# Seemingly random actors in music videos **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2016, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-random-actors-in-music-videos/750312 "2016-03-27T05:28:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-random-actors-in-music-videos/750312/41 "2016-03-30T15:23:43Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > But the bigger WTF is Puff Daddy appearing in Lonely Island’s _“Go Kindergarten”_ LOL. I’ve never seen. Puff Daddy’s appearance is literally the least random thing in that video! ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-random-actors-in-music-videos/750312/42 "2016-03-30T15:29:36Z")
Run DMC had Calvert Deforest (Larry “Bud” Melman) in their King of Rock video. It was a little random. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-random-actors-in-music-videos/750312/43 "2016-03-30T16:04:53Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > It’s a bit dated and I’ll admit I only have a vague idea who the athletes are, but it’s worth a watch. The two Mets are Keith Hernandez and Mookie Wilson. The Giants are Sean Landeta (#5), Mark Ingram (#82), and Carl Banks (#58). Can’t read the jersey number of the guy in the back, and I don’t recognize him. Ohh, man, John Candy as Yosh Shmenge. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-random-actors-in-music-videos/750312/44 "2016-03-31T08:45:38Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > The two Mets are Keith Hernandez and Mookie Wilson. > > The Giants are Sean Landeta (#5), Mark Ingram (#82), and Carl Banks (#58). Can’t read the jersey number of the guy in the back, and I don’t recognize him. Found a list - it’s Karl Nelson. ---
**Author:** ![Scougs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scougs/32/3158_2.png) [@Scougs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scougs)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-random-actors-in-music-videos/750312/45 "2016-03-31T10:46:20Z")
> [@edwards\_beard](#): > > Arnold Schwartzenegger in Guns N Roses You Could Be Mine That’s hardly “seemingly random” consider it’s a movie tie-in video for Terminator 2. That could be a whole other thread, but the best of the movie tie-in video genre, which has the actor from the movie appearing randomly in the middle of it, has to be [Princes of the Universe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJ8lpCQbyw) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-random-actors-in-music-videos/750312/46 "2016-03-31T11:32:15Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > How about: > Eric Roberts in The Killers’ “Mr Brightside” > [@xizor](#): > > Some of these people get around in the music video world > He also is the cop in Rihanna’s _“Bitch better have my money”_ Also in (two) Maria Carey videos, _It’s Like That_ and \*We Belong Together - (along with Wentworth Miller, but he was just starting in _Prison Break_ at the time so I don’t know if his previous roles would rank him as famous yet.) Alan Rickman was in Texas’ video for _In Demand_. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-random-actors-in-music-videos/750312/47 "2016-03-31T13:10:19Z")
Nichole Kidman appeared in Pat Wilson’s _Bop Girl_ [video](https://youtu.be/svSOepHyPvc?t=138). Wasn’t famous then, but soon became much better known. So if you saw it a few years later, it would be a “What the ??” moment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-random-actors-in-music-videos/750312.md?page=2)