Quote: Walt Flanagan, May 2012I saw Suggs at the airport. Suggs! I've been a massive Madness fan my whole life, and there was Graham McPherson, just behind me in the queue to get across the border, moaning about customs in that rich voice that's gotten more middle class over the years. I didn't want to geek up his night, so I let him be, but it absolutely made a long, long day's travelling better.
I met Stewart Lee after the show and got a book signed. I was hoping this would be a great "I met a famous person story", but it isn't. Here's how the conversation went:
Me: Hey
Stew: Hi, thanks for coming. What's your name?
Me: Barry
Stew: Is that with a -y or an -ie?
Me: -y (Stew begins to sign book).... -ie?
Stew: Yeah, you'd be surprised how many people spell it that way. I always check just in case. It's a lisdningiranmvasihfglarbv;aos (I couldn't understand what he said) (Stew laughs)
Me: ... haha... Cheers, really enjoyed the show.
My one and only conversation with a famous person, someone I truly like and admire, a comedian no less, who made himself laugh during our brief encounter and I couldn't even understand what he said. Hence, not a great story.
It might never have worked out between you and Suggs. Just be glad you saw him and were that close to him.
Mal: Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?
Zoë: Big damn heroes, sir.
Mal: Ain't we just.