# I didn't know they were married! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392 "2007-03-25T03:09:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/1 "2007-03-25T03:09:29Z")
I happened to see an old comedy show with Judy Tenuta today, and since I haven’t heard much about her in a decade or so, I went to IMDb to see what she’s been up to. Imagine my surprise when I noticed in the biography section that she was married to Emo Phillips. I had no idea! Although it seemed quite right and fitting that two such quirky comedians should have hooked up. I guess they were too quirky to stay together, though: they’re divorced, apparently. So who were you surprised to learn were a couple? (I’ve put this in CS because I assume we’ll be talking about celebrities. You may have been surprised to find that your old high school girlfriend married the captain of the football team, but trust me, we’re not interested in hearing about it.) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/2 "2007-03-25T03:19:22Z")
Ok well I found out that two professors in my department are married. How much detail should I go into? I’m thinking 5-6 paragraphs? ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/3 "2007-03-25T03:41:56Z")
Last night, I learned that Mutt Lange and Shania Twain are married. I was quite shocked. [Johnny Carson] I did not know that. [JC] ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/4 "2007-03-25T04:49:52Z")
Diane Lane and Josh Brolin. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/5 "2007-03-25T04:56:18Z")
Many years ago, I was dumfounded (but delighted) when I learned that Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft were married. I loved these people, but somehow I had never imagined them as a couple. It was a good, long marriage, too: they stayed together for 41 years, when Anne died. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/6 "2007-03-25T05:20:40Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] Many years ago, I was dumfounded (but delighted) when I learned that Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft were married. I loved these people, but somehow I had never imagined them as a couple. It was a good, long marriage, too: they stayed together for 41 years, when Anne died. [/QUOTE] I thought of mentioning them in the OP as an unexpected couple. Thanks for mentioning them. ---
**Author:** ![Layla01](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/layla01/32/15552_2.png) [@Layla01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Layla01)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/7 "2007-03-25T11:47:02Z")
I was surprised to hear that Lalla Ward (who I knew as Romana from Dr Who) was married to Richard Dawkins - I’m a Dr Who fan and a Dawkins fan and that partnership was unexpected (but cool). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/8 "2007-03-25T12:36:46Z")
[QUOTE=commasense] Imagine my surprise when I noticed in the biography section that she was married to Emo Phillips. I had no idea! Although it seemed quite right and fitting that two such quirky comedians should have hooked up. I guess they were too quirky to stay together, though: they’re divorced, apparently. [/QUOTE] Hmm…Emo occasionally mentions an evil ex-wife in his act…I wonder… As to ‘hey, they’re together!’ moments… They’re not, AFAICT, married, but comic book writer Jimmy Palmiotti is in a long term relationship with artist Amanda Connor. Which I found out just before the issue of Supergirl that Palmiotti and Justin Grey wrote, and Connor drew. And which surprised me since they do so little work together. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/9 "2007-03-25T13:37:55Z")
It’s long past, but I was shocked to learn that Peter Wolf of the J. Geils band was once married to Faye Dunaway. ---
**Author:** ![Chum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/10 "2007-03-25T13:41:41Z")
I was surprised when I found out that Christopher Guest and Jamie Lee Curtis are married. Seems like a really odd pairing. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/11 "2007-03-25T13:52:04Z")
[QUOTE=Chum] I was surprised when I found out that Christopher Guest and Jamie Lee Curtis are married. Seems like a really odd pairing. [/QUOTE] Because Christopher Guest is gay, you mean? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/12 "2007-03-25T14:02:53Z")
Not so odd for a gay man to marry a hermaphrodite… (Doing my best to spread Urban Legends online for more than ten years…) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/13 "2007-03-25T15:31:39Z")
I remember being surprised that Bob Crane was married to Sigrid Valdis (Hilda of **Hogan’s Heroes** ). A apartmentmate of mine when she first saw them together said, “My God, he married the secretary!” (This was before the details of Crane’s sex life were revealed.) ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/14 "2007-03-25T17:22:58Z")
I was surprised to learn that the delightful Rashida Jones of The Office is the child of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/15 "2007-03-25T17:36:53Z")
Until last year, I didn’t know William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman are married. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/16 "2007-03-25T17:41:29Z")
I was very surprised when I first learned that Allyson Hannigan and Alexis Denisof were married… I guess I so strongly identify them with their Buffy/Angel characters, and Willow and Wesley would NEVER be a couple, even ignoring the gay factor. Plus he was from an entire older generation… (lucky bastard) ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/17 "2007-03-26T00:07:18Z")
For _Daily Show_ fans, Jason Jones & Samantha Bee are married. It surprised me at first…but I can see it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/18 "2007-03-26T00:52:08Z")
Not married, but I was recently suprised to learn that singer and softcore porn star Vanesa Talor (well known for her great lesbian scene in Femalien 2, though my fave is her appearance in the “Nude Golf” ep of Chromium Blue) is or was the girlfriend of … Jerry Springer? Hey, my respect for Springer went up a notch. A large part of Talor’s appeal, other than her very nice bod and matching face, is that she projects that whole “lusty wench” thing very well in her roles. I don’t think he married her for her cooking skills. (She sings very nicely, too.) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/19 "2007-03-26T05:03:44Z")
[QUOTE=Layla01] I was surprised to hear that Lalla Ward (who I knew as Romana from Dr Who) was married to Richard Dawkins - I’m a Dr Who fan and a Dawkins fan and that partnership was unexpected (but cool). 🙂 [/QUOTE] Agh! I just found this out a few hours ago, & came here to post it! :mumble grumble: ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392/20 "2007-03-26T12:19:19Z")
[Beth Howland](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Howland) (Vera on “Alice”) and Michael J. Pollard were married for eight years and had a daughter. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-they-were-married/397392.md?page=2)