'Frank Carson once asked me for change'

Twitter users share their mundane comedian stories

comedy Twitter has been awash with people sharing their mundane celebrity encounters this week... and it's quite a joy.

The conversation started when someone called Huw asked people to share their trivial anecdotes:

What's your most mundane celebrity encounter?
— Huw (@ed_son) 25 June 2018

Here are some of our favourites from the comedy world:

A drunk I stopped falling in the road in Edinburgh insisted on introducing me to Jasper Carrot saying repeatedly, ‘Jasper, this man just saved my life.’ I was mortified. And it was Frank Skinner. https://t.co/xpJMMTAXIX
— Peter Graystone (@PeterGraystone) 25 June 2018

I saw Rik Mayall in the street in Shepherd’s Bush in 1987.
I said ‘hello’.
He said ‘hello’. https://t.co/QFwDGGs2fp
— Lev Parikian (@LevParikian) 26 June 2018

Jennifer Saunders almost ran me over at the petrol station at Leigh Delemare Services.
— Tony Darwall (@TonyDarwall) 25 June 2018

Peter Kay’s son was in my son’s swimming lesson. He turned up once. I open the door for him. He said ‘thanks’. Story ends.
— Matt Harding (@mattharding007) 25 June 2018

When I worked at Waitrose I dropped and smashed a massive container of olive oil and Rory McGrath walked by and said “ohhhh dear” https://t.co/6tD4v9GdqO
— P.S.Burton (@PSBurton) 25 June 2018

Sid Little once served me a cheeseburger in Fleetwood
— Curtis Snowman (@Pazza7) 26 June 2018

I was Tommy Cooper's paperboy.
— Martin R Polley (@HistoryMartin) 25 June 2018

Frank ‘it’s the way I tell ‘em’ Carson once asked me if I had 10p for the phone at Michaelwood services. I only had a 20p piece so he asked someone else. https://t.co/MrpgxEh148
— Huw (@ed_son) 25 June 2018

Eating in a hotel restaurant somewhere up Shepherds Bush, Mickey Flanagan came in, looked around and left again. https://t.co/bxo7FazEMZ
— Dan (@JeSuisUnDan) 25 June 2018

I sold a Philips CD-i and its entire back catalogue of software to Jim Davidson. https://t.co/QV8dLvKR74
— Phillip (@PhiIIipBlackman) 25 June 2018

I was stopped to let Micky Flanagan through on a single carriageway despite it being my right of way and he didn’t thank me.
— Ben Williams-Butt (@benwilliamsbutt) 25 June 2018

And a couple from comics...

I developed Lance Percival’s holiday snaps. https://t.co/s1lhYCHEWL
— Bethany Black (@BeffernieBlack) 26 June 2018

I had to find a pair of Timberland boots for Tara Reid when I worked in the store in Covent Garden. She was really rude.
— Tiernan Douieb (@TiernanDouieb) 26 June 2018

And a winner?