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the jurogan experience one time i was getting on a plane and uh a few aisles down from me i saw george carlin and well he yeah he was a few walls ahead of me and i i you know i'd never met him before so i didn't want to bother him and i sat down and then he he gets up from his chair and he starts he looks at me and is walking toward me and i got so excited i thought george carlin he wants to talk to me and he comes over to me and he says uh i gotta work on some stuff i'm writing i gotta read something and then i'm gonna take a nap so i can talk to you and he walked it was like basically he went out of his way to tell me to go [ __ ] myself wasn't he just being courteous because otherwise he would have said i would talk to you yes yeah but at when it was getting near the end of the flight when they announced that they're going to be descending soon uh he came over to me again and he scribbled his phone number down on a piece of paper and he said to me uh next time you're appearing on tv i want you to call me and tell me because i want to see what's going on in that brain of yours [Laughter] and and that was like holy [ __ ] yeah i only got i saw him perform live a few times i saw him perform live in new hampshire when i was like 21 in like 1988 um i saw him there and i saw him at the comedy store later and i ran into him once the comment store and he was so unassuming yes he just walked by said hi to everybody hello hello like it's like real friendly easy and just was there to do his work and super nice guy and the funny thing is i had you know george collins number which and i thought that was like a tremendous thrill george carlin's a fan i thought this is unbelievable i also met jonathan winters and he gave me his phone number and i didn't call either one of them uh because i i've had those you know
what it's like a couple of celebrities who've given me their numbers it's like you know we meet and they're my best friend the whole world we hit it off like a lifelong pouch and then you call them and you go hi it's gilbert oh hello [Laughter] it wore off yes it's kind of to me it's like when you meet a girl and you get her phone number and and she's like oh here's my number don't lose this don't lose this and here's here's if i'm not at this number here's my other number please call me call me call me all excited and then you call them up and you go hi you know i remember we met at uh joe's party and it's like oh yeah yeah i think some celebrities just get exhausted by people wanting things from them oh i'm sure absolutely constantly someone thinks that they can get further up the show business ladder just by being friends with you being around you that's why when they act normal it's uh it's so refreshing well it's like when people come up to me and say uh could you give me some advice or some pointers i always feel like underneath it is like can you like uh press that button that makes me a star can you help me yes give me a lift up yeah yeah but which doesn't exist yeah no one can do that it's like i think they they'll look at you if when you're known and they'll think oh you know somebody sprinkled some dust on you magic dust and you immediately yeah became known and you'll be able to tell me how i can do that yes yes where i can get this dust from and i'll sprinkle on myself yeah well i think people just looking for shortcuts all the time right oh yeah yeah and i think that's also one of the reasons why celebrities are a little standoffish with even when they meet other celebrities you know i think they just get but then sometimes they feel like those are the only people that they know that they can talk to like i feel like uh who can the cast of friends talk to right right
they're all oddly famous yeah in a weird way one of the weirdest uh celebrity encounters i ever had uh was robin williams he came to one of my shows by himself yeah and i didn't know it was him until a few minutes into talking to him he had a big crazy beard oh okay and a baseball hat on and i'm talking that i was doing like this little meet and greet after the show and i'm just talking to this guy yeah and he's like i really like that bit i really love this i loved how you did this and that and then i'm in the middle to talk to him i'm like holy [ __ ] this is robin williams oh yeah i didn't realize it until like a couple minutes into talking to him i just was talking to him like he was just a regular guy and he acted like a regular guy oh yeah i there were a couple of times at those clubs he would pop into those clubs all the time and there were a few times he called me up on stage with him to riff with him which was great and uh what i remember most about him i was at the improv and i wasn't known at the time i mean i was known to the comics and everything like that and uh and i i guess he had seen me a few times there and uh so i'm getting ready they're just about to introduce me and then the door opens up and uh robin comes in so of course they go uh oh oh robin uh you're you're on gilbert uh go away and robin you're up next and and robin said to them he goes oh he goes oh i have a few people in the audience to see me and i'd like them to see gilbert first wow and that always stuck with me that's so nice of them watch the entire episode for free only on spotify