British Comedy Guide

Famous people you have met... Page 4

Met quite a few although I have never gone all silly or giddy, and never collect autographs, they are just people who are really good at their jobs.
Met Johnny Depp once though, really nice bloke, funny too (seriously).

People I've actually had conversations with as opposed to just being in the same room as are as follows. You can judge their "famousness" by seeing if you can name them... :-)

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Mmmm. Carol Decker was lovely in the 1980s.

Jeremy Dyson!
I bet he was nice.

Sue Perkins sounds lovely, as expected. :)

Quote: zooo @ April 13 2009, 5:06 PM BST

Jeremy Dyson!
I bet he was nice.

Jeremy's a really nice, quietly-spoken, surprisingly-small guy with a brilliant comic brain.

Craig Charles ponced a cigarette from me when I worked as an extra on the Funky Bunker.
And it was very nice to meet Zoe Salmon after appearing on Blue Peter.

But my favourite has to be when I was younger I went Carol Singing in Holland Park and Robert Redford answered the door.

Here goes (mostly comedians)

Richard Herring - lovely.
Stewart Lee - a nice guy.
Lucy Porter - too nice for words.
Simon Amstell - Shy, but funny.
Tim Vine - was cracking jokes and was a down to earth guy.
Ben Elton - moody bugger.
Dara O'Briain - was grouchy because he hadn't eaten, but was not a nice man.
Robert Llewellyn - what a nice man.
Lisa Rogers - Mmm, seemed pleasant enough.
Frank Skinner - affable.
Sean Lock - as great as his is on stage.
Rhod Ghilbert - happy to chat.
Lee Mack - didn't mind chatting.
Jimmy Carr - really good bloke, dead polite and respectful.
Ross Noble - didn't mind chatting.
Bill Bailey - a bit bemused in an amusing way.
Tony Robinson - I was in a hurry, so he looked a bit surprised!
Dave Gorman - seemed a bit put out that he had to meet people AT a signing.
Jethro - a nice pleasant old man.

I've met Ken Dodd a couple of times (fiercely intelligent, always on) and Faith Brown (loud, enormous knockers). She did impressions of Hylda Baker and Margaret Thatcher. This was in 2007, mind you, so she wasn't exactly surfing the zeitgeist.

I also did a wee next to Ricky Tomlinson. This was at a urinal trough, I'm not weird.

I shared a bag of hula hoops with Noel Fielding once.

Met Larry David at his office in Cali the year before last. Met David Beckham in an LA restaurant the day before.

Quote: Mike Dan-Carter @ April 14 2009, 9:58 AM BST

Met Larry David at his office in Cali the year before last. Met David Beckham in an LA restaurant the day before.

Oh God im envious, what was Larry like?

I once got ratarsed with Damien McBride, who has suddenly become much more famous than I - or he - ever suspected.

Quote: Darren Pomroy @ April 14 2009, 9:55 AM BST

I shared a bag of hula hoops with Noel Fielding once.

What flavour please?
I am hoping for salt & vinegar.

I've fixed or setup computers for:

Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran (Famous Scriptwriters)
Andrew Payne (Scriptwriter)
Baz Taylor (Film/TV Director)
Gary Lawson & John Phelps (Scriptwriters)
David Attwood (Film Director)
Alan McKeown (TV Producer)
Tracy Ullman (TV Personality)
Lindsey Bareham (Evening Standard Columnist & Cookery Author)
Janet Street-Porter
Charlie Hanson (TV Director)
Amma Asante (TV/Film Writer & Director, BAFTA award)
Cherie Lunghi (Actress)

When I was doing computers for Alomo Productions Ltd I met the casts of:
Birds of a Feather
Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph
Love Hurts
Adam Faith & Zöe Wannamaker

I bought a drink for Rik Mayall one, before I realised who he was.

I met Martin O'Neill at a supporters forum when he was briefly Norwich City manager. I was a bit drunk and went up to him. I spent the next 20 minutes saying how great he was and how he was going to put Norwich back in the Premiership. About a week later he left Norwich and went to Leicester, guiding them to the Premiership instead and Norwich are now in danger of dropping into the 3rd Division. Oh dear.

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