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wow i had forgotten that ryan adams is a major plot point of this is 40

and Graham Parker lol

I should rewatch This is the End. I have a feeling I fell asleep in the middle because it got loud and movies that have sustained loudness or fight scenes make me sleepy.

Neil Patrick Harris in the Harold & Kumar may have started this

nah, it was Being John Malkovich

Or like... the simpsons

Which is what gervais was shittily ripping off as much as curb imo

Gervais was definitely ripping off Sanders too

which Apatow was obviously a big part of

TV shows are different. If you go down that road you might as well go all the way back to I Love Lucy and before

Seinfeld did this a lot

“I’m Keith Hernandez.”

Well this conversation started with “I blame gervais” so it was already going down that road

I suppose what I was getting at there was a certain type of cameo in which the celebrity doing craaaazy things is the entire joke

which is Extras all over

i wasn't crazy about This is the End. But yeah NPH in Harold and Kumar seems like the real start of this.

Anyway this isn't something that bugs me that much; though it was part of Ocean's 12 that I thought was really fucking stupid (or 13, can't remember; when Julia Roberts' character was supposed to be playing Julia Roberts)

and in The Simpsons, most of the best guest stars weren't even playing themselves

idk just off the top of my head there was woods, west, midler, all those baseball players, spock...

The first real celebrity cameo as joke prob was Kareem in Airplane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_i6ldpkWfU

I wouldn't be surprised if the "first celebrity cameo as joke" was actually not very long after the invention of film, like, within the first couple decades

this maybe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extra_Girl

Kareem was a big one. So was Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore.

Οὖτις otm

From TV Tropes: "29 days after the sinking of RMS Titanic, a 10-minute-long movie Saved from the Titanic (now lost) was released. The leading star and a co-writer of the script was Dorothy Gibson - a genuine Titanic survivor, playing as a girl named Dorothy, and filmed in the same clothes she was rescued in"

Band leader Paul Whiteman appears as himself in Broadway After Dark in 1924: I bet there's earlier though…

i guess the titanic one is kind of a documentary really

Oooh, per another site, Cecil B. DeMille in Sunset Boulevard!

and I doubt it was a comedy role... xpost

they were happier times

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/6/3/18649763/actors-playing-themselves-cameos-keanu-reeves-always-be-my-maybe

One of favorite celebrity-playing-awful-version-of-self-cameos is probably Anna Faris in .... Keanu.

Also Buster Keaton as washed-up and depressed Buster Keaton in Sunset Blvd

Every episode of Easy season 3 fills me with more dread than any Black Mirror scenario.

Easy had one great episode: Side Hustle, series 2 episode 3, with Odinaka Malachi Ezeokoli and Karley Sciortino.

One of favorite celebrity-playing-awful-version-of-self-cameos is probably Anna Faris in .... Keanu.

Ooh, that's right!

Omg Tim Robinson's daughter needs to join season 2.

https://www.vulture.com/2018/06/comedian-tim-robinsons-daughter-tells-some-great-jokes.html

I Am Mother is plot-twist heavy so I won't spoil it, but wow that ending really pissed me off. shame, it was a pretty effective little sci-fi thriller until about two-thirds in.

Barbra Streisand...and Other Musical Instruments, Streisand's ultra kitsch (and, er, racially insensitive) tribute to world music (and oh so much more) from 1973. Bab's worst selling album according to wikipedia. Worth it for I Got Rhythm accompanied by bagpipes.

another YSI thread, and in this one i post the tracks from "barbra streisand... and other musical instruments"

oh my god pic.twitter.com/Ctez4k3JWU

— Karen Chee (@karencheee) June 12, 2019

LOL!

"teacher's pet!"

oh my god...he admit it!

OMG @ What We Do In the Shadows episode 7 celebrity cameos! Not like the celebrity cameos discussed up thread.

I know, right?!

My favourite joke in the whole series is the one about witches in the last ep.

Petra Costas 'The Edge of Democracy' was my favorite from the main competition at this years CPH:DOX. Warmly recommended. A great primer on Brazilian politics, with scenes that reminded me of The Battle of Chile or The Hour of the Furnaces.

"Easy" is bizarre. Who is it for, and why did I watch all of it? ... oh no ....

it's like What if "Movie 43' were a drama series

Easy keeps coming up but I watched 2-3 episodes and was like...blech. Most modern relationships are really, really boring/annoying.

I am looking at an episode guide and this summary from an epi in season 2! I want to die. "While the brewery brothers - now dads - grapple with growing pains, their wives launch their own business selling organic dog treats."

is this an accurate portrayal of modern American relationships?? Comments?

I make beer so I've taken those brothers episodes especially hard.

IIRC the brothers don't speak for a year or something because one of them didn't think the other was keeping it real enough

I just looked up who created/wrote Easy and this all makes perfect sense on why I disliked it. I think the last thing I saw of his was Drinking Buddies which was so completely a waste of time.

the artwork for Easy makes it look like a relationships-focused Archer which i honestly would watch the full fuck out of