Speaking of Vin Diesel, I highly recommend that everyone check out Comedians of Comedy, either the Comedy Central TV show or the movie put out by Netflix. They’re both basically the same thing, following four comedians as they tour around the country. You may not have heard of Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, Brian Posehn, or Maria Bamford, or may find it easier to think of them as that guy on “King of Queens”, that guy that had a late night show on VH1, the creepy guy from “Just Shoot Me”, and… uh, well you probably wouldn’t have seen Maria anywhere.
I could list lots of reasons to watch but to get to the point of how this relates to video games is that it’s highly likely that Patton and Brian are bigger nerds than you are. They regularly have their geek out sessions when the new comic books come out each week, and Brian has a room like this:
When they’re in Portland and run across Ground Kontrol (retro gaming galore), Brian is in heaven:
I point this out because it’s nice to see some of our people on TV, who do other stuff (stand-up comedy) and still like video games. No replacing letters with numbers in speech within a hundred miles. Highly recommended.
Towards this end I’ve started a Celebrity Gamers List that I’m going to try to keep updated. I’d appreciate any contributions. This info just might be useful to future generations.
Are The Cardigans considered celebrities? They named an album after Gran Turismo, so I think that qualifies them as gamers.