Not sure if this counts, but comedian Jim Breuer did a skit were he parodied Brian Johnson of AC/DC. Johnson was so amused by it that he once teamed up with Breuer on stage, where (I think) they both did the Hokey Pokey in the style of AC/DC.
The reverse example might be the Finnish rock band Leningrad Cowboys, which started with a mockumentary about a rock band touring America and is now a bona fide act (and has been for years). Similarly Spinal Tap, who released an album with their hits from the film fans has, AFAIK, a few gigs together.
Roger Moore also parodied himself in North Sea Hijack (aka ffolkes). It was not a comedy, but his character was the Anti-Bond.
His performance as Inspector Clouseau in Curse of the Pink Panther was also a parody of his Hollywood image.
And then there was his appearance on The Muppet Show.
Pierce Brosnan played an Anti-Bond in The Tailor of Panama.
If you see the new Matrix movie, Resurrections, you’ll definitely get a taste of this kind of parody.
I don’t know if they willingly parodied their earlier work, or if the studio forced them to do it, but Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney,Jr., and Vincent Price appeared in various Abbott and Costello movies.
Fabio became famous as a model.
Another, much-less-fit guy started parodying him as “Flabio”.
Fabio’s lawyer asked if he wanted to sue.
Fabio laughed and said, “Let’s do a calendar together!”
In a similar fashion, the October 26, 1962 episode of the TV show Route 66 – “Lizard’s Leg and Owlet’s Wing” – broadcast not coincidentally just before Halloween featured Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr., and Peter Lorre reprising their old roles.
…and the October 28, 1987 episode of Highway to Heaven was brilliantly entitled “I was a Middle-Aged Werewolf”. The series starred Michael Landon, who had starred in the cheapie I was a Teenage Werewolf back in 1957. Clips of Landon appear on TVs throughout the episode
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Weird Al Yankovic has done parodies of Weird Al parodies on The Simpsons and 30 Rock.
I’ll have to look that one up. It sounds like someone was referring to that “so bad it’s — just bad” spy movie “John Goldfarb Please Come Home.” (1965) (18% on Rotten Tomatoes)
Edgar Rice Burroughs was obviously displeased with Hollywood’s treatment of Tarzan, his Ape Man, especially then then-new Johnny Weissmuller movies (with its grunting, illiterate ‘Me Tarzan, you Jane’ characterization. Burroughs’ Tarzan was a self-taught literate and spoke several languages), so he wrote Tarzan and the Lion Man in 1933, a year after Weissmuller’s Tarzan the Ape Man was released.
In the book, a Hollywood actor goes to Africa to film a Tarzan movie and screws up in multiple ways (the real Tarzan never swung on a vine. The Hollywood ape-man can’t even climb a tree). At the end of the book, Tarzan himself tries out for the role, and is rejected as “not the type”.
Sort of like this, but in reverse – John Gardner (the “Profesor Moriarty” Jognb Gardner, not the “Grendel” john Gardner) wrote a series of spy spoofs about a coward named Boysie Oakes who gets reluctantly recruited into a spy agency, sorta like Cary Grant in North by Northwest. He appeared in eight novels, some short stories, and one movie. Then they approached him to take over writing James Bond novels (there hadn’t been a new one since Kingsley Amis’ Colonel Sun in 1968 and Christopher Wood’s two abysmal movie novelizations in 1977 and 1979). So he wrote 14 original novels and two novelizations of movies between 1981 and 1996. None of Gardner’s novels were filmed, although I think they were thinking about doing his first, Licence Renewed, but ended up doing a completely different plot for the film Licence to Kill
Here is Chris Squire’s parody of his 1981 Christmas single with fellow Yes member Alan White:
George Lazenby as JB in 1983 and 0070 in 2019
Did you ever see Lookwell, a pilot that wasn’t picked up. The plot was Adam West as a has-been actor who thinks he’s a detective, and tries to help police investigations, but his deductions are all stupid. I thought it was pretty good, but I don’t know if it could have sustained a whole ser8ies.
Mark Knopfler and Guy Fletcher played on Weird Al’s parody of Money For Nothing.
And Sting recorded a parody of Every Breath You Take for 80’s satirical show Spitting Image.
Are you kidding? I watched a lot of CC&MM.
I still remember one of the first things I laughed at that wasn’t a joke…
from an episode where they go to Paris, where the head Inspecteur says (avec l’accent cartoonée):
“Ah, you are Courageous Cat, no?”
“I am Courageous Cat, yes!”
My tiny little brain thought “I can’t wait to use that line on someone!” Wellll, it’s now sixty years later and I’ve never had anyone end a question to me with “…no?”
Then you’ve had a wasted life, no?
The show Once a Hero had West playing a TV actor who was strongly identified with the hero Captain Justice and was frustrated with not being able to get other roles.
I have to think that WEst eventually came to terms with his typecasting and ran with it. In addition to the roles mentioned here, he voiced Catman/Adam West on The Fairly Odd Parents, voiced Young Mermaid Man on Spongebob Squarepants, played the villain Breathtaker (and Dr. Phoenix) on the superhero series Black Scorpion, and numerous other superhero/villain parts. He certainly didn’t lack for work.
Yeah, and to be honest, I think his character in Johnny Bravo/Family Guy may have been his best work. Just deliciously absurdist.
Then I’ve had a wasted life, yes.
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THANK YOU! Seriously.
Now that that’s done, I can get on with my life!
Where’s that Course Catalog, and the jazz bagpipe tutorials, and that Emigrating to Costa Rica thread?
Jim Davis doing the Silver Surfer and Galactus as John and Garfield.
Marlon Brando was in the movie The Freshman with Matthew Broderick, almost-parodying his Godfather role.
