This could be famous people or people you know in real life. People so larger than life that you can’t imagine them doing normal every day stuff.
For me, it’s Mick Jagger and/or Keith Richards. I can’t imagine them sitting down at a table and doing bills (I’m sure they hire people to do that, but work with me here), or paying their maid or something. If they even go grocery shopping, I can’t imagine them doing that. “What cereal shoud I get this week? Cheerios sounds good to me right now.” Uh…nope, can’t imagine it.
A NASCAR driver pumping his own gas? (off the racetrack, of course)
Robert Redford doing fencepost maintenance on his ranch?
Actually, I have a friend back east who’s an extremely talented orthopedic surgeon - he works on NBA basketball stars and stuff. I laugh every time I see him tending to one of his little kids at home - putting on a band-aid, kissing an “owie” and stuff like that. His wife says that stuff isn’t covered by the HMO.
People I can’t see as ever making a joke or being deliberately funny:
Bill Gates
Richard Nixon (even when he was alive)
Martha Stewart
People who I can’t imagine will ever win an Oscar:
Mickey Rourke
Cindy Williams
Arnold Schwarzenegger
John Claude Van Damme
Steven Segal
The Rock
Joan Rivers
Joan Collins
Martha Stewart putting a fresh roll of TP in the bathroom after being “stranded” by an empty roll. Harder yet to imagine her waddling to the linen closet with her pants around her ankles, getting the fresh roll, waddling back to the bathroom and finishing up. Even harder is imagining that the 'ol puckerbutt even needs TP. Probably pinches off very cleanly.
Madonna rinsing out diapers and throwing a load in the washer to soak, rinse and spin. Or if disposables were her choice, standing in market and deciding to get the Huggies instead of the Pampers because of the last “shit up to the shoulderblades” incident.
Someone like Candice Bergen rinsing out their underpants or clipping their toenails.
Isn’t this sort of the premise of “The Osbournes”? He bit the head off a bat! Now watch him bewildered and swearing in the face of a leaky sink washer!
It’s funny, now that you mention it. I can imagine every single celebrity I can think of doing all these things and more. I think that I would have had a hard time with it before I’d actually met any celebrities, but after seeing a couple of them up close over the years, it’s not a reach for me to realize that everyone’s human.
Oh, I can see that, no problem. And I bet he enjoys doing it.
The day-to-day mundane crap we little people do, though, I can’t see celebrities doing; going to the grocery store, the dry cleaners, the post office, taking the dog to the vet, dropping the kids at school and picking them up again, making dinner and cleaning up afterwards, cleaning the house … nope, celebrities have people who do that stuff for them.
I love when he’s trying to figure out how the remote works. Or how to microwave a frozen dinner.
Steven Spielberg has been known to pick up his kids from school in a mini-van, I believe. Tom Hanks and Ron Howard are a couple of other dads that come to mind that are pretty into their kids’ lives. Now Tom Cruise-----no, I can’t imagine him picking up the kids from school. He makes Nicole do that stuff. Well, now it’s a given since she has custody of the kids anyway.
Nor, like someone else mentioned, can I imagine Madonna being a mom. I can’t imagine some actresses out there who seemed to self-absorbed to be mothers. Calista Flockhart comes to mind.
One person I was surprised at was Jack Nicholson. Normally I couldn’t imagine him being a dad, but I was reading a little snippet somwhere that talked about him participating in his daughter’s first grade class some years ago; some parent-child thing at the school.
Reading bean_shadow’s musings about Tom Cruise picking up his kids at school reminds me of the experiences of a cow-orker back in L.A. On her first day on the job at a private school, she saw a kid being picked up by…David Hasselhoff. He wasn’t running in slow motion or anything.