Actors Who Have Forged Fine Careers Playing Themselves

Filed under: Celebrities, Entertainment, General Musings

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Starring Vince Vaughn as the fast-talking funnyman!

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Starring Shirley MacLaine as the quirky, no-holds-barred cynic!

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Starring Ben Stiller as the fastidious, slightly neurotic nice guy!

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Starring Owen Wilson as the boyishly charming rogue!

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Starring Jaime Pressly as the trash-talking, cleavage-baring redneck!

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Others…? Starring _________ as __________!


Posted by Candy ♦ January 31, 2008

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24 Responses to “Actors Who Have Forged Fine Careers Playing Themselves”

  1. Vern

    Eddie Murphy as a drag queen!

  2. Vern

    Clive Owen as the sexiest man alive!

  3. lisa

    Tom Cruise in denial

  4. Bee Hind

    Jack Nicholson’s been doing it for decades.

  5. Yay Vern!

  6. gringo

    Jessica Simpson as dumb blonde

  7. sarah

    -Julia Roberts as America’s sweetheart with an annoying laugh that she uses in EVERY movie she makes, and said laugh is for some strange reason featured in every commercial for her newest piece of trash movie
    -Bruce Willis as the tough smart ass
    -Robin Williams as the manic _______ (fill in the blank)
    -Kate Hudson as a poor imitation of her mother playing a ditzy blonde
    -Kevin Costner as the slow talking dim-wit with an IQ of 80, but we’re supposed to think he’s hot so it’s o.k. that he’s incredibly dumb and boring
    -Mike Myers as the obnoxious dip shit with the comic maturity of a 12 year old
    -Nicholas Cage as the weird dude
    -But the winner HAS to be ….. Jack Nicholson ….. who has been phoning in the same smarmy performance for years and years

  8. Annie

    Nick Cage now as the weird OLD dude.
    (He’s showing his age.)

  9. suzanne

    Sean Penn- he has no personality - save being an asshole.

  10. Chris Tucker as the high pitched fast talking counterpart.
    Jennifer Aniston as the girl next door.
    Lisa Kudrow as the kooky girl next door (I think Friends was so successful b/c they were all playing themselves).
    Adam Sandler as — well, Candy said it better than anyone a week or so ago. big dumb kid or something like that.
    John Travolta as a dancing queen.
    Fred Thompson as a stale, gruff politician.

  11. jewed

    Matthew McConaghey as a maybe-inbred,
    redneck quick-talker
    with no sense of personal-space ‘issues’.

  12. Jenn F.

    Lindsay Lohan as a young girl with issues.

  13. Adrienne

    Jessica Simpson as a ditzy blonde with a creepy, inappropriate father and nothing going for her except huge boobs.

  14. Mateo

    Mateo as High Priest of The Altar of the Superficial and True Believer in All Things Candy! Oh, and Paula Abdul starring as a Hot Mess on Idol. Tuesday was a classic. “Burp!!”

  15. Aine

    Morgan Freeman as the calm, wise advice giving old man
    Angelina Jolie as an over sexed bombshell with some serious issues
    Hayden Christensen as….a piece of wood.

  16. Sean Connery as a Scottish guy, even when he’s commanding a Russian submarine!

  17. Mmmm, Sean Connery–no, wait–Mmmm, Ewan McGregor!

  18. Aine

    midevil, I second that “mmmmm”

  19. Adam Sandler as a big kid always goofing off.

  20. Holy Terror

    ROTFL @ all, especially kellyd!!

  21. librarian kathleen

    And Mel Gibson as the leering,
    stumbling stepfather.

  22. George Clooney as a lovable rogue.
    Brad Pitt as a hunk who wants to be taken seriously (but isn’t)
    Matt Damon as a high I.Q. pinch hitter.
    Ben Affleck as a putz.
    Keanu as a putz.
    Hugh Grant as a putz.

  23. Jo Jo

    Clint Eastwood as the stogie-chewing, soft-spoken, wise, rough-hewn, “Blondie” cowboy.

  24. audrey

    meg ryan as the hapless whiner who finds love with the guy who seems so wrong for her that he’s somehow just right

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