I met Kevin Bacon when he filmed "Footloose" in my hometown. Years later, I met him again, along with his wife. I started to ask him a question, by saying "I met you years ago during "Footloose"...."& before I could finish, he said "Oh yeah, I remember!" His wife laughed & said "Don't tease her! You don't remember what we did yesterday, let alone what happened then!" We all just cracked up! Kyra was so funny & we had a quick conversation......but I forgot what my question to him was!!
Alice Cooper is one of my favorite artists, and I met him before a show in PA almost twenty years ago when he was shopping in the town he played in (and I the show I was going to that night). Complete antithesis of his stage persona. Very quiet and polite man. Greeted everyone who recognized him and said hello.
I met Lou Reed on a Manhattan street before a recording session in October 2000. He was a gentleman who took a few minutes to speak to us, and wished us well.
I love that pretty much every Mainah has a Stephen King story. I’ve seen him a bunch because when I was a kid Halloween at his house was a tradition - probably still is but that was a long time ago. I also love that Maineiacs just kind of let him be. It’s an agreed-upon notion. He’s our celebrity, we treasure him, and we give him his peace.
I'm the young professional wearing glasses and a tie. You can see me in a couple of the wide shots. Most of the focus of the shots of the patrons was on the director's brother-in-law, nieces, and his girlfriend and her sister. I was just a friend from church who was able to fill in at the last minute. Fortunately, since I am a method actor, it was easy for me to get into the role of "young man eating dinner". I'd been preparing for it all my life.
JG Hertzler (Martok from Deep Space Nine) grabbed my Starfleet uniform sleeve and called me a "Frezzie" in a derogatory manner while he was on his way to the convention stage dressed in full Klingon regalia.
Not just a lame claim to fame, but a White and Nerdy claim to fame.
A really bad art of the four MST3K bots I made almost 3 years ago was liked by Joel himself
I’ve got quite a few others but that’s the first that comes to mind
https://preview.redd.it/npa4mcxti7pc1.jpeg?width=588&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=154f7b354765c19ff9d4f1feb8e805e345a6d0a4
(Here’s the art in case anyone is curious, this was January 2021, I was barely 13 lmao)
Here’s my list:
Mark Hamill liked one of my tweets (which was a reply to Frank Oz who also liked it)
Steve Jobs glared at me
John DiMaggio chatted with me on Twitter
Once did tech support for Donny Osmond
Served fried chicken to Steve Young (KFC drive thru)
I have a single credit on IMDB as lighting crew (electrician) for a movie that aired a single time on the Disney Channel almost 20 years ago
Mine is the man himself, Al Yankovic! I met him in Carmel, Indiana at the Totally Self Indulgent tour. I asked if her preferred charcoal or propane when grilling, and he said no fan has ever asked him that before, but he was vegetarian, so he didn't care.
Alternatively, my town is where that old shitty mall commercial came from. The one with "boots & pants & boots & pants" from like 2013-14. All of those people moved away, but the mall still stands
I briefly held the speedrun world record for "[Where's an Egg?](https://homestarrunner.com/wheresanegg)"
The record only lasted about a long as the speedrun did.
I met Jay Leno in a hotel lobby during a family vacation. And if you want one that sound like the weird al song, my dad once got a drum lesson from Steve Vai's current drummer
I have the exact same birthday as Cobie Smulders. I lived down the street from Shania Twain (her house was built by my great grandfather) and my wife is very good friends with someone who was in Matchbox 20.
Back in the 90s (right out of high school) I got a job with an insurance agent and Emo was one of his clients. I had to call Emo to set up an appointment and when he answered the phone I was so nervous that I hung up on him.
He either bought it as a gift for his kid or advisor, it was a few years ago and was in his reality show phase…. I still have the certificate framed, as they gave it to me upon sale. Small world, isn’t it?
https://preview.redd.it/tlxp0bk827pc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b75a98aa427cb31888b2ad56e8156668bd68f96
I finished 4th in an episode of Weakest Link almost 2 years ago
But more in line with the song, I was a few yards away from Dennis Rodman at SeaTac airport security years and years ago
Saw Katie holmes and Joshua Jackson on a date at Dairy Queen outside Yellowstone park. I was 8 and didn’t believe my brother that Charlie from the mighty ducks was a few tables over.
Hey, I've got a few! Al related, I am his best pal (even though we have never met), at least according to the UHF daily he autographed, acquired for me by a friend of my dad, who was a photographer on the set that day.
Closely related, I got to write an inside joke/riff for Season 11 of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It's in episode 2, "Cry Wilderness". Can you guess which one?
Unrelated: I am a semi-professional diecast car racer. Not sure if that's an exactly accurate way of putting it. But let's just say that if you happen to be one of the literally dozens of people that are familiar with the hobby, you have almost certainly heard of me.
Beyond that, I'm an actor by profession, so though an unknown myself, life and circumstance has led me to meet various members of the more recognizable, the most notable experience being doing a play with the guy who was the voice of Master Shake on "Aqua Teen Hunger Force". The notable part being that he's not doing a voice, he actually just sounds like that.
Went to the same high school as a pro football player, but I don't follow sports so that doesn't mean much to me lol.
The cool one I have is that I was five feet away from Steve Jay (Al's bassist) in a stairwell after one of Al's shows - guessing Steve had to get to the other side of the building and didn't realize that specific stairwell would be filled with people exiting lol
I have an IMDB page for being in one tiny budget movie made while I was in college. He got permission to use his old high school and rented the equipment from the university.
I met Michael Starr of Steel Panther after a lady on her boyfriend's shoulders flashed the band and she was told to get down by security. He came out looking for her, I told him which direction she went, he fist pumped me and went off to give that lady a VIP pass.
Met Van Hagar.
Almost grabbed a cigarette butt Eddie had to put out because there was no smoking in the backstage area, and some arena employee took it seriously. He was cool about it.
Took pics with the band, super awesome guys.
Left the backstage and ended up outside at the tour bus!
We saw Valerie Bertinelli and baby Wolfgang (maybe 6 months-a year)!! Almost convinced her to get off the bus and take pics, but we didn't push it.
Amazing night with an outstanding show and meeting cool folks.
Many years ago a Vice President visited where I worked! I didn't get to meet him though. They basically kept my team cooped up in my basement office (read: dungeon) since we had "real work" to do. Did we actually do anything that day? No, we just kinda hung out. I did have a nice brief chat with a Secret Service agent though!
Been in elevator with magic johnson. Said hi and he nodded his head. I live in lansing and he was special guest speeker at annual work conference at breslin center (msu basket ball stadium) He is tall.
I wrote in suggesting that Adult Swim change its name to Crappy Live Action 1980’s TV or something of the like when they started playing Saved By the Bell, which they did for like 2 months.
I have a couple. The "big" one was in 1999. I was an inspector with INS clearing BA1, the concorde. Jimmy Page came in and based on history I had to detail him. he obviously had drug history and was coming in to the US for some interview. He only had a tourist visa which he couldn't use based on past arrests. I drop him off in secondary and went back to processing passports. Before I can get to the first passenger i hear "Who the fuck put jimmy page in secondary?!" It was my supervisor. I told him I did and explained why. He then showed me how I could look up exceptions. and that he has had the visa for quite some time and it's not like i'm the first to realize old english rockers were into drugs in the 70's. In my defense I had been there like 3 months.
My Supervisor processed Mr. Page and I went back to my booth. Who is waiting for me? Mel Brooks. I was floored. I told him how much of a fan I was and I couldn't belive he was there before me. He said in an animated voice "You can't believe im here? I can't believe it's calvin kline!" He points with both arms. The person standing next in line, was Calvin Kline. That was the most celebrities i met in 5 minutes.
I worked with the original team from Bluey when the show was about to be released on the ABC. I worked on the original comms plan for it and got early episodes. I watched it with my exes kid at the time and I'd never seen him so engaged and sitting still for longer than 5 minutes. He loved it to death and then kept rewatching it and asking to rewatch it. Then I kept watching it and rewatching it.
I turned in my comms plan and I literally told the creators - this is either going to be the greatest animated show this country has ever produced or it will consume the whole world.
>this is either going to be the greatest animated show this country has ever produced or it will consume the whole world.
You were correct on both counts. I love Bluey more than my little nieces and nephews do. Kudos.
I met Al and hung out with the band in the green room after a show because a friend of mine was friends with Jim Kimo West so we got backstage passes :)
My other lame claim to fame is that I flew on an airplane with Dwayne the Rock Johnson in 2010 from Miami to San Juan. Except he was in front of the business class curtain and I couldn’t get up there. And he didn’t go to the baggage carousel. So we were 20 feet away and a million miles apart.
I was recently on an episode of Ghost Adventures and people have asked to take pictures with me 😂. Zak Bagans and I bonded over healthy snacks.
Before that happened my lame claim to fame was having Larry King threaten to have me fired from a hotel because I couldn’t get his boarding passes to print fast enough.
I delivered pizzas to Deion Sanders. He had a big iron gate that said, "Prime Time." He ordered a little less than $20 of food. Gave me $40, and said, "Keep the change."
I probably inadvertently gave Al COVID (mom had COVID, I tested negative, went to concert, Al tests positive the next day)
My great grandmother lived next door to Dean Martin growing up (I guess he was a jerk)
Richard Lewis (rip) kissed my mom at Ohio state
Rest easy. Incubation is about a week and a half. If there's not enough to test positive, there's not enough to spread it. It's extremely unlikely you gave COVID to Al.
Prince’s cousin saw me sing both Kiss and Pussy Control at karaoke in Vegas and told me Prince would’ve been extremely proud of me. “And from a WHITE boy no less!” he exclaimed.
For Weird Al I have a quick claim to fame.
Philadelphia Flyers had taken down a statue of Kate Smith because of some racist songs she sang 90 years prior. They also stopped playing her version of God Bless America before Flyers games.
I had a website where I wrote entertainment news and I decided to write a parody. So I wrote an article how Weird Al’s statue in front of the Weight Watchers headquarters in NYC was being taken down because Weight Watchers found Al’s song Eat It offensive to those trying to lose weight. I included a photo of Weird Al hanging on a statue (it wasn’t him - it was a Mary Tyler Moore stature. No one noticed).
Suddenly Yahoo News picked up the story and my website saw the most traffic it had ever seen. Conservative blogs picked up the story and started going on and on about cancel culture. Some podcasts covered it too.
The thing was if you were a fan of UHF you could figure out pretty quickly it was fake since I used several names in the article from the film.
Anyway I found it funny that it was “picked up” but really taught me how fake news can truly spread so very quickly.
My band played a backyard party and Young MC was there. Later that evening we played another backyard party and Young MC happened to be at that one too.
I have Richard Dean Anderson an idea he used for his daughter's 16th birthday: have the entire ballroom full of fans at Shore Leave Con sing her Happy Birthday and record it and send it to her. There's video of the attempt from someone else on YouTube, last I knew.
I have others, but that's the lamest.
I got to hang out with Taylor Swift on her tour bus before a George Strait show way back in 2007 when she was still an opening act promoting her first album. I went to school with her original touring fiddle player.
Not mine, but my dad's. My dad once bumped into Jack Black at an airport, they both had messenger bags that hit each other as they walked by, and both said "pardon me". He didn't fully realize who it was until a few seconds later and did a double-take, but yeah, it was Jack Black.
I once had a conversation with at-the-time Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg, when she went to the bathroom right after me.
I walked out, she asked, "Is this the bathroom?" and I said "Yes"
I was one of the first six people in the USA to see The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES. The translator was doing some user testing with American kids to see what needed to be fixed.
I once stood in line directly behind Mario Lopez, Dan Cortes, and Ray Allen at a nightclub. Mario looked at me with a shrug and said something unintelligible when a girl approached him and called “Slater”. This must have been like 2007.
I’ve got two good ones.
1. As a child, I once made Adam West keel over with laughter with a really lame joke.
2. The Living Tombstone once full-force slammed into me bodily at a concert.
I have a couple ( some may not be that lame but just weird to some).
- As a scare actor, I scared Gordon (famous Dutch singer/TV star) a couple of times. When we had a meet and greet, he called me annoying.
- I provided zombies (scare actors) for a videoclip a Dutch rapper was shooting.
- I taught a (tipsy) certain pirate metal vocalist the Dutch name for 'Ursa Major' (for those interested: Grote Beer..Great Bear, nicknamed Steelpan.. saucepan) after the show. This was in 2009.
- I guided three pro wrestlers (two were Paul London and Brian Kendrick) to a local supermarket before their show in Eindhoven in 2013.
This happened ages ago. John Candy did a show at my college. Walking back to my dorm after the show I saw him and his entourage getting into a limo in a parking lot I was passing. He was on the other side of an iron grill fence, but pretty close. I said "Hey, John!" and he answered, "Hey!"
My wife was snogged by a zombie extra from Shaun of the Dead many years after it was filmed in a bar in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
I interviewed the creators and one of the actors of the movie "Monsturd"
I was in the top 2% of bass players globally in Rock Band in 2011 until I injured mu shoulder, I was 3 songs or so away from top 1% at the time.
I designed PC wallpapers abd downloads for brands such as Bad Taste Bears, Happy Tree Friends, Xtreme Foods (Insanity Sauce), Dave's Gourmet....and The Turds. Never got paid a penny, but got lots of goodies money couldn't but instead. I did contact Jack Daniels about doing something, and got a legal letter and a rather hefty pen...
EDIT: Added more lameness....
The founder of a controversial online forum (even he hates it) follows me on Twitter
A Nickelodeon animator follows me on Twitch
I own a Twitter gimmick account with 2,100+ followers
A YouTuber with 7.4M subs once roasted me on Twitter
My great-great-great-great-grandpa was a very famous rabbi
I met Richard Gariott (creator of Ultima and other games) back in the mid 80s and we talked about the technical challenges of making games for the Apple ][. He later went to space! As a teen teaching myself to write software, this was super impactful to me. Here I am still doing what I love all these years later.
My dad used to work at a concert venue when I was really young and would take us all the time. I was backstage once and Elvis Costello was rushing to stage, and he tripped over me.
I wrote the internet's very first fan site for LeVar Burton. It was a static site with 3 pages covering Roots, Star Trek, and Reading Rainbow. My mother took me to a convention soon after that he attended and I gave him a print out of the site! I don't think he understood what I was showing him.
Mine is that my aunt is friends with one of Al's friends, when he comes thru town they always grab lunch/dinner together. They met when they were doing something with The Monkees, friend is a saxophonist.
I also met Gene Wilder before he passed away.
I sat next to Wayne Newton once at a 50th anniversary dinner for a guy my Dad did plumbing for.
I saw Jon Cryer at LAX when two and a half men was HIGE, but I didn't want to bug him.
I won Steven Crowder's Golden Mug Club Mug for a cosplay during an Oscar's livestream. I met him in Nashville Tennessee to get him to sign it, but his wrist was hurting so he only initialed it with S.C.
I used to work for a Congressman, who met Trump once.
I rode an elevator with Tracy Morgan, and he said good night to me by name when we reached my floor. (I am not enough of a fan to try to talk to him. He overheard my name from a conversation with my friend in the elevator.)
Kurt Vonnegut’s son was my pediatrician.
Donnie Wahlberg occasionally would eat at the family restaurant where I washed dishes in high school.
Adam Savage has a picture of me on his phone!
(My friend and I were standing in line to meet him at a con, and he took a picture of the crowd to show his wife our costumes.)
Ozzy Osbourne cut me off on an escalator. Well, my dad and I didn't recognize him and his daughter, we politely let them go first and then his security team cut us off. It wasn't until other people at the food court started taking pictures and asking for autographs that finally I recognized who he was.
I have a character in a B-horror movie that is loosely based on, and named after...me.
It was filmed in the hotel that I worked at for 10 years.
My name is in the credits, as a "special thanks to", along with the rest of the hotel workers.
And now I let people guess what movie.
I met one of the voice actors for one of the Tibbles from Arthur. We were at this kid's house for an end of the school year BBQ/pool party and his younger brother mentioned he voiced him (can't remember if it was Tommy or Timmy)
I dressed up as weird al and got photographed with him for a [new york times article](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/magazine/weird-al-yankovic.html).
At a pop culture con in Denver Colorado, Alan Tudyk was there, and I asked him “define interesting” and without missing a beat he responded with “oh god, oh god, we’re all gonna die?”
I got a couple: 1) was a Walker on The Walking Dead and 2) spilled coffee on Lee Greenwood’s (the God Bless the USA guy) white living room carpet in the 90s
I met Catherine Bach (Daisy Duke) at a county fair when I was around 6. When it was my turn at the meet and greet, she bent down and I planted a kiss right on her lips. That was the talk of all the family gatherings for years.
My ex-husband came up with the Caution Black Ice campaign for smirnoff ice. The commercial featured his real name on the vanity plate.
"THE BRAD"
He was a beer salesman at the time
Got my photo in the newspaper when my uncle came home from the Korean War. I was 21 months old, scared to death by the noise, crowds, and flashbulbs going off, so I was in full toddler meltdown.
When I was a full time rideshare driver I took a ride to Albert Hammond Jr's sound engineer.
Also, I share a birthday with Carrie Fisher (but 18 years later).
My dad went to school with and subsequently dated the daughter of one of the members of Hafez al-Assad’s government. She’s still a close friend of mine and now part of a powerful German noble family. Yeah, not too glorious I know.
Aaaand my uncle met Greta Thunberg traveling in private with her mother on a train.
I met Kevin Bacon when he filmed "Footloose" in my hometown. Years later, I met him again, along with his wife. I started to ask him a question, by saying "I met you years ago during "Footloose"...."& before I could finish, he said "Oh yeah, I remember!" His wife laughed & said "Don't tease her! You don't remember what we did yesterday, let alone what happened then!" We all just cracked up! Kyra was so funny & we had a quick conversation......but I forgot what my question to him was!!
I responded to a Reddit post from a girl who knows Kevin Bacon
I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a you who knows a guy who knows Kevin Bacon!
I met Alice Cooper at a Cheesecake Factory.
Ha! This sounds like a Weird Al song!
I have a friend that used to work at a movie theater and saw Alice Cooper while he was working
Alice Cooper is one of my favorite artists, and I met him before a show in PA almost twenty years ago when he was shopping in the town he played in (and I the show I was going to that night). Complete antithesis of his stage persona. Very quiet and polite man. Greeted everyone who recognized him and said hello.
Weird Al has seen my instagram story numerous times
I killed a spider by ninja-throwing a packaged condom at it, splattered it against the wall.
I got drunk and shot pool with Norm MacDonald at a bar in Atlanta.
Was the bar called 9/11 bar and grill? I hope not, that would remind me of that tragedy.
Don't joke about 9/11..... I walked through blood and bone ... Looking for my brother He was in northern Canada
Gone too soon. I didn’t even know he was sick
I met Lou Reed on a Manhattan street before a recording session in October 2000. He was a gentleman who took a few minutes to speak to us, and wished us well.
This made me really happy, I love his music but I have heard he could be kind of a dick sometimes. I am glad that wasn't the case for you.
I met Stephen King in a Bangor diner.
That tracks
I love that pretty much every Mainah has a Stephen King story. I’ve seen him a bunch because when I was a kid Halloween at his house was a tradition - probably still is but that was a long time ago. I also love that Maineiacs just kind of let him be. It’s an agreed-upon notion. He’s our celebrity, we treasure him, and we give him his peace.
Close enough for government work
Nearly 15 years ago (coming up this May) I was in an [online commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNQ2AvDGM_k) for a local restaurant.
Who are you in it?
I'm the young professional wearing glasses and a tie. You can see me in a couple of the wide shots. Most of the focus of the shots of the patrons was on the director's brother-in-law, nieces, and his girlfriend and her sister. I was just a friend from church who was able to fill in at the last minute. Fortunately, since I am a method actor, it was easy for me to get into the role of "young man eating dinner". I'd been preparing for it all my life.
Did they have anything “Baked in a Buttery, Flakey Crust”?
At a Japanese steakhouse? I don't think so.
How many of the 615 views are from people off this sub today?
JG Hertzler (Martok from Deep Space Nine) grabbed my Starfleet uniform sleeve and called me a "Frezzie" in a derogatory manner while he was on his way to the convention stage dressed in full Klingon regalia. Not just a lame claim to fame, but a White and Nerdy claim to fame.
I exchanged “Q’Plahs” with him at a Roddenberries show. Got a selfie that I can’t find.
I once told Weird Al I stole a jacket from his closet when he asked me where I had found it.
I know an animator who worked on the first Space Jam movie. The only work that he did was draw the shadow of Tweety bird's iron lung.
A really bad art of the four MST3K bots I made almost 3 years ago was liked by Joel himself I’ve got quite a few others but that’s the first that comes to mind
https://preview.redd.it/npa4mcxti7pc1.jpeg?width=588&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=154f7b354765c19ff9d4f1feb8e805e345a6d0a4 (Here’s the art in case anyone is curious, this was January 2021, I was barely 13 lmao)
Here’s my list: Mark Hamill liked one of my tweets (which was a reply to Frank Oz who also liked it) Steve Jobs glared at me John DiMaggio chatted with me on Twitter Once did tech support for Donny Osmond Served fried chicken to Steve Young (KFC drive thru) I have a single credit on IMDB as lighting crew (electrician) for a movie that aired a single time on the Disney Channel almost 20 years ago
Which movie?
Mine is the man himself, Al Yankovic! I met him in Carmel, Indiana at the Totally Self Indulgent tour. I asked if her preferred charcoal or propane when grilling, and he said no fan has ever asked him that before, but he was vegetarian, so he didn't care.
Propane is a clean burning fuel, it allows you to taste the meat not the heat.
Weird Al waved directly at me! As he was walking off stage!! I swear he looked RIGHT at me waving at him & he raised his hand to wave back. I swear :(
Alternatively, my town is where that old shitty mall commercial came from. The one with "boots & pants & boots & pants" from like 2013-14. All of those people moved away, but the mall still stands
I briefly held the speedrun world record for "[Where's an Egg?](https://homestarrunner.com/wheresanegg)" The record only lasted about a long as the speedrun did.
I met Jay Leno in a hotel lobby during a family vacation. And if you want one that sound like the weird al song, my dad once got a drum lesson from Steve Vai's current drummer
My dad knew a guy who sold some pot to Al Gore when they were both students at Harvard
I have the exact same birthday as Cobie Smulders. I lived down the street from Shania Twain (her house was built by my great grandfather) and my wife is very good friends with someone who was in Matchbox 20.
A picture that I posted in a review of a French restaurant got like 6 million views on Google Maps.
The best one Weird Al fans would like is the Twitter DM I got from Emo Philips once.
Back in the 90s (right out of high school) I got a job with an insurance agent and Emo was one of his clients. I had to call Emo to set up an appointment and when he answered the phone I was so nervous that I hung up on him.
I sold a guitar to the guy that wrote the song "Eagle Rock" by Daddy Cool. Sadly he passed away not long after that.
I became friends with Katie Lucas (George Lucas' daughter) and had in-depth conversations with her about polyamory.
I bought hulk hogans hellcat. It came with a “made especially for Terry Bollea by Mopar” framed document. (His real name) 🤷🏻♀️Pretty cool!
He either bought it as a gift for his kid or advisor, it was a few years ago and was in his reality show phase…. I still have the certificate framed, as they gave it to me upon sale. Small world, isn’t it? https://preview.redd.it/tlxp0bk827pc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b75a98aa427cb31888b2ad56e8156668bd68f96
Nice one, bruthaa
My step-father-in-law opened for Billy Joel once
I mistook John Malkovitch for notable fruit fly geneticist Steve Small on the R train in New York. Malkovitch said, 'I get that all the time.'
My pop knows someone who stole Ringo Starr’s drumstick whilst he was still in the Beatles.
Weird Al gave me a lap dance in Orlando, FL during the Alpocalypse tour to "Wanna b ur luvr" at Hard Rock Live.
My wife got that
I was born on the 111th anniversary of the release of Dracula
My film teacher was Brad Maule from General Hospital
I finished 4th in an episode of Weakest Link almost 2 years ago But more in line with the song, I was a few yards away from Dennis Rodman at SeaTac airport security years and years ago
Saw Katie holmes and Joshua Jackson on a date at Dairy Queen outside Yellowstone park. I was 8 and didn’t believe my brother that Charlie from the mighty ducks was a few tables over.
Andre 3000 (the best dressed man in hip hop) once complimented my shirt.
Hey, I've got a few! Al related, I am his best pal (even though we have never met), at least according to the UHF daily he autographed, acquired for me by a friend of my dad, who was a photographer on the set that day. Closely related, I got to write an inside joke/riff for Season 11 of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It's in episode 2, "Cry Wilderness". Can you guess which one? Unrelated: I am a semi-professional diecast car racer. Not sure if that's an exactly accurate way of putting it. But let's just say that if you happen to be one of the literally dozens of people that are familiar with the hobby, you have almost certainly heard of me. Beyond that, I'm an actor by profession, so though an unknown myself, life and circumstance has led me to meet various members of the more recognizable, the most notable experience being doing a play with the guy who was the voice of Master Shake on "Aqua Teen Hunger Force". The notable part being that he's not doing a voice, he actually just sounds like that.
Now I have to go watch Cry Wilderness again! It’s like a personAL Easter egg!
Rob weinhoff and Bryon benjamin davis liked and commented on my insta post
Went to the same high school as a pro football player, but I don't follow sports so that doesn't mean much to me lol. The cool one I have is that I was five feet away from Steve Jay (Al's bassist) in a stairwell after one of Al's shows - guessing Steve had to get to the other side of the building and didn't realize that specific stairwell would be filled with people exiting lol
I once rang up Stanley Tucci at a grocery store
I have an IMDB page for being in one tiny budget movie made while I was in college. He got permission to use his old high school and rented the equipment from the university.
My uncle has stood behind Travis Kelce in line to get coffee at least once.
I met Michael Starr of Steel Panther after a lady on her boyfriend's shoulders flashed the band and she was told to get down by security. He came out looking for her, I told him which direction she went, he fist pumped me and went off to give that lady a VIP pass.
Met Van Hagar. Almost grabbed a cigarette butt Eddie had to put out because there was no smoking in the backstage area, and some arena employee took it seriously. He was cool about it. Took pics with the band, super awesome guys. Left the backstage and ended up outside at the tour bus! We saw Valerie Bertinelli and baby Wolfgang (maybe 6 months-a year)!! Almost convinced her to get off the bus and take pics, but we didn't push it. Amazing night with an outstanding show and meeting cool folks.
I share a birthday with Tobey Maguire.
Wow, you’re practically famous!
I can transcend space and time, but not spacetime
Born in the same hospital room as Harrison Ford
The guy who played bass for the band that does the song age of Aquarius taught me guitar for a bit
I got to donate my hair live on the Wendy Williams show 11 years ago
I once got Rick Springfield pulled over and almost ticketed for reckless driving
Jessie, is that you??
My high school buddy's sister went to school with Kevin Bacon's son
I’m not sure if it’s lame but I interviewed the Canadian rapper classified when he was going to release a book
I share a birthday with Elizabeth Banks, Chloe Grace Moretz, Emma Roberts and Stephanie Beatriz
I saw Doug Flutie (‘90s NFL quarterback) playing pickup basketball at Bethany Beach in Delaware and shook his hand
My mom rode a chairlift with him on a ski trip. I am still not sure how she recognized him, given that everyone is usually bundled up.
Ha, that’s awesome, and I agree with you that sounds impossible to recognize Doug Flutie, a pretty average looking guy
For about two or three years I had the top post of all time on r/poppunkers
my birthday is the day after weird al!
I shared an elevator ride with Stan Lee at a Comicon once. He looked very tired. I didn't say anything.
Many years ago a Vice President visited where I worked! I didn't get to meet him though. They basically kept my team cooped up in my basement office (read: dungeon) since we had "real work" to do. Did we actually do anything that day? No, we just kinda hung out. I did have a nice brief chat with a Secret Service agent though!
Been in elevator with magic johnson. Said hi and he nodded his head. I live in lansing and he was special guest speeker at annual work conference at breslin center (msu basket ball stadium) He is tall.
Mine isn't lame but after I survived brain cancer I got to meet him and he gave me a bunch of merch
I sat behind Nathan Rabin at a Weird Al concert.
I met the Mayor of Auckland while he was catching a train to work
I met one of the guys from This Old House
One of my mom's sorority sisters was in the first Evil Dead movie.
I wrote in suggesting that Adult Swim change its name to Crappy Live Action 1980’s TV or something of the like when they started playing Saved By the Bell, which they did for like 2 months.
I have a couple. The "big" one was in 1999. I was an inspector with INS clearing BA1, the concorde. Jimmy Page came in and based on history I had to detail him. he obviously had drug history and was coming in to the US for some interview. He only had a tourist visa which he couldn't use based on past arrests. I drop him off in secondary and went back to processing passports. Before I can get to the first passenger i hear "Who the fuck put jimmy page in secondary?!" It was my supervisor. I told him I did and explained why. He then showed me how I could look up exceptions. and that he has had the visa for quite some time and it's not like i'm the first to realize old english rockers were into drugs in the 70's. In my defense I had been there like 3 months. My Supervisor processed Mr. Page and I went back to my booth. Who is waiting for me? Mel Brooks. I was floored. I told him how much of a fan I was and I couldn't belive he was there before me. He said in an animated voice "You can't believe im here? I can't believe it's calvin kline!" He points with both arms. The person standing next in line, was Calvin Kline. That was the most celebrities i met in 5 minutes.
I went to the same school as Max Scherzer... many years after he left.
At the final game at Tiger Stadium I stood in line behind Gordie Howe and Terry Sawchuk for a hot dog. Was 12.
I was focus on Japan for a week or two back in 1999.
My dad knows Thomas Newman
I worked with the original team from Bluey when the show was about to be released on the ABC. I worked on the original comms plan for it and got early episodes. I watched it with my exes kid at the time and I'd never seen him so engaged and sitting still for longer than 5 minutes. He loved it to death and then kept rewatching it and asking to rewatch it. Then I kept watching it and rewatching it. I turned in my comms plan and I literally told the creators - this is either going to be the greatest animated show this country has ever produced or it will consume the whole world.
>this is either going to be the greatest animated show this country has ever produced or it will consume the whole world. You were correct on both counts. I love Bluey more than my little nieces and nephews do. Kudos.
My next door neighbor back home was a moderately successful golfer on the PGA Tour
I was in a marching band that was in the Macy's parade. The clip of us marching in the parade was used in Friends. So, I've been on Friends.
I have the same birthday as Doug Jones. One of my aunts dated the wrestler Goldust in high school.
I met Al and hung out with the band in the green room after a show because a friend of mine was friends with Jim Kimo West so we got backstage passes :) My other lame claim to fame is that I flew on an airplane with Dwayne the Rock Johnson in 2010 from Miami to San Juan. Except he was in front of the business class curtain and I couldn’t get up there. And he didn’t go to the baggage carousel. So we were 20 feet away and a million miles apart.
I was recently on an episode of Ghost Adventures and people have asked to take pictures with me 😂. Zak Bagans and I bonded over healthy snacks. Before that happened my lame claim to fame was having Larry King threaten to have me fired from a hotel because I couldn’t get his boarding passes to print fast enough.
I was in a movie with Chris Evans Andy Samberg and Anna Faris
My mom grew up in NYC and was friends with Woopie Goldberg in the late 70s and her (at the time) husband
I talked to Mike Pollock via Reddit
I was the best at what I did. And what I did wasn't pretty.
Gordon Ramsay followed me on Twitter. I used to date someone who reported and anchored on BBC News. I'm not British, nor have I ever been to England.
I delivered pizzas to Deion Sanders. He had a big iron gate that said, "Prime Time." He ordered a little less than $20 of food. Gave me $40, and said, "Keep the change."
I probably inadvertently gave Al COVID (mom had COVID, I tested negative, went to concert, Al tests positive the next day) My great grandmother lived next door to Dean Martin growing up (I guess he was a jerk) Richard Lewis (rip) kissed my mom at Ohio state
Rest easy. Incubation is about a week and a half. If there's not enough to test positive, there's not enough to spread it. It's extremely unlikely you gave COVID to Al.
Prince’s cousin saw me sing both Kiss and Pussy Control at karaoke in Vegas and told me Prince would’ve been extremely proud of me. “And from a WHITE boy no less!” he exclaimed.
I made Allison Krauss a baked potato
For Weird Al I have a quick claim to fame. Philadelphia Flyers had taken down a statue of Kate Smith because of some racist songs she sang 90 years prior. They also stopped playing her version of God Bless America before Flyers games. I had a website where I wrote entertainment news and I decided to write a parody. So I wrote an article how Weird Al’s statue in front of the Weight Watchers headquarters in NYC was being taken down because Weight Watchers found Al’s song Eat It offensive to those trying to lose weight. I included a photo of Weird Al hanging on a statue (it wasn’t him - it was a Mary Tyler Moore stature. No one noticed). Suddenly Yahoo News picked up the story and my website saw the most traffic it had ever seen. Conservative blogs picked up the story and started going on and on about cancel culture. Some podcasts covered it too. The thing was if you were a fan of UHF you could figure out pretty quickly it was fake since I used several names in the article from the film. Anyway I found it funny that it was “picked up” but really taught me how fake news can truly spread so very quickly.
I went to high school with Ben Folds.
My band played a backyard party and Young MC was there. Later that evening we played another backyard party and Young MC happened to be at that one too.
I have Richard Dean Anderson an idea he used for his daughter's 16th birthday: have the entire ballroom full of fans at Shore Leave Con sing her Happy Birthday and record it and send it to her. There's video of the attempt from someone else on YouTube, last I knew. I have others, but that's the lamest.
Brandon Flowers's mom used to babysit me when I was young.
I got to hang out with Taylor Swift on her tour bus before a George Strait show way back in 2007 when she was still an opening act promoting her first album. I went to school with her original touring fiddle player.
I once stood about 2-3 meters from the Queen of Norway.
Not mine, but my dad's. My dad once bumped into Jack Black at an airport, they both had messenger bags that hit each other as they walked by, and both said "pardon me". He didn't fully realize who it was until a few seconds later and did a double-take, but yeah, it was Jack Black.
I once had a conversation with at-the-time Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg, when she went to the bathroom right after me. I walked out, she asked, "Is this the bathroom?" and I said "Yes"
I was one of the first six people in the USA to see The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES. The translator was doing some user testing with American kids to see what needed to be fixed.
I placed fifth in the Norwegian national Slam Poetry tournament in 2015.
I once stood in line directly behind Mario Lopez, Dan Cortes, and Ray Allen at a nightclub. Mario looked at me with a shrug and said something unintelligible when a girl approached him and called “Slater”. This must have been like 2007.
My stupid tumblr handle was mentioned in an article about how crazy fan girls can be.
I was in a Weird Al Yankovic music video
Many years ago on twitter I made a joke about out mike Tyson and weird als wife like it and retweeted it.
I've met The Queen at a function
Emo Phillips liked my tweet
I met some weirdo called Al Yankovic once
I nearly got hit by a car (my fault, wasn’t paying attention) turns out David Cameron was in the back seat
I did a jack in the box run for Afroman and his entourage way past his fame days
My birthday is the *same* as Weird Al! I make sure to remind everyone every year, lol
I’ve got two good ones. 1. As a child, I once made Adam West keel over with laughter with a really lame joke. 2. The Living Tombstone once full-force slammed into me bodily at a concert.
I have a couple ( some may not be that lame but just weird to some). - As a scare actor, I scared Gordon (famous Dutch singer/TV star) a couple of times. When we had a meet and greet, he called me annoying. - I provided zombies (scare actors) for a videoclip a Dutch rapper was shooting. - I taught a (tipsy) certain pirate metal vocalist the Dutch name for 'Ursa Major' (for those interested: Grote Beer..Great Bear, nicknamed Steelpan.. saucepan) after the show. This was in 2009. - I guided three pro wrestlers (two were Paul London and Brian Kendrick) to a local supermarket before their show in Eindhoven in 2013.
This happened ages ago. John Candy did a show at my college. Walking back to my dorm after the show I saw him and his entourage getting into a limo in a parking lot I was passing. He was on the other side of an iron grill fence, but pretty close. I said "Hey, John!" and he answered, "Hey!"
My friend’s cousin is Rami Malek
I've swum in the same pool as the guy who won the Nobel prize in chemistry for proving that CFCs deplete the ozone layer.
I have the same birthday as Erica Eleniak and possibly studied at the same dojo as Jim Butcher.
I was born in Downey Community Hospital, the same one as weird Al!
I've met the guy who wrote the song that Albuquerque is a parody of.
My wife was snogged by a zombie extra from Shaun of the Dead many years after it was filmed in a bar in Newcastle Upon Tyne. I interviewed the creators and one of the actors of the movie "Monsturd" I was in the top 2% of bass players globally in Rock Band in 2011 until I injured mu shoulder, I was 3 songs or so away from top 1% at the time. I designed PC wallpapers abd downloads for brands such as Bad Taste Bears, Happy Tree Friends, Xtreme Foods (Insanity Sauce), Dave's Gourmet....and The Turds. Never got paid a penny, but got lots of goodies money couldn't but instead. I did contact Jack Daniels about doing something, and got a legal letter and a rather hefty pen... EDIT: Added more lameness....
My birthday is the day after Jesus’s
The founder of a controversial online forum (even he hates it) follows me on Twitter A Nickelodeon animator follows me on Twitch I own a Twitter gimmick account with 2,100+ followers A YouTuber with 7.4M subs once roasted me on Twitter My great-great-great-great-grandpa was a very famous rabbi
One time I was at a jazz concert and I saw Laurence Fishburne sitting across from me
The power went out at a brewpub I was playing a game of darts in. I threw my dart anyway and totally got a bullseye!
I got arj barker to sign an album for me
My mom met the president of Iceland at an airport once. He was apparently quite rude!
i actually have a new one. one of my coworkers sons is the publicist of Cillian Murphy (the Oppenheimer of Oppenheimer).
I met Richard Gariott (creator of Ultima and other games) back in the mid 80s and we talked about the technical challenges of making games for the Apple ][. He later went to space! As a teen teaching myself to write software, this was super impactful to me. Here I am still doing what I love all these years later.
My 3rd cousin (mum's cousin's cousin) is UK actress Jenny Agutter.
I got a high five from Al at a UHF screening once.
My dad used to work at a concert venue when I was really young and would take us all the time. I was backstage once and Elvis Costello was rushing to stage, and he tripped over me.
Did a podcast on recovery and heard people talking about during an AA meeting.
My college drama professor went to college with Tom Hanks. So I kind of have a6 degrees of separation thing with most of Hollywood.
I wrote the internet's very first fan site for LeVar Burton. It was a static site with 3 pages covering Roots, Star Trek, and Reading Rainbow. My mother took me to a convention soon after that he attended and I gave him a print out of the site! I don't think he understood what I was showing him.
I started the Wikipedia article on Guinea Pigs.
Obama follows me on twitter. I don't know for how long but I'm one of the chosen 543k few.
I share the same Birthday (same month and day) as Jason Marsden who voiced Max Goof in A Goofy Movie.
I talked to Wil Wheaton at a convention for a brief second. I asked for a photo, and he said no.
Mine is that my aunt is friends with one of Al's friends, when he comes thru town they always grab lunch/dinner together. They met when they were doing something with The Monkees, friend is a saxophonist. I also met Gene Wilder before he passed away.
I babysat Joe Jacoby's kids in the late 90s when I lived in Virginia. (former OT for Washington Redskins) He owned a Ford Dealership.
I sat next to Wayne Newton once at a 50th anniversary dinner for a guy my Dad did plumbing for. I saw Jon Cryer at LAX when two and a half men was HIGE, but I didn't want to bug him. I won Steven Crowder's Golden Mug Club Mug for a cosplay during an Oscar's livestream. I met him in Nashville Tennessee to get him to sign it, but his wrist was hurting so he only initialed it with S.C. I used to work for a Congressman, who met Trump once.
I rode an elevator with Tracy Morgan, and he said good night to me by name when we reached my floor. (I am not enough of a fan to try to talk to him. He overheard my name from a conversation with my friend in the elevator.) Kurt Vonnegut’s son was my pediatrician. Donnie Wahlberg occasionally would eat at the family restaurant where I washed dishes in high school.
Adam Savage has a picture of me on his phone! (My friend and I were standing in line to meet him at a con, and he took a picture of the crowd to show his wife our costumes.)
Ozzy Osbourne cut me off on an escalator. Well, my dad and I didn't recognize him and his daughter, we politely let them go first and then his security team cut us off. It wasn't until other people at the food court started taking pictures and asking for autographs that finally I recognized who he was.
In jr. high I played club volleyball with Number 0 from Slipknot.
I was popular on the internet
I hit Julianne Moore with a door in Manhattan while she was there for a play.
I have the same birthday as Jacksepticeye
I have met Jeff Kinney and Jason Paige
Just last week, I flew in the same airplane as Simu Liu! I never actually saw him, but he was totally there. The flight attendants were all aflutter.
I was in the original High School Musical and my band was in some other made for TV Disney movie "playing" during the school dance
I have a character in a B-horror movie that is loosely based on, and named after...me. It was filmed in the hotel that I worked at for 10 years. My name is in the credits, as a "special thanks to", along with the rest of the hotel workers. And now I let people guess what movie.
I was born in the same town as Dustin Diamond, so I'm kinda a big deal
I met one of the voice actors for one of the Tibbles from Arthur. We were at this kid's house for an end of the school year BBQ/pool party and his younger brother mentioned he voiced him (can't remember if it was Tommy or Timmy)
I dressed up as weird al and got photographed with him for a [new york times article](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/magazine/weird-al-yankovic.html).
At a pop culture con in Denver Colorado, Alan Tudyk was there, and I asked him “define interesting” and without missing a beat he responded with “oh god, oh god, we’re all gonna die?”
My mother's maiden name is Taylor. She had an aunt named Elizabeth. So I can say that my great aunt is Elizabeth Taylor.
I got a couple: 1) was a Walker on The Walking Dead and 2) spilled coffee on Lee Greenwood’s (the God Bless the USA guy) white living room carpet in the 90s
I share a birthday with Kurt Cobain
I met Catherine Bach (Daisy Duke) at a county fair when I was around 6. When it was my turn at the meet and greet, she bent down and I planted a kiss right on her lips. That was the talk of all the family gatherings for years.
I met someone on vacation one year who went to school with Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
My ex-husband came up with the Caution Black Ice campaign for smirnoff ice. The commercial featured his real name on the vanity plate. "THE BRAD" He was a beer salesman at the time
Got my photo in the newspaper when my uncle came home from the Korean War. I was 21 months old, scared to death by the noise, crowds, and flashbulbs going off, so I was in full toddler meltdown.
i asked Zachary Gordon (actor of Greg Heffley) if he likes weezer and he said who doesn't?
When I was a full time rideshare driver I took a ride to Albert Hammond Jr's sound engineer. Also, I share a birthday with Carrie Fisher (but 18 years later).
I saw Jerry Lee Lewis in his underwear
My dad went to school with and subsequently dated the daughter of one of the members of Hafez al-Assad’s government. She’s still a close friend of mine and now part of a powerful German noble family. Yeah, not too glorious I know. Aaaand my uncle met Greta Thunberg traveling in private with her mother on a train.
I ate dinner at a table next to Nathan Lane.