# Tonight I met Homer Simpson **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-met-homer-simpson/427469 "2007-11-22T23:40:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-met-homer-simpson/427469/1 "2007-11-22T23:40:33Z")
Ok, it can’t really have been Homer Simpson, can it, because he’s a cartoon. But I did exchange a greeting with the bloke who is the voice of the character, Dan Castellanata. He’s currently appearing in a bizarre play/musical thing called The Bicyclemen at the King’s Head Theatre in Islington. As I made my way back upstairs from the bogs before it started, I met this slight, baldy geezer at the top of the stairs. I mumbled something like “I’m lost; which way to the bar?” and he replied “We’re on in about 10 minutes”. I bet he’s telling his mates how he met Seosamh tonight… The entertainment, by the way, was excellent. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-met-homer-simpson/427469/2 "2007-11-23T01:08:43Z")
I would love to meet him, just so I could gush about how much I loved him in _The War of the Roses_ and act dumb as to ever having heard his name anywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-met-homer-simpson/427469/3 "2007-11-23T01:12:42Z")
Homer Simpson, father to the son I never had. I wonder if Marge messes around. Peace, mangeorge ---
**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:** [November 23, 2007, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-met-homer-simpson/427469/4 "2007-11-23T13:06:17Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] I would love to meet him, just so I could gush about how much I loved him in _The War of the Roses_ and act dumb as to ever having heard his name anywhere else. [/QUOTE] I’d praise his performance as the gay guy on Married…with Children. “But what have you done lately?” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-met-homer-simpson/427469/5 "2007-11-23T14:07:31Z")
He was always my favourite on _The Tracey Ullman Show_. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-met-homer-simpson/427469/6 "2007-11-23T15:11:29Z")
You met the guy that voiced BeelzeBot (the Robot Devil) in Futurama? very cool :), the man has talent, maybe he should talk to Matt Groening about starring in another MG cartoon, it’d be a pity to see his talent go to waste… ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-met-homer-simpson/427469/7 "2007-11-23T17:05:30Z")
[QUOTE=MacTech] You met the guy that voiced BeelzeBot (the Robot Devil) in Futurama? very cool :), the man has talent, maybe he should talk to Matt Groening about starring in another MG cartoon, it’d be a pity to see his talent go to waste… [/QUOTE] Maybe he’s one of those talents who doesn’t seek work till it’s time to fatten up the coffers? I have no problem with that, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-met-homer-simpson/427469/8 "2007-11-23T17:24:29Z")
Anybody remember his appearance on _L.A. Law_, as, well, Homer Simpson? ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-met-homer-simpson/427469/9 "2007-11-23T17:39:11Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Anybody remember his appearance on _L.A. Law_, as, well, Homer Simpson? [/QUOTE] Vaguely. Wasn’t made up as Homer? ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-met-homer-simpson/427469/10 "2007-11-23T20:07:20Z")
He certainly didn’t do any Homer Simpson last night in “The Bicyclemen”. Although he did do a song about a Broadway chorus boy who insisted (very inconvincingly) that he was “hetero”… I cannot for the life of me remember how such a song was shoehorned into a thing about a bloke hanging around a bonkers French village while his bicycle is being fixed. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-met-homer-simpson/427469/11 "2007-11-23T20:32:58Z")
Well, that tops who I met yesterday: One of Harry Truman’s nephews. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-met-homer-simpson/427469/12 "2007-11-23T21:13:00Z")
He had a cute cameo in \*\*Arrested Development \*\*also. I am sure that he has fully accepted his fate as being Home Simpson with the world, but it’s nice to see him do other parts also. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-met-homer-simpson/427469/13 "2007-11-23T21:34:10Z")
Oh, him! I finally looked up a [photo](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0144657/). Sure, I’ve seen him several times. Checking the filography at that link, he’s been quite busy.