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Pop Culture Happy Hour

When Celebrities Portray Themselves

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It's practically a tradition for famous people to portray a really offbeat version of themselves in TV and movies. The latest season of Only Murders in the Building features Eugene Levy, Zach Galifianakis, and Eva Longoria all playing fictional versions of themselves. So we thought it would be the perfect time to talk about about the many ways actors portray themselves on screen, and why it does and doesn't work.

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0:00.0

Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.

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If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.

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I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American

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I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American from Boise State Public

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Radio, part of the NPR Network.

0:24.0

When a horny, extremely high Neil Patrick Harris was picked up hitchhiking in Harold and Kumar go to White

0:34.7

Castle in 2004 it was still pretty unusual for a famous person to play a really

0:40.1

offbeat version of themselves. Since then it's become practically a tradition.

0:45.0

Actors playing themselves as vain, athletes portraying themselves as clumsy, even politicians riffing on at least some elements of their personas.

0:52.0

It happens a lot though it doesn't always work.

0:54.4

I'm Glenn Weldon.

0:55.4

And I'm Linda Holmes and today on NPR's pop culture happy hour we're talking about

0:59.5

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The Constitution, our founding document, says a lot about how our country has evolved and who we want to be. But it's not set in stone. So for the next month

1:36.3

we'll be digging into the history behind some of its most pivotal amendments.

1:40.7

Listen to We The People on the Thru Line Podcast from NPR.

1:47.0

On the Ted Radio Hour, MIT Psychologist Sherry Turkle, her latest research into the intimate relationships people are having with

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