Abdul-Jabbar appeared in the television version of Stephen King's The Stand, played the Archangel of Basketball in Slam Dunk Ernest, and had a brief non-speaking cameo appearance in BASEketball.[194] Abdul-Jabbar was also the co-executive producer of the 1994 TV film The Vernon Johns Story.[195] He has also made appearances on The Colbert Report in a 2006 skit called "HipHopKetball II: The ReJazzebration Remix '06",[196] and in 2008 as a stage manager who is sent out on a mission to find Nazi gold.[197] Abdul-Jabbar also voiced himself in a 2011 episode of The Simpsons titled "Love Is a Many Strangled Thing".[198] He had a recurring role as himself on the NBC series Guys with Kids, which aired from 2012 to 2013.[194] On Al Jazeera English he expressed his desire to be remembered not just as a player, but also as somebody who used their mind and made other contributions.[199]