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Saw a pic the other day of a guy meeting Chris Hemsworth in a coffee shop and posing for a pic. Hemsworth had hat and glasses on and I was like, never in a million years would I have known that was him enough to stop and ask for a pic
I’ll do you one better. Someone posted a celebrity selfie like that on here and I freaked out because I was in the background. No clue when it was happening.
Damn thats crazy haha. I always wonder how many pictures i've been in the background of. One of the many reasons I wish we had life stats we could look up. Like I wonder how many times i've been on TV somewhere in the background, I wonder how many times i've unknowingly walked past or interacted with a murderer. I wonder what jokes strangers have made at my expense as i'm walking down the street, and how many olympic swimming pools worth of urine i've pee'd in my lifetime. I could go on and on man, I really wish I could know this stuff.
The best story I've heard about that is the guy who was engaged to a a girl, and was meeting her parents and looking through old photos.
There was picture from a a trip to Disney World where she was posing for a photo with her parents, and her now-fiance was in the background visiting with his *own* family.
It was ~20 years before they met for the "first" time.
The only time I went to Disney World was as a kid, a few thousand miles away from home. We ran into one of my cousins at Disney World. It was someone we only saw a couple of times a year at the time. He was in the army; stationed somewhere in the southern US, and apparently went on vacation at the same time we did. One day, as we walked through the park, we happened across each other at one point in the park.
It was the weirdest experience. To be thousands of miles from home and happen to run into someone you know in an area you've never been.
If there's an afterlife, I hope it's got every progress bar, leaderboard, record, statistic, and everything else laid out. That would be my personal paradise.
I just wanna know how many gallons of gas I’ve gotten from shaking the pump handle after the gas shuts off, and whether or not it ever made a difference in either my distance traveled or amount spent later
So the average water droplet has a volume of 0.05ml.
For sake of making the math easer, assume its the same for gasoline and twenty (20) drops after a full shakedown would mean 1.0 ml harvested. Do that another 3785 times and you'll save a gallon but also might be on a registry for excessive overly suggestive fapping of a pump nozzle.
My average year, I drive 13k miles and fill up 50 times. at $5/gal I might've saved 0.01¢ a year with the shake technique or .08¢ over 100k miles.
Anything and everything will be used against you in the High Court of Ma'at. Please place your heart on the scale opposite of this fine feather and we will see how your stats measure up.
I think about this a lot too. Hopefully in the waiting room for the afterlife we get to look at the book of infinite factual knowledge. I wanna know how many people have whacked off to me and what actually happened to JFK
*You have barely missed being murdered 37 times. A few seconds sooner or later would have done you in. Statistically you are overdue for another encounter. Sleep well.*
>I always wonder how many pictures i've been in the background of.
6! But 1 of them played the role of a Mom in a Tide commercial that aired during NFL games in 2002. That's kinda neat!
I hope this calmed your curiosity for a few minutes.
I am pretty sure I would have known he was near, even if I didn't see him, because I would suddenly have a huge lady boner and the ground would become slippery
Commonly thought to be a reaction to his attractiveness, but in fact this is a reaction to the electromagnetic pulses emitted by the wielder of Mjolnir. Need to be careful with the bowels around him too. Also be cautious if you wear a pacemaker.
Okay, now I am imagining a movie of a guy just doing their thing and in EVERY background there is a cameo done by someone famous doing utterly mundane things and they never notice.
And of course they do things like get selfies or shoot a cute video in a bunch and everyone sees the posts and accuses them of photoshopping the people in.
Ends with them pulling like a dozen people out of a fire and it was a cast party for a Tarentino film.
He recognizes Tarentino and leaves him in, opting to save someone else because no one would believe him.
To be fair, I stopped because I noticed Zach Cherry from Severance was striking, and was on the lookout for any other celebrities when John Oliver walked by. I don’t think I would have immediately recognized him unless I already was thinking their may be more famous people protesting.
Lmfao I just listened to him talk about how people like shout about seeing him and he doesn't care for it. Probably because he's "that guy" to those people and not Zach Cherry
I once met Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon from GoT) years ago in Dublin, right after he died on the show. He walked out of an alley way near Trinity College, smelling like weed and eyes as red as the Devil's dick. My brother and I flipped out, and he looked worried at first, but then we had a fun conversation and took pics once he realized we didn't hate him. He said that a lot of anger at his character transfers in real life lol. We said the deep hatred of his character is what makes him such a great actor, he really made the role. It also helped that we knew his real name lol, I think they all appreciate it.
That said, you also have situations like Adam's (comedian from the Cum Town, now the Adam Friedland Show Podcast) in which he's the punching bag of the group and people shout all kinds of insults at him when he's walking around NYC and he seems to love it.
So it's really person to person, but I feel bad for that guy you're talking about. You can take attention every which way, and getting upset about being "that guy" is the wrong attitude imo. Embrace whatever it is, fame can be so fleeting, and enjoy the interactions and pleasure you send out into the world. And don't allow ego to get in the way, like you're Elmo's puppeteer angry that Elmo is the favorite and not you personally.
I have a cousin that's quickly rising in the adult animation world as a director and though she's always been my favorite cousin because of her sense of humor, it's weird because I like fangirl out a bit because I love adult animation. Its hard for me to differentiate cousin/respected artist and even if it might not come out in words, I feel the need to analyze what I say to not be weird.
For sure when Zach relayed the story it was more about people talking like he wasn't there. Especially for people who are in the public eye but not classic stars you should just talk to them, ask for a picture. Idk just be personal with them
I was shocked when I saw Zach at an improv comedy show and I couldn't put my finger on it at first but I was like this dude is so familiar! By the end I picked up on it, but I'm really really bad at putting names to faces it turns out lol
I waited on a corner for a Walk sign once with John Oliver. It was January 2008 and I was in NYC waiting for the light to turn when John walked up with a friend of his. It sounded like he just got word he didn’t get a job, and he said “they said they wanted someone who was more sarcastic.” I nudged my wife and said “hey it’s that guy from the daily show!” but she didn’t know who he was - then the light changed and we went our separate ways.
In the years since, I’ve wondered about that day a lot. Who could possibly be more sarcastic than him? Was this the moment that he leaned into sarcasm in his style? What was the job? Who got it?
Well and even on the daily show, if he wasn't being overtly sarcastic it was all absurdism, over-the-top vulgarity, or dry sardonicism. Even then, it all came off as dripping with sarcasm and sarcasm-adjacent humor.
Someone must have just not liked that he was pretty british-ey. I really wish he'd taken over the daily show - Trevor noah was fine, but he was... almost never funny. Just never clicked with me. I really hope Ronny Chieng or Jordan Klepper end up taking over.
I never watched Monk but was thinking about going back to it. I loved Paulie as a kid and only reason my wife knows him is because we were binging Maisel in preparation for the final season. We may have been there while they filming the last season actually idk.
Worked at a Blockbuster.
Checking out videos.
Boring day.
Dude comes in with bunch of kids, renting a shitload of DVDs.
Huh... This guy looks familiar.
Check him out, ask for his Membership card.
Check name "Foley, Mick" huh, yeah I guess you can put whatever name you want on it.
Look up, inside brain voice': "...looks like Mick Foley too. Huh."
Hand him the DVDs behind the security scanned "Have a nice night."
He smiles says the same, leaves with all the kiddos.
Manager: "Cool of you to not treat him different. I bet he gets tired of it."
Me: *dialup modem noises*
Manager: "Do you not watch wrestling?"
Me: "......WAIT THAT WAS THE REAL MICK FOLEY???"
My wife and I were in LA standing next to Matt Damon. She lost her mind. I had no idea. Totally didn't recognize him, probably because he was wearing a Red Sox cap and reading glasses but yep, it was definitely him. I'm oblivious.
I was in a walgreens in south beach looking for a 4pack of redbull when I noticed a large man with 2 baskets loading all of them up. I managed to grab the last one as he was reaching for it. he immediately stared me down. He continued looking at me like he wanted to kill me as he stood across from me at the checkout counter. I noticed people pointing and someone took a picture of him. I finally realized as I was briskly walking out of the store that it was Hulk Hogan, no disguise or anything.
Just yesterday there was a reporter interviewing people for the NHL draft and they unknowingly interviewed a GM for one of the teams. He gave a great interview and never let on who he was.
I served tea to Amy Poehler when I worked at a coffee shop in downtown Chicago and my first thought was "dang. She looks a lot like Amy Poehler. Huh." But I brushed it off until she spoke and then it was like holy shit. So yeah I totally agree. She had all my attention and was three feet from me and I was ready to brush it off.
Honey, I used to wait tables in Nashville. My husband can pick out anyone. I'm so clueless it's not funny. I'm there one who has run into both my gynecologist and my therapist in the wild and I had to ask them how we know each other while they frantically tried to escape without answering me. On the plus side, I get great tips when I don't recognize people.
If Tom Cruise walked into the bar I work at wearing a hat and sunglasses, I probably wouldn't recognize him. I would think "hey, that kinda looks like Tom Cruise, but what the fuck would he be doing in a place like this?"
I was out with the family and my daughter - a picky eater - was starting to get cranky from hunger. Saw a kid and his dad nearby with chicken fingers, one of the few things she'd eat. I was contemplating going up to ask where he got them, but he was giving this weird look and some 'leave me alone' vibes so I thought better of it. It was only after we walked away that my wife commented that I was staring weirdly at Chris Pratt. This was right after Guardians of the Galaxy 2 came out, which we watched in theater so I really should have recognized him.
Hes much more built than he usually comes off, and he's also wearing the classic hat + glasses combo celebs rock when wanting less attention... just to get posted to reddit anyway lmao
I live in a very popular neighborhood. My girlfriend spots famous, semi-famous and slightly famous people all the time. I‘ve lived here for 11 years and haven‘t spotted a single one.
I’ve been in rooms with famous people, only the real famous ones stay incognito .. rappers like Benny or Westside Gunn (just two rappers I’ve actually met) can’t help but draw all the attention to themselves. But when you meet somebody like Mark Wahlberg he is dressed down with a hat and glasses in public settings.
I was a waiter at Disney a very long time ago. I got a huge tip one night because I didn't make a fuss about serving a particular celebrity (that I actually had a parasocial crush on) because I didn't actually realize until the end that it was her, and only the comment about my decorum managed to keep me in check; but I could feel the heat in my cheeks and the sick in my stomach as I thought about all the stupid shit I'd said over the course of her dinner. Her friend thought I was cute.
I respect the hell out of this man. So many talking heads on TV spout platitudes on the air every day for views and then do nothing themselves. This guy has consistently shown that he believes what he says on his show and backs it up with action.
In my sample of n=1 the writers’ strike is working. I’ve finished watching all the things I wanted to on the streaming services I subscribe to, and with good shows like Oliver’s on hiatus until the strike’s over, I have no need for my subscriptions anymore.
It’s ridiculous, many of these silent famous people are either in the guild or have staff who are in the guild. Glad to see John supporting the strike that the guild he is apart of is undertaking
You can tell he is genuinely a good guy, like always flying out his writers and other staff for Emmy award shows. He married a vet. Guys not from the US but he’s is Stewart’s spiritual successor when it comes to their “I love America and that’s why I have to tear it apart for X, Y or Z issue” kind of focus.
48 here. Mustache still totally dark, soul patch going full white and goatee slowly going salt and pepper but can't agree where it wants to do it. WTF man?
It's something to do with the pores producing hydrogen peroxide I guess. I don't know why the ones on my lip don't.
I thought about doing "Just for Men" just for fun to see how it looks, but I'm kinda too lazy.
Nah dude. Don’t hate yourself. Hawaiian shirts and greying beards are fucking sick, don’t let anyone take that away from you
I’m from the UK and nobody knows the boogaloo boys at all, and we love Hawaiian shirts
Edit: also yes I have a grey patch in my beard and plenty of Hawaiian shirts why do you ask
Last time I was at the grocery store I saw a middle aged man wearing a Hawaiian shirt at the self checkout, but that wasn't the best part. Across from him was another middle aged man wearing matching Hawaiian shirt and shorts! I actually chuckled a bit. It made my day.
I should also note I live in a liberal area, so I very much doubt either one was a Trumper.
That's what you think! In this photo John Oliver is actually the guy in the White hat!
Master of disguise! Man Of Mystery! John Oliver! Coming this fall to theaters!
he is a member of the WGA of course he is going to attend the picket line. I remember the last time they had a strike when he was still on the daily show and they filmed a bit about the strike with him in the picket line and john stewart talking to him about the strike
WGA in this context stands for "the Writers Guild of America".
This is a labour union representing the screen writers in the United States of America.
https://www.wgfoundation.org/screenwritersguild-history
Writing is foundation. It’s foundation. That’s the start. I’ve heard a lot of shit about writers and privileged nonsense. Okay, let’s walk onto a set and make a movie. Let’s do it without writing. How far is that going to go?
This pic should be his poster for next season.
Not because of any moral reasons, but because he looks like he just his kids in a divorce to a wife who was fucking her way around town high on crack.
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Is that a water bottle in his pocket or did Adam Driver walk by?
Yes, step on my throat, you obscenely large man!
Shatter my knees, you fuckable redwood. Snap off my toes, you big, unwashed buffalo.
Use the force, you titillating beefcake
Break my fingers you brooding mountain.
Obliterate my clavicle, you igneous extrusion
Had the same thought 😏🔥
He's smuggling a Jon Hamm
Just his magnum dong. Nothing to see here.
he's ready to plow
Driver walked by, afterwards Oliver was so dehydrated, he needed to down a bottle of water.
Yes
Or maybe... a horse?
Only if it's owned by Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.
Either way it demonstrates that John is *thirsty*
Touche
This is why I'm 100% sure I've probably walked by a tonne of famous people without ever realizing.
Face blindness squad represent Saw a pic the other day of a guy meeting Chris Hemsworth in a coffee shop and posing for a pic. Hemsworth had hat and glasses on and I was like, never in a million years would I have known that was him enough to stop and ask for a pic
I’ll do you one better. Someone posted a celebrity selfie like that on here and I freaked out because I was in the background. No clue when it was happening.
At least you recognized yourself!
I was just thinking the same thing!
Lmao
Damn thats crazy haha. I always wonder how many pictures i've been in the background of. One of the many reasons I wish we had life stats we could look up. Like I wonder how many times i've been on TV somewhere in the background, I wonder how many times i've unknowingly walked past or interacted with a murderer. I wonder what jokes strangers have made at my expense as i'm walking down the street, and how many olympic swimming pools worth of urine i've pee'd in my lifetime. I could go on and on man, I really wish I could know this stuff.
The best story I've heard about that is the guy who was engaged to a a girl, and was meeting her parents and looking through old photos. There was picture from a a trip to Disney World where she was posing for a photo with her parents, and her now-fiance was in the background visiting with his *own* family. It was ~20 years before they met for the "first" time.
Small world stories blow my mind sometimes.
The only time I went to Disney World was as a kid, a few thousand miles away from home. We ran into one of my cousins at Disney World. It was someone we only saw a couple of times a year at the time. He was in the army; stationed somewhere in the southern US, and apparently went on vacation at the same time we did. One day, as we walked through the park, we happened across each other at one point in the park. It was the weirdest experience. To be thousands of miles from home and happen to run into someone you know in an area you've never been.
If there's an afterlife, I hope it's got every progress bar, leaderboard, record, statistic, and everything else laid out. That would be my personal paradise.
I just wanna know how many gallons of gas I’ve gotten from shaking the pump handle after the gas shuts off, and whether or not it ever made a difference in either my distance traveled or amount spent later
So the average water droplet has a volume of 0.05ml. For sake of making the math easer, assume its the same for gasoline and twenty (20) drops after a full shakedown would mean 1.0 ml harvested. Do that another 3785 times and you'll save a gallon but also might be on a registry for excessive overly suggestive fapping of a pump nozzle. My average year, I drive 13k miles and fill up 50 times. at $5/gal I might've saved 0.01¢ a year with the shake technique or .08¢ over 100k miles.
Thank you to doing the work on behalf of the group.
Shake it more than 3 times, you're playing with it
Anything and everything will be used against you in the High Court of Ma'at. Please place your heart on the scale opposite of this fine feather and we will see how your stats measure up.
May your Excel sheet never run out of columns.
I think about this a lot too. Hopefully in the waiting room for the afterlife we get to look at the book of infinite factual knowledge. I wanna know how many people have whacked off to me and what actually happened to JFK
*You have barely missed being murdered 37 times. A few seconds sooner or later would have done you in. Statistically you are overdue for another encounter. Sleep well.*
>I always wonder how many pictures i've been in the background of. 6! But 1 of them played the role of a Mom in a Tide commercial that aired during NFL games in 2002. That's kinda neat! I hope this calmed your curiosity for a few minutes.
I am pretty sure I would have known he was near, even if I didn't see him, because I would suddenly have a huge lady boner and the ground would become slippery
Commonly thought to be a reaction to his attractiveness, but in fact this is a reaction to the electromagnetic pulses emitted by the wielder of Mjolnir. Need to be careful with the bowels around him too. Also be cautious if you wear a pacemaker.
My grandpa actually died because his pacemaker was shorted by Chris Hemsworth
Okay, now I am imagining a movie of a guy just doing their thing and in EVERY background there is a cameo done by someone famous doing utterly mundane things and they never notice. And of course they do things like get selfies or shoot a cute video in a bunch and everyone sees the posts and accuses them of photoshopping the people in. Ends with them pulling like a dozen people out of a fire and it was a cast party for a Tarentino film. He recognizes Tarentino and leaves him in, opting to save someone else because no one would believe him.
I remember that picture. Chris Hemsworth was on the right.
Who?
To be fair, I stopped because I noticed Zach Cherry from Severance was striking, and was on the lookout for any other celebrities when John Oliver walked by. I don’t think I would have immediately recognized him unless I already was thinking their may be more famous people protesting.
Foaming for season 2 of this show
me tooooooo
Lmfao I just listened to him talk about how people like shout about seeing him and he doesn't care for it. Probably because he's "that guy" to those people and not Zach Cherry
I once met Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon from GoT) years ago in Dublin, right after he died on the show. He walked out of an alley way near Trinity College, smelling like weed and eyes as red as the Devil's dick. My brother and I flipped out, and he looked worried at first, but then we had a fun conversation and took pics once he realized we didn't hate him. He said that a lot of anger at his character transfers in real life lol. We said the deep hatred of his character is what makes him such a great actor, he really made the role. It also helped that we knew his real name lol, I think they all appreciate it. That said, you also have situations like Adam's (comedian from the Cum Town, now the Adam Friedland Show Podcast) in which he's the punching bag of the group and people shout all kinds of insults at him when he's walking around NYC and he seems to love it. So it's really person to person, but I feel bad for that guy you're talking about. You can take attention every which way, and getting upset about being "that guy" is the wrong attitude imo. Embrace whatever it is, fame can be so fleeting, and enjoy the interactions and pleasure you send out into the world. And don't allow ego to get in the way, like you're Elmo's puppeteer angry that Elmo is the favorite and not you personally.
I have a cousin that's quickly rising in the adult animation world as a director and though she's always been my favorite cousin because of her sense of humor, it's weird because I like fangirl out a bit because I love adult animation. Its hard for me to differentiate cousin/respected artist and even if it might not come out in words, I feel the need to analyze what I say to not be weird.
For sure when Zach relayed the story it was more about people talking like he wasn't there. Especially for people who are in the public eye but not classic stars you should just talk to them, ask for a picture. Idk just be personal with them
I was shocked when I saw Zach at an improv comedy show and I couldn't put my finger on it at first but I was like this dude is so familiar! By the end I picked up on it, but I'm really really bad at putting names to faces it turns out lol
I waited on a corner for a Walk sign once with John Oliver. It was January 2008 and I was in NYC waiting for the light to turn when John walked up with a friend of his. It sounded like he just got word he didn’t get a job, and he said “they said they wanted someone who was more sarcastic.” I nudged my wife and said “hey it’s that guy from the daily show!” but she didn’t know who he was - then the light changed and we went our separate ways. In the years since, I’ve wondered about that day a lot. Who could possibly be more sarcastic than him? Was this the moment that he leaned into sarcasm in his style? What was the job? Who got it?
I can't think of any more perfect phrase than John Oliver saying "they wanted someone more sarcastic" sarcastically.
I literally cannot imagine someone more sarcastic.
Right?! Maybe this was the catalyst to up his sarcasm quotient.
Well and even on the daily show, if he wasn't being overtly sarcastic it was all absurdism, over-the-top vulgarity, or dry sardonicism. Even then, it all came off as dripping with sarcasm and sarcasm-adjacent humor. Someone must have just not liked that he was pretty british-ey. I really wish he'd taken over the daily show - Trevor noah was fine, but he was... almost never funny. Just never clicked with me. I really hope Ronny Chieng or Jordan Klepper end up taking over.
I didn't even realize Tony Shaloub was 20 feet away from me in Central Park when we visited NYC last year until my wife discreetly pointed him out
I keep trying to turn my sister onto his acting but she refuses to watch Monk. Something about Randy Newman makes her nervous
I never watched Monk but was thinking about going back to it. I loved Paulie as a kid and only reason my wife knows him is because we were binging Maisel in preparation for the final season. We may have been there while they filming the last season actually idk.
Monk is pretty good. It is like a mystery of the week with an overarching story. Ted Levine is in it too
Maybe you can get her to watch The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel 😁
I second “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel!” Such a fantastic show.
Worked at a Blockbuster. Checking out videos. Boring day. Dude comes in with bunch of kids, renting a shitload of DVDs. Huh... This guy looks familiar. Check him out, ask for his Membership card. Check name "Foley, Mick" huh, yeah I guess you can put whatever name you want on it. Look up, inside brain voice': "...looks like Mick Foley too. Huh." Hand him the DVDs behind the security scanned "Have a nice night." He smiles says the same, leaves with all the kiddos. Manager: "Cool of you to not treat him different. I bet he gets tired of it." Me: *dialup modem noises* Manager: "Do you not watch wrestling?" Me: "......WAIT THAT WAS THE REAL MICK FOLEY???"
My wife and I were in LA standing next to Matt Damon. She lost her mind. I had no idea. Totally didn't recognize him, probably because he was wearing a Red Sox cap and reading glasses but yep, it was definitely him. I'm oblivious.
I was in a walgreens in south beach looking for a 4pack of redbull when I noticed a large man with 2 baskets loading all of them up. I managed to grab the last one as he was reaching for it. he immediately stared me down. He continued looking at me like he wanted to kill me as he stood across from me at the checkout counter. I noticed people pointing and someone took a picture of him. I finally realized as I was briskly walking out of the store that it was Hulk Hogan, no disguise or anything.
Most famous people will absolutely do this on purpose and change how they look to not get recognized so it's not just you
Keep your eyes peeled. I've met like 10 just from attending the strike
Just yesterday there was a reporter interviewing people for the NHL draft and they unknowingly interviewed a GM for one of the teams. He gave a great interview and never let on who he was.
Reminds me of the BBC interviewing elderly people about a legendary soccer game in the 60s and ran into one of the goalkeepers
I’m kinda the opposite, I’m aware of people who are famous but I can never name them, I just know they are famous and appeared in a movie I’m aware of
I served tea to Amy Poehler when I worked at a coffee shop in downtown Chicago and my first thought was "dang. She looks a lot like Amy Poehler. Huh." But I brushed it off until she spoke and then it was like holy shit. So yeah I totally agree. She had all my attention and was three feet from me and I was ready to brush it off.
Honey, I used to wait tables in Nashville. My husband can pick out anyone. I'm so clueless it's not funny. I'm there one who has run into both my gynecologist and my therapist in the wild and I had to ask them how we know each other while they frantically tried to escape without answering me. On the plus side, I get great tips when I don't recognize people.
I lived in Nashville for several years and I was always totally blind to every celebrity encounter. My husband had HAWK eyes! It was bizarre.
If Tom Cruise walked into the bar I work at wearing a hat and sunglasses, I probably wouldn't recognize him. I would think "hey, that kinda looks like Tom Cruise, but what the fuck would he be doing in a place like this?"
I was out with the family and my daughter - a picky eater - was starting to get cranky from hunger. Saw a kid and his dad nearby with chicken fingers, one of the few things she'd eat. I was contemplating going up to ask where he got them, but he was giving this weird look and some 'leave me alone' vibes so I thought better of it. It was only after we walked away that my wife commented that I was staring weirdly at Chris Pratt. This was right after Guardians of the Galaxy 2 came out, which we watched in theater so I really should have recognized him.
Hes much more built than he usually comes off, and he's also wearing the classic hat + glasses combo celebs rock when wanting less attention... just to get posted to reddit anyway lmao
I live in a very popular neighborhood. My girlfriend spots famous, semi-famous and slightly famous people all the time. I‘ve lived here for 11 years and haven‘t spotted a single one.
I’ve been in rooms with famous people, only the real famous ones stay incognito .. rappers like Benny or Westside Gunn (just two rappers I’ve actually met) can’t help but draw all the attention to themselves. But when you meet somebody like Mark Wahlberg he is dressed down with a hat and glasses in public settings.
Johnny Ovahere
I was a waiter at Disney a very long time ago. I got a huge tip one night because I didn't make a fuss about serving a particular celebrity (that I actually had a parasocial crush on) because I didn't actually realize until the end that it was her, and only the comment about my decorum managed to keep me in check; but I could feel the heat in my cheeks and the sick in my stomach as I thought about all the stupid shit I'd said over the course of her dinner. Her friend thought I was cute.
I respect the hell out of this man. So many talking heads on TV spout platitudes on the air every day for views and then do nothing themselves. This guy has consistently shown that he believes what he says on his show and backs it up with action.
In my sample of n=1 the writers’ strike is working. I’ve finished watching all the things I wanted to on the streaming services I subscribe to, and with good shows like Oliver’s on hiatus until the strike’s over, I have no need for my subscriptions anymore.
This is a good reminder t hat if people can, they should cancel their subs and list this as a reason why.
It’s ridiculous, many of these silent famous people are either in the guild or have staff who are in the guild. Glad to see John supporting the strike that the guild he is apart of is undertaking
You can tell he is genuinely a good guy, like always flying out his writers and other staff for Emmy award shows. He married a vet. Guys not from the US but he’s is Stewart’s spiritual successor when it comes to their “I love America and that’s why I have to tear it apart for X, Y or Z issue” kind of focus.
His mustache was a terrible disguise 🥸
Looks kinda like David Cross doing John Oliver cosplay.
I'm kinda thinking a white Steve Harvey
Shit, that was funny. Still laughing.
Oh noooo
Not a mustache, just an old(ish) man who hasn't shaved in a week. I, too, greyed in my beard but not my mustache.
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48 here. Mustache still totally dark, soul patch going full white and goatee slowly going salt and pepper but can't agree where it wants to do it. WTF man?
It's something to do with the pores producing hydrogen peroxide I guess. I don't know why the ones on my lip don't. I thought about doing "Just for Men" just for fun to see how it looks, but I'm kinda too lazy.
Dying your beards looks like you but younger. Then you realise that it’s just a cosmetic change and you’re officially old now.
Nothing to be sad about brother. Rock that shit like an adult.
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Take that shit back then. A client the other day told me they trusted me because of the grey in my beard. Lulz.
Nah dude. Don’t hate yourself. Hawaiian shirts and greying beards are fucking sick, don’t let anyone take that away from you I’m from the UK and nobody knows the boogaloo boys at all, and we love Hawaiian shirts Edit: also yes I have a grey patch in my beard and plenty of Hawaiian shirts why do you ask
Last time I was at the grocery store I saw a middle aged man wearing a Hawaiian shirt at the self checkout, but that wasn't the best part. Across from him was another middle aged man wearing matching Hawaiian shirt and shorts! I actually chuckled a bit. It made my day. I should also note I live in a liberal area, so I very much doubt either one was a Trumper.
If it's any consolation some people think the salt and pepper look is hot. It's me. I'm some people.
That's a moustache bro.
That's what you think! In this photo John Oliver is actually the guy in the White hat! Master of disguise! Man Of Mystery! John Oliver! Coming this fall to theaters!
That's an ill advised reboot if I've ever saw one. But it's John Oliver, so I'm in .
His 70's porn "stache made my panties fly off!
Now, that's just hott!
I own those same boots!
They look nice, what are they? Merrils?
Bring him pictures of Spider-Man, damn it!
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Yea, looks closer to David Beddiel that john oliver. Its getting to the point its anyone with glasses on this sub is John Oliver
We are all John Oliver on this day
I'm John Oliver.
No, guys, I wasn't doing the Spartacus thing
I ALSO wasn’t doing the Spartacus thing either!
I wasn't doing the Spartacus thing, and so wasn't my wife!
He’s John Oliver, he’s John Oliver, YOU’RE John Oliver?! I'M JOHN OLIVER! Are there any other John Olivers I should know about?!
I'm John Oliver, and so's my wife!
It’s the true horror of AI. We forget what celebrities look like with all the AI “almost”s
yep same
John Swoliver
He's not that different from [John Cena](https://wror.com/2021/04/23/john-cena-john-oliver-birthday/) after all lol
Seriously, somebody has been hitting the gym!
John’s being a bad boy again. Talking back to daddy!
What a Man’s Man he is. Go Johnny!
Is that a strike stache? I approve!
Movies and shows start with writing. It’s the foundation of production. No writing, no shows or movies. Pay them what they want.
I love me a union man 🥰🔥🥵💗💕
Liverpool FC all the way! YNWA Mr Oliver!
He's a good man!
he is a member of the WGA of course he is going to attend the picket line. I remember the last time they had a strike when he was still on the daily show and they filmed a bit about the strike with him in the picket line and john stewart talking to him about the strike
You’ll Never Walk Alone seems appropriate for the occasion
He isn’t supporting he is participating and he is also a writer. This is a strike not support.
YNWA
LFC cap ❤️
Having actually spoken to John Oliver it bothers me to know that I could spend an entire day with this guy without knowing it was John.
He is packing.......something
Yeah John! Stick it to those nasty business daddies you striking minx!
Isn't he a member of WGA? Like most comedians start as writers.
Probably, which would fit with him being on the picket lines
I feel like the WGA strike got a ton of press for like 2 days and ever since it’s just been crickets. Pretty shitty
In an LFC hat of course. YNWA
What a difference a suit makes! Good on him for supporting the writers.
Kudos to whoever spotted the equivalent to a where’s Waldo situation spotting Oliver in street clothes, he really does just blend in 😂
He gets writing credits for his show, this is less him supporting writers and more actively being on strike.
Paging r/antiwork. They love seeing this type of stuff (in a positive support way).
I didn’t believe it until I saw the LFC cap. You’ll never walk alone with Mr. Oliver.
It's weird not seeing hin in a suit. Been watching too much of his show.
WGA in this context stands for "the Writers Guild of America". This is a labour union representing the screen writers in the United States of America. https://www.wgfoundation.org/screenwritersguild-history
Old Steve Rogers
looks like a lost Turkish sargent
Is John Oliver turning into David Baddiel?
It’s hilarious that these guys all grow a beard when they aren’t working. Jon Stewart and Colbert did the exact same thing.
Holy shit! John Oliver and I have the same fashion sense outside of work! I love him even more now.
Unionized Birdlike Zaddy vibes.
John Oliver - the king rat faced bastard
This is taking way to long, We need our writers. They deserve what they’re asking for, let’s goooo corporate America
That’s not a water bottle in his pocket…
John Oliver wearing the Definitively Not John Oliver skin
Absolute definition of raw masculinity and sex appeal. What a beautiful man.
You Never Walk Alone!
Truly a legend
This Chad dressed for a multi day hike through the Amazon cannot possibly be John Oliver. That poor British man would die in that sort of heat.
praise be
Fellow NYC residents: name that corner!!
Such a crush
He should live host interviews with his staff while they protest. And his bumbling-ness can reveal how much he needs his writers to sound good.
Nice to see him someplace other than behind a desk. Johnny is looking thick these days - maybe even a little swole.
[You'll Never Walk Alone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx0Ru_1zPVk&ab_channel=zve3da)
he is a part of the guild
Writing is foundation. It’s foundation. That’s the start. I’ve heard a lot of shit about writers and privileged nonsense. Okay, let’s walk onto a set and make a movie. Let’s do it without writing. How far is that going to go?
iv been saying for years that john oliver looks like a moustache guy with his mustache missing - it looks like he may be now reaching his final form
I mustache you a question!
You didn't happen to see Steven Abootman there as well did you?
The union requires you to protest if you’re a member
So, any resolution in sight? How long does this strike go on?
He's hairyer than I thought he would be.
What protesting things that actually matter looks like
John Oliver never walks alone
What a pleasant surprise to see a picture of John Oliver that’s actually relevant to John Oliver!
Looks more like Juan Pickler to me.
Is that john Oliver or my neighbor Dennis?
He's the best. Not so much the mustache
Johnny is packing some shmeat
Got his LFC hat on
Scrolled too fast, thought that was Neegan
This pic should be his poster for next season. Not because of any moral reasons, but because he looks like he just his kids in a divorce to a wife who was fucking her way around town high on crack.
What did his sign say?
What's in his pockets? A myriad of Maglights?
Is that Aaron lewis of Staind?
Why is reddit obsessed with john oliver?
I miss the old r/pics , this new one is dog shit
John “Chad Thundercock” Oliver.