Recently, Reddit user lissie34 asked, “Who is the worst celebrity you have ever met and why?” and people had lots of shocking celebrity stories to share — good and bad. Here are 33 of the worst, with a few happier encounters here and there.
DISCLAIMER: These are just anecdotes from Reddit, so obviously we aren’t able to confirm them — take everything with a grain of salt! I will say I 100% believe all the Robin Williams ones.
1. “The worst was Michael Jordan. I spent around four months in a Chicago children’s hospital in the mid-1990s. We often had local celebrities visit the hospital. Most of them came alone or with a few friends/family members, but Michael Jordan walked in with an entourage that included reporters and photographers from two different newspapers. He refuses to play wheelchair basketball with us because he might get hurt. He refused to sign autographs because his autograph was worth $200 a pop. Only pictures allowed were those taken by the photographer, and these were only really done with a few paraplegic teenage boys who played wheelchair basketball. He was there for maybe 20-30 minutes.”
“Contrast him to my two favorites: Chris Farley and Brittney Spears.
Mr. Farley came in the mid-1990s through a back door. He read to the kids in the ICU and to the toddlers after their surgeries. He did character voices. He was the best giant in Jack and the Beanstalk when he read it to me after my scoliosis surgery. He even performed ‘Lunchlady Land’ for us teenagers with the props borrowed from our lunch lady.
Brittney came one day in 1999 and hung out with us. We white-girl danced to her songs with her, made and ate homemade pizza with her, and then we watched a girly rom-com. When she saw that our teenage rec room was kinda sad, she donated money to redo it.”
2. “Chevy Chase. We had a friend who threw a gala at a nice hotel, I think in Florida, and Chevy Chase was absolutely shitfaced and started screaming that he wanted a donut- nothing else. Just a donut. It was like 2 a.m. and my friend explained there weren’t really any open places nearby, and he basically threatened to get our friend ‘fucking fired’ — so he got a waiter to run out and miraculously find a convenience store and bought him donuts. When they presented him with one, he took one bite, threw it on the floor, and walked away.”
3. “Pre-Big Bang Theory, I met Johnny Galecki at a Magic: The Gathering weekly game at a small bookstore at the mall. Nobody recognized him (I did, since he was David on Roseanne), and I was cool enough not to bring it up. He liked Magic: The Gathering, but didn’t have a deck. I offered him one of my extra decks, but as I was a poor 14-year-old, it wasn’t amazing. He kept insulting it nonstop and was rude as fuck! Like, you were on a major TV show, and I’m a child. I was giving you a deck (not my main one) to be nice. And you shat all over it and kept insulting me for its stupidity. The fact that they have a Magic: The Gathering episode was salt on the wound.”
4. “James Corden. I had the displeasure of bumping into him at the London Bridge Experience, and he treated everyone there like shit. He kept acting like he deserved special treatment, taunting staff, and acting like the massive twat he is. Even managed to use the ‘Do you realise who I am’ line a couple of times. Long story short: James Corden is an obnoxious, talentless piece of shit.”
5. “Toni Collette. I work for an airline, and if we see her name on the passenger list, we are filled with dread. She’s notorious. My colleague made her bed on a night flight. She ripped up the bedsheet, threw it aside, and said, ‘That’s not how you make a fucking bed.’ I’ve had my own run-ins with her, too, although nothing as extreme as the above. She yelled at us for serving her the wrong type of tea (it was the correct one). Very disappointing as I really rate her as an actor, and she always comes across as warm and grounded in interviews. Clearly, she’s not just acting on set!”
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6. “I had a terrible experience with Lizzo at my last job. She was really rude to me and my fellow female coworkers who worked the venue of an event she was the special guest at. Then she got onstage, talking about how much she empowers women.”
7. When Drake was still on Degrassi, I was working at a local movie theater in the city, and we got celebrities occasionally because we were not far from downtown. Anyway, by pure chance, not only did Drake show up at the theater, but a few moments after him, Hillary Duff came in. Because Drake was wearing a black shirt with the word SECURITY in bright fucking yellow and I didn’t recognize him, he yelled at me for assuming he was Hillary’s security person. He did the whole ‘Don’t you know who I am?’ spiel too. My manager, after I told him what happened, was also like, ‘WTF did he expect wearing the shirt?’ Hillary Duff was super nice, though.”
8. “I ran into Brooke Hogan and her mom, Linda, at the Tampa Airport right when she released her first album. I tried to say hi, and she was SO rude. She looked at me like I was a peon (her mom was sweet). Well, fast forward to about six months ago, I told this same story on a Tampa area famous radio DJ’s Instagram page. Brooke ended up DMing me a couple of months later, apologizing and saying that her entire childhood, she was on pins and needles and was probably just really stressed. 🤷🏻♀️ It made me sad for her, and I forgave her.”
9. “Dakota Fanning was bored out of her mind and looked like she wanted to be anywhere else when I interviewed her for a college newspaper; I felt like a slug. Kristen Stewart, on the other hand, despite her image in the press at the time, was so sweet and thoughtful in her answers and even told her publicist (who was trying to rush her along) to basically leave her alone while she continued to chat with me. She even remembered my name at the end and said it was great talking. I was smitten!”
10. “Paris Hilton. I work for a major US airline, and she used to fly for us (the airline in question no longer exists), and she was known to be a huge jerk to everyone. Once, showing up for a flight going to LAS, she decided that she needed to bring on eight bags to accommodate her stuff (she had a round trip for two days), and when we told her she couldn’t bring more than two items on board, she threw a fit and threatened to call our CEO. My manager’s response was ‘Go ahead, he is out of a job in a few months. You can call the FAA to complain to them.’ She proceeded to miss the flight and call all of us at the gate bitches for ruining her trip. She ended up buying the next flight (the last flight to LAS out of LAX) and bought the entire first-class seats so her bags could all go in the overhead. She was a truly weird and bizarre woman. Jennifer Garner, however, is the sweetest, nicest person I’ve ever met out of everyone I’ve interacted with.”
“I never met Jennifer Garner personally, but she used to regularly appear at a children’s hospital in Orange County. She was in the crafts room one time when a friend’s daughter was staying there, and she did crafts with my friend and her daughter and was interacting with them and other kids and telling stories the whole time.”
11. “Ray Manzarek, keyboardist of the Doors. My stepsister saw him at Universal CityWalk. She was suffering from leukemia and had undergone a lot of chemotherapy, so she very much looked like a 13-year-old cancer patient. She asked him for an autograph, and he said, ‘$100 no matter what’s going on in your life.’ To this day, I can never listen to the Doors the same.”
12. “Jlo is horrific — you are not allowed to look at her if she is shopping in your store, and only communicates with her personal assistant.”
“Can confirm. I know people who work at a 5-star hotel where she’s stayed. Instructions were given not to look at her and to look away when she’s walking through. Seriously.”
“I know someone who was a flight attendant for private jet charters. She said the exact same thing about having to talk to the PA for everything, even asking if she would like a drink, etc. Said she was horrible.
Flipside is Pitbull was nothing but gracious and kind, which I’ve heard over and over from people.”
13. “Jared Leto. He was absolutely shit pissed that we were short on a can of soda that was requested in the rider (five Diet Cokes instead of six). He spent two seconds in the green room the whole night and didn’t touch anything. He refused to speak to anyone directly. … Rest of his band was nice as hell, though.”
“Massive asshats — brother, too. At this point, there were no other band members; just a ‘shadow musician’ who wasn’t allowed on stage and with whom they didn’t talk at all.
Jared: The rider said that the whole backstage area had to be vegan. This was a festival, so all other bands on stage that day had to eat vegan because of him. We couldn’t even have milk in the common area fridges for our crew. There was a whole lecture in the rider about how much of a saint Jared is because eating animals is a sin. Then the band arrives, and Jared needs freshly caught fish from the sea, or there is no show. In a landlocked country, 900km from any sea.
Shannon: The rider demanded a huge ice bath. I don’t remember the exact measurement, but it was at least 5-6 times the size of a normal bath. It took two people hours to fill a whole huge plastic thing with dozens of bags of ice and hundreds of liters of water. Dude came off stage, stood by it, PUT HIS FACE IN IT, and left. That was it, all that ice and water wasted for a face wash that could have been done in a small bucket.
Their whole crew felt like a stressed-out cult. Jared went around like an untouchable priest, signing blessings on people with his hands. Fucking ridiculous.”
14. “Kris Jenner. The woman is a nightmare to work with. Kim had an attitude, but she knew what she wanted and could verbalize it without derailing into multiple unrelated tangents. Kylie was sweet. Started every conversation with, ‘How are you and your kittens?’ … I had two old lady kitties and almost always had a foster litter.”
15. “Jay-Z is exactly the rude and egotistical asshole that you would expect.”
“It’s interesting to hear all of the different stories people have about interacting with celebrities. I used to work in security at a venue where they often hosted live events. I had to escort Jay-Z and Kanye through a back-of-the-house area during their show. I was visibly pregnant (hence my backstage positions), and he looked all serious and did not say a word to me until he noticed my belly/pregnancy. His face lit up, and he said something about his wife being pregnant too, and asked when I was due and if I was having a girl or a boy. Apparently, my due date was around the same time as his wife’s, because he said that was when his wife was due, and congratulations to me/my husband. Kanye just rolled his eyes and was pushing him out the door because they were due back on the main floor/stage. I still don’t believe that interaction was real sometimes, when I hear all of the negative stories people have. Must have just been the whole circumstances and timing of it all.”
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16. “The worst was probably Sharon Stone. I actually worked with her twice, and she was horrendous both times. Like a cartoon villain, snapping her fingers at staff and throwing things, just completely rude and entitled to everyone around her. Then she complains in interviews that people don’t like her because she’s an ‘assertive, strong woman’…no, it’s because you’re an asshole.”
Also terrible: James Corden, Lil Wayne, Josh Brolin, Diane Keaton, Bruce Willis, Solange Knowles, Prince, Mark Wahlberg.
I will say for every horrible celeb I’ve worked with over the years, there are probably dozens of kind and humble ones. Steve Carell, Diane Lane, Minnie Driver, Cate Blanchett, Kelly Rowland, Nicole Ritchie, Seth Green, Sophie Turner, Amanda Seyfried, Robert England, and Ricki Lake were all wonderful to work with.”
17. “[Josh Brolin] was an ASSHOLE. He came into our store with Diane Lane (when they were together) and his daughter, and they were shopping for a school dance or something. Diane was helping the daughter, and they were trying to have fun with it, like a mother-daughter day. He was so rude and demanding and making fun of them, and rushing them, and just belittling everything. … Like, why did you even come if you were just gonna ruin their day? Then he went and lay on our couch, putting his dirty boots on it, and kept telling us to hurry. He was just a douchebag the whole time. Eventually, he left, and Diane was super apologetic. I was definitely not surprised when all of their drama went down.”
18. “Two Nicki Minaj stories. One time, she and Drake came into a convenience store I was working at in downtown LA. Their security strong-armed all actual customers so they could film a little video where Drake pretends to buy her hot chips. Another time, she was performing at Staples Center. A friend worked as a red coat/usher there and told Nicki, ‘You look very pretty.’ And Nicki replied, ‘Never in your life speak to me again.'”
19. “All the rumors are true about Reese Witherspoon. I used to work at a clothing store in LA, and she would regularly shop with us. Just in a permanent bad mood — snarky, rolling her eyes, dirty looks for absolutely no reason, as we were all very kind and discreet. I met many celebrities working there, and that was my only bad experience.”
20. “Darryl Strawberry came in for a repair at the tech shop where I used to work, and treated everyone on the staff like absolute dogshit. (Edit: I was unaware of his struggle with drugs, which is a shame. I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.)”
“Was this during his drug misuse days?
I ask because he lived in my neighborhood until a couple of years ago. I would run into him rather frequently. He was always very gracious and friendly to talk baseball with, and even signed a baseball card for my son.
He lost everything, got sober, and found religion. He now does speaking engagements about his life and finding said religion.”
21. “My uncle used to own a chain of theaters and had a few movie premieres hosted. He said Kevin Costner was extremely rude to all employees and staff, and Jackie Chan was one of the most gracious people he’s met. The Costner thing always surprised me.”
“Yeah, my pops met him as an extra once. Said he was a certified prick.
He said [Gary] Sinise was a dear and ate lunch with the crew and extras every day instead of going to his trailer.”
22. “Adam Levine was a massive douchebag.”
“Maroon 5 played at a Cisco Systems event in Vegas. The open contempt he had for the crowd was amazing. He said he was only there for the check. There is always a hat of something specific to that year’s event. That year, it was a sparkly light-up cowboy hat. Somebody tossed one up to him to wear. He threw it back into the crowd and said there was no way he’d wear such a dumb fucking hat. The band was amazing, though, but he sucked whale dick.
Bruno Mars and Dave Grohl were there the next two years and were amazing, and they loved the crowd of nerds.
“I had the opposite experience. The band was staying at the hotel I worked for, and he was playing the piano in the penthouse level. Neighboring units complained about the noise, so we set him up in the basement ballroom to practice or do whatever. Employees were low-key walking by to listen, obviously, so he started taking requests. He played for us for nearly an hour, was super kind, and took photos.
The band uses pseudonyms for spa service reservations (which is really common) — at that time, they were using character names from LOTR.“
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23. “Many many years ago, I got the opportunity to meet Danica Patrick at a photo shoot she was doing for some magazine (I was 17, and my dad’s friend was the photographer who offered to take me along). … Danica did not want to talk to me when I said hi, but I could let that go; she was working and I’m sure she didn’t want to entertain some random kid. What made her the worst is that she was SO MEAN to her mom! Constantly yelling at her and putting her down. I was so upset by her behavior; her mom was trying her hardest to de-escalate, but Danica was just determined to be awful.”
24. “Serena Williams. Always extremely rude and nasty to the (nice) deli clerks in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.”
“I worked on a commercial Serena was in. My job is literally the lowest in the production pecking order, so nobody pays us any attention. We pretty much just hang out in some tertiary backlot smoking and shooting the breeze, but for some reason, they gave us a walkie-talkie on that shoot, and, my god, the amount of chaos and drama she and her entourage caused that day had us dying. So many people got yelled at because of her. Apparently, she is a perpetual nightmare.”
“This makes me so sad! I’ve met her three times, all at Green Day shows lol. She remembered me both times after, and this last time pulled me over to dance with her. Maybe I just caught her in her happy place? 😅”
25. “I have to be very vague, but [Jason Aldeen] came to my work a few years ago and was absolutely beside himself that no one knew who he was. He tried dropping hints the entire time and obviously wanted us to cut him a deal. We didn’t, and he was rude as hell the remainder of his time there while continuing to try to get things thrown in because of ‘who he was’ lololol.”
26. “My friend was a theater major at our Cal State school. They got the chance to go to the set of the Gilmore Girls for one of their directing classes, as apparently that episode’s director was a friend of the teacher’s. The director asked the cast if they wanted to have lunch with the students, and Lauren Graham said, ‘Why would I want to have lunch with a bunch of nobodies?’ She was not a nice person.”
“Lauren Graham is the fucking worst. I used to do extra work on Gilmore Girls, and she called us all cockroaches. She’s cartoonishly evil.”
27. “Joe Pesci. I worked on a movie he starred in. I was really excited to work with him. I very quickly learned that the scary, mean little man you see on screen is EXACTLY who he is. Like an evil little gremlin. Loved his entourage, though. Decent guys.”
28. “No surprise here — Gene Simmons. I was working a booth at Comic Con for a company that was doing a collab with him. We were all dressed up like the characters, and he came in with his sunglasses on and his dry, frizzy, fun fur hair, and snapped, ‘Just take the pictures already!’ Then, as he was leaving, a little girl around nine and her older brother, who was probably 14, came up all starstruck (the brother was dressed up like Gene) and asked for an autograph and a photo. He just brushed them aside and walked away. The kids were devastated, and the girl started to cry. He just kept on walking.”
29. “Bill Nye the Science Guy. He was a complete asshole. He came into my workplace and refused to show his ID when making a purchase because ‘You know who I am!!!’ One of my coworkers absolutely adored him and was so excited to meet him. He made her cry.”
“A high school science teacher of mine met him at a conference for science educators. He said he acted very uppity and would only sign autographs for $5 apiece.
Jane Goodall, however, stayed after the conference and signed autographs and chatted with teachers for over two hours.”
30. “In 2017, I was a limo driver. I drove tons of celebrities. I picked up John Cusack from Comic-Con and headed to the airport. He was the rudest, most arrogant prick I ever met. He insinuated for no reason that I didn’t know how to get to the airport. He was on the phone, berating his agent, for most of the ride. What a loser!”
“That’s such a shame. I guess I was really lucky. I was walking with a friend on a road parallel to the Magnificent Mile in Chicago. It was like 1:30/2 a.m., no one else around, and I was making a gesture with my arm that swung my bag out from the sidewalk over the road. As timing would have it, a cyclist is coming up from behind on the road, and my swing of my handbag nearly took them out.
It was John freaking Cusack. I was completely in the wrong, and so apologetic, and he was just so kind about the whole thing. He just sort of waved at me and said it was fine, and continued on his way. This would have been summer 2006.”
31. “Erik Estrada. He cut me off in a parking lot near Mission Beach, then took the parking spot I was waiting for, and then proceeded to flip me off when he was pulling his kids out of the car. Fuck Erik Estrada!”
32. “Tippi Hedren came into the diner 30 minutes after 2 p.m. closing. All the lights were off, all the grills were cold, everything was put away; we just hadn’t locked the door yet. She walked straight to her favorite booth with her friends, and they started to sit down. I walked over and said, ‘Sorry, Ms. Hedren, but we closed at 2 p.m.’ She huffed and puffed and stomped out, hissing, ‘This is unbelievable!'”
“Also, Alice Cooper took a picture with my kid in the baggage area at Burbank airport about fifteen years ago. He was elegant and gracious and really nice to my kid.”
Finally, I know we’ve had some positive stories sprinkled in, but here we’ll end on a few more celebs people loved.
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33. “On my first day of training at a restaurant, Kenan Thompson came in with some friends, and the server I was training under had their table, so I was tailing her the entire time. They were super kind and only got ~$100 worth of food, but tipped $400 on top. As they were leaving, Kenan leaned in to me and whispered, ‘Good luck.’ 😭😭”
34. “I served Michael Keaton at a yogurt shop when I was in high school. It was the early ’90s, so he was at his peak celebrity status. He was very kind and gracious. He asked where the tip jar was, which was very nice.”
“I wanted to post on seeing Michael Keaton at LAX back in the mid-’90s. He was being very low-key, wearing a baseball hat with his head lowered. I smiled and waved, and he smirked with that look of ‘Welp, guess I’m caught.’ He walked over, smiled, said ‘hello’ and ‘nice to meet you.’ I love him for that.”
“He is still kind, gracious, and generous. He was a semi-regular at a restaurant I worked in. I was a bartender. He would come in, plop himself down, and just be a curious human. Questions about our wine menu, wanting my input on whether a food special was as good as it sounded. He once asked me my opinion on a film. I was surprised and nervous that he asked. He just sat there and listened to me with 100% attention and seriousness.”
35. “I was getting off the Pod at Heathrow (just flew in from Paris). I was alone and had a huge backpack and some luggage. I was struggling, and people were just walking by. And though it’s no one’s obligation to help me, I was hoping someone would because I was struggling hard with everything on me. Suddenly, my bag got lifted up by one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen — and she had a buzz cut. It was Sinead O’Connor. She was with this guy at the time. She helped me with my luggage to my next destination, and we talked briefly. She was one of the kindest people I’ve ever met.”
36. “Viggo Mortensen was the kindest, most gracious man you could ever hope to meet.”
“I met Viggo at a SUPER indie rock band’s show a few months back, and I made some dumb joke — basically that he got so much cooler for being a fan of that band. He chuckled and we chatted for a minute about the show and that was that, but now I tell that story whenever I get the chance because I got to mosh with fuckin ARAGORN.”
37. “To counter all of the bad, Weird Al is one of the genuinely nicest people I have ever met. Just a super cool, kind, down-to-earth guy.”
“He is, but he upset a friend of mine once. TBH, when she told me about it, I laughed because it was hilarious.
She was walking by and saw him outside of his hotel, and waved and said, ‘Oh, hey, it’s Weird Al!’ And he looks at her and said, ‘Hey! We have the same hair!’ And it’s totally true, it was long and dark and curly, but I guess teenage girls don’t want to have it pointed out that their look is Weird Al-esque.”
38. “I got to interview a bunch of celebs when I worked on our college newspaper. I interviewed Vince Vaughn at pretty much the height of his popularity right after Wedding Crashers came out. He answered my dumb little questions with so much energy and gusto that I felt like he thought he was talking to Variety or Extra. He told me I was doing great at this and going to go far in the industry, even though I asked him nonsense amateur questions like, ‘What was your inspiration?’ and blah blah blah.”
39. “I once accidentally blocked in Zac Efron while he was leaving a Netflix movie premiere (I was an Uber driver picking up someone who turned out to be the movie’s makeup artist). He put down his window, said, ‘Hey, you mind if we get out?’ very politely, and gave me a wave when I pulled out. It was just a 10-second interaction, but I just thought, ‘Wow, Troy Bolton was nice about that.'”
“Zac Efron and I went to the same high school growing up. I didn’t know him super well, but I do remember him being a pretty nice kid.”
40. “I only have a second-hand nice story. Daniel Day-Lewis and my mom had the same cleaning lady when he was filming The Crucible. He left this cleaning lady notes thanking her for various little things, or hoping she was over her cold — stuff like that.”
“He lives just outside Roundwood…a small village in Co. Wicklow, Ireland. My mom used to work in the pharmacy there and always said how lovely he was on the odd occasion he came in.”
41. “Lou Diamond Phillips is the kindest celebrity ever. … he was in our city for a production of The King And I and would come to our bar every night just to lay low and shoot pool. We never charged him, but he always tipped. Amazing dude.”
“I met him in downtown Ogden, Utah. He was waiting in a hotel lobby for a meeting with his manager. I went up to him just to say hi. Told us to sit down and talk to him until his manager got there. We spent about ten minutes talking to him and even took pictures with him. Such a great guy!:
“He went to high school with my mom! They weren’t close friends, but when she went to her high school reunion in the ’90s after he was famous, she said he was so sweet and was so surprised he remembered her.”
42. Last, but certainly not least…”Robin Williams was an amazing person. We had our daughters as extras in Death to Smoochy. At the end of the first day of shooting with kids, he went and thanked every single family, and he even hugged the kids and took photos. A few days later, our youngest wasn’t feeling well, so they had her sit out filming in the on-set daycare. Robin Williams heard this and went over and played cards with her for an hour and a half and told her jokes to make her laugh.”
“A lot of people from SF have great Robin Williams stories that speak to his ability to interact with regular people throughout his fame. My dad worked at an old (now long-gone) restaurant in North Beach and said that back in the ’80s, Robin would walk in, go to the kitchen, grab an apron, and do a whole shtick of running around the restaurant.
My story: I was a tween hanging out at the Metreon downtown SF. Back then, it had a sick PlayStation store downstairs, and upstairs there was a movie theater and various things to do. At one point, there were tabletop game displays out: maybe Warhammer, but I’m not really sure. I was checking them out, and all of a sudden, someone started moving pieces around, doing phenomenal voices. Looked up and it was Mr. Williams. I think he was there with his kid. Went on for quite some time. It was rad!”
“I happened to be in the same restaurant in Vancouver as Robin Williams. It was when they filmed Jumanji. Anyhow, there was a constant stream of people going to his table asking for autographs, and he was gracious the entire time. This went on for over an hour. We ended up leaving at the same time and walking off in the same direction. A person experiencing homelessness was sitting down a ways, and I saw him stop to talk to her, hand her something, and then give her a hug. When we walked by, it had to be over $1000 plus his watch. Just a tremendous human being.”
“I know a guy who is a stand-up comic. Back when he was starting out, he and like seven other open mic comics were in a comedy club in SF on a weeknight waiting their turn to go up. They were in the green room, just shootin’ the shit, when in walked Robin Williams. He said the conversations just stopped. My friend said Robin asked everyone to continue on, saying, ‘We’re all just comics.’ Then he went around asking all of them how long they’d been doing stand-up, giving them personal career advice based on what they told him, and then encouraging each of them right before they went on stage. He said he wasn’t the animated guy you see on stage, he was this sweet, soft-spoken guy who just wanted to spend some time with comics. Then, after each of them had done their routines, he had them all go up on stage with him, and Robin riffed with these rookie comics for like an hour. My friend said it was funny because it was an open-mic night on a weeknight, and the club was like 1/3 full, so the crowd was not expecting Robin Williams to come out on stage with the open-mic comics. Robin ended up hanging out for another hour with them and then headed out.”
“Robin Williams lived in my neighborhood in SF for a couple of years. I used to see him pretty often in one record store or another. The first time I saw him, I gave him a ‘I know who you are, but I don’t want to bother you’ nod, which he returned. At some later meeting, he saw me first and got my attention so that he could initiate the nod. We barely spoke, but he seemed warm and genuine.”
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