# Fun ways to annoy celebrities! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2003, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849 "2003-02-27T09:23:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/21 "2003-02-27T18:47:17Z")
For Goldblum, I’d go with “Earth Girls Are Easy”, but that’s just a personal hangup of mine. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/22 "2003-02-27T18:49:17Z")
John Ratzenberger! Man, you were great in The Empire Strikes Back! Hey Jason Alexander! Keeps the hot side hot and the cool side cool, right? ---
**Author:** ![lauramarlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lauramarlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lauramarlane)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/23 "2003-02-27T18:54:17Z")
Oh, Michael Caine! Brilliant work in [Blame it on Rio](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086973) ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/24 "2003-02-27T18:56:55Z")
I think it would be funny to give a celebrity MY autograph. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/25 "2003-02-27T18:58:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > \*\*I suppose you could also gush to William Shatner about _T.J. Hooker_, but I don’t know whether he’d be more annoyed or amused. \*\* Having been recently inflicted with the video _Showtime_, I think he’d be amused. If I wanted to be evil, I’d ask Mr. Shatner about his books, and what it’s like to be an author. ---
**Author:** ![lauramarlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lauramarlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lauramarlane)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/26 "2003-02-27T19:00:17Z")
And Michelle Pfeiffer–[Grease 2](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0084021)! Words simply cannot express! If any movie ever screamed out for a sequel…um…well…nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/27 "2003-02-27T19:09:24Z")
When I met Bridget Fonda, this is what happened: Me: “Hi, I loved you in _Point of No Return_”. BF: “Thank you so much” Me: “I don’t want to freak you out, but you are going to win the Oscar for best supporting actress in 2006.” BF: “How do you know?” Me: “Whenever I touch someone I just immediately know things about that person, both past and future.” BF: “Really? Come on…” Me: “You don’t have to believe me, just remember this when it happens.” BF: “Should I write this down?” Me: “No need, you’ll never forget this conversation.” Then I walked away. It was really really hard for me to keep a straight face for the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![InTransit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47774/32.png) [@InTransit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InTransit)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/28 "2003-02-27T19:15:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > \*\*Elijah Wood for _North_. > \*\* For Elijah Wood I’d use _The Faculty_. I’ve heard that even _he_ acknowledges that the movie sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/29 "2003-02-27T19:20:50Z")
Sean Connery – Darby O’Gill and the Little People Leonard Nimoy – The Brain Eaters Clint Howard – “Hey! You were Ben, in Gentle Ben, right?” “Um, no, that was the bear…” Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hercules in New York Steven Spielber – Always George Lucas – Howard the Duck (yeah, I know… it wasn’t that bad… but compared to the _rest_ of his stuff???) ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/30 "2003-02-27T19:21:36Z")
“Hey, you’re Burt Reynolds! So Burt, at your dinner theater, what’s better, the dinner or the theater?” -Stuttering John to Burt Reynolds “Hey, Chuck, you’re good friends with Ronald Reagan. Do you think he remembers you?” -Stuttering John to Charlton Heston I’m not a big Howard Stern fan, but the way Stuttering John left celebs with their chins on the floor was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/31 "2003-02-27T19:25:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by InTransit \* > For Elijah Wood I’d use _The Faculty_. I’ve heard that even _he_ acknowledges that the movie sucked. Nah, you really wanna piss of Elijah Wood, tell him how much you loved him in _Harry Potter_. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/32 "2003-02-27T19:29:03Z")
> [@](#): > > How about Randy Quaid in Ringo Star’s debut movie Caveman > I think Shelly Long was in it too! Sorry to nitpick but it was **Dennis** Quaid and Ringo had already done quite a few movies before _Caveman_ (some of which were even more embarrassing than that one). And yes, a pre-_Cheers_ Shelley Long was in it. > [@](#): > > Oh, Michael Caine! Brilliant work in Blame it on Rio I don’t know. I would think that if you really wanted to cheese off Michael Caine, you’d mention _Jaws 4: The Revenge_ instead. (He missed picking up his Oscar for _Hannah and Her Sisters_ because he had to be on location shooting this turkey.) ---
**Author:** ![lauramarlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lauramarlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lauramarlane)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/33 "2003-02-27T19:39:02Z")
Yes, **NDP** , you’re right about Jaws 4. And since you reminded me of it, I checked Jaws 3-D and discovered that both Louis Gossett Jr., and Dennis Quaid have the distinction of having this little gem on their resumes. ---
**Author:** ![TJ555\_The\_Golfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@TJ555\_The\_Golfer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJ555_The_Golfer)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/34 "2003-02-27T19:47:34Z")
> [@](#): > > This is so evil. But funny. Well, that what they get for trying to express themselves creatively. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/35 "2003-02-27T19:56:11Z")
> [@](#): > > I think it would be funny to give a celebrity MY autograph. When Charles Swindoll, a famous preacher, did the chapel at my college, some smarty-pants buddies and I went up to him after he got done, and one of them gave Swindoll his autograph. He accpeted it about is smoothly as you can. He’s not the type apparently to admit that it’s all just a big goof, and just laugh at people. Then another guy asked if Swindoll knew his mother, “Because she listens to you on the radio.” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/36 "2003-02-27T20:16:43Z")
**Shirley** : “You know, this blizzard we just had isn’t just snow . . . It’s nature’s way of telling us to be more inward; to go within ourselves and do some deep searching.” **Eve** : “Hon, it’s _snow_. It happens every year.” [Shirley gives me a Dirty Look] ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/37 "2003-02-27T20:30:59Z")
**digs** – I’m betting David Ogden Stiers would have been amused, and not upset at all. There is only one thing he hates being recognized for, and that’s M_A_S\*H. If you want to make him mad, just call him Winchester. His favorite thing is to have parents of little kids tell them that he’s one of his Disney characters, so that he can do the voice for them. Check out this L.A. Times [article](http://events.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Movies-X!ArticleDetail-63787,00.html) in which he talks about one such encounter at DisneyWorld. Stiers mentions in every interview I’ve seen how much he hates being recognized from M_A_S\*H (which he refers to as “the green show” or “the army show”), and I’ve never seen him refer to any of his other projects with anything less than respect. I wonder how many other actors _enjoy_ being recognized for something other than their most well-known work. Tom Hanks certainly seems to like people remembering Bosom Buddies. I do think that if you want to annoy a celebrity, you should recognize them as a different celebrity (or do the Elijah Wood/Harry Potter thing). I have heard a lot of actors complain about being recognized as someone else, although if the someone else is very talented, sometimes they consider it a compliment. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/38 "2003-02-27T20:37:18Z")
**Spoilervirgin** : There is a comedy bit they do on a local morning radio show, where this guy calls up people to do radio interviews, only he’s been given the wrong person to talk to. For example, he might call up Woody Harrelson, and ask a whole string of questions as if he was talking to Woody Nelson. He’ll _completely_ ignore anything the interviewee says to set him straight. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/39 "2003-02-28T00:38:52Z")
Several years ago, **Ivan Dixon** owned a Radio station on Maui. I was aquainted with the program director and every time I won something stopped in to talk. Then one afternoon I got intruduced to Ivan, who I thought was just a nice guy who sat at the front desk and said hi to my son. (He looked a lot older than the Hogan’s Heros guy) So I said _I loved you in Car Wash!_ Ivan chucked in an embarrased way. Later the radio station played _Car Wash_. It wasn’t in their format and they never played it before or since.:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![InTransit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47774/32.png) [@InTransit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InTransit)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849/40 "2003-02-28T01:08:36Z")
\ > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > \*\*Nah, you really wanna piss of Elijah Wood, tell him how much you loved him in _Harry Potter_. \*\* I didn’t know there were people confusing Elijah Wood with Daniel Radcliffe. Gads. From a recent-ish Entertainment Weekly article, however, (if it’s to be believed) Elijah apparently hates to be referred to as a little boy or kid or basically anything referring to either his height or appearance that makes people think he’s 14 years old. \ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ways-to-annoy-celebrities/157849.md?page=3)