# Celebrities who always appear as a fictional alter-ego
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 31, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435 "2009-03-31T15:07:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/41 "2009-04-01T12:29:29Z")
For the last couple of decades of his life, Clayton Moore always appeared in public as the Lone Ranger.
When the owners of the character got a court order for him to stop, he traded the mask for a pair of wraparound sunglasses.
After they dropped the litigation, he went back to the mask.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/42 "2009-04-01T12:33:09Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#):
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> I had no idea Bobcat Goldthwait was a “character”. I just thought that was him. A strange, crazy weird comedian.
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> Ahem.
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> A strange, crazy weird comedian who landed Nikki Cox.
He _is_ a strange, crazy weird comedian. But the voice was a put on. Even then he didn’t do it all the time like when he was on shows like Howard Stern which gave him a longer time to talk and not just do his act.
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/43 "2009-04-01T13:19:43Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Thank you for that image.
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> No, really. Thank you.
The Pearl Necklace was named after her.
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### Author:  [@CutterJohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CutterJohn)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/44 "2009-04-01T13:27:23Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> He _is_ a strange, crazy weird comedian. But the voice was a put on. Even then he didn’t do it all the time like when he was on shows like Howard Stern which gave him a longer time to talk and not just do his act.
Funny though.. I listened to his comedy album ‘I Don’t Mean to Insult You, but You Look Like Bobcat Goldthwait’, and surprisingly, it was hilarious. I had expected the police academy crap(and, unsurprisingly, he does do a bit in a self mocking kind of way), but wow, great performance, and a truly funny comedian.
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/45 "2009-04-01T13:44:14Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> They are themselves, just with Ray Teller being quiet during shows.
And Teller even talked in _Penn & Teller Get Killed_.
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### Author:  [@Erasmus\_Darwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erasmus_Darwin)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/46 "2009-04-01T13:53:06Z")
> [@dzeiger](#):
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> I think John Bloom pretty much always appears in public as Joe Bob Briggs.
He did “God Stuff” segments for the Daily Show as John Bloom.
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/47 "2009-04-01T14:09:56Z")
The guys in Green Day are transforming themselves into muppets, especially Tre Cool.
Lemony Snicket
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### Author:  [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/48 "2009-04-01T14:13:18Z")
Does Leon Redbone count?
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### Author:  [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/49 "2009-04-01T14:33:33Z")
> [@astorian](#):
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> I’ve never met him or talked to him, but I’m told Andrew Silverstein is NOTHING like Andrew Dice Clay.
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> But I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen him in public as anything but the Diceman.
I think that was a put-on that he went with as his career started to flag. From what I can tell, he’s pretty darn close to the Diceman in real life. He did a reality show recently where he was trying to break back into the stand-up circuit. It was rather sad.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/50 "2009-04-01T14:46:11Z")
> [@audit1](#):
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> Minnie Pearl
Not quite. Minnie Pearl would show up at awards, benefits and other public gatherings as her real self, the wealthy and cultivated Sarah Coffey of Nashville. To my knowledge she never _performed_ as any character other than Minnie Pearl, but it was just a character.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/51 "2009-04-01T15:04:53Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> His interviews can be confusing because he’ll flit between Stephen Colber **t** (hard T- his real self) and Stephen Colbert (‘bear’- his fictional self). It can be confusing. I’ve wondered how he keeps sane playing two people at all times. (Still a shocker that his ‘real’ self is a Sunday School teacher at a Catholic church.)
I don’t think he varies the pronunciation according to whether he’s in his persona. From what I understand, he switched to the Frenchified pronunciation while in college and has stuck with it since then.
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/52 "2009-04-01T16:30:15Z")
I don’t think I ever saw Paul Rubens appear in any other form than as Pee-Wee Herman (excepting his mug shot from the arrest).
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### Author:  [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/53 "2009-04-01T16:46:57Z")
Paul Reubens played a vampire in the movie version of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.
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### Author:  [@The\_Superhero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Superhero)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/54 "2009-04-01T17:18:06Z")
> [@Lemur866](#):
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> Paul Reubens played a vampire in the movie version of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.
And a cameo appearance as the Penguin’s father in “Batman Returns.”
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/55 "2009-04-01T17:25:36Z")
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned Cassandra Peterson. She has had a few small credits playing other characters but she’s essentially always appeared as Elvira.
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### Author:  [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/56 "2009-04-01T17:28:40Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#):
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> I don’t think I ever saw Paul Rubens appear in any other form than as Pee-Wee Herman (excepting his mug shot from the arrest).
It may be that you just didn’t recognize him, since he’s been in quite a few movies and tv shows since then. He was in Mystery Men (underrated but great flick, in my opinion) and on 30 Rock, Pushing Daisies, Reno 911, and so on, including doing voices for many cartoons.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/57 "2009-04-01T17:37:34Z")
> [@](#):
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> I don’t think anyone’s mentioned Cassandra Peterson. She has had a few small credits playing other characters but she’s essentially always appeared as Elvira.
I’ve seen those bits, but she also has an entire video of her not as Elvira.
She also did the feature on The Making of Elvira’s Haunted Hills entirely out of character.
(I strongly recommend that flick – better than her earlier film, at least to fans of the Roger Corman/Vincent Price Poe filoms, which it spoofs wonderfully.)
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/58 "2009-04-01T17:38:03Z")
> [@filling\_pages](#):
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> It may be that you just didn’t recognize him, since he’s been in quite a few movies and tv shows since then. He was in Mystery Men (underrated but great flick, in my opinion) and on 30 Rock, Pushing Daisies, Reno 911, and so on, including doing voices for many cartoons.
Yeah, you’re probably right. Now that you mention the voice thing, I remember his as one of the voices of the horrible kids in _The Nightmare Before Christmas_.
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### Author:  [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/59 "2009-04-01T17:40:16Z")
Hunter Thompson got to the point where he wasn’t even sure anymore.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/60 "2009-04-01T18:05:49Z")
> [@Lemur866](#):
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> Paul Reubens played a vampire in the movie version of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.
> [@The\_Superhero](#):
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> And a cameo appearance as the Penguin’s father in “Batman Returns.”
> [@filling\_pages](#):
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> It may be that you just didn’t recognize him, since he’s been in quite a few movies and tv shows since then. He was in Mystery Men (underrated but great flick, in my opinion) and on 30 Rock, Pushing Daisies, Reno 911, and so on, including doing voices for many cartoons.
As well as the ones mentioned above, he had a recurring role on the last season or 2 of Murphy Brown. He was very recognizable, but not Pee Wee in any way.
He’s got 2 movies coming out this year, apparently.
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