About Celebrities

Little girl looking at sculpture of Jessica Simpson: Look, Mommy — Britney Spears!

–Madame Tussauds

Overheard by: Mimbo

Dude to another: You’re not so bad yourself. You look like Kevin Nealon on a good day. A good day!

–22nd & Broadway

Overheard by: I wish

Man: Ahmadinejad is not a baller.

–114th, between Broadway & Amsterdam

Old Russian man to skate rat: Excuse me, what for are they talking about when they say, ‘J. Lo is meat curtains’?

–Penn Station

Overheard by: Billy Splatts!

Goth girl: So, I’m like Jon Benet Ramsey, parenthetically speaking.

–Columbia University

Overheard by: meliss

Woman: … So then I rolled over, and it was Bill Murray on Rollerblades playing drums on my windowpane!

–Prince & Thompson

Overheard by: Emily

Girlfriend: Come on, I really wanna see that movie about Jane Austen.
Boyfriend: She was the one that lived with the chimpanzees, right?
Girlfriend: No, that was Jane Seymour.

–38th & Lex

Skinny girl #1, reading magazine: Why are they showing Jessica Biel’s diet? She’s not even skinny.
Skinny girl #2: Seriously! They should show Nicole Richie’s diet: don’t eat.

–73rd & Columbus

Lawyer #1: My wife bought the official Sopranos book.
Lawyer #2: Is it good?
Lawyer #1: Yeah, it has a lot of inside stuff about the cast and how the show was put together.
Lawyer #2: I’m gonna miss that show.
Lawyer #1: I read something really strange in that book though.
Lawyer #2: What?
Lawyer #1: You know Drea de Matteo, the chick who played Adriana?
Lawyer #2: Chris’s girlfriend, right?
Lawyer #1: Yeah. The book says that in real life she has the balls of one of her dogs in a glass jar full of preservative. She keeps it on display in her house.
Lawyer #2: What for?
Lawyer #1: How the fuck should I know? She says it’s to remember him by. What’s the matter, she couldn’t take a picture?

–Supreme Court, Kings County

Overheard by: Big Larry

Thugette on cell: Yeah, I’m planning on getting arrested this weekend. That’s my new thing now. Instead of going to the club and shit, I’m just going to get arrested.

–34th & 8th

Overheard by: Clitoris Rex

Metrosexual: Oh my god! Did you hear that Paris Hilton just escaped from prison?

–Broadway & Prince

Mom eating fried chicken: I always thought Penn Station stop was named after a penitentiary…

–A train

Overheard by: Denning

Mocking cop to dude he just arrested: You’ve got jail!

–West Village

Lady yuppie: I mean, at first I thought he was seriously psycho, but then I started to think, Maybe he’s just being creative

–Outside NY Public Library

Overheard by: Miss_Rach

Black guy to himself: I’m not like the rest of you — I’m just an ordinary loon!

–52nd & 3rd

Overheard by: what?

Hobo: Does anybody have Amy Fisher’s phone number? I love crazy chicks!

–R train

Old woman to middle-aged woman: You have to walk on the crazy side of the street.

–2nd & 7th, Park Slope

Overheard by: D-Law

Lady to another, pointing at Borough Hall: Is that place a mental institution?

–Stuyvesant Pl, outside SI Borough Hall

Chick: Have you ever read Catch 22?
Guy: Was it written by Dr. Seuss?
Chick: No.
Guy: Then no.

–Pace University

Overheard by: Hugh

Guy shopping for condiments: A Rachael Ray olive oil? Really? Have we gone too far?

–Amish market, Park Pl

Overheard by: pri

Blonde to brunette: You don’t understand… I was the Paris Hilton of Seattle…

–Bedford Ave

Overheard by: griffin

Bimbette bragging to server: Yeah, I’m like the Lindsay Lohan of New Jersey!

–Brooklyn Diner, Times Square

Office worker: I would bury Jennifer in a ditch somewhere for Jessica Biel.

–Staten Island

Mom to eight-year-old son: … And that’s why the gays are mad at John Travolta — because he’s a Scientologist.

–Court St & Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Tim

Disappointed lady to hubby: Well, I didn’t see any celebrities in there!

–Outside Olive Garden, Times Square

Theater buff #1: So, do you think Michael Richards is a racist?
Theater buffs #2 and #3: Yes.
Theater buff #4: Nah.
Theater buff #1: Why not?
Theater buff #4: Because he’s a comedian and he yelled it on stage at a heckler. Racists don’t yell ‘nigger’ during a stand-up act in a comedy club. Racists yell ‘nigger’ when they’re driving a pickup truck dragging a chained-up black man behind them. People don’t fucking understand that a comedy improv can go horribly wrong!

–Sardi’s

Overheard by: Big Larry