Best Cameo Appearance of All Time?

5/26/06 | Reaganesque

[Reaganesque]

It's the beginning of the Memorial Day weekend. We've had our silliness thread to start things off now, how about this:

Who do you think had the best cameo performance in any movie or TV show? You know, someone who had a bit part but stole the show for you.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Richard Nixon. Laugh In. "Sock it to ME?"

[soupcon]

Mr. Kimball in Green Acres and Larabee in Get Smart.

[Richard Kimball]

I loved the cameo by the guy who played the T-1000 in Wayne's World. He was the perfect guy to play a Los Angeles cop. Mary Lou Retten as Tiny Tim in Scrooged.

[Old Professer]

TV probably doesn't count, But Sock it to Me!

[dfwgator]

Robert DeNiro and the real Joe Pesci showing up on the SNL "Joe Pesci Show" (Jim Breuer playing Pesci)

[dfwgator]

Sammy Davis Jr. in All in the Family.

"Do you take cream or sugar in your eye?"

[FNG]

How about Bruce Willis or Ponch and Jon from "CHiPs" in "Loaded Weapon 1"?

[tophat9000]

Bob Hope. "Spies Like Us".

there an old Bob Hope movie (not a road Pic... think is was "Paleface" or some other western) that Bob is out in the desert in the sand and Bing Crosby comes by with a golf club and ask to "play through"

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Harris on Barney Miller doing a cameo in the porno movie he was producing as part of a sting.

Barney: "Harris!"

Harris: "Hitchcock does it!"

[Old Professer]

[r9etb]

You know, someone who had a bit part but stole the show for you.

Sean Connery as Richard the Lionhearted, in Kevin Costner's wretched version of Robin Hood.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Another great "Newhart" cameo:

Jack Reilly (Mr. Carlin from the "Bob Newhart Show") is talking to a psychologist about a doctor in Chicago who really screwed him up.

[Tanniker Smith]

Movie cameos? Hmmm, don't know if it counts as a cameo (it was more of an unbilled supporting part) would be Bill Murray in "Tootsie". (Several actors have done this when they didn't think the billing would be suitable at that point in their careers, but it was a *good* role.)

I'll have to think about this. (Someone should link this thread into tonight's Freeper Canteen!)

TS

[wizr]

I loved John Astin in his cameos on "Night Court". I use his ongoing line all the time. " I'm feeling MUCH better, NOW." (since being released from the asylum)

[FlJoePa]

While not technically a "cameo", I would say Suzanne Pleshette in the final episode of Newhart. Sort of a cameo-cameo.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei and Walter Koenig as themselves on Futurama

John Wayne on Maude where he walks in while she's ranting about his politics and renders her speechless.

Mel Torme on Night Court.

Tony Curtis as "Stony Curtis" on The Flintstones.

Oliver North on J.A.G.

Charles Nelson Reilly as science fiction writer Jose Chung on The X-Files.

Penn and Teller on Babylon Five.

The Tribbles and Captain Kirk on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine : )

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Another "Newhart" cameo was Johnny Carson. Bob was complaining about his high gas bill. Larry said he didn't need to worry about his as Johnny Carson paid theirs. Dick didn't seem to believe him. Later in the episode, Larry handed him his gas bill with "Johnny Carson paid this bill" written on it. Dick wasn't impressed as it wasn't exactly proof.

At the end of the show, an angry Johnny storms into the Inn as says "which one of you yahoos called my friends Larry, Daryl, and Daryl liars?" He tears into Bob, who says nothing. Larry tells Johnny that they have to get him on the shuttle back to Burbank.

[tophat9000]

Daffy Duck playing a duet with Donald Duck in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

I saw "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" in the theater when it was first release and people now swear he didn't say it and they may of edited it out of later release and the DVD ....but....

At the end of the scene as Daffy (a black duck) is doing a showboat jam on the piano...Donald grumbles under his breath "G-- D-- N-(word)..."

Yes I know Urban legends contends it didn't happen or you heard wrong... but I remember is very well and remember the others in the theaters look at each other saying "Did Donald just say what I thought he did?"

[Tribune7]

Howard Jarvis in Airplane.

[andysandmikesmom]

I loved Charles Nelson Reilly as Jose Chung on the X-Files...werent there two episodes with Reilly as Jose Chung...also in the first of those two Jose Chung episodes, Alex Trebeck of Jeopardy fame, made a cameo, I think as one of the 'Men in Black'...