Famous people you verbally abused

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

I was a waitress (during my college days) at a very famous restaurant down the street from Disneyland. Richard Nixon ate there, I regularly waited on Lou Ferrigno (the incredible hulk), Bill Blass, all of the RAMS and Reggie Jackson used to show up after the bars closed being an asshole...one night he was such an ass with me that I told him to eat shit and die...I was fired the next day.....about 15 years later I was eating at a sushi bar in Newport Beach ( with my girlfriend) and he and Dave Foster (former Angels pitcher) sent drinks over to our table...I reminded him that we had met before and of the circumstances...I told him I decided that night after taking his abuse numerous times that i made a decision that in life it was either "serve or be served" and after waiting on him I decided I would complete my education and BE SERVED.

[trof]

1. In person?

Or every time I see them on TV?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Too many to mention.

But always in the best possible taste. ;-)

[Guy Fawkes]

3. Bush...

He's not a movie star or anything, but he is our president... (He wasn't at the time)

When Bush was campaigning, he spoke at my (now) High School. I sat up front (not a lot of people, almost no press) and when he finished, I asked him: "Why are you such a moron?" looked at me for a moment, before I was pushed away by the 3 or 4 reporters


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[Failure]

4. Sean Hannity...many times, on the air....NT

[XanaDUer]

5. When I was a kid...

the actor James Cromwell lived on our block in NYC, and when he would walk by, we would screech "Stretch Cunningham! Stretch Cunningham!" at him.

This was the seventies, folks.

Also, Burt Remsen lived on the block, but we did not scream at him.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. and how did he respond?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. He wasn't too happy and took a little ribbing from Foster about it

[WilliamPitt]

7. Hm

George W. Bush
Dick Cheney
Don Rumsfeld
Paul Wolfowitz

Oh wait...you meant in person? Do players on opposing baseball teams count? I think I called Bernie Williams a goat-fucker a couple of weeks ago from the Fenway bleachers, but the memory is a bit...hazy.

[NWHarkness]

8. Spencer Abraham

When he was running for Senate in 1994. We were going into Tiger Stadium for a game, and he was standing outside glad handing. My sister-in-law, who had no idea who he was, started to shake his hand, and I loudly said to her, standing less than three feet from him, "Don't shake his hand, he's a goddamn fascist."

[Whitacre D_WI]

9. Drew Carey and Lou Reed.

I was in Jacobs Field for the taping of the Drew Carey Show's "Cleveland Rocks" theme segment. There were players on the field practicing -- you know, so it looks like there's a game going on. Anyway, Carey was standing up and "warming up" the crowd between takes on this particular 90-degree Cleveland day.

I says "down in front, fat-ass, I'm trying to watch the game."

He flipped me off with BOTH hands.

I also spent the whole shoot yelling "Go Ravens!" (this was before the Browns came back; and any denizens from the Forest City around here will know just how close I came to getting my ass kicked on accounta that).

A few years prior (also in Cleveland), I saw Lou Reed play. After the show, I ran into him outside the venue. Upon meeting this brilliant man, the man responsible for the Velvet Underground and "Metal Machine Music," I said:

"My God... you're so small!"

He was nonplussed.

[Teddy_Salad]

11. How tall is Lou Reed?

.

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Not much taller than Laurie Anderson

So maybe 5'6", tops.

He's a shortie. I was also surprised at how short he is - not that being short is bad - but in pictures, and even seeing him on stage, he always seemed so tall to me, well over 6 feet.

But he ain't. :-)

[Whitacre D_WI]

15. No way is he 5'6".

I'm thinking more like 5'4".

Then again, I'm 6 foot 3, and was the same height at the time -- so he may have looked shorter than he actually is.

He is, nonetheless, of VERY slight build.

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. I was shooting for the high end

Probably closer to 5'4" or shorter. I think laurie is only right about 5'.

[mitchum]

10. Earlier this year , I asked Clarence Thomas who was taking care of...

Mistuh Tony's lawn while he was away (Okay, I yelled this at Good Ol' Clarence from about 50 ft away)

I asked Lindsay Graham if he wore backless chaps when he cruised DC's bars ( this was on a sidewalk in SC)

[amazona]

14. I feel bad about it but I was intoxicated

I don't think verbal abuse is necessary, although I can understand making an exception for a politician, but I was at a party at a very well-known New Orleans writer's house and her dog came up and I babbled away about how grossly overweight the dog was (and it really was, it isn't healthy to let your dog get that fat) before I realized she was standing right there with it. Maybe it inspired her to put the dog on a diet, but more likely it just inspired her to think I was a jerk. Verbal abuse is probably not a very effective way of getting one's message across....