# What celeb would you want to hang out with? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688 "2007-04-11T19:48:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/41 "2007-04-12T15:04:51Z")
Movies: Kevin Kline, among other things to thank him for his part in reintroducing me to the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. TV: Kari Byron, just because I’d want to talk about stuff the Mythbusters do. Music: Peter Schickele - in part to find out how he feels about being more well-known for his spoof and self-spoof works than his more serious work. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/42 "2007-04-12T15:33:51Z")
[QUOTE=slortar] Danny Trejo. He sounds like he’d have some interesting stories to tell. [/QUOTE] And everybody else in the restaurant would leave you alone! ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/43 "2007-04-12T16:30:32Z")
“When you dine with Machete, you dine ALONE.” ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/44 "2007-04-12T16:32:44Z")
I don’t know about “hanging out with,” but the Ultimate Dinner Party would include: Already Named That I Totally Agree With, in Alphabetical Order: Tony Blair Bruce Campbell George Clooney Stephen Colbert John Cusack Hugh Laurie J. K. Rowling Kevin Spacey Jon Stewart Kate Winslet And Others That I Came Up With, in Alphabetical Order: Joshua Bell Cate Blanchett Kenneth Branagh (don’t seat him near Emma Thompson, though) Ken Burns (the documentary guy) Bill Clinton (but Hillary can’t come with) Bob Costas Stephen Fry somebody from Pixar (would Brad Bird be too squirrelly? maybe John Lasseter) one of the Pythons (except maybe Terry Gilliam – he’s kinda Johnny Depp “brilliant, but uncooperatively weird” to me) Emma Thompson (don’t seat her near Branagh, though) Dead: Shelby Foote Clark Gable Charles Dickens ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/45 "2007-04-12T16:38:49Z")
[QUOTE=BayleDomon] Harrison Ford. [No one wants to play Sega with him.](http://www.brandonbird.com/sega_ford.html)☹ [/QUOTE] Thanks for the link - that is some funky shit. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/46 "2007-04-12T16:46:53Z")
Well, I don’t want to be intimately involved in this conversation, but I sure as hell would like to be watching it from a close distance - John Cleese and Hugh Laurie. I would like to hang out with Sandra Bullock. I saw her on Jon Stewart (heh), and I don’t think she did a very good job of hiding what seems to be a witty, smart, clued-in personality. I would also like to hang out with Keanu Reeves, partially because I just want to stare at him, and partially because he is a fairly reticent star, and I would like to know if that is because he’s a complete dim bulb, or if he is smart enough to know to avoid the star-machine. Music? I don’t care for musicians. Which I guess isn’t completely fair, because I suppose they are no more horrible than actors. Okay, let’s see - oh, Jann Arden. I think we’d have a lot of fun hanging out. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/47 "2007-04-14T02:21:05Z")
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat] Movies.. Chuck Yeager TV.. Olivia Munn [/QUOTE] I saw her first. Pistols at dawn! Movies: Even though I got to appreciate her via TV, she did at least one movie so I can still meet Claudia Black too 🙂 Authors: Richard Dawkins, not only is he smart, acerbic, he was also a close friend of Douglas Adams, kinda like two birds with one stone. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/48 "2007-04-14T02:30:57Z")
I have to add that if you don’t know who Munn is, watch Attack of the Show on G4Tech TV, now. today. She is wearing the nicest outfit I think I have ever seen her in… ETA: I have no idea what Dawkins is wearing today… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gentle\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gentle\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gentle_Robot)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/49 "2007-04-14T02:34:16Z")
zombie james brown ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/50 "2007-04-14T02:34:53Z")
She’s hot, smart, a geek, witty…I’m surprised there’s not a shrine to her here. But back off, bucko! 😃 (And that’s the reason I also picked Shandi. She has a degree, published childrens books, and is a pretty decent pianist. Oh, and smokin’. Not your everyday airhead blonde, but she can play that, too.) ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/51 "2007-04-14T03:14:19Z")
She is all that and more 🙂 I would gladly share with you, but Mrs. Prefect and I are already sharing the Munn and three’s a crowd… Well, in your case, four is a crowd 🙂 I was going to set up a thread to her honour here a week or two ago, but didn’t want to do the image search at work 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/52 "2007-04-14T03:20:58Z")
AOTS comes on later here, so I’m watching it now. Thanks for the heads-up. And I concur. Damn. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/53 "2007-04-14T03:28:27Z")
TV: Any of the three regulars of “Whose Line is it Anyway:” Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, and/or Ryan Stiles. Probably some of the fastest-thinking people alive today. One at a time rather than as a group; I’d love to know how decades of improv comedy have warped their minds. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/54 "2007-04-14T04:10:15Z")
Movie: Can’t think of one. They all seem so arrogant. TV: Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert Music: Roger Waters > [@](#): > > Stephen Malkmus of Pavement. He seems to be a very quirky and good-natured guy. I heard from a trusted source that he is a pretentious prick. If you want someone cool from that band try Bob. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/55 "2007-04-14T04:26:03Z")
Movies: Peter O’Toole and Kevin Spacey - They’d be the most entertaining. For education, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins. Also, I would mind a dinner with Ahnold. He’s a very bright man. George Clooney, Hugh Grant, Sean Connery, and Harrison Ford for the sheer lust factor. Directors: Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese (sp?) Writers: Stephen King and Aaron Sorkin, hands down. David Weber and Eric Flint next. TV: Jon Stewart. Colin Mochrie (Whose Line is it anyway) - second choice would be Wayne Brady, but he’d have to sing for his supper. He’s just amazing. Oddly, I’d like to have dinner with Michael Jackson and find out what’s going on there. Dead: Jane Austen, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth I of England. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/56 "2007-04-14T04:41:53Z")
Movies- James Garner A real regular guy. I heard once (back in the late 60s) that he used to go hang out at a local auto parts house cause they did not treat him like a star. TV Harry Anderson. I knew a guy that had dinner with him and Reinhold Weege. He told me he was laughing so hard, he thought he was in danger of passing out from lack of Oxygen. Music 3 way tie. Weird Al, for obvious reasons. Dolly Parton as she seems like a hoot to talk to. Last Jimmy Buffet his is living my dream. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/57 "2007-04-14T14:20:10Z")
Dead: I completely forgot both Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde! ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/58 "2007-04-14T15:32:23Z")
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat] AOTS comes on later here, so I’m watching it now. Thanks for the heads-up. And I concur. Damn. Damn. [/QUOTE] I almost said her name 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 14, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/59 "2007-04-14T15:49:42Z")
Robin Williams. Ditto on Wayne. Colin & Ryan. Tom Hanks. Oprah Winfrey ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688/60 "2007-04-14T16:32:02Z")
Linda Ronstadt – she’s just fun to talk to and very down to earth Jon Stewart – smart, funny, and seems to share a lot of my views Weird Al – hey, who wouldn’t? Plus his daughter was born on my birthday, so it’s fate, man…fate Laurie Anderson – she just seems like she’d be fun to hang with Sinead O’Connor – I think I could relate to her Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson – they just seem like they’d be so much fun Like featherlou, I think Sandra Bullock seems like she’d be fun, as does Geena Davis. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-would-you-want-to-hang-out-with/399688.md?page=4)