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My Friend Michael Cera

March 25th, 2009 - Uncategorized - 12 Comments »

A few years ago I had the opportunity to meet Michael Cera, star of Arrested Development, Juno, and Superbad, in the Newark airport. I’m not usually someone who goes up and talks to celebrities, but in this case, I absolutely had to. He’s one of my favorites.

My brother and I went over and introduced ourselves. I handed Bryan my camera to take a picture of me and my new best friend. Unfortunately, I had been messing around with the camera settings earlier that day, so this happened (there are pictures at the bottom to prove it)…

Picture 1 – Completely washed out
Me: Uh, I’m sorry about that. Can we get one more. Let me just…yeah…that ought to do it.

Picture 2 – 90% washed out
Me: What the heck? I thought I…there…it should work this time.
Michael: [awkwardly] That’s OK.

Picture 3 – Still 90% washed out
Me: What the frick? This piece of…Kyle! Get over here! We need to use your camera!
Michael: [Looking over his shoulder at his girlfriend waiting in the food court line] I’m coming!
Bryan: Well, if you don’t need me to take the picture, I’m getting in it.
Kyle: OK. 1…2…3…oh…crap. Why is it blurry?

Picture 4 – 70% white
Me: [Sweating] Unbelievable. I am so sorry. If you just give me a second…I swear…OK, here we go.
Michael’s Girlfriend: Come on!
Michael: Sorry guys. I need to-
Me: [Grabbing onto his shoulder, not letting go] Here we go. This should work. Thanks for being so cool about this. OK, Kyle, whenever you’re ready.
Kyle: 1…2…3…uh…

Picture 5 – Two-second video
Kyle: It was on video mode.
Me: You’ve got to be-
Kyle: OK. I got it. 1…2…3…

Picture 6 – Success! That is, if you count me accidentally sticking my tongue out of the corner of my mouth a success (why would I do that?).

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Any other embarrassing celebrity encounters out there?

  • http://www.heavenlyfruitsinc.com Jared Pursell

    The tongue sticking out is just away to say, ” I’m cool because I’m standing next to one of my idols, look at me “. It is a completely normal reaction to being thrown into a world of Hollywood coolness. I ate dinner beside Rowdy Burns from ” Days of Thunder ” in Las Vegas, and wanted desperately to go and introduce myself to him. But realized that I didn’t know his real name and calling him Rowdy would somehow polarize his acting skills to just one character. Did he ever do another movie?

  • dan

    Chis made an idiot of himself when we met Michael Vick in the Houlihans at the ATL aiport… Classic Chis… lots of erratic sounds and hand movements.
    Not me though… I was cucumber.
    Vick’s hands are freakin huge by the way

  • nate

    “i’m not usually someone who goes up and talks to celebrities….”

    this from the guy jumping maniacally trying to touch Chris Martin’s leg at a concert….but i guess that doesn’t count as talking to, per se- so you’re in the clear i suppose.

  • nate

    i feel like i should follow up my sarcastic statement by admitting that your blog has made me realize that you are funnier than me by a great margin. which is why i will not be starting my own blog any time soon.

  • kevinkeigley

    O Tyler. I am so glad that you finally made this available to the world. I have had those pics on my computer for a long time. Everytime I look at them, I whizz my Wranglers.

  • http://jodydeming.wordpress.com Jody

    You mean like the time I was at church, during the meet and greet, turned around to shake the guy’s hand behind me, said “Hi, I’m Jody” and he said “Dominique”, and I eloquently queried “Dominique?”, like I didn’t catch his name the first time and might have mistook him for another 6’8″ guy who looked exactly like Dominique Wilkins. I’m a moron.

  • Bryan

    Even though extremely funny, I can also remember the shear pain of that experience…but I also like to think that Michael Cera tells that story to his friends.

  • AdamKeyes

    Bryan and Tyler, that was amazing….

    I was in the ATL airport and noticed a short black guy w/ dreads walk past me in the other direction. I stopped, turned around, and stared as he walked away.
    There were 3 black guys sitting on a bench right next to where I was standing. One of them said to me, "Hey, was that Lil' Jon?" And I (I'm white btw) said, "Yeah. It was."
    It was kind of like an out-of-body experience.

  • http://churchforge.blogspot.com Ricky Anderson

    My wife and I were walking through some mall in Houston while on vacation a few years back. A kid jumped out in front of us, wearing this awful basketball outfit (crimson and yellow, complete w/ sweatbands).

    I walked around him, but he wouldn't let my wife pass. He begged her to take a picture of him with another couple. My wife, who is nicer than me, took their picture. The kid asked her to take a couple more, to be sure. My wife did so, and then we all moved on.

    As we continued walking down the mall, we noticed several two-story posters hanging from the ceiling, advertising some movie called Juno.

    We had just been badgered by Michael Cera, who was at the mall to promote his movie, and we had no idea.

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  • http://twitter.com/gabriellaheidi gabriellaheidi

    oh my gosh. So funny! I like the awkward arms. (Do you put them around him, put them by your sides…?)