# Rent A Celebrity For A Day - who would you pick and what would you do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369 "2025-05-14T15:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/1 "2025-05-14T15:15:00Z")
It has to be a living celebrity and they won’t do anything overtly illegal or sexual, they aren’t going to blow you or be the wheel man of your getaway car. They also won’t give you money or any gifts so the only thing you are taking away from this day is the story. A caller to our local morning show said they’d pick Kevin Costner, have him squeeze into his Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves outfit and go to Target stores and shoot at the signs. I would pick Matthew McConaughey give him a microphone and have him just narrate what I do all day like I’m in a Lexus commercial. What about you? ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/2 "2025-05-14T15:28:08Z")
I would hire Paul McCartney or Elton John, and have them sit down with a guitar, or piano, and write a song from scratch, and then play a few of their favorite songs for an audience of one. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/3 "2025-05-14T15:33:24Z")
Neil deGrasse Tyson - just to hang out and talk about stuff. Maybe bring my granddaughter along because she’s a little STEM whiz and I’d like to see their interaction. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/4 "2025-05-14T16:41:58Z")
Seth Rogen. I’d order us some pizza, we’d get really stoned and watch This is the End and I’d get to hear his stories about it. (Tons of famous people in it; there have to be some good stories.) The idea being I’d get an in-person, unfiltered DVD commentary experience. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/5 "2025-05-14T17:43:38Z")
Weird Al! We’ll go get something to eat. (Not my bologna) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/6 "2025-05-14T17:58:03Z")
President Obama. We’d shoot some hoops and just talk about shit. Go for a drive. Show him around. ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/7 "2025-05-14T18:17:44Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > I would hire Paul McCartney or Elton John, and have them sit down with a guitar, or piano, Hell, yeah. Or Clapton. I’d want to sit in with them and just jam… being a musician myself. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/8 "2025-05-15T00:05:45Z")
Hmmm. Well, poster **neiltyson** has been claimed, so I think I’ll go with David Chang of Momofuku fame. I figure I can get him to cook for me, and bombard him with questions on techniques as well as Asian-fusion options and have a great time, a great meal, AND learn something! ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/9 "2025-05-15T00:09:07Z")
Jonathan Van Ness. We would visit Moley ( a feral cat) and he could do my hair. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/10 "2025-05-15T00:40:41Z")
Arnold Schwarzenneger, to do a kickass morning workout with, and then have _him_ narrate my day like @Sitnam thought of. We could go grocery shopping: _"Get to da shoppah!’_ We could go to my doctor: _"It is not a toomuh!_" Answer some work emails: _“I’m afraid that my condition has left me cold to your pleas of mercy.”_ Tell people what I do for a living: _" . . . crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentations of their women."_ I’m not seeing a downside to this. Tripler Close a SDMB post: _“Hasta la vista, baby.”_ ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/11 "2025-05-15T01:03:51Z")
If I can change the hypothetical a little: If I had to spend several hours in a room with celebrity… - Michael Palin - Jeff Bridges - Barack Obama (good pick I’ve borrowed from above; also because I have a relative who once hosted a dinner for him and Michelle when they were POTUS and FLOTUS) I would gladly talk about anything they felt like. No photos, no autographs. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/12 "2025-05-15T01:32:20Z")
Keith Richards. We’ll just hang out and shoot the shit and listen to whatever music he wants to listen to and drink Jack Daniels. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/13 "2025-05-15T01:41:37Z")
Go for a drive with Donald Trump. Drive off a cliff. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/14 "2025-05-15T02:08:39Z")
Thank you for your service. ---
**Author:** ![cieskokid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cieskokid/32/5374_2.png) [@cieskokid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cieskokid)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/15 "2025-05-15T02:10:49Z")
Also, lock his door & jump outta yours @ the last minute. We need to keep smart citizens like you in the gene pool 🤓 ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/16 "2025-05-15T02:59:30Z")
May I offer you a parachute? Tripler Are you familiar with skydiving, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/17 "2025-05-15T12:46:34Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > It has to be a living celebrity Good call-- it wouldn’t be much fun hanging out with a mouldering corpse 😀 > [@EllisDee](#): > > Seth Rogen. I’d order us some pizza, we’d get really stoned and watch This is the End and I’d get to hear his stories about it. (Tons of famous people in it; there have to be some good stories.) “Is Danny McBride 1/10 of the a-hole every single character he plays seems to be?” > [@Tripler](#): > > Arnold Schwarzenneger, to do a kickass morning workout with, and then have _him_ narrate my day like @Sitnam thought of. > > We could go grocery shopping: _"Get to da shoppah!’_ And, _of course_, every single time he gets up to use the bathroom or get a drink from the fridge, get him to say “_ah’ll be bahhhk!_” > [@dirtball](#): > > Keith Richards. We’ll just hang out and shoot the shit and listen to whatever music he wants to listen to and drink Jack Daniels. I considered a variety of musicians for my pick to jam with, but I already have a musician friend who is so much better than me that I can’t keep up. Keith Richards is a good pick-- like you say, not to jam with but just to hang out with and shoot the shit. It’d be fun to hear some catty stories about Mick Jagger, which I’m sure would come out after a little bit of Jack. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/18 "2025-05-15T13:38:15Z")
I’d say Robert Downey Jr. but I’m worried I’d just be like Chris Farley when he used to interview celebritiess on SNL “Remember in the first Iron Man movie, when you put on the prototype suit and were hovering around the garage and figuring out how to control it, and at the end of the scene you said “Yeah, I can fly.” ? Remember that? That was awesome.” ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/19 "2025-05-15T14:07:30Z")
My kitchen cabinets are in tough shape. **Harrison Ford** or **Nick Offerman** has some background in that area and I bet both would appreciate doing something with a fan completely unrelated to acting. And no matter how they turn out I will tell everyone that walks in my house who did it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369/20 "2025-05-16T03:29:36Z")
I was thinking Adam Carolla. We could do a lot of Fix-It in day! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rent-a-celebrity-for-a-day-who-would-you-pick-and-what-would-you-do/1018369.md?page=2)