Doug Benson, Burbank, c. 2005
He was in first class on my flight to Seattle. It was some ridiculous hour like 5:30 am. Coincidentally, I had just seen him perform about six hours earlier. “Hey!” I said, as I passed through the aisle. “Your set was great last night!” “What?” he said. “I saw you last night. At M Bar. Isn’t that weird?” “What?” he said. Then he went back to sleep. Later I sent him a MySpace message that said, “Sorry I woke you up.” He wrote back, “That’s okay! You weren’t annoying at all!” Sarcasm hurts.
Jon Lovitz, LAX, c. 2006
Talking on a cell phone. Grumpy. Orange.
Joel Schumacher, O’Hare, c. 2004
Watch The Number 23 and tell me Joel Schumacher is not a comedian.
what?
I was on the same flight as Doug Benson flying back from South by Southwest a couple months ago. He was in seat 1A. I was not.
I <3 Jon Lovitz. I would like him less if he was nice in person.
Like if you met Don Rickles and he didn’t insult you.
Never talk to famous people. They don’t care.
I saw Bobby Brown at McCarran in Vegas at like 2 in the morning once. He’s pretty funny.
What? No love for the comedy that is Batman and Robin?
I sat directly in front of Sally Struthers once on a commuter flight from Boston to New York. Zzzzzz.
Lewis Black, Detroit Airport, March 2010
He looked angry and flustered. Not sure if that’s because he’s Lewis Black or because he was rushing through an airport at 6 am.
I had a beer with Billy brag in a bar in Managua in 88. He was funny as hell, and a nice, humble dude.
I met Jonathan Winters @ LAX, 1983.
When I was a kid a wizened Bob Hope walked past me at the Anchorage airport.
@5: Doug Benson is famous?
Is Doug Benson ever really awake?
I saw Tony Shaloub in a hotel in Schenectady, NY, in 1995. Not performing, just walking down the hallway with his family. He looked briefly at me with the look of “yea, I’m the fake-Italian guy from Wings” then looked away.
I rode on a flight from nyc to seattle with conan o’brien. it ruled.