History Main / PoliticianGuestStar

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[[AC:The actual politician, in person]]

* Tony Blair also appeared as himself in a Catherine Tate sketch for Red Nose, meeting her sixteen-year-old schoolgirl chav, Lauren Cooper: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkjvagVsRI]]. Can I just add he was actually the ''Prime Minister of Britain'' at the time.
** The possible UrExample is the then-Prime Minister Sir UsefulNotes/HaroldWilson appearing with smash-hit comedians Creator/MorecambeAndWise, who regularly commanded audiences in the high twenty milions. He figured this sort of TV exposure showing him as a generous-spirited man with a sense of humour, who could go with jokes at his expense, was something that would not do his career any harm.

* Former Swedish prime minister Göran Persson at one point appeared on a kid's show, and danced with a woman in a cow-suit.

* The UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} takes this UpToEleven—a lot of politicians there weren't just ''guest stars'', they were often full-fledged, full-time celebrities—actors, singers, basketball players and other athletes, newscasters, and various other media personalities—leveraging their media popularity to handily win at elections. Possibly only the most prominent example was former Philippine President Joseph Ejercito "Erap" Estrada, action star who became mayor of San Juan city for several terms (and went back to being mayor, this time of UsefulNotes/{{Manila}}, after his presidency expired—via impeachment).

[[AC:Just the politician's likeness]]

* In the first episode of the live-action version of ''Series/TheTick'', the heroes must save former president Jimmy Carter from a communist KillerRobot. The fact that it's not a real cameo is lampshaded by making him TheFaceless.

* The UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} takes this UpToEleven—a lot of politicians there weren't just ''guest stars'', they were often full-fledged, full-time entertainment celebrities, leveraging their media popularity to handily win at elections. Possibly only the most prominent example was former Philippine President Joseph Ejercito "Erap" Estrada, action star who became mayor of San Juan city for several terms (and went back to being mayor, this time of UsefulNotes/{{Manila}}, after his presidency expired—via impeachment).

* The UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} takes this UpToEleven—a lot of politicians there weren't just ''guest stars'', they were often full-fledged entertainment celebrities. Possibly only the most prominent example was former Philippine President Joseph Ejercito "Erap" Estrada, action star who became mayor of San Juan city for several terms (and went back to being mayor, this time of UsefulNotes/{{Manila}}, after his presidency expired—via impeachment).

* ''CartoonAllStarsToTheRescue'' has a preface from George Bush Sr. Few kids who were watching it knew who he is, but still. Airings in other nations included similar forewords from the heads of government of those states.

* British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher performed a [[SelfInsertFic sketch she wrote herself]] with the cast of the sitcom YesMinister, where she played funnily enough, herself as Prime Minister.

* One 2008 episode of ''Wrestling/{{WWE}} [[WWERaw Raw]]'' featured campaign speeches from UsefulNotes/BarackObama, Hillary Clinton, and John [=McCain=]. Later in that same show, Obama and Clinton impersonators went head-to-head in a wrestling match .

* Two NYC Mayors, specifically Rudolph "Rudy" Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, have appeared on ''LawAndOrder''.

* This trope is Older than Cable ... Richard Nixon once made a cameo appearance on ''RowanandMartinsLaughIn.''

* ''ComicBook/CaptainBritain'' had Gordon Brown in it once, which naturally amused the BritishNewspapers immensely: [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2066678/Flash-Gordon-Brown-Space-Warrior.html Telegraph]], [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1023597/Have-fear-SuperGordon-help-save-world--new-comic-book-Captain-Britain.html Mail]], [[http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1237452.ece Sun]]. (Clue: that looks nothing like him.)

* In Australia's ''The Late Show'', Mick Molloy booked former Victorian premier Joan Kirner (instead of JoanJett) to sing "I Love Rock & Roll". Health Minister David White also appeared, playing the guitar.

* George Bush Jr. has a guest appearance in ''TheUltimates''.

* UsefulNotes/BarackObama got a special, short story in ''[[SpiderMan The Amazing Spider-Man]]''. And thankt to FollowTheLeader effect it was followed by his appearances in ''Thunderbolts'', ''Secret Warriors'', ''ComicBook/TheSavageDragon'', ''Youngblood'', opening of [[WesternAnimation/TheSuperheroSquadShow The Superhero Squad]], and even making him main character in ''ConanTheBarbarian'' parody comics, and sequel of some AfterTheEnd comic.

* Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy had a one-line [[TheCameo cameo]] as a guest at Bruce Wayne's party in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', where he tells the Joker, "We're not intimidated by thugs!" He may or may not be playing himself. Leahy is well-known to be a big fan of Batman, so... PromotedFanboy, anyone?

* Canadian politicians frequently make the rounds on ThisHourHas22Minutes and ''The Rick Mercer Report''.

* Johnson has also made four appearances as the host of ''HaveIGotNewsForYou''. Charles Kennedy has clocked up ''nine'' episodes, one as host. Many other politicians have also featured on the programme.

* NYC Mayor Ed Koch appeared in ''TheMuppetsTakeManhattan''.

* U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun appeared in Film/{{Amistad}}.

* George Bush Jr. has a guest apperance in ''TheUltimates''.
* UsefulNotes/BarackObama got a special, short story in ''[[SpiderMan The Amazing Spider-Man]]''. And thankt to FollowTheLeader effect it was followed by his apperances in ''Thunderbolts'', ''Secret Warriors'', ''TheSavageDragon'', ''Youngblood'', opening of [[WesternAnimation/TheSuperheroSquadShow The Superhero Squad]], and even making him main character in ''ConanTheBarbarian'' parody comics, and sequel of some AfterTheEnd comic.

** And Gore has hosted a season 28 Christmas episode of ''SaturdayNightLive'', and cameoed on a season 35 episode where he outlines his plans to act crazy (such as taping toy guns to trees and planting the trees outside a politician's house so when he walks outside, he'll think the trees have come to get their revenge) so people will take his environmental views seriously.
*** Of course, ''SaturdayNightLive'' has had a lot of politicians (and political hopefuls) host and/or cameo in its 30+ years on the air, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_hosts#Political_figures as you can see here,]] but does anyone remember Barack Obama cameoing on the Brian Williams episode from season 33 (a full year before Obama would become President)?

* As mentioned above, Obama appeared in ''SavageDragon'' but he was not the first president to appear in the pages of that series. Both UsefulNotes/BillClinton and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush have appeared in the past.
* In the first episode of the live-action version of ''TheTick'', the heroes must save former president Jimmy Carter from a communist KillerRobot. The fact that it's not a real cameo is lampshaded by making him TheFaceless.
* ''TheGames'' had [[NamesTheSame John Howard (the actor) pretending to be John Howard (the Prime Minister)]].

* On ''ParksAndRecreation'''s Season 5 premiere "Ms. Knope Goes To Washington" features Senators Olympia Snowe, Barbara Boxer, and John [=McCain=]. "Leslie vs. April" beats that by having Vice President of the United States Joe Biden. Michelle Obama shows up in the season six finale to briefly name-drop her youth activity and diet programs. Season 7's "Ms. Ludgate-Dwyer Goes to Washington" has Senator Boxer show up again along with Madeleine Albright.

* Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis played himself on an episode of ''StElsewhere'', limping into the Emergency Department to get his ankle taped after he sprained it while jogging.

* As mentioned above, Obama appeared in ''SavageDragon'' but he was not the first president to appear in the pages of that series. Both UsefulNotes/BillClinton and GeorgeWBush have appeared in the past.