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* [[Charlie Chaplin]] entered a Charlie Chaplin Impersonation contest.... [http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/chaplin2.asp and came in 3rd].
** The contest was to impersonate the Tramp, one of Chaplin's most popular characters. The judges noted his perfect impression, but he lost points for showing up on the spur of the moment with no costume.
** Larry the Cable Guy had a similar experience in Las Vegas at a club where people did celebrity impressions. He played himself, and interviews of people leaving said [[Your Costume Needs Work|he did the jokes well, but didn't sound the same]].
* An audience member was asked to leave a showing of ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' because he was a Tim Curry impersonator. The member: [[Tim Curry]] himself.
* When appearing at science fiction conventions, Claudia Christian of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' fame will often recount the story of how she once attempted to join a ''B5'' discussion group, only to be chased off by the regulars as an allegedly clumsy and unconvincing impersonation!
* In the 60's, Brazilian rock'n'roll musician Raul Seixas once showed up to perform so high that he couldn't sing his own songs. That led to the audience thinking he was an impostor and calling the police.
* [[Dolly Parton]] once lost a Dolly Parton look-a-like contest.
* The late Jeremy Beadle hosted a hidden-camera prank show called ''Beadle's About'' during the 1990s. He would appear in disguise (usually as an authority figure like a policeman or traffic warden), wind up the victim a little more, and then reveal that it was all a set-up for the TV. The downside? There was at least one case of a member of the public mistaking a real policeman for Jeremy Beadle, and attempting to pull his "disguise" off ...
** Similarly, ''[[Candid Camera]]'' host Alan Funt was once on a flight that was hijacked and flown to Cuba. Because everyone on the plane recognized him, he was the only passenger to realize that this wasn't a joke.
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