ever met a celebrity?

[khazalid]

one time, i saw jimmy carr walking down the street.

one other time, i met neil hannon after a divine comedy gig and chatted some cricket.

i daresay someone can significantly better my efforts.

[KoolBak]

Saw Carl Weathers at an airport.... tried to say hi and he was a total douche..... lol. Hung a little with Arlo Guthrie once... that was cool. A bud here on cc has a son that is fairly well known... played in many movies like x men, Riddick, planet of the apes, etc.....

[mrswdk]

The only actual celebrities I've met are Chinese, and I imagine the names probably won't even mean anything to you let alone anyone else. Meng Fei? Wang Likun?

I don't think meeting famous people is really as exciting as people make out. My father's met David Cameron and Princess Anne - which some people would probably cream over - but neither of those sounded like particularly thrilling encounters.

[khazalid]

if you're creaming over david cameron, lemme tell ya: you're definitely doing it wrong

[mrswdk]

lol. Not in the slightest.

Does the thought of Princess Anne get you flustered then? Even after the pounding that all that horse riding must have given her cooch?

[Dukasaur]

The biggest celebrities I was ever in contact with were Sonny and Cher. They babysat me once when I was a little kid.

The most famous person I ever met as a grown-up was Murray Rothbard, although he probably isn't that famous to most of you. The same could be said of a lot of the people I met when I was a political activist. Some of them were pretty famous in the narrow world of libertarian politics, but they probably aren't too famous outside of that.

I debated Bob Rae during the 1983 provincial elections.

I've met a few low-level-musical celebrities. My buddy went to get the Good Brothers' autographs, and we were invited backstage for a few minutes. I knew I was just along for the ride, though, so I basically kept my mouth shut and just nodded and smiled.

I actually met the Forgotten Rebels in the Hamilton bus station. We all had coffee together waiting for a bus. I asked what the name of the band was and they said "Forgotten Rebels" and I'd never heard of them. A more uptight bunch of guys might have been offended, but they didn't mind at all. We actually hit it off. Later on, when I told the story to friends of mine who were more heavily into the music scene, everybody was horrified. "You met the Forgotten Rebels, OH MY GOD! And you didn't know who they were, OH MY GOD!"

[saxitoxin]

I debated Bob Rae during the 1983 provincial elections.

this sounds like it could be a good story; more info, please

[notyou2]

I have met 2 Canadian prime ministers. Smoked hash with Dutch Mason. Shared a bottle of Country Roads apple wine with Matt Minglewood.

[saxitoxin]

- Ralph Nader
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Shani Wallis
- Hal Sparks
- Tyson Beckford

I've applied some editorial discretion ... I've met Brian Herbert and some others, but I don't think he/they qualify as a "celebrity."

[Metsfanmax]

Neil deGrasse Tyson

[saxitoxin]

Neil deGrasse Tyson

How can you be a physicist in NY and not have met Michio Kaku? That guy is everywhere. I'm surprised he hasn't crashed on your futon at some point in the last week.

[Metsfanmax]

Neil deGrasse Tyson

How can you be a physicist in NY and not have met Michio Kaku? That guy is everywhere. I'm surprised he hasn't crashed on your futon at some point in the last week.

I have abstained by choice. His descriptions of sci-fi physics for popular consumption are just too much for me.

[zsp]

Said "no thanks" to Wiz Khalifa upon passing me a doobie after watching Mac Miller smoke after a Penn State frat concert before they became mainstream.

Shook hands with Joe Pa (RIP).

Threw a snowball at Daryll Clark.

High-fived former Heisman winner Troy Smith and told him "You're gonna win the Heisman this year"....and he won the Heisman that year. I like to think it's because of me. He said "We'll see, man."

[riskllama]

juliette lewis - she thought i was the coffee guy on her movie set, i wasn't
beverly mahood - she thought i wanted her autograph
sarah mclachlan - see above(huge bitch)
kerry king - he spilled vodka on me and said "oh dear!", was pretty funny - gave me a bottle of jagermeister for my troubles
ralph klein - showed up(drunk)at a christmas party i was at
bill vander zalm - he stole our ferry when i was a kid
david suzuki - i sold him some wood
napalm death - vip at one of their shows, nice buncha guys(one of my all time favs)
obituary - sold them a pile of coke @ their show, ended up partying till the small hours with 'em
entire cast of kyuss/qotsa - my fav band of all time. kyuss, not qotsa - they were ok, now they just plain suck...(homme is a dick)
lisa schultz - penthouse pet from '83(?)
tons of lesser known bands
handful of nhlers
that's all i can remember right now...

[riskllama]

oh yeah, i also met maurice 'rocket" richard. got his autograph and a picture taken with him, back when i was a wee lad...

[Metsfanmax]

riskllama, this thread is about celebrities, not the chumps from your local neighborhood.

[riskllama]

hey now...
the only chumps from my "neighbourhood" would be the penthouse pet and dr. dave...

[Metsfanmax]

Look I'm just saying, famous in Canada is at most 10% of famous in the US.

[riskllama]

ah ok, gotcha...
now, go f*ck yerself...

[riskllama]

what about jerry stiller?

[Metsfanmax]

what about jerry stiller?

Ok, that would count.

[riskllama]

huzzah!

[Dukasaur]

I debated Bob Rae during the (Edit: 19831985) provincial elections.

this sounds like it could be a good story; more info, please

1985, sorry.

I ran under the Libertarian banner in York South-Weston, which was also Bob Rae's home riding. He was provincial NDP leader at the time, so of course he was hopping around the province and trusting his home riding to take care of itself. During the first two All-Candidates meetings that were held in York South, Bob Rae was a no-show, and of course the Liberals and Conservatives, not having anything substantive to talk about, hammered him mercilessly about it. The night of the third All-Candidates meeting, most people thought that he would again give it a miss, but I guess he was feeling the heat, so he showed up, accompanied of course by the pursuit battalion of TV cameras.

York South is a brownfield area of Toronto, and hadn't recovered from the 1983 recession (it never would recover) so of course the hot-button topic of the year was stimulus spending and brownfield rejuvenation. There were some question about the other hot-buttons: separate school funding and abortion, but those didn't produce any real excitement in our area like they did in other places.

There were several questions about stimulus spending. The Liberals and Conservatives delivered their usual semantically-null canned soundbites. Bob Rae was in his element. He went over the 3-minute limit waxing eloquent about Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. I spoke next. I spoke next. Of course I gave the textbook Libertarian line that stimulus spending is illusory. Real economic growth comes from tax relief and putting money back in the hands of the people; not from letting the parasites in parliament piss it away on phoney job creation schemes. I had time left over though, so I responded to Bob Rae's points about the New Deal, pointing out that in 1941, after 8 years of "job creation" the real American unemployment rate was essentially the same as in 1933. Only WWII pulled FDR's chestnuts out of the fire and let him send his unemployed men overseas.

Bob Rae burst in "ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT!" It wasn't a debate format. It was simply take the prepared questions, take turns answering them, and no back-and-forth. Still, Bob Rae was a legitimate celebrity, and the moderator was willing to let him have some leeway. It was pure lucky coincidence that just that very day I had been reading one of Leonard Read's articles about the fraudulent math underlying New Deal job creation, so it was all fresh in my mind and I had lots of facts and figures to cite. Bob Rae really worships FDR; I really despise him. The moderator wasn't going to interfere, so for a beautiful couple of minutes it was just pure head-to-head fuck-you-and-your-horse debate, and then we sat back and everything returned to the normal level of banality.

The Liberal and the Conservative and the fifth candidate (an almost incoherent woman who spoke with a thick foreign accent and called herself an "independent liberal") all just sat there slack-jawed. Liberals and Conservatives are, of course, trained seals who just parrot pre-packaged soundbites and never, ever, engage in any honest discussion of the issues. More than that, though, we were breaking the cardinal rule in Canadian politics to never mention anything that happens south of the border, and they weren't about to go down that road.


All in all, it was a great night!

[zsp]

what about jerry stiller?

And what about Jerry Springer?

[KoolBak]

obituary - sold them a pile of coke @ their show, ended up partying till the small hours with 'em
..

Loved this one....ahhh....the good ol days....lol