Remember when a famous dude showing up as himself in a movie was a novelty? Now you’re legally required to add in the random-famous-guy cameo scene to every Judd Apatow-produced script before it can be considered completed in the eyes of the law. AnimalNewYork recently put together a supercut of famous-person cameos in movies just to show you how pervasive a trend this really is. The supercut has 23 cameos, and they didn’t even include Lou Ferrigno in I Love You Man (anything else they missed?). It’s gone so far that in Seth Rogen’s new movie, everyone‘s playing themselves. Pretty soon, movies will just be celebrities playing us pretending to be them and everything will be a sequel to The Human Centipede.
Full list of cameos included after the jump:
1. John Malkovich- Being John Malkovich
2. David Hasselhoff- Sponge Bob Square Pants
3. Neil Patrick Harris- Harold and Kumar Go To While Castle
4. Dr. Phil and Shaquille O’Neal- Scary Movie 4
5. Kurt Vonnegut- Back To School
6. Brett Favre- There’s Something About Mary
7. Neil Diamond- Saving Silverman
8. Bill Murray- Zombieland
9. Mike Tyson- The Hangover
10. Kareem Abdul Jabbar- Airplane
11. Elisabeth Shue- Hamlet 2
12. Ray Romano and Eminem- Funny People
13. Lars Ulrich- Get Him To The Greek
14. Ryan Seacrest- Knocked Up
15. Bruce Willis- What Just Happened
16. Bob Barker- Happy Gilmore
17. Stan Lee- Mallrats
18. David Bowie- Zoolander
19. Elton John- Spice World
20. Chuck Norris- Dodgeball
21. Steven Spielberg- Austin Powers In Goldmember
22. Marshall Mcluhan- Annie Hall
23. Bruce Springsteen- High Fidelity
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Bill Murray in Zombieland is obviously the best. Like anyone would ever complain about Bill Murray showing up and just being Bill Murray.
In movies OR real life. Chevy Chase is like the Black Lodge version of Bill Murray.
Except the part when (SPOILER) he dies and my heart shatters into a million pieces.
I prefer Bill Murray in Space Jam.
Bob Barker and Neil Diamond are personal favs.
Excuse me, but that was copilot Roger Murdock, not Kareem Abdul Jabbar. It even said so on his name tag.
Gotta give it to stymik this round…
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LISTEN VINCE! Kareem has been hearing that crap ever since he was in Airplane. But he was out there busting his buns every night. How about YOU drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.
That didn’t work exactly, but I tried, damn it!
lol my thoughts exactly. One of the my favorite athlete cameos not listed is when Trey Parker yells at Reggie Jackson, “I don’t have your FUCKING ball!” in Baseketball.
The list is missing James Carville from Old School.
I prefer Naomi Watts in Mullholland Drive. Wait, I must have read that wrong. Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant? Nope, still not getting it.
better close that
I totally read that title wrong.
me three. I was picturing Vincent Gallo or some shit
Michael Cera – all his movies.
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True this^
“Famous” to me, would be instant recognition without having the person need to be identified via a name-tag or someone saying “OMG, it’s world-famous stand-up comedian Vince Mancini!” (for example). I guess in some cases you have to do this to make the point that they’re playing themselves. The most self-reflexive one is Kareem in Airplane, I guess.
The Child Stars song at the end of Dickie Roberts.
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Billy Zane in Zoolander as well, as alluded to by the famous line ‘Shut Up Billy Zane’
I loved that cameo. “Listen to your friend Billy Zane. He’s a cool dude”. I still everytime I hear it.
*Laugh
here’s an obscure one… Tom Petty in The Postman.
No, he is not really famous, but I always enjoyed Xavier McDaniel in Singles saying “Steve, don’t cum yet.”
The entire opening sequence of Austin Power 3 was this.
The last half hour or so of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
John Chan in Rounders.
Dr J in Philadelphia
Lance Armstrong in Dodgeball
Then there is that bizarre and stupid thing in Ocean’s 12 with Julia Roberts. Bruce Willis was also in that scene.
Nancy Kerrigan and Sasha Cohen both in Blades of Glory
Pretty much any movie that focuses on Hollywood itself or sports will have a ton of as themselves cameos.
This will be the unpopular opinion, but I wasn’t a huge fan of how dragged out the Zombieland cameo was. I love him as much as anyone, but it ground to a halt to kiss his ass for 20 minutes.
Jack Black in the newest Muppet movie.
I’m thinking of Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts in The Player, but I’m sure there was like a 100 other people playing themselves in that one.
They forgot Bob Hope in “Spies Like Us”
Alice Cooper in Wayne’s World. It’s pronounced Mil-ee-wa-kay.
how can you forget Tom Jones in Mars Attacks?
What about Billy Zane?!
What about JCVD in JCVD written and produced by JCVD.
As dumb as Happy Madison Films are, I think they have a few good cameos. Ozzy in Little Nicky and Bobby Knight, and the original bad boy of tennis John Mcenroe in Anger Management.