Charlie Sheen may be a divisive figure in the national discourse, but there's one thing everyone can agree on: The guy isn't afraid to poke fun at himself.
Sheen -- who got the ax from the hit show "Two and a Half Men" early last year, after a spree of erratic behavior and a public war of words with show creator Chuck Lorre -- appears in a pair of new ads, for DirecTV and Fiat, both of which take playful jabs at his history.
In the Fiat ad, Sheen comes tearing into an opulent home in a Fiat 500 Abarth, then emerges and embraces a fetching young woman -- all while wearing a monitoring bracelet on his ankle.
"I love being under house arrest," Sheen tells the camera, before asking his new companion, "What do I get for good behavior?"
The DirecTV ad, meanwhile, plays off of Sheen's past volatility, featuring a cable customer who, discouraged by his inability to record his favorite shows, wanders off and winds up in a Turkish bath house with the actor, and is eventually confronted by a crossbow-wielding scene, sporting a manic gleam in his eye as he reprises his role in the 1986 film "Platoon."
"Don't reenact scenes from 'Platoon' with Charlie Sheen," the narrator of the ad cautions.
