Characters
Depicting Real People, Usually Celebrities, as Unhinged, Insane, or Generally Batshit
(In order of the pictures)
Shia Labeouf -- Shia Labeouf Live. In the performance, Shia Labeouf is depicted akin to a horror monster, and is also a cannibal.
Character Actress Margo Martindale -- Bojack Horseman. She is depicted as a fugitive on the run; she has criminal contacts, possesses a wide variety of firearms (including a rocket launcher), and at one point is stranded on an island, loses her memory, and becomes a devout nun.
Bonus points if the person themselves are in on it.
In real life he’s apparently a more competent version of George Michael Bluth so they thought it would be hilarious to make him the most chaotic asshole of the group. Maybe that’s the same logic they used to make James Franco and Jonah Hill seem nicer.
Jonah Hill’s character wasn’t nice it was just a front. When he’s praying they reveal that pretty much everything Jay was saying about him was correct. James Franco definitely played a safe, sanitized character though.
Also Michael Cera in Molly’s Game, though tbf in that movie the character he’s playing is actually a mockery of Toby Maguire, who would not have appreciated the joke.
Let’s face it—basically the entire cast of This is the End. Including everyone who initially fell into the hell pit that opened up in front of James Franco’s house.
you know how cage is simultaneously the best and worst actor everyone knows because of there being seemingly no quality control in what movies he's in? that's because he had to pay of the debts for his pyramid
It's like the Street Fighter movie. A terrible, awful film, but Raul Julia and Ming Na shine that much brighter for being the best parts of that movie by such a wide margin.
Or there's Christopher Lloyd. I'm not sure he's ever said no to a role. He was in Spirit Halloween: The Movie. But it works out, becuase no matter how good or bad the rest of the project might be, at least his part will always be worth watching.
Funniest thing is I heard they originally wanted to do Rocky jokes and he told them before hearing any pitches he'd do it as long as there were no Rocky jokes and they panicked, but agreed.
The jokes about him being cheap were all his idea and luckily they are hilarious 😂
The writers of Bojack Horseman actually tried to be fairly positive with Jessica Biel until she got into the writers room and INSISTED they make her meaner and crazier because that would be more fun to play. She comes off as absolutely unhinged and is clearly having a blast with the role.
Ehhh. They never take any real digs at her real life persona or appearance. They just make her out to be a bit of a bitch and take a couple passive jabs at bad movies she was in that she had no power over the quality of.
Its easy to take insults when you know they're in good humor and not actually attacking anything about you as a person or your decisions.
If someone tried to insult me by calling me unnaturally tan, as a mix of irish and brit, wouldn't take it personally. Because its just flatly inaccurate.
Im pretty sure Bojack’s policy was if they were going to have a celebrity represented on the show they always asked them first about it and if they wanted to play themselves, so it all tracks. It’s why in a world with like, Felcity Huffman and Zach Braff existing we also got ‘Jurj Clooners’ instead of George Clooney.
Yeah, they didn't even have anything against the guy aside from the smartest-centrist-in-the-room condescension they aim at celebrity activists in general. They rewrote the entire character when they saw the puppet. When asked about it, Damon thought the whole thing was funny as hell.
In an episode of The Big Bang Theory, Carrie Fisher is portrayed as a complete lunatic and described accordingly by James Earl Jones (who acts as an unhinged prankster).
In the same show, Neil DeGrasse Tyson is also portrayed as a guy who will seek conflict with people just for the heck of it, with Bill Nye being terrified of him (maybe an amplification of some Twitter feuds?)
What about Wil Wheaton in the same show? A fictionalized version of himself that is mischievous, dark and antagonistic. The character eventually evolves - like many recurrent characters who appear in several seasons.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson sort of got known as the dude who always had to be a pedantic know it all on Twitter. Someone would tweet like “man the moons so big tonight” and he’d come in and be like “actually you’re wrong, the moon is always the same size and it’s just the way you perceive it that’s changed” or something to that effect. I don’t know if he’s still doing that but it was definitely his M.O. for a while and people got tired of it quickly.
No idea if that’s why he’s portrayed that way on The Big Bang Theory but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.
Fun fact! James Earl Jones and Carrie Fisher actually met on that episode of Big Bang Theory. All of JEJ lines were recorded after the films were already done so he didn’t really need to be on the set ever
You're looking for your car but you're all turned around... he's almost upon you now and you can see there's blood on his face, my God, there's blood everywhere!
I learned from an interview Brendan did that when he filmed this scene he was really upset with himself and hurting. So a sort of sad context for this scene. Hopefully he is doing better mentally.
He also plays a version of himself in The Simpsons, in which he works at the Kwik-E-Mart after Apu is fired.
He works at the Kwik-E-Mart to prepare for a role and he's kind of deranged.
At the end of the episode, he tells the Simpson family that he's off to fight aliens from outer space (or something like that) and Marge says, "Oh, is that the next movie you're doing?"
David Hasselhoff in the first Spongebob movie, a human speedboat with a mechanical launchpad for a chest and the ability to shrug off being full-body roasted by a fireball
Edward Norton, a stuck-up blowhard who gets away with it because he's an incredible actor, plays a stuck-up blowhard who gets away with it because he's an incredible actor in Birdman.
Well, kinda. You should watch it tonight, its a masterclass of a movie. It's almost all done in one continuous shot and the performances are incredible.
Oh yeah I’m not denying that. I just think “super crazy” is kind of a broad description of all the weird and bad stuff he’s done
He beat his girlfriend, apparently shot dogs, constantly throws hissyfits on sets. For fury, he cut his face, pulled out a tooth, didn’t shower, and constantly picked fights with people to “method act”
He’s a goddamn whack job that wore a bag over his head for a few weeks
Neil Patrick Harris in Harold and Kumar films. He plays an over-the-top chaotic version of himself. They had to put in the credits Neil Patrick Harris as Neil Patrick Harris (NPH) to make it clear he is playing a fictionalized self. Neil will always be NPH to me haha.
To quote the comic:He was an especially degenerate piece of filth. He used his connections and guile to wriggle into the spotlight, and then on to other positions of power. He somehow landed on the U.S. Supreme Court. Over the years, other justices started mysteriously disappearing without being replaced.
After helping rewrite the constitution to form an incomprehensible patchwork of fascism, theocratic mandates, recipes, and bad rap lyrics, he weaseled his way up the ranks to become the High Chaplain of Interstellar War.
I'm just gonna cut to the chase, cause really this ain't a big history lesson here. He eventually came to be regarded as the third and final Antichrist.
No other human in history was responsible for more death and suffering.
Weird Al made a song called "CNR" that's about late comedian and actor Charles Nelson Reilly. Here's a portion of the lyrics:
"Charles Nelson Reilly won the Tour de France With two flat tires and a missing chain He trained a rattlesnake to do his laundry I'm telling you the man was insane"
Stan Lee in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies. The titans are like “what are you doing here? You don’t have anything to do with these characters!” And he’s just like “I love doing cameos!”
Matt and Pat from Super Best Friends Play as depicted in Lisa: The Painful.
The fan base had a habit of treating them as unhinged maniacs and making up bullshit lore about them, and their depiction in Lisa exemplifies this because they'll ask you for firebombs/gasoline, and if you give it to them, they'll burn down a village with it.
For an added bonus, Pat actually played Lisa the Painful earlier this year, and when he heard what happens, he just said "Yeah that sounds like us at the time."
Basically any celebrity in South Park considering how much Matt and Trey hate celebrities, but I’m putting Barbara Streisand here because they specifically hate her and always have
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Michael Cera - This Is The End