Name: When Meeting Celebrities Goes Wrong
Uploaded: 2025-02-13T15:01:21.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'When Meeting Celebrities Goes Wrong' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-13. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'When Meeting Celebrities Goes Wrong' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-13. Transcript available.

- Kamala did not have a good strategist,
whoever their planner was or whatever.
Who was that?
Who was their, that's one thing I've never even--
- I bet it wasn't the Swamy.
- Their campaign advisor?
- Yeah, I bet it wasn't that bald guy.
What's his name?
He's like the main one, Carville, James Carville?
- Oh yeah. - He was cool.
Not him, he would've done something better.
- He would've done something cool, he's out of Louisiana.
- Yeah, that's right.
I went up to him once, I was like,
how do you talk to a celebrity?
There's no way, I don't know how to do it.
They know I'm talking to them 'cause they're them.
Not just like, oh hey, cool shirt,
and didn't know who it was, you know?
So I saw him on a commercial shoot once,
and I was like, what do I say?
I'm like, I know.
He used to call into sports radio in DC,
and he had a great thing,
like always been on the home underdog,
if there were more than seven points.
And I was like, that's what I'll say.
I was like, hey, I used to listen to you on WTEM
with Kornheiser way back, and he goes, oh cool.
Fuck, fuck, like even that.
- Yeah, there's nothing worse when,
'cause if your planned line doesn't go good for a celebrity,
you have nothing-- - That's it.
- Yes. - You stand out like an asshole,
and you're like, oh, I've done that.
- It feels so shitty,
and then so obvious what you were trying to do.
- I know.
Oh dude, that's like a--
There was a night where Johnny Depp
was at the Comedy Store.
- Oh yeah, I heard about that.
- And everybody, like you got--
- He's the star.
- Oh, there was nobody like him, you know?
He was everybody, dude.
He was in that movie Peter Pan.
He was in that Peter Pan movie.
- Was he?
- Yeah, what was it called?
- "Finding Neverland"?
- "Finding Neverland".
God, that's a good movie.
But anyway, so then like suddenly,
I'd never even really been backstage at the main room.
In the main room, I wasn't getting on stage there
much of the time.
And I'm like, oh, I gotta go back.
- Gotta go back. - Johnny.
- So you walk in, the back room back there was packed.
Like you could barely even move.
Everybody's having like these fake conversations
and kind of has their body lightly turned
towards Johnny Depp.
- They all try to laugh louder.
So like maybe he'll join in with our joviality.
I see it with Rogan sometimes.
I bet you get it too.
He's sitting there like, oh cool, nobody's in this bar.
I was like, I don't know, just fill up.
- Yeah.
- It's like word got out, Theo Vaughn's there.
- Oh, Rogan, I could imagine, dude.
I feel like you never see,
I feel like a lot of people, you never see him.
He doesn't do a lot of.
- We got like 20 minutes normal and then it's over.
- Yeah.
- And I'm like, yeah, I was sitting there.
All right, fucking take it.
- Yeah, they're like, let me tell you about science.
I'll tell you where the AIDS is.
You're like, what's this guy?
And it's just a gay guy that's flirting or whatever.
But it was like that at the, oh, that was it.
And he was in the back.
And then I think I can't.
- Oh, that's Edgar, that's right.
- Yeah, he was with Edgar.
And who brought him?
The guy?
- Doug Stanhope.
- Doug Stanhope brought him from Arizona.
And everybody was just like.
- Trying to be in his presence, his aura.
You could soak it in.
You could bask.
- You could just see him.
And I can't even remember if I got to meet him or not.
But if I did, I think it was one of those things like,
oh, see things are going good or something like that.
Just like, like we were from high school together.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We want this con, it's never going to be that.
It's never going to be like shoot.
The best was Dice one time, met some guy.
And he goes, oh, we should hang out.
So some fan.
And Dice's like, you know how he is.
And he's like, sure, give me a number.
And Dice called him and texted him 35 times a day.
Bothered him at work to the point where the guy's like,
hey, Andrew, I'm working right now.
And he goes, oh, yeah, work's tough, you know?
It's like, I remember a couple jobs I had when I was younger.
And he's like, Andrew, I've got to go back to work.
I just regretted trying to be friends with him.
Yeah, that's hilarious.
It does suck.
I heard Brody Stevens went back there and like either didn't know
or now that I realize probably somebody told him.
And he went back and was like, oh, like,
you're not expecting to see anybody,
let alone Johnny fucking Depp.
And he goes, oh.
And then I heard Depp had this way to offset.
He goes, hi, I'm Johnny.
How you doing?
Or I'm John.
And then Brody's like, Johnny Depp.
Yes, heard of it.
He must have been like, this guy's been weird from front of me.
Like, no, no, no, that's just who he is.
He's going to himself soon.
Don't worry about that.
God, yeah, that's it.
Yeah, there's nothing scarier than if you have a line for something
to say this because your brain doesn't think it's just like,
oh, everything will go good.
It's not like, well, if that doesn't get adhered to,
then what are you going to do after that?
Yeah, you plan ahead.
Like, once that goes great, then what do I do from there?
I'll talk, I'll listen, I'll say, hey, I will.
Then I'll ask, yeah, maybe we can get a photo or something.
Yeah, but God, it's so scary when that first line doesn't
go good because then you don't know what to do.
Oh, it's so embarrassing.
It is harrowing kind of.
And that was at a time when celebs,
there was like a real hierarchy to celebrity.
Then I feel like celebrities gotten very like anybody,
like it's everybody has like social media, you know,
everybody has a website.
Everybody could be a star, you know.
You also see the real them now, the real, real celebrities.
Yeah. So you're like, oh, you're just a guy.
Yeah.
You do the same, you're like, oh, I see you with your dog.
You're fine.
You're normal.
Yeah, things have gotten.
Yeah, celebrities used to be kept more
in this kind of hidden realm kind of.
Yeah, I met Rob Lowe, who's one of those big,
who did my travel podcast.
Yeah.
And he was like, can I change?
And the other room was like, yeah, sure.
It's, I mean, it's filthy.
I had someone sleeping in there yesterday.
So like, but like, yeah, whatever.
And then it's just like, yeah, I don't have to like cater to them.
You're a guy, fucking go in there and change.
I don't know.
Right.
Yeah, and that's how they all are.
It's just, it's, it's weird realizing as you grow up,
they're not different.
Yeah. Do you think that's growing up
or do you think that it's changed that the, that like.
Maybe it's changed.
Maybe, but I mean, I always take out the fact
that I'm getting, that I'm getting older and growing up,
that that could be part of the realization of things.
Yeah. Somebody said like, whenever you have a big movie now,
they're like, oh, let's get like Matt Damon
or, you know, it's Brad Pitt.
That'll be a big, big star.
But there's like no one under 28 worships that guy.
Yeah.
So like, it's a 50 year old studio exec saying,
that'll be a headline.
It's like, no, no, get Timothee Chalamet.
Yeah.
Get somebody younger.
Yeah. Give Timothee Chalamet or get a lesbian
who's a Timothee Chalamet impersonator.
Yeah. Without even trying.
Yeah. Yeah.
But even that would go further with a young generation.
Sure would.
They'd be like, oh yeah.
They'd be like, what the fuck?
They're like, oh yeah.
They'd be like, oh yeah.
They'd be like, oh yeah.
They'd be like, oh yeah.
They'd be like, oh yeah.
They'd be like, oh yeah.
They'd be like, oh yeah.
They'd be like, oh yeah.
They'd be like, oh yeah.
They'd be like, oh yeah.
They'd be like, oh yeah.
They'd be like, oh yeah.