# Actors / comedians who played a worse version of themselves

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**Created:** [February 18, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-comedians-who-played-a-worse-version-of-themselves/997737 "2024-02-18T18:22:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-comedians-who-played-a-worse-version-of-themselves/997737/62 "2024-02-19T12:05:47Z")

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> [@Loach](#):
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> There was another thread on this a while ago. I can’t remember if I started it or just participated in it.

This one?

> [@Artists who parodied their own work](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-parodied-their-own-work/957323/1):
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> I’ll bet most people on the Board won’t recognize Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse, which was a made-for-TV cartoon series from 1960. They live in the Cat Cave, travel in the Catmobile and the Catplane, and can be called by the Cat Signal searchlight. Instead of a Utility Belt with lots of gadgets, he has an apparently inexhaustable supply of themed “guns”. It’s very obviously a parody of Batman and Robin. What’s surprising is that it’s by Batman creator Bob Kane (plus Gerald Rappoport) […](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAmmT8Ng0mw)

I found it accidentally while looking up James Van Der Beek who played himself (sort of ) in _[Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Trust_the_B----_in_Apartment_23)_.

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