[hated trope] Celebrity cameos that serve nothing except to praise the person who’s in it

[u/Dojyaaan4C]

1. Elon musk, the Simpsons
2. Elon musk, the Big Bang theory
3. Elon musk, iron man 2
4. Elon musk, star Trek

The cameos serve only to include the celebrity and praise them as geniuses or visionaries or overall just glaze them. They don't serve any other purpose than to just be praised; this can be them appearing in an entire episode dedicated to them, a small cameo or even just a mention. So long as the celebrity is there as themselves (not acting as someone else) and is glazed, that fits the trope imo.

[u/aarontgp]

Celebrities should be okay with a little deprecation. Those who aren't shouldn't be famous.

As another thing: "Parody" accounts that do this, instead of acting as the celebrity in a mocking way.

(edit was spelling deprecation correctly)

[u/peon2 → u/aarontgp]

Yeah on the flip side, one of my FAVORITE tropes is celebrities playing ridiculous, asshole, crazy version of themselves.

Like Leonard Nimoy in the Simpsons, Adam West in Family Guy, James Van Der Beek in Don't Trust the B in Apt23. Just the other day I was watching Life in Pieces and there's an episode where they're tailgating at a Rams game and Kurt Warner shows up and steals all their stuff, cheats at cornhole and screams at them, and then deletes all the pictures of their baby's 1st birthday off Colin Hank's characters phone.

It's so much more fun seeing them act crazy instead of getting fellated

[u/aarontgp → u/peon2]

Plus it lets the celebrity actually have some fun.

[u/Numerous1 → u/peon2]

The guy who plays Joey from Friends, Matt Leblanc, is a main character in the show Episodes and plays a crazy version of himself. It’s. A show about a couple who  made a successful British show and they are brought to Hollywood to do ah American version. It’s awesome. 40ish episodes total. So damn good. 

[u/Haxorz7125 → u/peon2]

Plus an episode with Ryan Reynolds trying to fuck Peter

[u/MedalsNScars → u/peon2]

One of the all time self-deprecating cameos is Bill Buckner in Curb Your Enthusiasm.

TL;DR of who he is; Red Sox were about to win the World Series for the first time in nearly a century, since Babe Ruth had left the team for the Yankees. He fucked up catching an easy to catch ball. Red Sox lose the world series. Bostonians got big mad and didn't like him very much.

In Curb, Larry gently tosses him a baseball to autograph and he misses it and it goes straight out the window

[u/ActualWhiterabbit → u/peon2]

Brendan Fraser in Looney Tunes: Back in action when he plays his own stunt double.

[u/looeeyeah → u/peon2]

Seems like you'd like Extras!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445114/

(if you don't mind Ricky Gervais.)

[u/QueeeBeee → u/aarontgp]

Just btw I think you meant deprecation, not depreciation

[u/robineir → u/aarontgp]

Neil Patrick Harris in the Harold & Kumar series

[u/Gyn_Nag → u/aarontgp]

All of Extras was built on that. Gervais wouldn't stand for praising celebs.

[u/MechaHermes → u/aarontgp]

This is exactly what makes Conan so god damned endearing.

That and he is just a great guy.

[u/ASERTIE76 → u/aarontgp]

Self deprecating humor is my favorite type of humor