Rudest thing you've ever said to a celebrity

[taterguy]

I'll start:
"Did you sleep with Newt?"

No need to tell us which celebrity you said it to or why.

[Heidi]

1. So, tell us about your relationship your Uncle Dick (Nixon).

:yoiks:

[rucky]

2. "I loved you in Leprechaun 2!"

to Jennifer Aniston

[taterguy]

3. How did that go over?

[rucky]

8. and abrupt head flip. n/t

[stlsaxman]

4. "Oh- I know ALL about him..."

Meeting my grade school classmate Congressman Lacey Clay at an event some years back. We were backstage. i introduced myself after not seeing each other for a good 35 years. He remembered me immediately and after asking how i'd been started to introduce me to Sen Jim Talent who was standing next to us. Not even turning in Talents direction, I waved him off saying "Oh- I know all about him..." Clay's eyes widened as he almost burst out laughing.

after a little more banter we parted ways and halfway down the hall i turned back to see Talent looking at me with a stupefied look on his face.

One of my proudest moments.

[OzarkDem]

5. Stupefied = Talent

Great story. What's Talent up to these days? Slaving away in some silk stocking GOP law firm? He always bothered me because he tried to sell himself as some sort of moderate.

[stlsaxman]

6. Yeah re law firm... somewhere doing nothing and raking in the dough.

btw- the event was a MLK Birthday Celebration to kick off Black History Month at a local college. Aside from the introduction, Talent got NOT ONE round of applause during his speech. Maxine Waters was the keynote speaker and she brought down the house!

[cobalt1999]

7. "I used to hate you"

to Donny Osmond.

Of course, I clarified it a second later by explaining that was when I was in the 5th grade and I hated him because all the girls were swooning over him.

He laughed.

[rug]

9. Get your tit out of my face.

[dropkickpa]

10. Fuck, watch where you're going!!

Said to Steven Tyler in a store after he stepped on my foot and bumped into me.

[xchrom]

11. ''oh -- i thought it would be bigger.''

[RetroLounge]

16. I hope it wasn't Johnny Depp...

:rofl:

RL

[xchrom]

17. well - ''reliable'' rumour has it --

that he's not big -- but does it matter? -- he's johnny depp.

[RetroLounge]

22. Exactly...

Wouldn't matter a bit...

:D

RL

[Burma Jones]

12. Just wait your fucking turn

to the eminent B List celebrity, Stacey Keach, while we were in the bar line at the post Helen Hayes Awards Party in DC.

[mulsh]

13. "Rick Springsteen, he was better as a cartoon."

I didn't actually say it to Rick Springfield but when he was filming some movie at Cafe Trieste in SF his he and his "security people" were assholes. My buddy and I later found our selfs following two steps behind him & his body guard. I regaled my buddy with loud descriptions of Rick Springfield's cartoon show in the 70's and loudly wondered where the aussie accend had gone. He kept shooting me & my friend dirty looks. Maybe it was because I kept shifting from calling him Rick Springfield to Rick Springsteen or maybe it was because he thought every one forgot about the satruday morning cartoon show he was on.

[Arugula Latte]

14. This really happened: I laughed in Dan Quayle's face.

My sister and her husband had just arrived in Washington, DC to visit me when I lived there. I had to go to a function at the Wash. Press Club, and they met me there. Who should be there but Lil' Danny, hawking one of his assinine books. We were standing in a hallway when he walked right by us, we all looked at each other, and burst out laughing, literally just a couple of feet away from his stupid, vapid face. He looked surprised and startled and kept walking briskly by. Part of the thing that struck us as being so funny was, here they were, moments after arriving in town, and who do they see but Dan frickin' Quayle? What were the odds of that?

[HuskerDU]

15. Lee Greenwood of all people struck up a conversation with me

at the bar I worked at one time about 15 years ago. He asked me, 'Do you know who Lee Greenwood is?' 'I think that name rings a bell- he is a singer,' I said not realizing that Lee was the guy asking.

He then asked me if I'd like free tix to the Lee Greenwood concert that night. 'No, I'm going to Stebs to see the Nationals tonight when I get off work.' That's right Lee, I'd rather pay $4 to see a shitty cover band than to go to your show for free.

[johnnie]

18. Not really said, but was rude

I was backstage talking to Paul Butterfield and some woman came in and started some sort of yappin' on trying to sell him land in Florida or something. I just couldn't help myself and I started laughing my ass off. Paul was being very courteous to her and listened to what she was saying, but I kept laughing. She kept giving me the eye and wasn't too happy. When she left Paul said to me "Johnnie, you really need to treat people with more respect". I said that I usually do, but it was just too funny. He agreed, but he didn't think my blatant laughing was too cool. It's fine, I drank a lot of his beer that night.

[otohara]

19. If It Weren't For Steve Perry to Neil Schon

Schon was in town promoting his new solo release long time ago and I was sitting next to him during this dinner being hosted by his record company. He was going on and on about what an asshole Perry was. I finally said, wait a minute, if it weren't for Perry, you wouldn't be famous. He then conceded that was true.

His solo effort went no where.

[johnnie]

34. Find that hard to believe

He was quite well-known when he played for Santana at the age of 15. He was even asked to join Derrick and the Dominos at the same time.

[otohara]

42. Let's Take A Journey

Schon has been with Journey from 1975 to present. Perry came along in 1977 and while he co-wrote many of the songs with Neil Schon, Perry's name always appears first. Perry left the band in 1987. Schon kept the band going with new lead singer Steve Augeri who sorta sounded like Steve Perry. There was another lead singer briefly after Augeri quit.

Schon is an amazing guitarist and writer, but his long-lasting claim to fame & fortune came when Steve Perry joined Journey. Hey, he agreed with me.

Schon is still "Believin" in Journey, especially after the final episode of The Soprano's. Schon is currently looking for a new lead singer for Journey.

Faithfully,

otohara

[johnnie]

45. Oh, I agree that his name became a household name when he was in Journey

But he was a well established guitarist and was known as a prodigy when he was a teen. As far as I was concerned, he wasted his talents with Journey because that, to me, was just a cheese band. It could have either helped him or hurt him as a guitarist depending on how you look at it.

[yoyossarian]

20. I TOLD NIXON HE SUCKED!

This is actually true... back in '73 or so, when I was just a young thing, Dick Nixon came right down Rte 82, right thru the center of my lil' childhood hometown of North Royalton, OH... and my oldest sister Debbie lived with her boyfriend right on the main drag... and as Nixon's entourage approached, she and I stood on her high porch and unfurled an 8-foot banner with huge lettering that read simply "DICK SUCKS!"
This was not a hotbed of political activity, North Royalton... though it is only 45 minutes from Kent State, and though there was some bad feeling seeping into even this sleepy Cleveland suburb, for the most part it was all surprised and patriotically well-behaved revelry; as far as I could see, we were the only ones holding any sort of negative sign at all...
And he saw it... I saw him see it; he pointed at it and laughed rather good-naturedly, I gotta hand it to him...
And no secret service hassled us, no one came and made us lower the banner... nothing.

God, those were the good ol' days...

You know you're in it REALLY deep when you start missing Nixon...




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[WCGreen]

21. I asked Mick Fleetwood if he ever regreted chasing Peter Green out

of Fleetwood Mac...

[Evergreen Emerald]

23. what was his reponse?

[WCGreen]

32. He just looked at me like I was crazy or something...

[Evergreen Emerald]

43. It was a really good question!

[RetroLounge]

24. Oh... Brutal...

:hi:

RL

[taterguy]

27. You win

Congratulations
Well, I guess it's possible someone might come up with a better story but I don't see how.

[WCGreen]

33. I wasn't even loaded or anything...

[mark414]

29. hot damn!

[Bucky]

25. At a SciFi convention: "Sure, but they're geeks who pay your fucking salary, you ungrateful lush"

I won't reveal the lady's name, but suffice to say that if you love Babylon 5 and Russian accents, you'd be mighty disappointed in someone you admire.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

26. Remember Bud Friedman?

I used to write for A&E's An Evening at the Improv-

I told him to go fuck himself when I was supposed to say something like "You are a comic genius."

The rest of the story is long and filled with lawyers.

[KitchenWitch]

28. Would you get off of me, asshole!

After Tommy Kramer fell on top of me at a bar.

[applegrove]

30. I don't talk to celebrities. I figure they want to be left alone.

[taterguy]

31. The celebrity in my OP made a very inappropriate comment about my mother

I had to retort somehow.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

35. Said to Bob Dole at Clinton's first inauguration:

"No thanks - I'd rather be in the crowd." (He offered to let me watch the inauguration from his Senate office, which overlooked the inaugural platform, which would have been awesome, but I really wanted the experience of being in the crowd).

[IntravenousDemilo]

36. At a banquet at the Toronto Convention Centre attended by, among others, Stephen Harper...

Progressive Conservative party leader Peter MacKay was addressing a crowd of about 1,200 people there for a $700 per person fundraising dinner, explaining why it was good for my slightly leftish PC party to be taken over by the neocon Alliance party, even after he signed a deal with David Orchard not to do so, in exchange for Orchard's support at the last leadership convention. Well, Orchard had bought up some tickets to one of the tables right in the middle of the room. A big guy named George shouted out, "Traitor!" and MacKay shouted back, "I'm not a traitor, I'm a free-trader!" (CHUCKLES FROM THE NEOCON AUDIENCE) Orchard's sister-in-law yelled, "Very funny! What can you do with 'liar'?" (DISAPPROVING BUZZ FROM THE NEOCON AUDIENCE) And I screamed, "You're nothing but Stephen Harper's bum-boy!" Suddenly all the television cameras were at our table. Sweet.

[Whisp]

37. Larry Linville from MASH.

geeze, you really are Frank.
the guy didn't have to act for that part. what a schmuck.

[Aristus]

38. I read a newspaper article a number of years ago before he died.

It detailed how he was being sued for assault and lewd behavior. Apparently while he was doing dinner theater (naturally!) up in Canada, a rather large-breasted woman asked to be in a photo with Linville. As the pic was snapped, Linville groped her breasts and leered. The woman sued him for it.

What a creep.

[Whisp]

39. oh geeze yes. it happened here.

yes, dinner theatre in Winnipeg. I think the breasted one was Natalie something that was (jokingly) running for mayor at the time. hell, I have forgotten about that.

[Bennyboy]

40. "Here" To Jerry Garcia when I passed him a joint....

[Deja Q]

41. 'Well, if Britney Spears is deemed a celebrity...'

:hide:

[martymar64]

44. I kinda blew off Susan Ward at a fashion show

I was helping my friend video tape it and she came over and tried to make small talk with me. I wasn't in the mood so I just kind of "uh huh'd" her and went back to work. I didn't know who she was at the time, never heard of her.

On second thought, maybe I should've stuck around.

[BlueJazz]

46. I told Helen Reddy that she Sucked.

[AZBlue]

47. "This is NOT his own personal section of the club and HE should be honored

that I'M allowing HIM to share MY birthday party with him!"

True story. Not said directly to "celebrity" but said to the guy standing next to him and he was listening in, so basically the same thing.