as discussed here: The Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen directed End of the World stars a bunch of famous people as themselves. I will anticipate it with morbid curiousity, join me.
also Apatow was not involved with that film, and that film does something very different that can't really be construed as "exaggerated celebrity cameo", because you would have to apply that criterion to literally the entire cast.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
yeah, This is the End is different (even if I don't hold in quite as high esteem) because the characters playing themselves is the whole point
rather than just LeBron or whoever turning up and acting incongruously
― Number None, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
Neil Patrick Harris in the Harold & Kumar may have started this. Apatow's convention is more Retro Band Appearing at an Intimate Venue: Rush, Snoop, Ryan Adams, etc.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 3 June 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
wow i had forgotten that ryan adams is a major plot point of this is 40
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 3 June 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
and Graham Parker lol
― Number None, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
Neil Patrick Harris in the Harold & Kumar may have started this
nah, it was Being John Malkovich
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
Or like... the simpsons
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Monday, 3 June 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
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
― Number None, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
Seinfeld did this a lot
― omar little, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
“I’m Keith Hernandez.”
― omar little, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
Well this conversation started with “I blame gervais” so it was already going down that road
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Monday, 3 June 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
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
― Number None, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
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)
― akm, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
and in The Simpsons, most of the best guest stars weren't even playing themselves
― Number None, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
idk just off the top of my head there was woods, west, midler, all those baseball players, spock...
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Monday, 3 June 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
The first real celebrity cameo as joke prob was Kareem in Airplane
― Jeff the grown man (voodoo chili), Monday, 3 June 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_i6ldpkWfU
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 June 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
this maybe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extra_Girl
― Number None, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
Kareem was a big one. So was Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
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…
― mark s, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
i guess the titanic one is kind of a documentary really
Oooh, per another site, Cecil B. DeMille in Sunset Boulevard!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
and I doubt it was a comedy role... xpost
― Number None, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
they were happier times
― mark s, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/6/3/18649763/actors-playing-themselves-cameos-keanu-reeves-always-be-my-maybe
― DJI, Monday, 3 June 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
One of favorite celebrity-playing-awful-version-of-self-cameos is probably Anna Faris in .... Keanu.
― akm, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 02:56 (four years ago) link
Also Buster Keaton as washed-up and depressed Buster Keaton in Sunset Blvd
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
Every episode of Easy season 3 fills me with more dread than any Black Mirror scenario.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Sunday, 9 June 2019 04:30 (four years ago) link
Easy had one great episode: Side Hustle, series 2 episode 3, with Odinaka Malachi Ezeokoli and Karley Sciortino.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 9 June 2019 10:06 (four years ago) link
Ooh, that's right!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 9 June 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
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
― DJI, Monday, 10 June 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
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.
― Roz, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
another YSI thread, and in this one i post the tracks from "barbra streisand... and other musical instruments"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
oh my god pic.twitter.com/Ctez4k3JWU— Karen Chee (@karencheee) June 12, 2019
― na (NA), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
LOL!
"teacher's pet!"
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
oh my god...he admit it!
― Jeff the grown man (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
OMG @ What We Do In the Shadows episode 7 celebrity cameos! Not like the celebrity cameos discussed up thread.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Monday, 17 June 2019 07:48 (four years ago) link
I know, right?!
― kinder, Monday, 17 June 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
My favourite joke in the whole series is the one about witches in the last ep.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Monday, 17 June 2019 12:24 (four years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
"Easy" is bizarre. Who is it for, and why did I watch all of it? ... oh no ....
― maffew12, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
it's like What if "Movie 43' were a drama series
― maffew12, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
Easy keeps coming up but I watched 2-3 episodes and was like...blech. Most modern relationships are really, really boring/annoying.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
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."
― Yerac, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
is this an accurate portrayal of modern American relationships?? Comments?I make beer so I've taken those brothers episodes especially hard.
― maffew12, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link