Who would be your celebrity friend IRL?

Daniel Radcliffe

Ina Garten.

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

Jennifer Aniston

Kristen Johnston

This will sound crazy, but Maureen Callahan. I find her parsing of popular culture is very interesting. Her show The Never just started a couple of months ago and she is totally on fire.

It is hard to choose someone else because virtually everyone I think of is an aggressive narcissist. I worked with someone famous in the international fashion world and she was so narcissistic that it made working with her incredibly difficult in many ways. It gets very bizarre. You can complement a project from last year because that isn’t close enough to the narcissist. She need something done today to be close enough to her supply. If something was done at 3pm, it doesn’t mean anything, only what was done at 5pm. Once we talked about a real trauma of hers that affected me deeply. Suddenly she said, from Cannes, that she was going waterskiing. She has literally started painting her exposed arms silver to get attention. She works constantly with a photographer who has literally almost killed her several times for wild shots. She calls the photog her best friend and she pays for these photos herself. No magazine has solicited them.

Pat Sajak

Gayle King

Kathy Burke.

Only known by a few here on DL.....but from her work and her great Facebook Page......Tina Cole.

Meryl Streep

Of course, no attractive male celeb, cause I won't see him as "just a friend".

Laura Loomer

Interesting that all but one responses are female celebrities. I didn’t count Ed Grimley’s response, but gave it a like - made me chuckle.

Another vote here for Jen Anniston. She seems to be a loyal, fun, and generous friend by most accounts.

Keanu Reeves!

Brian May

[quote]Another vote here for Jen Anniston.

She’s single and doesn’t have any brats, which is a big 👍

I think Jonathan Groff would be a fun friend to go to the theater with.

Whoopi Goldberg

Janeane Garofalo

Jason Bateman and Jen Aniston by association

Rosie O’Donnell.

Yes, she’d be over-dramatic and exhausting, but we’d have an awesome time at game nights.

Ben Affleck or Jon Hamm seem like they would be cool drinking buddies.

Charles Nelson Reilly

Miss Angie Dickinson

Pussy Galore

Dax Shepard

Sandra Bullock

I've known a few famous people but none of them wanted to be friends with me,

Toni Collette. Or Colin Farrell.

Craig Ferguson

In the more obscure tiers, based on their socials, I could see Sam Witwer, Nick Wechsler, or Geoff Stultz.

DL Fave Sharon Stone. I'd love to open a bottle of vodka with her and listen a story about the time she was almost kidnapped by the SLA or the time she almost fucked Boris Yeltsin. I would never accuse her of lying and just soak it all in.

Nathan Lane, in theory, but I’d want to grab and kiss him all the time.

Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep, Ina Garten.

Liza! She’d be a hoot to hang out with! And oh the stories she’d regale!

R20, but would she be a friend, friend?

Don't hate me...Anderson Cooper.

The Smart lady from Hacks.

Good ones, [R41] and [R42].

Julianne Moore, seriously.

Theresa Russell and Courtney Love.

Andrew Garfield

I feel like Joseph Gordon Levitt would be my best friend.

Jonathan Bailey. He seems like the kindest and most positive person out there.

Brett Somers

Barbara Stanwyck..... thought, very professional, brutally honest with a lot of loyal friends.

Tim Conway

Lily Tomlin

Anthony Andrews

Phil Gould

Thom Hartmann

I'd love to get in on the Aniston/Handler/Bullock friend group for the tequila, pot, pool boy fucking, and Mexico trips. Also, Alanis Morisette--she seems like she would be such a wise, peaceful presence.

I'm stealing Courtney from R45.

I've always thought I'd get along well with Sigourney Weaver.

Renée Zellweger

Rosanne Cash

Alva Vanderbilt

Jimmi Simpson, if he'd leave his rotating cast of whacky wives at home.

I once met Ian Boen, who was on Yellowstone, and he was completely down to earth and charming. We talked for a good 15 minutes, and I remember thinking, "I could be friends with this guy."

John Waters

Chelsea Handler. Big boozer, smart, and she always picks up the check. She's loyal too.

Cheyenne Jackson. Had we been on the same plane one night, we might be.

Their loss, R32.

Judy Garland. I’d like to be a good friend TO Judy. Genuine and loyal.

Pope Leo.

We'd tell each other secrets, and do each other's hair, and call up cute boys and hang up.

Jesus

Probably Matt LeBlanc.

Jennifer Aniston for female friend

Barack Obama for male friend

Benson Boone as friend with benefits.

Goop female

Alan Cumming male

Emma Stone and Benito Skinner

Melissa Peterman

Jack Black

Hunter Biden... friend with benefits...

Another vote for Colin Farrell.

Particularly back in his boozing, chain-smoking, swearing days.

Pedro Pascal

R75 I met him last year. Very aloof.

Can I have two? I'd love to hang out with Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. What a hoot they must be together!

r27 Definitely CNR!

Nathan Lane.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Emma Thompson.

Jennifer Aniston. Love her.

Pamala Anderson

^^^ E ^^^ eyeballs oneself.....

Actually, r77 they both have spotty reputations about being very grand, difficult and unfriendly in certain situations, especially her.

I met them once briefly and they seemed nice, but I've heard otherwise.

R77 I shared a table with them at L.A. Farmer's Market. They were very pleasant to be around.

María Conchita Alonso

Liza would be fun.

Elisabeth Shue also seems fun

Rick Steves and I would def smoke a bowl together

Liza would be a hoot at brunch. Charlotte Rhea would have been too.

But I think I’d want to be friends with Gilda Radner.

R89 I doubt it. She was not a happy person.

None of them. All celebrities are careerist narcissists.

Martin Scorcese. He has encyclopedic knowledge of film, and I could listen to him all day. He is interesting IMO.

Jamie Lee Curtis. You may laugh, but I have seen a few interviews of hers in recent years, and she seems incredibly kind and understanding. Tremendously warm. I liked her so much and she seems like she would treat others nicely. She is someone who came out of addiction and became a much better person.

From the interviews I’ve seen with him over the years, Bill Mumy (Lost in Space) seems like he would be a cool guy to hang with.

Arnold Schwarzenegger. I think he'd be wonderful, funny kind interesting.

I met Selma Blair once, in the wild, not at an event, and she was just lovely. This was before she got sick. She was so warm and friendly. I wanted to be her friend.

Gwyneth Paltrow., seriously.

Me: Oh, Gwyneth, 40 minutes with you and I hate everyone.

Gwyneth: [laughing]. I know! Me too.

Parker Posey. I'd also like to hang out with Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn.

Vance would be sufficient.

r94 He's a raging, psycho asshole. Seriously.

Casper-- he's a bit of a pervert. But so friendly!

r101 Please try again

Sawyer Hemsley

Courtney Love.

She’s amusing, witty, and bitchy.

I love her.

Cass Elliot is my BFF in my head. I love that bitch and just know we'd have been besties!

Imagine getting to hear her sing all the time, r105.

I think Olivia Colman would be a lovely friend.

Christopher Walken.

Rodney Allen Rippy

Mindy Cohn

I agree, R110. Mindy seems like she would be a fun friend to have.

Mindy Kaling or Tina Fey. They both seem less Hollywood/LA than the typical celeb. I think both went to college. It’s not that I see a college degree as a friend factor, but I think those four extra years as a “regular” person might make them less dissimilar to me.

Kaling might get exhausting, but she has a little bit of an underdog factor I like - both herself and she went on unappealing but media bullied Markle’s show. And then hilariously unintentionally made a fool of her with the name thing.

Fey is close to my age and I’ve found two of her shows (30 Rock and Kimmy) consistently hit my funny bone. I think we’d laugh at the same things and have shared points of reference.

I can see the appeal of Aniston, but for me she’s too Hollywood. Would she eat Doritos on my couch? No. I suspect I’d get on better with Brad (but he wouldn’t be in my top 10 candidates). That middle class, non entertainer family background thing again. It somehow comes through. Also Steve buschemi. I don’t think he has the four years as a regular person college student, but he was firefighter, so that’s several years as a regular person. Maybe the doctor from the Hangover and Community. Sneaking of Community, Danny Glover comes across that way to me, too. But I think he’s too young for us to have a lot in common.

R59 He was great on Teen Wolf.

Emilio Estevez.

Emma Stone

Adam Pally

I’m not even that big a fan of either one of them but they are the closest in personality to my actual friends.

Julie Kavner, Laurie Metcalf, Sally Hawkins, Lorraine Toussaint, and Ali MacGraw. Thoughtful, smart, and without the massive egos of many other celebrities.

I used to think Amy Sedaris, but knowing that her besties are SJP, Andy Cohen, Justin Theroux…ehhh, maybe not.

Alison Arngrim and Sam Rockwell

Dawson.

I'm sure we'd have loads of fun every weekend.

Mark Ruffalo

R108 unless you're on a boat.

I am team Kim Cattrall in all things could definitely spend weekends at her Canadian home sitting by the fire and drinking wine and talking about art. And I think Sarah Jessica Parker believes her own hype and caused the disaster that is AJTL by not throwing Kim a bone and giving her an extra couple of hundred thousand an episode and storylines that didn’t include her sexting Miranda’s kid.

But I also think I would be friends with Sarah Jessica Parker. She’s fun and in touch with her working class roots and I like that she has a separate social life to her husband.

I already said Emilio Estevez, but if I was younger, it'd probably be Tyler Posey and/or Dylan O'Brien. They just seem like the kind of guys I hung around with, and was friends with, for better or worse.

Anyone who could get me good drugs.

R124 Justin Beiber would be your guy.

Lol r121. Touché.

Mindy Cohn. She collects best friends like her best friend Angelina collects children.

Richard Osman seems smart, funny, and probably a good friend.

Back in the 90s I would have loved to have been friends with Jason Gould, just so I could be in his apartment when his mother would call and leave messages on his answering machine.

(Barbra's voice): Jason, it's your mother again! Why haven't I heard from you?

John Waters? Camille Paglia?

Somehow I think I'd wind up with Ross Matthews.

Tim Minchin.