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Paul Walker, at blockbuster in Santa Barbara 2008. He didn't have his membership card, had to look him up by his driver's license. I had no idea who he was, my co-workers were freaking out and asked me what his license looked like. I didn't pay attention at all and couldn't remember any details. My guess he probably appreciated being anonymous to me.

I didn't actually meet him, but I made Bill Hader smile!

I was walking being him in a parking lot/alley in Venice and when I realized it was him I got super excited, then my friend whispered loudly "keep your cool, don't make a scene" and then when he turned the corner we could see the smile on his face. It was very exciting

I've also walked behind Fred Armisen and Carrie Beownstein when I walked past a place where they were filming Portlandia

If you count the dudes from Last Podcast on the Left, though, I've met Henry Zebrowski so often that he recognized me on the street when I ran into him coming out of a bar. And he was in a Scorsese movie

Brian Blessed is probably the most known person I've met. He is exactly like his appearance on any TV show you've seen him on. He wants to tell stories, endlessly. He's always got a fascinating story or fact to tell you. He wants to speak to literally anyone about anything.

This was at a convention years ago, and he had two handlers who were ripping their hair out from the frustration - they were bitching about how impossible he is to get from place to place but he's just so goddamn nice.

Other notable meet (to me) was Regi Fils-Aimé. I was wearing a Zelda necklace and he went "ooooh I like your necklace!" and I pretty much resembled that scene where Troy meets LeVar Burton in Community.

Numerous metal bands... I can't list them all with any accuracy. In the early 2000s I met most of the Green Bay Packers and numerous WWE wrestlers due to a promotion gig I had.

I met Craig Ferguson a few years ago, I was just a stand-in contestant for a game show pilot he was filming. He was super nice, took the time to say hello and have a quick chat before getting down to business.

It was really cool to watch him, he was so calm and cool until the camera started rolling and then he was just 'on'.

I am not a sportsball fan, but in the 90s worked in a couple (completely unrelated!) places where I met/interacted with a bunch of NFL dudes in a relaxed setting

• Troy Aikman - serious, aloof
• Emmitt Smith - extremely kind, patient with children. The kind of guy you would want dating your sister.
• Daryl Johnston - quiet, private
• Nate Newton - funny and good-natured. Not terribly concerned with the rules. Like standing next to a refrigerator.
• Tony Dorsett - dick, rude, would leave his wife alone so long we used to sit with her to keep her company.
• Jimmy Johnson - helmet-haired dick, belligerent, the law didn't apply to him and he can do whatever the hell he wants. Voted (by me) most likely to ask "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"

I also once was in a group dinner with Wayne Hussey (Mission era, rather enjoyable, center of attention but didn't demand it, if that makes sense). Met Vince Neil at an EM club in Germany in the 80s (box of rocks and kinda rude).

I met Chris Hadfield briefly when I was a kid. That was pretty neat. He was doing a book signing for a relatively small room of people

I've met Billy Idol two times, he was really nice.

I'm some form of science hermit, so I measure these things by degrees of separation. So I meet people by proxy. Some long after they are deceased, I suppose.

I have two degrees of separation from Paul Erdos (and of course his mother), several prime ministers of Vietnam, Kevin Mitnick, and Keanu Reeves. Three from John Von Newmann and most world leaders.

I also probably have an Erdos-Bacon number. It would be quite large though.

Merkel Probably.

Motoo Fujiwara, lead singer/composer of Bump of Chicken.

He was good friends with a friend of mine so we went out to dinner and hung out in his apartment. He'd just turned down the offer to write an opening song for One Piece, because he'd never heard of it, and was regretting it immensely (as a consolation they did the ending of the 2003 movie).

Working in games I've worked with more famous people, like Tim Curry and Billy West, but never met any of them. Still cool to see your name in the same credits roll :D.

When Obama was campaigning he did a stop at my kids' high school. My husband shook his hand.

Couple of years ago a friend and i were at breakfast and started talking to an old guy sitting at the counter beside us. It was photographer Irv Steinberg. He sat and chatted for an hour, telling funny stories about photographing Marilyn Monroe and accidentally eating John Wayne's steak.

When my kids were young they auditioned for ER and we met Anthony Edwards. He said, "hi. I'm Tony," which seemed funny.

Depends on what you mean by met. There was a thing at a nighclub for blade2 and wesley snipes and for some reason shaq was walking around. Saw them and talked with our friends and said neat but I always felt the nicest thing you can do for famous people is to leave them alone. If that counts well then I used to go to scifi/fantasy cons and there were actors who got paid to go or went to shill something. Did background work and the main actors were there off in the distance. Actually met? Well the guy who was the chef for the obamas worked with a charity with this soup and talk thing and he served the soup but I did not really talk much except saying thanks. He gave some of the talks and even announced where he was going when he was allowed to tell people. He literally looked like michael stipe. Then I worked for evl under Dan Sandin and Tom Defanti who if your in the area they are legends. I would not be surprised if relatively famous folks were around and I did not even realize. Seen politicians at the public transit stations. Oh and my extended cousin is Phil Collins and saw him at some extended family reunions.

I sat down and had a conversation with Michelle Pfeiffer on a beach in SoCal while she was on break during the filming session. I was just a kid and had no idea who she was at the time; she was just some woman sitting on a stonework. I was too young to even remember what we talked about.

Jimmy Carter, Céline Dion, Michael Gorbatchev, Bruce Springsteen, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many many more. One of the benefits of working in the luxury hotel scope for a few years.

Will Wright at one of the E3 conventions during their glory days.

Michael Jordan on a random beach I. The Virgin Islands. He hung out and chatted for a bit then kept walking. We were the only other people on the beach. Seemed chill at the time.

Mads Mikkelsen, but it was early in his career - before he went international.

Android Jones. He’s a local artist, I’m not sure if he’s known outside of our area or not, but his art is gorgeous. I cleaned out (physically and digitally) his computer for him after he got back from Burning Man. It was filled with so much sand.

Funnily enough, Kevin Bacon, while working at the CN Tower around the time of the release of Apollo 13.

Met Robert Patrick (best known as the T-1000 from Terminator 2).

He had a booth at a Horror convention. I knew nothing about the convention and didn't know a ton about his other work, but his local agent asked their local family if they knew a Graphic Designer because the booth posters for Robert and Billy Boyd got lost in luggage.

I eneded up being a last minute call for help, had the agent send me what official images they had, and threw together what I could in an hour or two so I could get it to a printer in time.

Was right by Robert at his booth all day, interacting with his fans. He seems like he probably has some political views I'd disagree with, but I've never seen anyone spend time with fans like him. He truly put the time and work in with every single person in that line.

Had no clue how many diverse fandoms he was part of. He seems strongheaded, but very professional and super loving to the people that show up for him.

Got to have lunch with him and Billy Boyd that day, and they're total dorks together in the best way. Billy Boyd is 100% the sweetest man and it was hilarious realizing he had voiced Chuckie.

Stan Lee - San Diego Comic Con 1995.

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Erykah Badu, I did some work at her house a few times. She was very nice when I spoke with her, but usually I dealt with another lady. The first time I rolled up I figured she would be cool when I saw "FORGIVE" spray-painted across her garage.

It was backstage at a concert, we were the very small local band and they (Die Toten Hosen) were the main act and technically I met them but they were shielded from us until they went on stage and had to go through the place we had our backstage together with the second band (Donots).

The Donots guys were very cool, we played football together in the evening, they gave us beer they had with them because they knew that catering for the other bands is shitty when you play with Die Toten Hosen and we drank together, awesome time.

As a teenager, I worked in a local single-screen movie theater in an affluent town and had occasion to meet John Delancy (Q from Star Trek Next Gen) who was very friendly, and Jason Robards, who was pleasant enough but kept to himself. I've met a few famous people at conventions, but the best was Adrienne Barbeau, who I met at a horror convention in Worcester, MA years ago. It was early and there weren't a lot of people around yet, so we went over to say hello. We spent about half an hour just talking, commiserating over the then-very-recent cancellation of Carnivale on HBO. She was an absolutely lovely person in every way.

Hard to say.

Maybe Louis CK before all that stuff. Twice actually. He was nice, and a bit shy each time.

I met a lot of other comics. Hannibal Burress, Judah Freidlander, Jim Jeffries were all favorites. All seem very genuine.

For musicians, I guess Victor Wooten is the most famous. That was really magical. He was exactly as I hoped, dude is a natural teacher.

Actors… I ran into Adam Scott (Parks and Rec, Severance) when I was quite drunk (and on a date) many years back. We were both in line at a speakeasy ramen restaurant at like 11PM.

I don’t think I met any politicians or other kinds of famous folks.

I've been to Garth Brooks' house.

I was next to Al Sharpton at the airport in DC once. I didn't meet him, though. I was too tired to try to strike up a conversation. He is VERY short. You don't really see that on TV.

Spoke for a solid hour with Peter Zeihan, author of The Accidental Superpower, at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Very knowledgeable, and much taller in real life than I expected. I highly recommend his books.

I was a carpet cleaner for about 20 years. Cleaned all over Chicagoland. I was a regular for Dennis DeYoung for about 6 years. Kept to himself mostly, but friendly. He had a dog that he named Lady. His house was pretty big. His bedroom, also huge, had a big master bathroom. To the right of that was a couple of stairs then a small hallway and at the end of that hallway was a room, a literal apartment sized room that was her closet! To the left of the master bathroom was another door, his closet. Open that and I could stick my hand in it and reach the end of his closet. Always struck me funny. Another thing that struck me funny was in his kid's bedroom, there was a form letter from Mike Schmidt. A form letter. From Mike Schmidt to the son of Dennis DeYoung.

I also delivered a hand washed rug roll to Bonnie Hunt. Very friendly.