I once had the displeasure of meeting Joe Longthorne in around 2000/2001. I worked not far from a theatre where he was appearing.
I have not met many "celebrities" but he has to be the weirdest one yet.
He was dirty and scruffy - wearing a large fur coat (That had seen better days) and wearing large and ugly jewellery that looked like it had come out of a christmas cracker! He was with an older lady (who I assume was his mother/agent) who was dressed in the same way, (She looked very much like Joeys agent in Friends). She spoke to him like a small child the whole time. They was something very odd about the way they spoke to each other, like they were performing all the time.
If I didn't know who he was, I would have thought he was a tramp.
I have just read this post through and it doesn't sound very interesting - but hey, I'm going to post it anyway!