Best/Favourite Cameo appearance ever...

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Has anyone else seen the "Clerks" cartoon series? His appearance on that was funny as fuck.

I've only seen it once, which episode was he in? And was it as funny as The court episode with "The Honourable Judge Reinhold presiding."?

[wheatgod]

not sure if youd count it as a cameo, but richard wilson in father ted.

[Deadman97]

I've only seen it once, which episode was he in?

He was in the episode where the town gets quarantined because Randall's convinced there's an outbreak of The Deadly Motaba Virus. He played the chief government spook in the hazmat suit, and it was reeeeally funny. I enjoyed that series a lot, although I can see why it crashed and burned, it was very in-jokey and cliquey. Sort of like this place ; )

[Peking O]

It's got to be a three-way (sorry) toss up (literally) between The Buttnicks 3, Squirt 'em Cowgirl and Quickies.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0131440/

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Brian Conley in Equilibrium was a bizarre surprise.

[VegaLA]

George Romeros cameo in The Silence of the lambs was very discreet.

A bit too discrete for me, that one. Where is he?

Your'll spot him in the scene where Clarence manages to sneak into the large hall where Lector is being held captive in a cage. She starts chatting to him but security soons come racing in and escorts her away but Hanniblal then lets on some other info and she runs towards him to hear what he has to say well... the man with the radio (he is talking into it as he escorts her away and is then focused on chasing after her as she runs back to Hannibal) is Mr Romero. Not quite sure how he got involved in that one other then that scene was shot in Pittsburgh, I wanted to ask him when I met him early last Summer but it slipped my mind.

[Solid Snail]

George Romeros cameo in The Silence of the lambs was very discreet.

A bit too discrete for me, that one. Where is he?

Your'll spot him in the scene where Clarence manages to sneak into the large hall where Lector is being held captive in a cage. She starts chatting to him but security soons come racing in and escorts her away but Hanniblal then lets on some other info and she runs towards him to hear what he has to say well... the man with the radio (he is talking into it as he escorts her away and is then focused on chasing after her as she runs back to Hannibal) is Mr Romero. Not quite sure how he got involved in that one other then that scene was shot in Pittsburgh, I wanted to ask him when I met him early last Summer but it slipped my mind.

Oh right. I'll look out for that next time I see it. I guess I didn't notice him first time since I don't know what he looks like. So, where did you meet Romero?

And you calling Jodie Foster's character 'Clarence' has just made me laugh out loud. So thanks.

[Z/Sb]

Brian Conley in Equilibrium was a bizarre surprise.

Brian Conley's in Equilibrium? Seriously?! I really have to see that if it's true!

EDIT: You're right as well - I just did a quick google and he really does have a small cameo in the film... Thanks for letting me know about that!

Reminds me when I went to see that Geena Davis/Samuel Jackson action thriller "The Long Kiss Goodnight". One of the bad guys in it was Patrick Malahide aka Sgt. Chisholm from Minder! It wasn't a cameo but it was totally unexpected...
And that guy who had that wanking problem in Brasseye was in the remake of Disney's "The Parent Trap" as the butler. Simon Kunz, his name is. I'll just never forget the image of him trying to get his dick out in public, so it was weird for me seeing him innocently dancing with a young Lindsay Lohan - as I was waiting for him to try and get his dick out again...

I just found some forum on a site called "dogbomb" where the people there really go overboard on their Brian Conley hatred. Some people need to get a life...

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Brian Conley in Equilibrium was a bizarre surprise.

Brian Conley's in Equilibrium? Seriously?! I really have to see that if it's true!

EDIT: You're right as well - I just did a quick google and he really does have a small cameo in the film...

Dang, maybe I should have put a spoiler warning before that, as it really was an hilarious out-of-the-blue gobsmacked type moment when my friends and I saw it.

[skibz]

It's not really a cameo (or a particularly good film), but the bit when Leslie Neilson says "I just wanted to say good luck, we're all counting on you" in Scary Movie 3 is fantastic.

Kevin Spacey as Dr. Evil was about the only good bit in Austin Powers in Goldmember.

Alyssa Milano's cameo in Family Guy was a fantastic idea.

And while it's not really on topic, I'd have to say Madonna's cameo in Die Another Day is awful.

[Lumiere]

Die Another Die itself is abysmal!

[Z/Sb]

I agree on the Goldmember Kevin Spacey cameo.
Did anyone else who see that film think, like me, that it was made that way (incredibly stupid in other words) with all those big name cameos and dumber than dumb storyline (though still way above "Charlies Angels: Full Throttle" status) because of the after effects of 911? Well, that's what I thought anyway.

Talking of Spacey, he's being offered the Lex Luthor role for the new Superman movie. Cool or what? He does have a touch of Gene Hackman about him, I personally think...

[Baxter]

I almsot came during Patrick McGoohan's voice cameos in both The Simpsons and Treasure Planet although i'm not sure you could even count him.

[VegaLA]

Oh right. I'll look out for that next time I see it. I guess I didn't notice him first time since I don't know what he looks like. So, where did you meet Romero?

And you calling Jodie Foster's character 'Clarence' has just made me laugh out loud. So thanks.

I got to meet the Man at a horror fest in Burbank last May I think it was. Tom Savini and Ken foree were also present and someone muttered that even John Harrison was there but had just left (the talented Musician/Director, not the Beatle - I'm gonna get flack for that !!) which was annoying since he did'nt plan on coming and left before I realised he was there !! If you want to know what George looks like there is a pic of me and the man in the land of the dead post. He has more grey hair in the lambs but still the same style.
I knew there was something wrong with Clarence as I was typing it.........

[Key]

David Bowie in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me doing a kind of rubbishy Texan drawl.

[massive_bereavement]

Bruce Campbell is pretty funny in Spiderman 2 as the "snooty usher". Matt Lucas' second or so onscreen in Shaun Of The Dead as well.

"Tell me, Clarence - have the lambs stopped screaming?"

Best mistake ever.

[VegaLA]

Oh and Ted Raimi in the first Spider-man too.

[El Unicornio, mang]

And that guy who had that wanking problem in Brasseye was in the remake of Disney's "The Parent Trap" as the butler. Simon Kunz, his name is. I'll just never forget the image of him trying to get his dick out in public, so it was weird for me seeing him innocently dancing with a young Lindsay Lohan - as I was waiting for him to try and get his dick out again...

.

Also, the guy in Brass Eye who gets told to "go out and find work" plays the mad bloke with the dead gook buddy in Full Metal Jacket

[Bollock Chops]

I was watching The Krypton Factor on Challenge the other day, and they had one of those 2 minute 'spot the mistake' films. Bizarrely, it was Steve Coogan playing Bob Geldof, jogging around the Albert Dock in Liverpool.

Eh?!

I liked Ian Brown's recent cameo in Harry Potter 3, sitting in a wizard pub, reading A Brief History of Time, stirring his drink with his 'magic'.

[thisissi]

I liked Ian Brown's recent cameo in Harry Potter 3, sitting in a wizard pub, reading A Brief History of Time, stirring his drink with his 'magic'.

Yes, I had to rewind (well you know what I mean....) the DVD to check it was him.

Leslie Neilson's line in SM3 was good.  On a similar note Airplane 2 is full of jokes you only get if you watch them back to back (Llloyd Bridges' "no cheese" insistence on his sandwich for example).

Back to cameos though:  Ozzy Osbourne as TV evangelist in the obscure 80s horror film "Trick or Treat".

[Gazeuse]

Count Basie and his orchestra in Blazing Saddles

[Key]

I was watching The Krypton Factor on Challenge the other day, and they had one of those 2 minute 'spot the mistake' films. Bizarrely, it was Steve Coogan playing Bob Geldof, jogging around the Albert Dock in Liverpool.

I think I read somewhere ages ago that Coogan used to design puzzles on the Krypton Factor as one of his earlier TV jobs.

[fanny splendid]

Kevin Eldon doing the hokey-cokey in German, as part of Bill Bailey's comedy Kraftwerk at the end of his new DVD, Part Troll.

[Ambient Sheep]

Not The Nine O'Clock News' skit on interactive television, featuring a remote control with adjustable knobs like (inventing here) "Comedy value", "Sexual content", etc.  Obviously as the knobs are adjusted, the on-screen action changes.

The hand turns "Celebrity Appearances" or something, and John Cleese walks in to the on-screen sketch, looks round, and walks out again, to a thunderous audience reception.

Seeing as the NTNOCN crew weren't really celebrities themselves at the time, that was seen by some as a real tribute being paid by Cleese to appear on it.  A sort of "passing of the torch", if you will.

[Jemble Fred]

Hadn't Cleese already been in NT9ON by handing over as Basil Fawlty for the pilot?

Me and my second-hand SOTCAA knowledge, there.

Talking of Cleese, Stephen Fry's bit in A Fish Called Wanda is always a nice nearly-unexpected turn.

[Ambient Sheep]

Hadn't Cleese already been in NT9ON by handing over as Basil Fawlty for the pilot?

Me and my second-hand SOTCAA knowledge, there.

True, I didn't know about that until I'd read the SOTCAA page, so I guess it hadn't fully registered.

[George>Spiggot]

Really liked John Cleese cameo on 3rd rock from the sun. Think he played an old collegue of John Lithgow's character/mental college lecturer. Pretty sure that he manages to call someone "a dreadful little wanker" - Hats off to John Cleese

[VegaLA]

That Cleese gets aboput a bit. Saw him make a cameo in around thw world in 80 days, along with Rob Schneider.

[Jack Skellington]

And that guy who had that wanking problem in Brasseye was in the remake of Disney's "The Parent Trap" as the butler. Simon Kunz, his name is. I'll just never forget the image of him trying to get his dick out in public, so it was weird for me seeing him innocently dancing with a young Lindsay Lohan - as I was waiting for him to try and get his dick out again...

He's in Goldeneye aswell, as the guy who tell's Orumov that the Goldeneye is ready to use (and then promptly gets shot). I was going to make some cheap joke about Brasseye/Goldeneye, but........no.

[Morrisfan82]

Not a celebrity cameo, but I love the guy in Ghost World (which was on terrestrial last week) who comes in the convenience store with no shirt on.

"Gonna need two packs of smokes today, workin overtime - <does dual devil horns> - sixteen hours dude!"

Asian shop owner: Hey you, I told you, you can't come in here with no shirt on! What do you think this is, Club Med?
Guy: <scoffs> This is America dude, learn the rules...

That and the nunchukas.