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13 Comedians We Didn't Know Cameo'd In Major Movies

Apparently, having a comedian cameo is kind of a movie requirement nowadays.

13 Comedians We Didn't Know Cameo'd In Major Movies

February 27, 2022

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Turns out, plenty of comedians make movie cameos – sometimes, with most people not even noticing. Here are 13 examples of what we mean:

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TINA FEY

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM TINA FEY HAD A VOICE CAMEO IN THE RYAN REYNOLDS MOVIE FREE GUY. She's the voice of the mother who interrupts her 20-something son while he's playing Free City. — Source

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ROB MCELHENNEY

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM ROB MCELHENNEY HAD A BLINK-AND-YOU'LL-MISS-IT CAMEO ON GAME OF THRONES. Не got an arrow through his face, as one of the soldiers on Euron Greyjoy's ship that get killed when Theon launches an incursion to save Yara. — Source

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Adrian Edmondson

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BRIT COMEDIAN ADRIAN EDMONDSON SHOWED UP IN THE LAST JEDI. Не was First Order Captain Peavey. — Source

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Garrett Morris

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SNL COMEDIAN GARRETT MORRIS HAD A SMALL CAMEO IN 2015'S ANT-MAN. Не plays a cab driver that Scott Lang falls on, and it's kind of a call-back to the time he played Ant-Man in a 1979 SNL episode. — Source

9

YVETTE NICOLE BROWN

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THERE'S A CAMEO FROM YVETTE NICOLE BROWN IN AVENGERS: ENDGAME. She's a 1970s government worker who shares an elevator with Cap and Iron Man when they time travel back and get into a military base. — Source

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SARAH SILVERMAN

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SARAH SILVERMAN POPPED UP IN SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY. She plays, of all people, a studio exec - one of the two who pitch Bronny on a new algorithm that can put LeBron James into any Warner Bros. IP. — Source

7

Will Ferrell

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM WILL FERRELL HAD A RANDOM CAMEO ON THE CBS DRAMA THE GUARDIAN. My manager Jim, who was also a producer on it at the time, and we basically forced CBS to write a guest role for me which looks like I'm going to be a series regular, he said. — Source

6

MATT BERRY

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE PALACE DROID IN THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT IS ACTUALLY VOICED BY MATT BERRY. Не was in The IT Crowd, The Great British Baking Show, and What We Do in the Shadows - and he also plays the droid 8D8. — Source

5

Aidy Bryant

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SNL COMEDIAN AIDY BRYANT HAD A CAMEO IN THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2. She's dressed up as the Statue of Liberty, having her photo taken with tourists. — Source

4

ADAM PALLY

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM ADAM PALLY WAS IN IRON MAN 3 IN A MINOR CAMEO ROLE AS A CAMERAMAN. I actually got the role in a roundabout way: I got called in about three years ago to meet Robert Downey Jr. and write web series stuff for him, says Pally. — Source

3

The Sopranos

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA SHOWED UP ON THE SOPRANOS BACK IN 2007. Не was a hotel bellman who refused to give Tony and Pauly the answer they wanted - it was basically the definition of a minor role. — Source

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STEPHEN COLBERT

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG FEATURED NOT JUST STEPHEN COLBERT, BUT HIS FAMILY TOO. Colbert is one of the spies watching the dwarves sneaking into Laketown, and his family shows up in the same scene. — Source

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JEFF GARLIN

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM JEFF GARLIN HAS A (VERY) SMALL CAMEO IN THE RISE OF SKYWALKER. Apparently, he plays Junn Gobint, an alien that shows up in a scene near the end. — Source

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