She Likes to Watch

I love celebrity cameos.

Whenever famous faces pop up in films, I’m always abuzz with anticipation. What will they say? What will they do? Will they tap into a familiar on-screen persona or, even more delightfully, play themselves?

More often than not, they steal the show.

Naturally, whenever I get a great idea, the Onion A.V. Club has done it first. Better. And with video clips.

Click here for 19 stellar “one-scene wonders,” courtesy of the A.V. Club.

(A warning: Not all of these picks come with videos, but those that do feature occasional foul language. Headphones required.)

The short list, for all you lazybones out there, is as follows:

1. Alec Baldwin in “Glengarry Glen Ross”
2. Ray Charles in “The Blues Brothers”
3. Pamela Anderson in “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”
4. Dean Stockwell in “Blue Velvet” (David Lynch film No. 1)
5. Janeane Garofalo in “The Cable Guy” (one of my personal favorites)
6. David Letterman in “Cabin Boy”
7. Billy Ray Cyrus in “Mulholland Dr.” (David Lynch film No. 2)
8. Ned Beatty in “Network”
9. Chris Rock in “I’m Gonna Get You Sucka”
10. Topher Grace in “Ocean’s Eleven”
11. David Spade in “Reality Bites” (another gem)
12. Sammy Davis Jr. in “Sweet Charity”
13. Vanessa Redgrave in “Atonement”
14. Charlie Sheen in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”
15. David Bowie in “Zoolander”
16. John Carroll Lynch in “Zodiac”
17. Charles Fleisher in “Zodiac” (That’s right, the voice of Roger Rabbit)
18. Samuel L. Jackson in “Kill Bill, Vol. 2″
19. William Hurt in “A History of Violence” (What a ham)

What do you think, readers? What celebrity cameos would make your list?