Imaginary Dinner Party

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Okay, granted, I'll need a hellah big table for this list, but here's my imaginary dinner party guest list:

1. Robert Mitchum
2. Amy AND David Sedaris
3. Tina Fey
4. Wooderson
5. Greg, my Spousal Equivalent
6. Gilbert Gottfried
7. Paul Rudd
8. Jon Stewart
9. Al Hirschfeld
10. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss
11. Tom Robbins
12. Christopher Moore
13. Guillermo, the Security Guard
14. Ina Garten
15. Shepard Fairey (stricken 10/18/09) Might unstrike it. We all f*ck up.
16. Mike Rowe
17. Rob Zombie (and Sheri)
18. Jennifer Koppelmann Hut
19. Sara Silverman
20. Dorothy Parker
21. JoAn Woodward, and we’d have to have Mr. Newman
22. Al Franken Too abrasive; not for everyone.
23. Liz Taylor circa (Hot Tin Roof? Virginia Woolf? Maybe one of each? NOT Cleopatra Liz)
24. Mark Thompson, Dancing WeatherMan. Again, maybe not. Needs more boundaries.
25. Sergeant Kimberly Munley (Killeen Hero)
26. Tim Gunn
27. Beetlejuice, from Howard Stern
28. Rolf the Dog
29. Seth McFarlane
30. Alec Baldwin
31. John Waters
32. Joel OR Ethan Coen, both would be overkill
33. John Cusack
34. Paul Lynde OR Jack Benny. The room is already LOADED with sarcasm. But Benny would be subtler.
35. Charo
36. Harvey Korman and Tim Conway
37. Frank Zappa
38. Smothers Brothers
39. Zach Anner
40. Mark Mothersbaugh
41. Christine Baranski
42. Fred Norris
43. Ricky Gervais
44. Adam Ant
45. Seth Meyers - Added after the Correspondent's Dinner 4/29/11
46. Mark Wahlberg - 5/8/2011 - Just watched The Fighter.
47. Dan Savage
    
48. The Bloggess
49. Ross Mathews.
50. George Carlin
51. Oscar Wilde
52. Harpo Marx
53. Molly Murphy's Salad Cars. The Jag AND the Vette.
54. Leguizamo.
    
55. Vincent D'Onofrio
56. Jimmy Fallon and his bro-mance-mate Justin Timberlake
57. The B-52's, but I will not plug in their ribbon mikes, and they must still bring them.
58. Neil Patrick Harris. [watching an old Live]
59. Gong Li - for Just Jaco.
60. Chaz Bono
61. DJ Lance
62. Next three are for Mr. Pasadena: 
1. Lonnie Johnson 
2. Herve Villechaize 
3. Yvonne Craig

   63.  Andre Braugher
   64. Triumph, the Insult Dog
   65. Louis C.K. 
   66. David Lee Roth
   67. Conan O'Brien
   68. Matt Paxton 
   69. Geraline Thomas
   70.  Dr. Tolin
   71. And of course, Dr. Suzanne Chabaud
   72. Dianne Keaton
   73. Joy Behar
   74.  Reggie Love
   75. Christopher Hitchens
   76. Elizabeth Warren
   77. Ali Wentworth and George Stephanopolis
   78. Marlee Matlin and James Carville 
   79. Ellen Degeneres
   80. Sean Hayes
   81. Sophia Vergara



This is a living, breathing list.  Who did I forget? Who would keep you away?

Who's on YOUR dinner party list? I'm asking.