Fantasy Dinner Party

[kvalidir]

We were out last night for food and someone started a discussion about which 12 famous people/ celebrities/ historical figures /people who are known for something, alive or dead, (language being no barrier) you'd invite to a dinner party. What are yours, (and why if not obvious)?
I'd like to invite hundreds of people to be honest and mine have changed since last night but today they are:-

1. Salvadore Dali (I own so many Dali prints it's absurd, and his own parties were legend)
2. Ted Hughes (I'm writing a screenplay about him)
3. Oliver Reed (Reliably informed he was the most outrageously amusing *** in humanity)
4. Dorothy Parker (hilarious)
5. Bill Hicks (ditto)
6. Dali Lama (deep and hilarious)
7. Oscar Wilde (clever and hilarious)
8. Leonard Cohen (not hilarious but insightful and I'm such a fangurl)
9. Jo Brand (love her deadpan Englishness)
10. William Shakespeare ( well obviously, known party lad and nice way with words)
11. Victoria Coran ( so clever, so beautiful, so doesn't give a damn)
12. Kathy Burke ( super talented and she is the epitomy of not giving a stuff)

[kvalidir]

I did think about doing an Aber's one but I didn't want to offend anyone or make anyone feel left out, plus tbh I'd like to have all the Abers together at one massive argumentative feast. x

[Stephen_G]

I'd definitely have Bill Hicks as well (3rd mention for him today - twice from me!), mainly because I didn't get the chance to see him live, as I became aware of him shortly before he passed away.

Bruce Lee. I don't think I'd need another 10 guests. Those two would do.

[Stephen_G]

As it would have been his 72nd Birthday today, I'd have to have a little Freddie...

[kvalidir]

Oooh Freddie good choice, I'm conflicted now :)

[Tilly2]

My star guest would be Alan Bennett.

[kvalidir]

Alan Bennet is a good choice Tilly, tbh there are lots of playwrights and authors I could include, I did toy with Graham Greene as well x

[IJKLM]

Yes, but we might have to improve the balance of the genders - Ada Countess Lovelace; Marie Curie; Benazir Bhutto (My sister met her at Oxford); maybe Katherine Johnson (one of the human computers at NASA); maybe Pam Ayres; Billie Jean King

I'd Drop Ted Hughes - my OH met him on the island of Lindisfarne - just a teeny bit creepy, apparently; as well as being just a bit too full of himself.

[kvalidir]

I love Pam Ayers.
Ted Hughes is there because of the screenplay I'm writing tbh. He fascinates me and I always wondered how someone lived with themselves after two partners killed themselves, and their child on one instance. Whether his treatment of them had anything to play in that in debatable but he can't have had a nice life no matter what.

[Baldric]

I notice the OPer mentioned Celebrities, I would not want Luvvies at my Dinner Table, no way.

[kvalidir]

I mentioned anyone of note which could include celebrities if you liked, or not if you don't. Read the flipping question Baldric.

[Eleena]

Hi kval,
Alice Cooper, actor Peter Mullan, Elizabeth Taylor.

[kvalidir]

My name is Joe! Good choice Eleena, and Alice, he's a legend :)

[youngmafbog]

I'd go for something along the lines of

TGL
Enoch Powell
Karl Marx
Adolf Hitler
Ken Livingstone
Two jags.

Should prove an evenings entertainment, with 2 jags there for the punch up at the end :-)

[Baldric]

Hi klav, @ 13:13, no offence, I did read the flipping question, from end to end, I just picked out 'so called' Celebrities (Luvvies) as a pet aversion.

[Bazile]

David & Goliath

[kvalidir]

Actually YMB I'd love to be a fly on the wall at yours, I love a good row.x

Well yes pointless celebrities are annoying I agree Baldric (and actors are usually called luvvies- massive difference between actors and celebrities thanks every much :). who WOULD you invite was the question :) x

Baz, one big plate, on little plate then :) x

[Bazile]

Kval

I'm told that Goliath didn't eat much - so i'd just sling some shepherds pie on a saucer for him .

( did you see what i did there ? )

[kvalidir]

Stone me, that was clever :) x