Pernell Roberts
Jon Douglas Rainey
President Bush
Gordon Ramsey
Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert
David Sedaris
Steve Carell
I could just sit back and laugh.
O.J. Simpson
Kinky Friedman
George Carlin
Wayne Brady
Henry Rollins
Clifford Stoll
Thomas Sowell
Sergey Brin
Kevin Smith
Yogi Berra
Rudy Giuliani
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke
Wow, that would be one strange conversation.
Jim
George HW Bush
Michael Moore
Paul McCartney
Ron Howard
Kevin Smith
Jason Mewes
James Hetfield
Tom Cruise - I’d love to talk Scientology with him and find out if the Xenu stuff is true and what he actually believes.
If he’s a serious Scientologist, sorry, you’ll get nothing out of him…
Joe
Or, if you want the milk, you gotta buy the cow.
Michael Waltrip
Jay Leno
Paul Allen
Kim Thayil
Spider Robinson
My grandmother
An eclectic group, yeah, but you asked who I wanted, not who would fit together! 
Tom Brokaw
Charles Barkley
Diana Rigg
Ashley Judd
Stephen Hawking
Sandra Day O’Conner
John Glenn
Al Gore
Bill Gates
Osama Bin Laden
Britney Spears
Richard Petty
Bill Bryson
Tiger Woods
Ron Wood
Rachel Weisz
Bill Clinton
Phil Collins
William Shatner
Bishop John Shelby Spong
Clive Barker
Alan Moore
China Mieville
Neil Gaiman
Sigh Terry Pratchett’s the only one of my fave authors to make it out here, so I’m sure these other guys will have to spend most of the night answering my questions - and I will have many!
J.K. Rowling
Whoopi Goldberg
Robin Meade
Debbie Reynolds
Girl’s night in:
Oprah
Madonna
Hilary
Diane Feinstein
Geek squad:
Iain Banks
Neil Gaiman
Harlan Ellison
Joss Whedon
Margaret Thatcher
Tony Benn
Terry Pratchett
Condi Rice
And since I’m single and a proper dinner party should try and have an even number - and preferably equal numbers of men and women - so I’ll add Vera Lynn.