# Actors / comedians who played a worse version of themselves

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**Tags:** actor-characters\
**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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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-comedians-who-played-a-worse-version-of-themselves/997737/76 "2024-02-19T21:38:15Z")

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> [@Gyrate](#):
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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.
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> This one?
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> [Artists who parodied their own work](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-parodied-their-own-work/957323/1)
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> 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)_.

I found a couple like it but not exactly what I remembered. My memory might be faulty. This is the oldest one I saw.

> [@Celebrities who played a fictionalized version of themselves](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-played-a-fictionalized-version-of-themselves/507911):
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> When I first saw the [Celebrities who always appear as a fictional alter-ego](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=512385) thread, my first thought was Jennifer Grey who played a fictionalized version of herself in [It’s Like You Know](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168340/) – a show that I thought was pretty good and didn’t deserve to die. She doesn’t exactly fit that topic though because she doesn’t do that everywhere, just on that show. There are other actors who’ve done the same like Jerry Seinfeld playing himself on his show, Larry David as well. I would even say that just ab…

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