Who on "The Simpsons" -- stars, guest stars, voice actors -- have you personally met?

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Seeing as the show has spanned the sociopolitical gamut over its 15 years, I'm curious to see how many ILXers have met people who have appeared on the show.

My list, AFAICT, is pitifully short:

-Steve Shelley (met when Joost Visser played with Two Dollar Guitar in Madison)
-Thurston Moore (stopped in the Ajax store when SY was playing Lollapalooza)
-Mike Mills from R.E.M. (he was drinking at Marie's Riptide Lounge; my drunk friend Brian asked him "Weren't you the bass player for the Method Actors?"
-Bill Clinton (shook his hand at a rally in Chicago in '92)

There might be a few other music-related ones I'm forgetting, but I think that's it...

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Saturday, 17 January 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Patrick Stewart for me -- can't think of anyone else offhand.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 January 2004 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw Hank Azaria on Sastle Street in Edinburgh.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 18 January 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Mike Mills from R.E.M.
Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Leonard Nimoy
Buzz Aldrin
Dr. Demento

and Matt Groening

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 18 January 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Heck, that's right, I've met Groening too -- rah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 January 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

well they didn't appear on the show per se (just the credits), but i've met all of Yo La Tengo

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 18 January 2004 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Conan O'Brien
Jon Lithgow (making an assumption)
Bonnie Raitt (making another assumption)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 18 January 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

yo la tengo, sonic youth, joey ramone

― tweemu (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 18 January 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

that's RIGHT, I've met all of Yo La Tengo too.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 18 January 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

when was Bill Clinton on the show?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 18 January 2004 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I forgot Flea and Anthony Kiedis myself; I met them downstairs at the Cubby Bear in 1986 because a friend of mine was from L.A. and took bass lessons from Flea back home.

Ditto YLT, if they count.

Bill Clinton actually may not have been on the show. He obviously made several appearances as a character, but come to think of it, I don't think he ever portrayed himself. So I stand corrected.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Sunday, 18 January 2004 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

he might not have been too happy about voicing the lines
"i'm a pretty lousy president"
and
"i've even done it with pigs"

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Sunday, 18 January 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Bono and Edge, that's all that comes to mind.

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 18 January 2004 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Groening, Al Jean and other assorted cronies.

I've also been in the same room as assorted Futurama cronies (Billy West, John Dimaggio, David Cohen, etc.)

― Leee Majors (Leee), Sunday, 18 January 2004 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I am related (albeit by marriage, not blood) to Exec. Producer James L. Brooks.

I have met him once.

― George Foreman Grill, Sunday, 18 January 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I have competition!

― Leee Majors (Leee), Sunday, 18 January 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

dana gould and that's probably it

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Sunday, 18 January 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Sonic Youth and REM; I'm sure there are many more.

Friend I was at school with, her father produced initial segments of The Simpsons as part of his job producing the Tracey Ullman Show.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 18 January 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

My mother went to high school with Dan Castellaneta, though I've never met him.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 18 January 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Hitler (I was time-traveling). I made sure to kick the bastard in the shins. He thought I was a ghost, he-he! Couldn't do much more, though, or I'd have been adversely affecting space-time.

There was a in-joke referring to this incident in the episode where James Woods guest-starred (he took Apu's place at the Kwiki-Mart).

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 19 January 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i actually got to witness a read-through of an entire simpson's episode at fox with the actors around a big table. amazing. it was the first time i ever had respect for actors.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Monday, 19 January 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

hi lolita!!!!

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Monday, 19 January 2004 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Rah for Lolita! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I talked to James from Yo La Tengo on the phone the other week, and that's the best I can do.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm, i'm trying to think if there's anyone else apart from Tony Blair...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 19 January 2004 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I have spoken to Gillian Anderson.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 19 January 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael Moore. That's about it.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 19 January 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

George Plimpton - witnessed him receiving a gag "fly-in-the-icecube" across the table at a holiday lunch for a magazine we were both working for at the time.

― chules (chules), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I shook hands with Matt Groening at the San Diego Comic Convention when i was like 15 back in 1994

― Crimmy Daggers, Thursday, 22 January 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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