# Suprising/Enjoyable Cameos **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872 "2004-06-23T20:55:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/41 "2004-07-06T18:16:36Z")
Mel Gibson’s appearance at the end of _Fairy Tails: A True Story_ was a pleasant surprise and a pretty bow for the sweet packeage that is this film. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/42 "2004-07-06T18:20:04Z")
Thanks RealityChuck, I was going to post something like that… As a good example, Robert Deniro in Brazil (as posted earlier) wasn’t a cameo, but merely a very cool guy playing a small supporting role. It seems like people also confuse being recognizable with being a cameo. For example, any Christopher Walken appearance will inevitably be deemed a cameo, the guy’s aura and reputation has surpassed his ability to get recognized just for acting a simple movie role. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/43 "2004-07-06T23:41:40Z")
Brad Pitt and Matt Damon in _Confessions of a Dangerous Mind_, playing two guys on _The Dating Game_. I keep thinking that Harrison Ford had a cameo in the end of the Christian Slater/Joe Pesci movie. Speaking of Robin Williams, how about his cameo as a mime instructor in _Shakes the Clown_? He’s listed in the credits as Marty Fromage. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/44 "2004-07-07T01:39:27Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > A lot of people hated the movie but Sean Connery’s arrival as King Richard in the Kevin Costner “Robin Hood” completely redeemed it. This was the first example I thought of when I saw the thread title. I didn’t like the movie much, but I also didn’t like the cameo, because the whole reaction (and in the show I saw, the whole audience cheered) was not because the king had returned, but because it was _Sean Connery_! In a comedy, a cameo that draws attention to the star, instead of the character, can be funny. But in a drama, it just breaks the fourth wall, and proves that even the filmmakers didn’t think this film was very good, and needed a cheap gimmick to save it. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/45 "2004-07-07T01:43:07Z")
I was watching _Beavis and Butthead Do America_, and it came to the part where B & B meet two older guys in the desert who, the implication goes, might just have knocked up B & B’s mothers about 9 months before they were born, and I thought one of the voices sounded familiar. So I watched the credits, and sure enough, it was Earl Hofert! (He’s the guy who played the crusty old seaman in _Cabin Boy_ who asked Chris Elliott if he’d like to buy a monkey. You might more easily recognize his real name: David Letterman.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872.md?page=2)