32 Actors You Forgot Had Cameos In Reno 911

For nearly 20 years (however simply 8 seasons and a few motion pictures), Reno 911! has been cracking us up. The creators and core solid members, Thomas Lennon, Kerri Kenny-Silver, and Robert Ben Garant, all began on MTV’s The State (together with late-season solid member Joe Lo Truglio), clearly used all their connections to usher in each up-and-coming comedians on the time (like Zach Galifianakis) and established superstars (like Kenny Rogers and Paul Reubens). Here’s a listing of actors who you could have forgotten performed roles within the traditional comedy.

Zach Galifianakis

Earlier than he grew to become a family identify in The Hangover collection, for which he delivered lots of the funniest strains within the film, Zach Galifianakis was a semi-regular contributor to Reno 911!. He performed the function of Frisbee, a survivalist with a boatload of youngsters who lived out by the airport (and thought aliens had been invading) in a number of episodes of the present within the early years.

Patton Oswalt

Comic Patton Oswalt’s profession began with a slew of humorous however small-ish elements in motion pictures like Magnolia, Down Periscope, and Dodgeball. He first appeared on Reno 911! within the present’s second season and went on to a number of appearances, taking part in a number of characters, together with appearances within the two motion pictures, Reno 911!: Miami and Reno 911! The Hunt for QAnon.

Paul Reubens

Paul Reubens actually wants no introduction. As Pee-wee Herman, he grew to become a Gen X (and all of the generations after) icon. Reubens, who died in 2023, performed the wonderful character Rick, who headed up his personal “residents’ patrol” which cracked up audiences, and aggravated the members of the Reno Sheriff’s Division.

Paul Scheer

Paul Scheer has made it a behavior to star in a number of the funniest exhibits of the final 20 years. Exhibits like The League, Veep, and Black Monday have made Scheer a family identify. HE additionally performed a number of roles in Season 6 of Reno 911!

Natasha Leggero

Natasha Leggero’s first function got here in one in every of too-oft forgotten pretend actuality present Joe Schmo 2 in 2004, the follow-up to the unique The Joe Schmo Present. From there, she appeared within the actuality present MTV’s The 70s Home. Leggero parlayed that into three appearances on Reno 911! taking part in totally different characters, principally getting arrested.

Ryan Stiles

Ryan Stiles is actually most well-known for delivering a number of the funniest strains on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the place he is been a solid member going again to the Nineties. He additionally popped up on Reno 911! as a police officer charged with coaching the idiots within the sheriff’s division on go undercover in Season 5.

Jamie Lee Curtis

One of the vital shocking cameos within the present’s historical past got here in one of many later seasons when none apart from Jamie Lee Curtis appeared as Lt. Donna Fitzgibbons, a one-eyed, no-nonsense from Sparks Sheriff’s division who Dangle brings in to prank the opposite members of the squad. She additionally shares Dangle’s sense of vogue.

Keegan-Michael Key

One of many funniest recurring morons the Reno Sheriff’s Division has to cope with is the “hypothetical legal” performed by the good Keegan-Michael Key. He appeared a bunch of occasions through the years as a personality who comes with hypothetical crimes he undoubtedly did not commit. By some means, he appears to maintain getting away with the crimes.

Paul Rudd

The ageless Paul Rudd appeared in 5 episodes of the present within the last seasons of the unique run. He performed Man Gerricault, a really unnerving Lamaze coach for Trudy whereas she’s pregnant. He additionally appeared within the first film, Reno 991: Miami as a totally totally different character.

Rachael Harris

After bouncing round Hollywood for a few decade, working usually however by no means actually starring in something, Rachael Harris appeared in Reno 911! as Dangle’s ex-wife. She’s greatest recognized nowadays for her function as Linda in Lucifer.

Christina Applegate

Christina Applegate has an virtually “blink and you will miss it” cameo because the legendary Terry’s spouse. It is exhausting to consider Terry (Nick Swardson) can be married to anybody, particularly somebody who seems like Christina Applegate.

Dwayne Johnson

There is not a much bigger star on the planet than Dwayne Johnson. The Rock, as he was recognized in wrestling, appears to have infinite power, with motion pictures starring him being always launched. One such film is the primary one from this franchise, Reno 911!: Miami, the place he performs a cartoonish SWAT staff chief. It is a function that fits him completely, after all.

Ron White

Stand-up comedian Ron White is likely one of the funniest comedians round and his character on Reno 911!, as a drunk pilot, is precisely the type of function White was born to play. He is merely hilarious.

Charlie Day and Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Earlier than they performed Charlie and “The Waitress” in At all times Sunny In Philadelphia, real-life couple Charlie Day and Mary Elizabeth Ellis performed twins in a… disturbing…relationship in Reno 911!’s second season. The chemistry they’re recognized for now was on full show of their one hilarious look.

Murray SawChuck

Followers of Pawn Stars will acknowledge Murray SawChuck (or Murray the Magician) as one of many consultants Rick brings in when he wants to judge the worth of a magic prop. He is additionally well-known for his stage present in Las Vegas. In his look on Reno 911!, SawChuck performs a magician who will get pulled over, after which pulls out a bunch of methods, after all.

Nick Swardson

Indubitably, the most well-liked recurring “legal” on the present is Terry, performed by the hilarious Nick Swardson. It is truthful to say you most likely have not forgotten his unforgettable look throughout just about each season and film from the franchise, however we needed to embrace him on this listing, after all.

Danny DeVito

Do you know that one of many “producers” of Reno 911! is the long-lasting Danny DeVito? On the present, he has appeared as himself, who’s a producer of the pretend present that the true present is mockumenting. How meta!

Jim Rash

Jim Rash is greatest recognized for taking part in the hapless Dean within the NBC sitcom Neighborhood. He is additionally an achieved author, incomes an Oscar nomination for writing The Descendants, starring George Clooney and Shailene Woodley. He was one of many extra “common” recurring characters, Andrew, within the early seasons of the present, who was arrested, often in a compromising place, various occasions. He appeared 15 occasions in whole because the wacky character.

Michael Ian Black

Although he was by no means a full-time solid member of Reno 911!, Michael Ian Black, as a member of The State, is an effective buddy and common cohort of lots of the solid of Reno 911!. Black appeared in a number of episodes, taking part in a number of characters on the present, and within the film, Reno 911!: Miami.

Ian Roberts

Ian Roberts was by no means a part of The State, however he did minimize his enamel in one other legendary improv group, Upright Residents Brigade, which he helped discovered with Amy Poehler, Adam McKay, and Matt Walsh. Heady stuff. He joined the common solid of Reno 911! within the present’s first last season in 2009.

Oscar Nunez

Everyone knows Oscar Nunez from The Workplace and its sister present, The Paper, the place his character, additionally named Oscar, is the lone crossover character between the exhibits. Earlier than The Workplace, Nunez appeared in a few episodes within the first season as Captain Dwayne Hernandez. He appeared in a later season as “Spanish Mike” as effectively. He even popped up within the film Reno 911!: Miami, as “Jose Jose Jose.”

Diedrich Bader

On the identical time that Reno 911! was successful on Comedy Central within the mid-2000s, Canine the Bounty Hunter was a phenomenon on A&E. Naturally, the mockumentary a few police division needed to mock the bounty hunter. Enter Diedrich Bader, well-known for his roles in Workplace Area and The Drew Carey Present. Bader performed “Tommy Hawk,” modeled after the Canine (Dwyane Chapman), proper right down to the blonde mullet.

George Lopez

Each police division in each metropolis has to cope with the mayor typically. When that mayor is a drunk, like George Lopez’s character in Reno 911!, he could be maddening for the cops, however hilarious for audiences.

“Bizarre Al” Yankovic

“Bizarre Al” Yankovic has the distinction that nobody else on Reno 911! ever had. The legendary musician and actor received to play an individual from actual life. Appropriately, it was one other musician, Ted Nugent. In fact, it is a fully over-the-top satirized model of the Motor Metropolis Madman, however Bizarre Al’s look is useless on.

Seth Inexperienced

Typically it looks like Seth Inexperienced is actually in every single place. This was particularly true within the 2000s. Whether or not it was exhibits like Robotic Hen, which he additionally co-created, or Entourage, or, after all, Household Man, or motion pictures just like the Austin Powers franchise and The Italian Job, Inexperienced was nice. He was additionally hilarious in his Reno 911! cameo because the ridiculously imply boss of two sheriffs who had been undercover as quick meals workers.

Rainn Wilson

If we’re sincere right here, Rainn Wilson’s look in Reno 911! as a assassin taking the sheriffs on a wild goose chase feels prefer it may virtually be his character from The Workplace, Dwight’s brother, or cousin. It is actually one of many funniest episodes of the entire collection.

Debra Wilson

Debra Wilson might be greatest often known as the longest-serving solid member of MadTV, which included the primary 8 seasons of the traditional selection present. Along with a ton of voice work in motion pictures and TV, she’s additionally recognized for taking part in Oprah Winfrey within the Scary Film franchise, and for taking part in Dominatrix on three episodes of Reno 911! in 2008.

Brian Posehn

Yet one more stand-up who performed a fantastic recurring character on the present is Brian Posehn. Posehn performed Stevie the Coroner in a number of episodes within the present’s unique run on Comedy Central. It is an ideal character for the comedian, well-known for his deadpan supply. Who would not need a significantly humorous, however lethal severe, coroner on a present like this?

Nick Krull

One other actor who performs the completely good function for his abilities is Nick Krull. Krull performs an offensive shock jock who makes his identify by saying essentially the most ridiculous issues. His tackle Cinco de Mayo is as humorous as it’s offensive.

Scott Thompson

Like others on this listing, Scott Thompson is a veteran of a legendary sketch comedy troupe, The Youngsters In The Corridor. He popped up within the present’s sixth season in two episodes.

Masi Oka

Masi Oka is most well-known for taking part in the most important hero on Heroes, Hiro Nakamura. That function earned him an Emmy nomination. He additionally performed a extra severe function because the medical expert, Dr. Max Bergman, within the reboot of the ’60s present Hawaii 5-0. Oka received to point out off his comedic chops in a few episodes of Reno 911! as a Japanese translator.

Jeff Foxworthy