Movies in which random celebrities appear as themselves

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Funny thing is I cannot remember the movie which provoked the idea for this thread anymore. So I'll just have to see if someone names it.

Ace Ventura (Dan Marino)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Billy Idol (The Wedding Singer)
Salman Rushdie (Bridget Jones Diary)
Ant'n'Dec (Love Actually)
David Beckham/Alan Shearer etc (that shit-looking film about a South American dude who ends up playing for Newcastle)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Police Squad 2 (or 3, i can't remember)

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Zoolander to thread.

― Roz (Roz), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Brad Pitt in Being John Malkovich

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Gordon Honeycombe (American Werewolf in London)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Marshall McLuhan in that Woody Allen movie.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was about to say, there are a few in Annie Hall, also Last Action Hero is full of them.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

The Player

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

The Muppet Show

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Neil Patrick Harris in Harold and Kumar
Stan Lee in Mallrats

― Roz (Roz), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

There are a few in the Austin Powers movies as well (Woody Harrelson, the Osbournes...)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Brent (Brett?) Favre in Something About Mary

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Bob Saget in Half Baked (though I'm not sure if he's explicitly playing himself).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Pete Tong, Carl Cox, etc in "It's All Gone Pete Tong" (assuming DJs can be considered "celebrities")
Ozzy Osbourne, and Henry Winkler in "Little Nicky"

― Roz (Roz), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

yeah anyone slightly famous will do.

Ozzy and co were also in the Bad News Comic Strip spoof, though not strictly a 'movie'.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Jonathan Ross, Elton John plus others in Spiceworld: The Movie

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

(Presumably the Spice Girls aren't entirely random in that)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Will Smith in "Jersey Girl"

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Several newsreaders, TV presenters and Chris Martin in Shaun of the Dead.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

bob barker in happy gilmore
cnn people in contact

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

tom jones in mars attacks
Marcel Marceau and a few others in silent movie

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

did Frank Sinatra appear in one of those old Gumball Rally movies?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

cecil b. demille in sunset boulevard
vanilla ice in tmnt 2

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

just checked mine, it was Cannonball Run 2 with Frank Sinatra

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Beavis and Butthead in Airheads.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

I guess the Conan O'Brien wasn't exactly random in Storytelling.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Remove the "the" from there, he's not a god or anything.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

The only funny thing about Something About Mary was that cameo, the strange "Ok what in the holy fuck" feeling you get when you realize that Mary's wonderful, charming, kind boyfriend Brett she's been talking up the whole fucking movie like some kind of imbecile yet is now leaving for...Ben Stiller??? is Brett Favre. Also he sings and dances in the credits. Not quite enough to make the film worthwhile, I still want those 2 hours back, but pretty awesome anyway.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

You didn't like There's Something About Mary?? I thought everyone liked it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

It's about as funny as that Lazy Sunday rap people keep linking to!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Does the video for RP, JR's "Ghostbusters" count?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

not really

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Peter Falk in Wings of Desire is the ultimate "wtf" example of this for me.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Ozzy and co were also in the Bad News Comic Strip spoof, though not strictly a 'movie'.

and nicholas parsons was in "mr jolly lives next door" :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

NICHOLAS BLOODY PARSONS!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

in Airplane was the basketball player/pilot just an actor, or a famous sports person?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I guess if videos counted we'd be here all day.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I hated There's Something About Mary, too! The worst part was that I saw it in the theater, and all of these goons around me were laughing hysterically at it, and I was like DUDES, GET A GRIP.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

in Airplane was the basketball player/pilot just an actor, or a famous sports person?
-- Ste (ste.foste...), December 29th, 2005. (later)

It was Kareem Abdul Jabbar (sp?)- v famous sports person. If you're into 70s basketball and Bruce Lee movies, that is.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Kareem Abdul Jabbar is also the father of Paula Abdul, fact fans!
Jimmy White turned up in an early Steven Chow movie called Legend Of The Dragon. He looked a bit bemused by it all as I recall.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 29 December 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Kareem Abdul Jabbar is also the father of Paula Abdul, fact fans!

uh, no

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 29 December 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

No he isn't. But George Lucas used him as a model for Jabbar the Hut.

― John Cocktolstoy (John Cocktolstoy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

both of Paula Abdul's parents are Jewish, though

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 29 December 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Someone obviously lied to me in 1988 and it stuck in my head then. She doesn't look like his daughter now I think about it.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Dodgeball owns this thread:

William Shatner
Chuck Norris
David Hasslehoff
Lance Armstrong

Am I forgetting anyone?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

200 cigarettes-elvis costello

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Larry King in every movie ever.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Unitas and Dick Butkis are both in that damn mule playing football movie but I can't remember now if they are playing themselves or not.

OJ Simpson plays himself in Back to the Beach.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Jack Nicholson in Broadcast News

― holojames (holojames), Friday, 30 December 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

John Bunnell, the celebrity sheriff who hosts "the World's Wildest Police Videos" plays a cop in Ghost World and Bad Santa. Not really "appears as himself," but quite close, no?

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

WTF, Nicholson didn't play himself in Broadcast News!

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Smash Mouth in Rat Race. (Curse me for remembering that. I saw it on a plane from Australia to LAX.)

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Morganna the Kissing Bandit in Kingpin

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Where is the love for Merv Griffin in The Man With Two Brains?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

let us not forget Weird Al in The Naked Gun

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Hang on, Dick Butkis??

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Samuel "Screech" Powers in the movie "Made" !

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Alex Trebek in Talk to Her

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Ivana Trump in, erm, something I saw recently (First Wives' Club, maybe)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember Alex Trebek in Talk to Her, but I remember him in Short Cuts: you may be confused because both films involve people watching highbrow art of some sort, but Trebek was at the cello recital, not the modern dance performance.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

yes! i was wondering why google and imdb disagreed with me. i watched them both the same day also.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

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