# 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")
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/61 "2009-04-02T16:15:58Z")
Dean Martins drinking was mostly an act until after his divorce.
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### Author:  [@2ply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2ply)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/62 "2009-08-26T19:49:15Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> An example is Dan Whitney aka Larry the Cable Guy. For the past decade or so his interviews, movies, PSAs, etc., are all as Larry the Cable Guy. He basically lives the character whenever cameras are rolling (presumably becoming Dan again when with his wife, friends, family, etc.).
Whitney did a 60 Minutes interview a year or so back as himself and took the interviewer around his him town in Iowa.
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### Author:  [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/63 "2009-08-27T09:10:25Z")
Paul Reubens also had cameos in Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie and The Blues Brothers, both not in the Pee-Wee character.
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### Author:  [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/64 "2009-08-27T14:34:17Z")
> [@Stan\_Shmenge](#):
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> Paul Reubens also had cameos in Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie and The Blues Brothers, both not in the Pee-Wee character.
He also did a truly demented deformed in-bred last-of-the-line Prince character on 30 Rock. Also, he had a recurring role on Pushing Daisies. Again - not Pee-Wee. He works a lot.
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### Author:  [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-always-appear-as-a-fictional-alter-ego/491435/65 "2009-08-31T17:53:16Z")
> [@acsenray](#):
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> 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.
Yeah, I’ve certainly heard him give “out of character” interviews as “Col-bear,” so unless he’s getting AWFULLY meta, I think that’s the pronunciation he just uses.
In fact, the only time I’ve heard him use “Col-bert” is IN character, when he mutters to himself while aping a nervous breakdown / panic attack.
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