I NEVER HARDLY EVER READ ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE, UNLESS THEY HAVE BEATLES STUFF.
BUT THEY DO PUBLISH A COMEDY ISSUE EVERY FEW YEARS, AND I ALWAYS LOVE THAT ISSUE.
BELOW IS A QUESTION ASKED OF VARIOUS CURRENT TOP COMEDIANS AND COMICS:
WHICH COMEDIAN DO YOU WISH YOU'D MET?
ROBIN WILLIAMS: THE GREAT COMIC THAT I WOULD'VE MOST LOVED TO MEET IS GROUCHO MARX. JUST HANG OUT WITH HIM, WHETHER HE WAS ON ACID OR NOT. HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE VERY SWEET AND FUNNY.
ALBERT BROOKS: I'M NOT A DRINKER, BUT I'D LOVE TO HAVE SPENT A COUPLE OF NIGHTS WITH W.C. FIELDS.
DANE COOK: I WOULD SAY DON RICKLES AT ANY TIME IN THE 1960'S. LAS VEGAS, IT IT'S PEAK, GUNS BLAZING, CLOBBERING A ROOM. THAT WOULD BE IT.
CHRIS ROCK: I NEVER SAW RICHARD PRYOR IN HIS PRIME. I SAW HIM RIGHT BEFORE HE GOT SICK. I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE SEEN HIM WHEN HE WAS DOING "THAT N****R'S CRAZY" OR....."IS IT SOMETHING I SAID"?
TINA FEY: I'D LIKE TO SEE THE MARX BROTHERS A THOUSAND YEARS IN THE FUTURE. BECAUSE I THINK IT WOULD STILL BE FUNNY. AND IT WOULD MEAN I LIVED TO BE 1,038.
JIMMY FALLON: I WISH I'D MET THE LITTLE RASCALS WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG, BECAUSE THEY SEEM LIKE A LOT OF FUN. WE'D PUT ON A SHOW OR SOMETHING AND IMPRESS DARLA AND ALFALFA. I'D TOTALLY BE ALFALFA'S WINGMAN. HE WAS A TALENTED DUDE. SUCH A GOOD SINGER, AND A SHARP DRESSER, TOO.
BILLY CRYSTAL: LENNY BRUCE AT HIS HEIGHT, BEFORE THE COURT STUFF STARTED TO WEIGH HIM DOWN - IT WOULD'VE BEEN GREAT TO BE AT THE CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT.
AMY POEHLER: I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO SEE NICHOLS AND MAY LIVE. AND I WOULD LOVE TO TALK TO REDD FOXX IN A CORNER.
MARTIN SHORT: THE THREE STOOGES ONSTAGE. I BET THEY HAD AMAZING ENERGY. ALSO, ABBOTT AND COSTELLO OR BUSTER KEATON IN VAUDEVILLE. THOSE GUYS WOULD DO LITERALLY ANYHTHING, WITH NO CONCERN FOR THE RAMIFICATIONS- COMPLETE MAD COMMITTMENTS TO PHYSICAL COMEDY, COMMITTING TO THE DANGER OF IT.
ERIC IDLE: JACK BENNY - I NEVER SAW MUCH OF HIM. AND I'D LOVE TO SEE NICHOLS AND MAY - I WAS A BIG FAN OF THEIRS WHEN I WAS AT CAMBRIDGE.
STEVEN WRIGHT: WOODY ALLEN WHEN HE WAS DOING STAND-UP. BECAUSE THERE'S NOT MUCH FILM OF HIM IN THOSE DAYS, AND I ADMIRE HIS MIND.
PHYLISS DILLER: I'VE ALREADY MET CHARLIE CHAPLIN.
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