[Closed] Who would you like to be mates with?

Aisling Bea

Edit : And Micky Flanagan.

vladimir putin, as not being is hazardous to your health.

Popeye. and Bluto. 2 good drinking buddies

Sandi Tokstvig. Bob and Paul. Greg Davies, Katherine Ryan and Sarah Pascoe. Basically, all the funny people. 🙂

Nigel Blackwell, Paul Sinha, guitarist Aziz Ibrahim and tabla player Del Singh.
Quite fancy a drunken political debate with Maxine Peake.

I did meet Nigel once halfway up a mountain in Wales, just about managed a polite hello.

GW.

Aisling Bea is a good shout.
Adam and Joe
Armando Iannucci
Bob Mortimer

Can't really think of any non-comedians 🤔

Edit: Actually, Martin Freeman

Davesport

GW.

Gavin Williamson?

Dara Ó Briain and Andrea Corr. And Eddie Izzard for more laughs.

Assuming they have to be alive?

Andy Goldsworthy
Tracey Emin
Paul Ainsworth
Glynn Purnell
Bill Bailey
Richard Ayoade
Chris Akrigg
Brian Cox (science, not acting)
Roisin Conaty
Greg Davies
Ricky Gervais

Eddie Hitler

Gavin Williamson?

Surely better off being Matt Hancock's pal? All kinds of opportunities there

The vampires from what we do in the shaddows. Both TV and film.

Dave Grohl
Bill Bailey
David Mitchell
Victoria Coren Mitchell
Simon Pegg
Nick Frost
Johnny Vegas
Rose Matafeo

Adam Buxton
Bernard Butler

Ricky Gervais

Really? He comes across horrifically in every interview I’ve ever read with him, eg. this one from last week; https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/dec/18/ricky-gervais-on-offence-anger-and-infuriating-hollywood

Bob Mortimer and Rick Stein.

None of the above!

Brendan Fairclough and Steve Pete, maybe even Rob Warner too.

Weird how I seem to be the first to post a Mtb rider on a forum like this.

Fairclough seems to simple love riding, jumping, trails and laughs.

Johnny Vegas

I saw him back in early september while on a ride, looked like he was out with a personnel trainer.

Bike-related - Brett Tippie
Non bike-related - Dave Grohl

Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, so I'd know what the hell they've been doing since 2013.

Weird how I seem to be the first to post a Mtb rider on a forum like this.

Not really, while I admire the skill of a lot of riders I'm not sure I'd actually have much in common with most of them!

God

or satan

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1249344

Lachlan Morton, Steve Peat.

Not really, while I admire the skill of a lot of riders I’m not sure I’d actually have much in common with most of them!

Not a passion for riding bikes on mud? The 3 I mentioned just seem to love riding bikes, hitting corners, jumps, same as me and the lads, but a different speed of course

I'd love to be friends with someone who has a spare bedroom in Whistler.

Tommy Caldwell and Pete Whittaker so much stoke!

anyone

Joe Barnes.
Tina Fey.
Emily Maitless.
Danny Baker.

GW.

Gavin Williamson?

No, a semi-legendary ex-forum member who was quite forceful in his opinions.

Allan Peiper
Mark Cavendish
Ian Wright
Steve Caballero
Nicola Cooke
David Mitchell and Victoria Coren
Sarah Silverman
Berry Gordy (just so I could say 'thank you' every single day)
Richard Dawkins
WorldClassAccident
Gza

Eddie Hitler

Any relation?

TiRed so I could buy him a pint & thank him for all his work.

Alive people - Bob Mortimer

Dead people - Iain Banks, Keith Floyd, Howard Marks

Non-existent people/deities - God (all of them) just so I could point at the world and say "This shitstorm is all your fault you fupping sadist"

Eddie Hitler

He’s dead to me since he start towing a mobile kitchen around 🙂

Aisling Bea

I would very happily be, ahem, 'more than friends' with Aisling Bea.

Any relation?

Yes!

Satan

Oh yeah, I forgot about him.
https://flic.kr/p/ZanPVD

Bob Mortimer
Paul Whitehouse
Billy Connolly
Guy Martin
Tom Hanks
Chris Ramsey
John McGuinness

Think that’s it, Mortimer and Whitehouse for laughs and fishing, Billy Connolly for the stories and laughs,Guy Martin because we have shared interests, Tom Hanks just seems like a bloody nice bloke, Chris Ramsey same reason as Tom Hanks and John McGuinness for the stories and the riding tips.

Adam and Joe

You should add their school pal Louis Theroux.

I would very happily be, ahem, ‘more than friends’ with Aisling Bea.

Life coach? Co-writer on a TV project? Character witness?

You should add their school pal Louis Theroux.

There's something I don't like about LT. Their other school pal Garth Jennings seems cool though.

I'd like to be pals with Laura Kenny as well.

Not for creepy reasons, I just really like her personality and she's from my hometown.

Colin Furze

i see a lot of love for aisling bea. not a name id heard of before last week, but after watching 'this way up' i see the attraction of being mates with the lass she plays, so is she like that in real life then?

aisling bea is smart, witty and utterly gorgeous

Adam and Joe (I feel like they are my mates already just from listening to their radio shows and podcasts through the years)
Mackenzie Crook
Sharon Horgan
Peter Crouch

Alexei Sayle
David Hockney
Jurgen Klopp

No love for Ronnie Pickering then?

Who?

David Starkey
Lucy Worsley
Simon Schama
David Olusoga
All of them from this list https://hisdoryan.co.uk/female-historians
Those who are experts in Roman and Egyptian history.
And the Queen/future Kings

p/s: errm ... also those historians of SE Asian.

aisling bea is smart, witty and utterly gorgeous

and she has one more fan now, which im sure shes mighty grateful for....

anything else that i should look out for with her in?

Tom Cruise

Who?

Thank you.

RONNIE PICKERING.

I think of those listed so far, Alexie Sayle is the best pick.

I think of those listed so far, Alexie Sayle is the best pick

I came here to say the same

Nobody from here it appears 😆

binners

Danny Wallace seems like a laugh.

The lovely woman I spent an hour administering PCR test to today. We just chatted for ages as I guided her through the registration process.
Super attractive and witty.

Boris Johnson

The lovely woman I spent an hour administering PCR test to today.

Will she want to be mates with you when she realises it's only meant to take about 5 minutes?

Steve Backshall

Sandi Tokstvig

Rob Macfarlaine

Sue Perkins

Phill Jupitus

Bill Bailey

Aisling Bea

Just off the top of my head,

Why? Because some are very funny and smart, but mostly they’re all people who, knowing their backgrounds and having seen most of them on telly a lot, they’re people who would be just great to sit down and have fantastic conversations with. I’ve spoken to Phill Jupitus on the phone, back when he was doing the 6Music breakfast show, I texted him about something, and he phoned me back, we had a great chat about music for several minutes between songs.

I’ve spoken to Phill Jupitus on the phone, back when he was doing the 6Music breakfast show, I texted him about something, and he phoned me back, we had a great chat about music for several minutes between songs.

I think I've told this one before, but I interviewed him when I was working on a local paper and he was coming to town to do a stand-up show.

Far and away the most-friendly celeb I ever dealt with, he was delighted that I was a keen GLR listener at the time - and I almost couldn't get him off the phone.

So yeah, I kind-of already am mates with him, really.

😀

timmys

Ricky Gervais

Really? He comes across horrifically in every interview I’ve ever read with him, eg. this one from last week; https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/dec/18/ricky-gervais-on-offence-anger-and-infuriating-hollywood/blockquote >

He's a bit of a bully as well I think. I used to love the XFM recordings with him, Smerch and Dilkington but listening back now there is quite a nasty feel to some of it. He insists now that K-man was 'in on it' but I really don't get that impression.

 

Watching Gervais’ stand up shows now, from the mid noughties, they really haven’t aged well at all. Some of it is still funny, but there’s a lot of punching down in it.

Mackenzie Crook
Toby Jones

Just to add to the Phill Jupitus story, he also sent me a CD and a signed postcard, both of which I still have, the CD was The Mountain Goats.

As far as the list is concerned, I’d definitely include Prof Alice Roberts, she always seems very approachable, and she’s so enthusiastic about everything she’s connected with on telly. Saw her once cycling up Park Street in Bristol, when she used to be at the University there.

Lucy Worsley

Prof Brian Cox

Dara Ó Briain

Stephen Fry

There’s a bit of a Qi thing going on here…

Just to add to the Phill Jupitus story, he also sent me a CD and a signed postcard, both of which I still have, the CD was The Mountain Goats.

The three of us will have to get together for a pint sometime, eh?

Lots of love for Bob Mortimer. Hope he's changed then, cos I met him a couple of times back in the earlyish 90s and we was a proper tool. Probably thought I was too for balance.

Stephen Fry
Simon Reeve
Aisling Bea
Will Smith
Jessica Chastain

Binners, Daz H, Ernie and NickC just for the crack 🤔😉

Will she want to be mates with you when she realises it’s only meant to take about 5 minutes?

Of course. It's wierd what happens in the bay. Some people come in and are very apprehensive. My skill set has always been building a rapid and deep bond with people (that's why I used to be an interviewer).
So I help them through a 'difficult' moment and then release them into the wild.
She felt different though and I feel sad I'll never meet her again.
BTW she told me she has a partner. Not like I'm crying into my pillow at night.

Gilou, proper chap.

Diane Morgan

Alive:

Michael Sheen
David Lammy
Marina Hyde
Guy Verhofstadt
Paul Thomas Anderson

Dead:

Bing Crosby
Tom Petty
Jean Cocteau
Audrey Hepburn

no one

Shane Warne
loathed his talent when he was playing but his Cricket analysis is second to none
and he's just an absolute top geezer, Auctioned his baggy green for the Australian bush fires. and turned his Vodka plants over to manufacture alcohol gel during the pandemic.