Best fictional Movie/TV show where a Celebrities plays him/herself.

[LynneSin]

Example

One of the best fictional movies where the celebrity plays him or herself was 'Zombieland'. Bill Murray had a small part in there playing Bill Murray and he was hilarious as hell! Probably some of the best parts of the movie.

I have also been rewatching 'Arrested Development' and I thought they did a great job of having Carl Weathers play himself although a bit more desperate and shifty version of Carl Weathers.

What other movies/tv shows that are fictional but use has a celebrity play themselves?

[GoCubsGo]

1. Being John Malcovich.

Only because John Cusack is in it.

[LynneSin]

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[Mr.Bill]

2. Louis CK

One of the funniest shows on TV. Sort of a dark Seinfeld.

Lot's of guest appearances by other comics playing themselves on this show, too.

[Taverner]

4. Neil Patrick Harris in Harold and Kumar for the WIN

[Wait Wut]

9. ^ This...

...end of discussion.

[Initech]

20. "I boned every piece of ass on that show..."

[eShirl]

28. epic

[HarveyDarkey]

5. Wayne Newton in Mars Attacks

[Enrique]

6. The Player

about a brazillion celebrities played themselves.

[ohiosmith]

7. Mike Tyson "The Hangover"

[HopeHoops]

8. Yep. I'm with Malkovich.

[HopeHoops]

10. Also "The Blues Brothers" band members...

Steve "The Colonel" Cropper – lead and rhythm guitar (formerly with Booker T & the M.G.'s)
Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass guitar (formerly with Booker T & the M.G.'s)
Murphy Dunne – keyboards (brought in to act in the film due to Paul Shaffer's commitment to perform with Gilda Radner in Gilda Live!, toured with the band in the summer of 1980)
Willie "Too Big" Hall – drums, percussion (formerly of the Bar-Kays, Isaac Hayes' band, appears in the movie)
Tom "Bones" Malone – trombone, trumpet, saxophone (Saturday Night Live Band)
"Blue" Lou Marini – saxophone (Saturday Night Live Band)
Matt "Guitar" Murphy – lead and rhythm guitar (Howlin' Wolf, other artists)
Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin – trumpet (Saturday Night Live Band)

And then there were Ray Charles and Johnny Lee Hooker.

Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Carrie Fisher and others essentially played their "persona", if the the exactly names.

[Auggie]

11. The Sammy Davis Jr. appearance on "All in the Family"

[eShirl]

27. That was so awesome

Saw the first airing as a kid

[Frank Cannon]

41. I still LOL at that.

That show was, and still is, genius.

[whistler162]

12. Mel Torme in Family Court.

and well Frank Sinatra in the 1943 movie Higher and Higher which also starred the incomparable Mel Torme!

[csziggy]

23. I think Mel Torme showed up on Night Court

Because Harry was a Torme fan. Unfortunately there are few Night Court clips on the internet and that is not one of them.

[whistler162]

37. Yeah finger slip! I am also big fan of Mel.

[EastTennesseeDem]

13. Neil Patrick Harris in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.

The most horny guy ever (for women, nonetheless!).

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

14. Ryan Reynolds in 'Ted'

and also Bob Barker in 'Happy Gilmore.'

[LynneSin]

15. The Price is WRONG bitch!

[NightWatcher]

16. I liked HST's cameo as himself in a memory in Fear and Loathing in LV

[NoPasaran]

17. Richard Nixon as himself on Laugh-In

Sock it to me?

[Art_from_Ark]

18. Governor Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas

appeared as himself in an episode of "The Governor and JJ". He was holding a baby razorback pig, the mascot of the University of Arkansas.

[CorBlimeyGuvnor]

19. Not exactly a "celebrity", but the moment in Annie Hall when Marshall McLuhan..

..pops up in a movie theatre queue to defend Woody Allen in an argument with a pretentious bore and says "You know nothing of my work" always makes me laugh.

[Wounded Bear]

21. Brett Fav-ray in "There's Something About Mary"

[TeamPooka]

22. TV - The B in Apt 23 on ABC- James Van der Beek plays himself every week

and is hilarious.

[Doc_Technical]

24. Drew Pearson

In "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951)

[Kennah]

25. Matt Lauer in "Land of the Lost"

I thought I would piss myself laughing, in both interviews Lauer did, of Will Ferrell's character Dr. Rick Marshall.

Matt Lauer Can Suck It!

[eShirl]

26. honorable mention: Wil Wheaton on Big Bang Theory

[GoCubsGo]

30. Yep! And, George Takei.

The episodes with him and Katee Sackhoff are a scream!

[taterguy]

29. Loudon Wainwright III in M*A*S*H

[Gidney N Cloyd]

35. Captain Spaulding?

[Glorfindel]

31. Julie Andrews in "Unconditional Love"

[Arugula Latte]

32. Larry David in "Curb Your Enthusiasm"

[begin_within]

33. Didn't Patty Duke play herself in a TV movie about bipolar disorder?

[Liberal Veteran]

34. Bill Clinton in Contact.

Even though they just edited a speech of his to fit the need.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

36. The old I Love Lucy had a bunch where they built an episode around a celeb playing him/herself

John Wayne, Bob Hope, William Holden, Harpo Marx...

[greendog]

38. Peter Falk in Wings of Desire

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[Gidney N Cloyd]

39. Mel Torme did a Seinfeld. And that was the 'tops.'

[OmahaBlueDog]

40. C.B.DeMille as himself in Sunset Blvd.

along w/ with Erich Von Stroheim playing a fictionalized version of himself, and several silent film stars doing cameos that all helped serve to make Norma Desmond (played by aging, semi-forgotten silent film star Gloria Swanson) seem very real.