- In November/December 1987, Garry Trudeau ran a week-long spoof in his Doonesbury syndicated comic strip called "Waiting for Mario" in which two characters discussed – and dismissed – each other's hopes that Mario Cuomo would declare as a candidate in the 1988 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[225]
- In 1990, French synthesizer artist Jean-Michel Jarre released the music album Waiting For Cousteau, which was dedicated to his friend, scientist and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau. The album title is a pun on Beckett's play. The title track is a 46-minute ambient composition that seemingly never ends.
- In 1992 Sesame Street had a short video in their segment "Monsterpiece Theater" entitled "Waiting for Elmo". Telly and Grover wait by a bare tree for Elmo to appear. They discuss their situation: If Elmo arrives they would be "happy", if not they would be "angry". Elmo never appears, and the tree declares it does not understand the play before leaving, prompting Telly and Grover to chase after it.[226]
- The music video for "Constant Craving", a 1992 song by k. d. lang, is centered around a performance of Waiting for Godot.
- The 1997 comedy film Waiting for Guffman concerns a small-town community theatre group in Missouri who put on a show hoping to attract the attention of prominent Broadway producer Mort Guffman, who never arrives.[227]
- In 1998 a short comedic sketch in episode 9 season 9 of Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured the two protagonist robots Crow and Tom Servo motionless and expressing they are waiting for "Gorgo" (the titular monster of the movie that was featured). It ends with Mike Nelson disguised as the monster and scaring them of.
- The main antagonist and rival prosecutor in the 2004 video game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations is named Godot. Godot's tragic backstory bears multiple references to the play. A character named Luke Atmey also notes that "Some people spend their entire lives idly waiting for his appearance" while discussing the prosecutor.
- The 2010 documentary film The Impossible Itself has the 1953 Lüttringhausen and 1957 San Quentin Prison productions of Waiting for Godot as its subject.
- In the 2013 film Locke, the character Bethan Maguire makes mention of the play in a telephone conversation with the main character Ivan Locke. Like the play, the film Locke also takes place in a single location.
- In 2014, an episode of the TV series Elementary in Season 2 episode 20, the episode called "No Lack Of Void", the actor Roger Rees as Alistair Moore quotes, "At me too someone is looking, of me too, someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on."[228]
- A sketch in March 2017 on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, "Waiting for Godot's Obamacare Replacement", Colbert and Patrick Stewart satirized the Trump administration's failure to implement their announced "repeal and replace" of Obamacare.[229]
- The 2017 film The Disaster Artist featured the final scene of the play in its opening moments, with Greg Sestero (played by Dave Franco) portraying Estragon and his scene partner (Randall Park) portraying Vladimir as part of an acting exercise for their class.
- The fourteenth-season finale of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2019), titled "Waiting for Big Mo", is based on the play, substituting Dennis Reynolds and Charlie Kelly for Vladimir and Estragon, Ronald "Mac" McDonald and Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds for Pozzo and Lucky, Frank Reynolds for The Boy, and the titular "Big Mo" for Godot.
- The 2020 film Friend of the World follows two characters in a single location much like a stage play, which is inspired by Godot.[230]
- In the beginning of the 2021 drama film Drive My Car, the main character is seen as a lead role in the play.
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