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See also: [[The Cameo]], [[Celebrity Star]], [[As Himself]], [[Character As Himself]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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== Film ==
* ''Ocean's Twelve'': Tess pretends to be [[Julia Roberts]] at one point, {{spoiler|only to be found out when [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] appears, and receives a call from the "real" Julia Roberts.}}
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** Richard Castle's poker game features real authors such as James Patterson and [[Stephen J Cannell]]; the latter's chair was left unoccupied after his passing ("No one sits there for at least a year").
* ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'s'' Lou Ferrigno moved next door to the Heffernans in ''King of Queens''.
* Every episode of ''[[Police Squad!]]'' features a special guest... who would be killed before the opening credits were over. As I recall, William Shatner lasted the longest, dodging a hail of bullets before finally succumbing to a poisoned drink.
* One episode of ''Silver Spoons'' had Menudo attending the protagonist's birthday party as the entertainment.
* Subverted in one episode of ''[[CSI: Miami|CSI Miami]]'': the suspect was a famous skateboarder who retired and made software games starring himself... but the [[Special Guest]], [[Tony Hawk Pro Skater|Tony Hawk]], instead played the [[Body of the Week]]. {{spoiler|Also invoked, since Tony Hawk's character is also the CEO's [[Stunt Double]] for doing [[Motion Capture]] in the game, so he does skateboard in a flashback.}}
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* Every episode of ''[[Batman (TV)|Batman]]'' had at least one "Special Guest Villain." While some, like Cesar Romero's Joker, Burgess Meredith's Penguin, and Frank Gorshin's Riddler, appeared often enough to almost be regular cast members, a great many were one-shot stunt castings of big-name stars (e.g., Milton Berle as Louie the Lilac, Art Carney as The Archer, Rudy Vallee as Lord Ffogg.)
** Also celebrities would pop out of the window when Batman was climbing the building to talk to him.
* ''[[American Dreams (TV)|American Dreams]]'' seemed to exist solely for this trope. Many episodes had a famous current musician appear as a famous 60's musician (often having nothing to do with the plot)<ref>and some of them better known for things other than singing, like [[Hilary Duff]] (as one of The Shangri-La's), [[Jennifer Love Hewitt]] (as Nancy Sinatra - the future [[Ghost Whisperer]] was one of the few to appear more than once) and [[
* ''[[Hannah Montana]]'': About one in every six episodes of features a special guest or two - Hannah's grandmother is [[Dolly Parton]]<ref>[[Miley Cyrus]]'s godmother in real life</ref>, Lilly's mother turns out to be Heather Locklear, and as for Lilly's dad... as [[Gilmore Girls|Lorelai Gilmore]] once put it, "And yes, that is the guy from ''[[Two and A Half Men]]''."
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' has done this a few times, with the likes of Sharon Osbourne and Richard Dawkins appearing in cameos as themselves, and even including stock footage of [[Barack Obama]] in one episode, then bringing in a body double to make him part of the story ("The End of Time"). Several attempts at having members of the Royal Family appear as themselves have been unsuccessful. Back in 1965 the episode "The Chase" featured a guest appearance by [[The Beatles]] (via stock footage), as well.
* Parodied in ''[[Community]]'' with [[Jack Black]] [[Reality Subtext|wanting to join the study group]] after coming back from a mid-season break.
* On ''[[Home Improvement]]'', several sports stars appeared as themselves as guests on the [[Show Within a Show]] ''Tool Time'', including George Foreman, Evander Holyfield, and Michael and Mario Andretti. Real life home improvement pioneer Bob Vila showed up several times. In one episode after [[Penn
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'': The ill-fated talk show called "It's" with singer Lulu ("To Sir With Love") and [[The Beatles|Ringo Starr]] as guests with the tattered and bedraggled "It's" man as host.
* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' had a guest star in every episode. Justified, as the show is set in a theatre and revolves around a weekly presentation.
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* ''[[Kate Modern]]'': A number of celebrities (of varying degrees of fame) cameo as themselves, including actor Jamie Bell; bands The Days and Scouting For Girls; film director Mike Figgis; presenters Tim Westwood, Nick Grimshaw, DJ Dre and Michael Underwood; journalist Gordon Smart; and Joanna Shields, the CEO of Bebo. None of them has significant impact on the plot.
* The boys from ''[[Unskippable]]'' tapped [[Zero Punctuation|Ben "Yahtzee" Crosshaw]] for their ''[[Star Ocean]]'' episode. And one of them appeared on ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' to return the favor.
* [[Kyle Hebert]] reprised his role as the narrator for the second [[Dragon Ball Abridged]] movie (in the Abridged Series itself, [[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
* ''[[Muggle Cast]]'' has had several with people from the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' industry. Oh, and Rubeus Hagrid. Not Robbie Coltrain, but Rubeus Hagrid. The other ''[[Harry Potter]]'' podcast ''PotterCast'' has also had plenty. Including [[JK Rowling]] herself.
* ''[[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]]'' actually got Christopher Lloyd to say "I was frozen today".
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