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* Withnail of ''[[Withnail and I]]''. Marwood's relatively more adult attitude ends up getting him a job, while Withnail is left performing ''[[Hamlet]]'' to some captive wolves.
* Part of the joke of ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' is assuming that actors 400 years ago were already like this.
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'''Fennyman:''' The bill? Oh, vanity, vanity!
'''Ned:''' Not the ''[[Credits Tropes|billing]]''. The ''bill''. }}
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* ''[[Extras]]'' naturally featured this a little bit.
* In early seasons, ''[[QI]]'' used to have a "Luvvie Alarm" they would set off when a panellist was judged to have crossed into this territory while telling a story. Stephen Fry and John Sessions were both guilty. In the "Films & Fame" episode (for the sake of which it was a good thing they'd retired the alarm a long time before, or else Sessions would have singlehandedly caused a power outage in the studio), we got this exchange:
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'''Stephen:''' Yeah?
'''Emma:''' What do you all feel about it?
'''Stephen:''' ''[sigh]'' I mean, I'm not going to get as upset as some actors do -- some actors say, "We do a bloody hard job of work, we're serious people, you know, it's a coal face, doing a play! How dare they call us luvvies!" I think that's a bit overdone. On the other hand, it's a bit tedious when the ''Daily Mail'' says "luvvie couple XYZ," or something....
'''Emma:''' Do you know what the first citation of it is in the OED?
'''Stephen:''' No.
'''Emma:''' [[Tomato in the Mirror|It's you.]]<br />
''[cue [[My God, What Have I Done?]] reaction from Stephen]'' }}
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