Twitter Users Ponder the Best Celebrity Interactions They Have Had

The whole concept of celebrity as we know it needs to be ground down into dust and hoovered up by the vacuum of history. Rotten, toxic, and inextricably bound up with poisonous capitalist individualism, it’s beyond redemption. Bin it, and we’d all be better off.

That being said, until that happens, I guess we can get some funny stories out of it now and then at least? Twitter pondered this exact thing the other day, as it asked us sweaty, slobbering plebs for the stories of our best interactions with celebrities:

I once watched Keith David sing “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” to calm down a crying baby on a crowded subway train in New York City in 1996 when he was coming home from playing the lead in August Wilson’s play “Seven Guitars.” https://t.co/8FQ2wbCDzr

— Matt Zoller Seitz (@mattzollerseitz) September 23, 2023

This is Marc Haynes' interaction not ours, though it is beautiful… https://t.co/aU3RaNxGfl pic.twitter.com/rU2PxOnhHx

— All The Right Movies (@ATRightMovies) September 23, 2023

michael j. fox came to speak to our high school class and someone asked him how he balanced his career and running his foundation for parkinson’s research and he grinned at us and said “it’s a little shaky” https://t.co/RcdvuuyMwE

— i hate you eric adams (@sonyashea3) September 22, 2023

https://t.co/8FHc6C7Ryv pic.twitter.com/wWCurmYvsT

— Ben Mekler (@benmekler) September 23, 2023

not my fav but it's the funniest. i went to soulja boy's bday party 2yrs ago and in the middle of it he climbed on a stage (that i assume was built for this event) and made the crowd rap HIS songs to him while he watched silently over us like some sort of pretty boy swag pharoah https://t.co/SgDNgLawTE

— first-mate prance (@bocxtop) September 24, 2023

Interviewed Benicio Del Toro, it was a really hot day in London, so I was wearing shorts. I walked in and he said "you've worn shorts, to interview me?" and I said, "it's a one-camera set-up, nobody can see me", to which he replied, 'I can'. https://t.co/D1hOCeZfSg

— Stefan Pape (@stefanpape29) September 24, 2023

Back in HS I couldn’t find my house keys all week, thought it was from being foggy-headed post gum surgery. I came home and knocked on the door, Harrison Ford answered (I had never met him) and said “Hey Emma, sorry I took your house keys, how are your gums feeling?? Come in!” https://t.co/iG9CPUncXD

— 𝕯𝖎𝖑𝖉𝖔 𝕭𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖘 (@EmmaTolkin) September 22, 2023

When my girlfriend and I met Conan and he tweeted this like right after https://t.co/mqBGmq9ILK pic.twitter.com/6Fd7ae81Zb

— Joe Miciak (@jlmiciak) September 22, 2023

i met matt smith at House of the dragon's premiere, he was using the urinal next to me and i was like "that episode was SO good" he responded "thanks mate, thx…that's a beautiful jacket can i have it" and i was like "umm" then he said "guess it wasn't THAT good eh" then he left https://t.co/SgDNgLawTE

— first-mate prance (@bocxtop) September 22, 2023

Genuinely don’t think I’ll ever get over this https://t.co/PuaU17fHrB pic.twitter.com/Yun1TxXdeh

— flynn slicker (@flynnslick) September 22, 2023

I’ve told this story so many times but at my first job in LA I was in the outside break area and brad pitt walked in to smoke, he was on the lot shooting ad astra, and he said "beautiful day today" and I said “yeah. so are you here interning?" as a joke, and he said "no?" https://t.co/dzXgnqfZ47

— sloane (sîpihkopiyesîs) (@cottoncandaddy) September 22, 2023

was at NYU covering a spike lee talk. afterwards he was signing books and I was like why not? when I get to him, he looks up at me from the signing table and goes, "WHAT'S YOUR NAME?" I say, "john." he says, "BIIIIIIG JOHN!" and writes "to BIG JOHN" in my book. I'm not even tall https://t.co/af13ks14jl

— John DiLillo (@JohnDiLillo) September 21, 2023

when I was 18 i was a waiter and i served Larry david and he ordered oatmeal and sent it back 4 times and kept apologizing it ruled I felt like i was in a real life episode of curbed https://t.co/8egFtTJ9qi

— h (@ipodmacbook) September 22, 2023

What’s your favorite interaction you’ve had with a celebrity?

She said I had beautiful eyes https://t.co/bWP54wfZKn pic.twitter.com/xMqv3fQo2k

— Viktor’s RenaiSéance (@wondermann5) September 23, 2023

I asked Shaq for a picture once but I was too short to get us both in the frame so he grabbed my phone. He immediately started looking through my pictures and when he saw a screenshot of a 3 Doors Down album he said “you like 3 Doors Down… that’s cool” https://t.co/tf758mQhyO

— 🟡 The tumboy 🟡 (@TheTumboy) September 22, 2023

I went to a Spike Lee signing. I was the first black person in line, and after a bunch of hellos and handshakes to all the white people in front, when I got to him he dapped me up and hit the "What's good brotha" like a real life version of the key/peele obama skit https://t.co/28JuoOf64n

— Eyes Wide Shak (@ShakExcellence) September 21, 2023