "autograph" turns out to just be a string of dirty words since Saget was exhilarated to be on a show where he could actually ''use'' them), who asks for his pen back afterwards; Bob refuses, then reveals that the interior of his jacket is lined with pens stolen from the many kids who sought his autograph.
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** 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.
{{quote| '''Stan Lee:''' But I did it for ''real'' once!<br />
'''Comic Book Guy:''' ''Please.'' You couldn't turn into [[Shout
** They also had [[Michael Moore]] respond to a request for a source on his claims, with "[[Your Mom]]!"
** In "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder", [[Penn & Teller]] also appear as themselves with Penn portrayed as [[Ax Crazy]] and Teller as an abused victim:
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** Which looks like [[Bubba Hotep|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 Reimagined
** 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|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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