Edinburgh Festival
This is a top venue to meet interesting celebrity types.
Six years ago me and some mates went for a long weekend. Caught some of the better shows (Flight of the Conchords etc) and then went drinking on the nights.

At one place I bumped into the self styled "comedy terrorist" Aaron Barschak. If you remember the guy he managed to crash Prince William's twent-first birthday party and kiss the Prince on both cheeks. He was arrested immediately and caused a minor security stink in the papers.

It was only a few weeks after he'd been nicked so I went over to him and asked him whether he'd been given a stern bollocking from the secret service.

He said he hadn't but winked as he said it.
Not very famous but there you go. Oh, and this Aaron Barschak was a smelly fucker as well.
( Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Sun 11 Oct 2009, 11:22, 2 replies)

He came to a coupe of my gigs at the festival that year.
I think he wore the same clothes for the entire month.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sun 11 Oct 2009, 11:59, closed)

I see him fairly regularly
I think he lives in Camden, and he ran a comedy night up in Kilburn

He seems all right, though he stiched up my mate Dan something rotten on one of his nights - it was Dan's first gig and he wanted to do a quick routine at the start, but since he'd brought at least 50% of that night's crowd, Barschak kept him back until the very end of the night, after a drunken Australian girl who knocked over a table full of beers.

I chatted to him about the comedy potential of Genesis - the book of the Bible, rather than the three-piece dadrock outfit
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 14:44, closed)