Saying hello to a comedian.
A couple of weeks ago I was in Edinburgh, in a cafe in the Pleasance Courtyard having a nice cup of tea. I wanted some more biscuits, so I went up to the counter, where there was a man I recognised from having seen him on the telly. So I strode up to him and confidently said "You Sir, are Tim Key." Which, I think, would have been a nice way to greet him as a prelude to telling him how much I enjoyed his work. It would have been, if he'd actually been Tim Key. However, he was in fact Tim Vine. And I knew this fact perfectly well. I'd just choked when required to actually five words in a row to someone famous, and somehow pulled the wrong surname from my mess of a memory.

To his credit, he laughed pretty hard and took it very graciously, and when I tried to style it and pretend I'd done it on purpose out he insisted it was much funnier if I hadn't meant to, and that he knew Tim Key and would definitely tell him. I have been kicking myself about once per waking hour since this incident. Thank Bod his name wasn't Russell, there are bloody hundreds of them. If I ever see him again I'll probably call him Jeremy.
(SonofRojBlake, Fri 17 Aug 2012, 9:31, 8 replies)

Whoa now, you're saying you were in the presence of Tim Vine and didn't stab him?
You total cunt.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 17 Aug 2012, 9:35, closed)

I honestly have no idea why you'd think that. He's probably the least stabbable comedian I can think of, with the possible exception of John Richardson.
(SonofRojBlake, Fri 17 Aug 2012, 9:41, closed)

*40 year old tenuous one liner*
*pulls a face*
Yep, nothing stabbable about that.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 17 Aug 2012, 9:49, closed)

I could never stab Barry Cryer.
( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Fri 17 Aug 2012, 9:53, closed)

Good call on Cryer. And yeah, in fairness some episodes of Not Going Out have made me feel a *little* bit stabby. But mainly towards Miranda Hart.
(SonofRojBlake, Fri 17 Aug 2012, 10:18, closed)

I like Tim Vine, if only for Whittle.
But, Not Going Out is at least partly his fault, a definitely merits a little stabbing.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 17 Aug 2012, 9:57, closed)

Certainly a vigorous prodding, anyway.

( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 17 Aug 2012, 12:34, closed)

I wouldn't stab him until I'd used him to get near his brother.
So I could take him out as well, the sensationalist cunt.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 17 Aug 2012, 10:58, closed)