12 Creators Who Had Brilliant Cameos In Their Own Work
If you're going to show up in your own work, you may as well be brilliant about it.
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We all know that movies and shows are full of clever cameos -- celebrity buddies will pop up in each other's movies, or someone stopping by a film set will appear in a scene, or some famous person wants to jump into the spotlight for a sec.
But sometimes the creative force behind the movie -- the writer, the director, or some other visionary genius -- will pop up in one of their creations, and do so in such a clever, meta way that it's an instant Easter egg. For example ...
![Wes Craven references his other popular franchise in Scream. The horror director briefly appears in his own movie as the high school janitor wearing F](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/4/8/671248.jpg?v=2)
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![Stan Lee's cameo in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is a nod to an old comic. During Reed Richards and Sue Storm's wedding, the Marvel comic](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/4/9/671249.jpg?v=2)
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![Nic Pizzolatto tells his characters what to say in True Detective. ME KISS IM AN ASSHOLE The creator of the HBO crime anthology Series is a bartender](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/4/3/671243.jpg?v=2)
![The weirdest and most reclusive Simpsons writer is a patient at Calmwood Mental Hospital. John Swartzwelder, the writer responsible for some of the gr](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/4/2/671242.jpg?v=2)
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