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[[Show Business]] is his bread and butter... whether he likes it or not.
He's been in the business for years, and has become absolutely jaded (especially if he started out as a [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]). And he's not going to let anyone forget it. The things that come out of his mouth would never make it on the air in [[Real Life]]... unless, that is, he were [[Is This Thing Still On?|unaware that the microphone was still on]].
But there is the fact that deep in his heart, he does love his work. It's just that he rarely gets the opportunity to do it the way ''he'' feels it should be done. It's just he's often [[Executive Meddling|forced]] to do crap [[Money, Dear Boy|just to pay the bills]].
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Compare [[Nice Character, Mean Actor]], [[The Last DJ]], [[Classically-Trained Extra]], [[I Was Young and Needed The Money]].
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** However, while Nimoy was bothered by always being called "Spock", he didn't really hold any contempt for the show or the character. Dane's attitude is closer to that of Sir Alec Guinness, a classically trained Shakespearean actor who was outright ''offended'' that people only knew him as [[Star Wars|Obi Wan Kenobi]]. While he was known for being a consummate professional on and off the set, he didn't respect the films and it was just another job for him.
*** Its not that he didn't respect the films; he was just annoyed that he had now been typecast. He was the only member of either cast or crew to have an inkling of how succesful the franchise would be, as instead of his normal salary he got a portion of the royalties from both the film and any toys and whatever were made from the series, making this by far his most lucrative career move, and meaning he made a hell of a lot more than pretty much everyone who wasn't [[George Lucas]].
* ''[[Shakes the Clown (Film)]]''
* In the film ''[[The Aristocrats]]'', many of the interviewed comedians argue that this is the essence of the Aristocrats joke, since it's about a family that will sink to any depravity to be part of the glamour of showbiz. Sarah Silverman's version of the joke in particular runs thick with this trope.
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* Krusty the Klown on [[The Simpsons]], and his stage name is actually a hint at this. How much it actually applies to him varies [[Depending On the Writer]]. Sometimes he's depicted as a hack who's just in it for the money, at other times he laments the crappy material he has to work with. In one episode, he claimed that he'd need a "shoebox full of [[Cocaine|blow]]" to go through with producing a particular sketch.
** Also from ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Reverend Lovejoy after he got [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Flanderized]]. {{spoiler|That is, after Flanders got done inadvertantly beating the love of religion out of him.}}
** This trope is also the ultimate reason for Sideshow Bob's descent from TV sidekick to homicidal maniac. Bob originally accepted Krusty's offer to be his sidekick because he thought he could both entertain and enlighten the children who would be watching, but [[Classically
* Baby Doll in ''[[Batman the Animated Series]]'' starts out this way... and then goes [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|waaaay further]].
* Recently in an episode of ''[[South Park]]'', [[Mickey Mouse]] behaved like this.
* Miss Carol from an episode of ''[[Rugrats]]'' behaved like this and Angelica thought her more vulgar version of her TV catch phrase was the real one.
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