Celebrities who always appear as a fictional alter-ego

[DrDeth]

Dean Martins drinking was mostly an act until after his divorce.

[2ply]

@Sampiro

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.

[Stan_Shmenge]

Paul Reubens also had cameos in Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie and The Blues Brothers, both not in the Pee-Wee character.

[Icarus]

@Stan_Shmenge

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.

[typoink]

@acsenray

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.