He also richly mocked his Baywatch persona in the recent Spongebob movie.
I give Ben Affleck a few points for appearing in that “Frondi” sketch on SNL, that kept belaboring how OBVIOUS it should have been that “Gigli” was going to be a bomb.
Some people do a lot better with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog than others. John Tesh, for instance, got points for his appearances.
I remember back when Craig Kilborn was host of The Daily Show, he used to regularly rip on John Tesh. Eventually they had him on as a guest, and he came out and immediately took a fake swing at Kilborn. During the interview he had a really good sense of humor about getting razzed about his music, and he was one of the few celebrities to ace “Five Questions”.
I think Adam West is a pretty good sport, given his character on Family Guy. He plays “Adam West,” a clearly insane and imbecilic mayor. Adam West, the actor, doesn’t seem afraid to say completely outrageous and ridiculous things, and even make fun of his Batman persona. He’s one of the best things about Family Guy.
Kelly Ripa has:
- Filmed a fake TV ad in which she was on crack (through shampoo).
- Played herself as a raving lunatic hopped up on God-knows-what wandering Thailand.
- Played Opal in the TV movie of the week The Ignorance Fighter: the Cecil Adams Story.
- Voiced herself in a cartoon bit that depicted her as a brain-sucking alien being in disguise.
- Kicked “herself” in the face for being too perky.
Not bad at all!
He’s like Shatner, really, except I have never heard stories about West being a diva. And he’s always been in on the joke as far as I know. It seems like every cartoon how out there - because a lot of them are made by people who grew up watching West’s Batman - eventually does an episode with a Batman-like character, usually a spoof, and West always seems to show up to do the voice himself.
And he confirmed that Mirimax has a security code for “Disappearing a dead hooker from Ben Affleck’s trailer”. He seems to have a pretty good sense of humor.
Before he outed himself as Aniti Jew Man and back when I thought he was the bee’s Knee’s, Mel Gibson had won either a razzie or Hastie Pudding award for something and he accepted the award in person and revealed he was wearing a woman’s bra underneath. I thought that was pretty funny.
Of course, now, we all realize he is a closeted anti-semitic boozer far right loon, but we were all young and innocent back in the early 90’s.
Jim Carrey, in an outtake for a scene from “Liar Liar” (shown during the closing credits), is surprised when an actress kiddingly changes her line in the script to instead chide him for “overacting”. Jim laughs and gives the actress a hug – he obviously took it well.
Interestingly, in 1986, West supplied the voice of Batman for The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, effectively the last season of Hanna-Barbera’s Superfriends, at a time when the cartoon actually became quite serious, dispensing with the childish elements of earlier versions and paving the way for the grimmer Bruce Timm adaptations. It’s easily the most (arguably only) serious Batman portrayal West ever did.
“They’re on to me!!”
I’d never thought much of Jessica Simpson, and when the story came out about her wondering on “Newlyweds” if “Chicken of the Sea” brand tuna was tuna or chicken, I snickered just like everyone else.
So I must say that I found new respect for her when she went on Saturday Night Live and did the fake commercial for “Chicken of the Sea” brand tuna, “Tuna of the Dirt” brand chicken (look for the can with the fishing cowboy on the label!), “Turkey of the Jungle” brand bananas (mascot: Porky the scuba-diving chicken), “Pork of the Orchard” brand apples, “Chicken of the Medicine Cabinet” brand turkey-flavored aspirin, and Shoepolish of the Outhouse brand typing paper. All fine products brought to you by DynaCorp, the Kangaroo Rat of the Billiard Room!
Anyway, that took a great sense of humor. Good for her.
Speaking of Timm, Adam West did a great job as the voice of The Grey Ghost (the childhood inspiration of a young Bruce Wayne) on B:TAS.
When I met him he did NOT have a sense of humor about Star Trek. Nope, none.
(1984-5ish)
Well, if he didn’t have one before directing Trek 5, he’d be nuts not to have one afterward.
Well, what do you mean? What happened?
-FrL-
Why do you say that?
-FrL-
He looked upset about the gay jokes people were making about him at that roast, and eventually he got out of his chair and started licking people. Supposedly he bit somebody backstage, too. Maybe he really does have a sense of humor about himself and he’s just on drugs.
My husband and I just finished watching the first season of Entourage on DVD. We loved the episodes with Gary Busey playing himself. Only a good sport would play himself as crazy as everyone says he is.