"Everyone in this room is inspired by you," Elon Musk was told on a talk show one day. "Who are you inspired by?" "Well," replied Musk, "Kanye West obviously…"
At a shoot with the Beatles, Muhammad Ali said, "You're not as dumb as you look." "No," John Lennon said, smiling, "but you are." When they left, Ali asked his manager: "Who were those little sissies?"
Someone at a Beatles press conference said there were "more people here than came to see the Queen." "I should think so," George Harrison said. "She didn't have any hit records."
"You're simply darling," an older woman in a ballgown told John Lennon at a function one night. "Can't say the same for you, love," Lennon said before walking away.
During a Rolling Stones concert in the early '60s, a man in the audience yelled: "Get your hair cut!" "What," Mick Jagger replied, "and look like you?"
After insult comic Don Rickles poked fun at Frank Sinatra in a Vegas sauna, he got dumped outside, completely naked, in front of a bunch of strangers. "What's the matter?" he snapped. "You never saw a perfect body?"
When their plane lost an engine, the host of Larry King Live turned to his seat-mate, a retired pilot, and asked what would happen if the other one blew. His reply? "They would change the name of your show."
