10 Actors Who Have Become Parodies Of Themselves

9. Chuck Norris

Known For: Starring opposite Bruce Lee in Way of the Dragon, and playing the lead role in the unintentionally hilarious show Walker, Texas Ranger. The Parody: The whole parody began when Norris appeared in the 2004 movie Dodgeball as the deciding judge who helps Peter LaFleur's dodgeball team make it to the finals with a simple thumbs up. This helped kick-start a series of Internet memes based on Chuck Norris, and the entire point - one which Norris himself seems to have missed - is that the meme fabricated awesome feats that Norris was apparently capable of precisely because he was such an inoffensive presence in his TV show, and despite being a martial arts expert, he doesn't really come across as all that terrifying. Though Norris himself enjoys and endorses the memes, this reached its riotous apex in The Expendables 2, when Chuck showed up briefly to spout a Chuck Norris fact; he explains that he was once bitten by a cobra, and then goes on to say that "after five days of agonizing pain...the cobra died."
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