Should I approach Famous People for an Autograph?

Fox Hound · 17-02-2017 05:08PM #1

So today I saw 3 "famous people"...well more like one famous person and two kinda Famous people....Anyway walking up Grafton Street I saw Pat Short, The granddad from Miss's Browns Boys....And then Billy Connolly, all in the space of about Five mins...to be honest the other two I wouldn't have approached Unless I was a hardcore fan...But I am regretting not going up to Billy Connolly as he is an actual living legend...is anybody out there like me and just doesn't have the bottle to approach them?
I always feel like id really be bothering them...anyway just looking for some other peoples experience with this/funny stories

17-02-2017 05:13PM

I'd leave them to live their lives in peace and go about their business without being disturbed. How much is a scrawled signature on the back of an old envelope going to mean to you anyway? They're human beings too, let them get on with their 'off-duty' lives like the rest of us.

Winterlong · 17-02-2017 05:14PM

Selfies are the new autograph.
I would not be going up to a famous person looking for a pic or an autograph unless they are at some publicity event...bit cringeworthy no?

The Backwards Man · 17-02-2017 05:16PM

I don't believe it.

campo · 17-02-2017 05:16PM

If they looked busy I would leave them but if they looked like they were OK about being approached then I would go over and say hello Mr. Connolly I am a big fan would you mind take a photo with me, worse he can say is F off and sure then I would have a story about when Billy Connolly told me to F off

Maximus Alexander · 17-02-2017 05:26PM

What is the autograph for? I never understood that.

campo · 17-02-2017 05:33PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

What is the autograph for? I never understood that.

Some folks collect them, even have autograph books and in years to come who knows might even be worth something.

What I do hate is the people who ask say a footballer for his autograph on their kit and go straight home and put it up on ebay.

If I was a celeb I would pose for a photo but no chance of a autograph

seachto7 · 17-02-2017 05:33PM

Nowadays, it'll be most likely a pic. I was going to ask Zinedan Kilbane for a pic last night in a burrito place, but though I'd leave him be...

campo · 17-02-2017 05:34PM

seachto7 wrote: »

Nowadays, it'll be most likely a pic. I was going to ask Zinedan Kilbane for a pic last night in a burrito place, but though I'd leave him be...

He comes across a lad that be well up for it

ArmaniJeanss · 17-02-2017 05:36PM

You : go up to them and say "How about an autograph?".
Minor Celebrity (secretly delighted to be recognised) : "Go on then".
You : Hand them beer mat or paper with your name written on it already and say "There you go".

Much guffawing.

campo · 17-02-2017 05:37PM

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

You : go up to them and say "How about an autograph?".
Minor Celebrity (secretly delighted to be recognised) : "Go on then".
You : Hand them beer mat or paper with your name written on it already and say "There you go".

Much guffawing.

Pat Short would have loved that

biko · 17-02-2017 05:51PM

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

AnneFrank · 17-02-2017 05:54PM

it's pathetic asking for these things, get a life

Gone Drinking · 17-02-2017 05:58PM

AnneFrank wrote: »

it's pathetic asking for these things, get a life

Don't be jealous because you weren't around to enjoy your fame

kunst nugget · 17-02-2017 06:03PM

Fox Hound wrote: »

But I am regretting not going up to Billy Connolly as he is an actual living legend

Out of respect for the fact that he has Parkinson's I'd be reluctant to go up to Billy Connelly and ask for an autograph.

AnneFrank · 17-02-2017 06:06PM

kunst nugget wrote: »

Out of respect for the fact that he has Parkinson's I'd be reluctant to go up to Billy Connelly and ask for an autograph.

he might do a pretty good truffle shuffle though if you asked nicely

Taltos · 17-02-2017 06:10PM

Remember hearing years ago that so many "celebrities" liked Ireland because they could just go about their business without having to worry about all the hassle fame brings them elsewhere.

Fox Hound · 17-02-2017 06:11PM

kunst nugget wrote: »

Fox Hound wrote: »

But I am regretting not going up to Billy Connolly as he is an actual living legend

Out of respect for the fact that he has Parkinson's I'd be reluctant to go up to Billy Connelly and ask for an autograph.

That was probably the main reason I didn't do anything, he did look pretty frail and I didn't want to hassle him.

Fox Hound · 17-02-2017 06:11PM

kunst nugget wrote: »

Fox Hound wrote: »

But I am regretting not going up to Billy Connolly as he is an actual living legend

Out of respect for the fact that he has Parkinson's I'd be reluctant to go up to Billy Connelly and ask for an autograph.

That was probably the main reason I didn't do anything, he did look pretty frail and I didn't want to hassle him.

Fox Hound · 17-02-2017 06:12PM

AnneFrank wrote: »

it's pathetic asking for these things, get a life

I didn't ask him though,
Read Much?

whoopsadoodles · 17-02-2017 06:13PM

I don't really get autographs. Or celebrities, for that matter.

Except Holly Willoughby of course, I love her and want to have her babies.

andekwarhola · 17-02-2017 06:18PM

Got stuff signed once or twice (by footballers) for my kids. Made their day.

Ditto have a few from my own childhood and teens.

Adults asking for themselves is a bit strange for me but each to their own.

Being really famous must be a pain in the arse tbh. They wouldn't be human if they didn't crack occasionally at the nuisance to which they're subjected

andekwarhola · 17-02-2017 06:24PM

AnneFrank wrote: »

it's pathetic asking for these things, get a life

Pipe down. The gestapo will hear your whinging under the stairs.

Fox Hound · 17-02-2017 06:30PM

I also met Tommy Tiernan on a different occasion and he was being stopped on the street getting in pictures with people,
Maybe it is just an Irish thing in me that I don't want to bother them,....Just wanted to see if others would do the same!

Agricola · 17-02-2017 07:37PM

I literally ran into Karl Spain on a bridge in Limerick a couple of years ago and asked him for a quick pic. He was really cool about it.... even when i turned the phone to landscape because he was too wide to get into the shot.

ToddyDoody · 17-02-2017 07:45PM

Famous people should scan a copy of their autograph to their website so Jo and Josephine fan can print off a copy.

Would provide a whole new meaning to the boast "I got his / her autograph"

suicide_circus · 17-02-2017 07:52PM

Autographs were from a time when movie stars and musicians were these mythical larger than life superhumans. Nowadays I'm updated every time a talentless wretch of a celebrity has a bowel movement.

The magic is gone.

WickIow Brave · 17-02-2017 07:56PM

Agricola wrote: »

I literally ran into Karl Spain on a bridge in Limerick a couple of years ago and asked him for a quick pic. He was really cool about it.... even when i turned the phone to landscape because he was too wide to get into the shot.

Howling

ger vallely · 17-02-2017 10:52PM

I totally bumped into Martin Sheen one afternoon, he was doing his grocery shopping in a local Galway supermarket. I regret, in a way, not approaching him. Never would have asked him for an autograph. Just to tell him that from my early teens he made an impression on my life and that I admired his work. But he was in an anorak, buying toilet paper( I looked in his trolly!) and other bits and pieces. It just seemed stupid to bother him. But I must have done some weird eye contact, although I bet he is way used to that.

muddypaws · 17-02-2017 11:08PM

I took some kids to a Spurs pre season friendly near London when David Ginola was playing for them. It was also around the time that he was advertising a shampoo, and we'd had some sachets of the stuff posted through our letterboxes. One of the kids brought one of the sachets along with him and approached Ginola after the match and asked him to sign it. The look on his face was priceless, but he laughed and happily signed it. The lad was over the moon.

topmanamillion · 17-02-2017 11:08PM

To be fair I think Billy Connolly is happy enough to be approached.
I remember watching a programme he was in (I think it might have been Who do you think you are?) and he went to Glasgow and he couldn't walk 2 feet without someone either shouting "How`re ye Big Yin" or coming up to him asking him for an autograph or selfie.
The cameraman asked did he mind all the attention and he just said its much better than getting abuse shouted at you from strangers, which he`s been on the end of too.

I think Billy Connolly is a living legend and a true gentleman. I don't think he would have any problem with a genuine fan approaching him and telling him they appreciate his work and he`s given them hours of enjoyment and if it wouldn't be too much of an inconvenience, would he mind posing for a pic or scribbling on a piece of paper as they`d really cherish a memento from meeting him.

TLDR: Famous people are people too and if you treat them with respect and talk to them like people they are usually happy to oblige a small request.

Should I approach Famous People for an Autograph?

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