Tonight I saw Angelyne at the Acapulco in Silverlake. She was sitting in booth by herself.

Verbs and Nouns wrote:

Haydon wrote:

just last week i was at the airport coming home from christmas.

in australia, famousness doesnt get much more famouser than a comedy/band/act named "tripod" (see above).

they were picking up their shit in sydney while my flight was delayed. i BOO'D them. i thought, being comedians, they'd see the humour in getting boo'd out of an airport.

there was no laughter or smiles...just heads down and look the other way.

i felt like an asshole.

I saw the dude in the middle in Rundle Mall (Adelaide city) once. He was really tall and skinny, and his pants were too short.

The middle guy is Scott (Scod) Edgar, and I've met him twice, once in Adelaide and more recently in Edinburgh during last year's Festival. Embarrassingly I gave him really bad directions to a comedy venue that I've been to probably fifty times, in the city where I grew up.
He was very gracious about it, and a nice guy all round.
I've also given bad directions to Phill Jupitus.

I believe Tripod are now the PRF's most encountered celebrities.

Earlier in the summer I met, and made a dick out of myself in front of, Charlie Brooker. He was with Aisleyne from Big Brother, although I didn't recognise her at the time.

I met the rapper Cex a couple of times - he was really nice. We talked about pro-wrestling.

Euros Childs (ex Gorky's Zygotic Mynci) is terse but polite.

I walked past Morrissey in the street once, when I lived in London. I nearly crapped myself, and saying anything to him would have been out of the question.

I have met (Little Britain's) Matt Lucas on a number of occasions, most recently in a gay club in London. He was always friendly and helpful in response to my tedious questions about how to write comedy.

On a vaguely related note, I have interviewed the band Sick Of It All twice, and on the latter occasion embarrassed myself by confusing Lou and Pete Koller from the band, with Lou and Andy from Little Britain, and referring to Pete as Andy throughout the entire half-hour interview.

Also

+1 to the requests for steve's HST story.

do you guys know the band Presidents of the USA? Dave Dederer from that band was my teacher for 9th grade english.

I used to prank call michael gerald and sing him killdozer songs. i feel sort of terrible about it now.

there was also that flipper incident...

Members of Naked Raygun and Capn' Jazz/Joan of Arc/Make Believe have served me beer in the same bar

My last serious girlfriend had been in a few bands; notably- Mudwimmin, and an early lineup of Frightwig. She was also once in a band that was on Hollywood records called Van Gogh's Daughter, who were kind of bad collegiate pop band (I mean, they were called Van Gogh's Daughter, which should tell you that actually, there's a fuck of a lot in a name).

Anyways, Van Gogh's Daughter made a video for a song called The Eyes of Julie, which had a Love Boat theme. Hollywood records reunited the better part of the cast from the Love Boat for this video, so this galpal o' mine got to meet Captain Emmanuel Stubing, Gopher, Isaac and, of course, the songs namesake, Julie.

The funny thing about all this is that Hollywood spent...I don't even remember the exact figure (trust me though, it was ridiculously obscenely exorbitant) on this video and it aired on 120 Minutes exactly
once

WoundedFoot wrote:Mark Borchardt (the guy who did American Movie)

See, you spend enough time in Milwaukee, and you forget those guys are even considered celebrities. Borchardt's just a local filmmaker who I almost hit with my car once in the Pick and Save parking lot (accidentally, I swear.) Mike Schank? He lives downstairs from my friend Matt.

Lesson learned. All these "celebrities" are just normal dudes.

Except Hunter S. Fucking Thompson. God DAMN, I want to hear that story.

Not mentioning musicians because who hasn't met a metric fuckton of them?

I shook hands with Nelson Mandela in London when I was a kid. I'm glad I got a chance to do this, if only with hindsight.

I almost knocked over Peter Dinklage last night, running for a cab.

windowlicker wrote:I met Johnny Depp with my cousin one night in Dublin, October 1992. I shared a taxi and had a couple of drinks with them before going our separate ways. I didn't actually know who he was at the time, he just said he was an actor. I remember thinking he was ancient cos he around 30 at the time. Pretty cool guy, he didn't make me feel out of place or like a gooseberry or anything. I think my cousin might have been doing him at the time, I've heard that from others since. She also hung around with Jeff Buckley around the time he was playing in Sin E in New York.

we want pics of your cousin