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9* Voice-wise, Grandpa Lemon from ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'' appears to be based on Jimmy Stewart.
10** The series itself loves to parody real life people (and recent events such as [[UsefulNotes/ElectronicEntertainmentExpo E3]]) which works with a combination with {{Punny Name}}s and {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s.
11* The ''VideoGame/{{Assassin}}'' series on Newgrounds averts this. Many games have you kill, beat up, or humiliate different celebrities.
12* In ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'', a setting update of ''Jane Eyre'', Blanche Ingram was based on a real life personality, model and successful businesswoman Xenia Tchoumitcheva. Vlog Blanche Ingram is actually very sophisticated and quite nice. She's nothing like the unpleasant AlphaBitch that was Miss Ingram from the original novel. Here's [[http://theautobiographyofja.wix.com/blanche-ingram a link]] to Ms Ingram's in-universe website.
13* [[http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/957206/borderlands/videos/borderlands_spc_realgamer.html "Borderlands is for Real Gamers"]] by IGN, about ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'', features a guy playing as a developer of the game, Randy Pitchford. While he does get the hairstyle, he otherwise doesn't look like [[http://www.gearboxity.com/component/option,com_talent/talent,60/Itemid,45/ Randy Pitchford]] at all. He also technically doesn't act like him either -- the man is more being used to a way of parodying the game's marketing campaign.
14* ''Literature/BritsuneGardenSeries'': Queen Lilie bears a striking resemblance to Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII. It doesn't help that she's also a Queen of the United Kingdom.
15* ''WebAnimation/BowsersKingdom'': The Shy Guys are imitations of Creator/ChristopherWalken.
16* ''WebVideo/DreamMachine'': A lot of Ryan Dresden’s backstory is inspired by the life of Robert Downey, Jr. They even have the same initials, RD.
17* ''WebVideo/ElBananero'', a very famous Uruguayan youtuber in Latin America, made a {{mockumentary}} about a music band called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaW0GdSrJNY MegaPanza]]'', which is basically a mixture between Music/{{Metallica}} and Music/GunsNRoses. The joke went so far that actually the "band" has [[http://www.megapanza.com their own website]] (in Spanish.)
18* ''WebVideo/{{Halloweenie}}'':
19** Halloweenie's voice sounds a lot like Creator/PeterLorre.
20** Pumpkinweenie to Creator/GilbertGottfried.
21* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
22** Crack Stuntman, the in-universe voice of Gunhaver on ''WebAnimation/CheatCommandos'', is physically based on veteran voice actor Creator/FrankWelker.
23** A minor character who appears as TheVoice in some latter-day cartoons is Tucker Donaldson, a stuffy spokesman for fake websites about Halloween safety and campus safety who accuses the Brothers Chaps of making fun of the former organization and Marzipan's band Cool Tapes of starting a riot at a student union. His stuttering vocal cadence seems to be a parody of conservative pundit Tucker Carlson.
24* Several gags in WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun's recurrent Rapidfire segment ''Elect Andrew Shepard'' cast Shepard as a depraved version of Bill Clinton, such as his claim that "I did not have sexual relations with that woman. I did, however, have sex with that woman, that woman, those two women, and possibly that guy.", or "I did not inhale. I took it rectally, and I did not enjoy it as much as I had hoped."
25* ''Film/NoobLeConseilDesTroisFactions'' introduces a young tennis player named Nadir Rafale who is Spanish and implied to be one of the prodigies in his field.
26* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'': The Chick does a dead-on parody of UsefulNotes/SarahPalin when she is the vice president to WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's president of ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}''. [[KlingonPromotion She also tries to kill him to get his job.]]
27* Squeaks from ''Website/ScrubClub'' likes a celebrity named Dan Lather, a pun on Dan Rather.
28* ''WebAnimation/ShaggyDogStories'': A "[[Music/JustinBieber Justinian Beaver]]" is featured in one episode, and mention is made to a cheesy romance TV series called "[[Literature/BreakingDawn Breaking Wind]]".
29* ''WebVideo/UncleAl'': In "WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry Abridged", Cranky's voice is modeled after Creator/GilbertGottfried's.
30* Voice-wise, Cameo/Judgement from ''WebVideo/VaguelyRecallingJoJo'' appears to be a parody of ''Creator/NorioWakamoto''. He's even a LargeHam villain.
31* ''WebVideo/WelcomeBackPotter'': While being an alternate version of Harry Potter, Jarry Potter has more in common with Creator/HunterSThompson, his look based off of his Raoul Duke persona in ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas''.

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