I'd like to meet:
I met her in person on October 7th, 2005.
Music:
Beatles, AC/DC, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, Allison Goertz, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Vince Guaraldi, Frank Sinatra, Foo Fighters, Buddy Holly, Van Halen, Beach Boys, Long Winters, Johnny Smith, Lemonheads, XTC, Badfinger, Steely Dan, ELO, Led Zeppelin, Phoenix, Jason Falkner, and a large number of others.
Movies:
All Wes Anderson movies, most Woody Allen movies, most Christopher Guest movies, most Rob Reiner movies, all Akira Kurasawa movies, the first 5 Marx Brothers movies plus A Day at the Races and A Night at the Opera, most Alfred Hitchcock movies, To Kill a Mockingbird and lots of others.
Television:
Simpsons, Seinfeld, Jeopardy, Bob Newhart Show, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Twilight Zone, Andy Griffith, The Office (British and American one), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ozzy and Harriet when Ricky was little (the irrepresible), The Jack Benny Program, You Bet Your Life, Burns and Allen, and other old funny stuff.
Books:
James Thurber stuff, George S. Kaufman stuff, Don Quixote, Harpo Speaks, David Sedaris stuff, Beatles Recording Sessions, Making the Invisible Visible, the Haunted Smile, Freakonomics, To Kill a Mockingbird, Flowers for Algernon, Great Expectations, any Groucho biography, the Groucho Letters blah blah blah.
Heroes:
The Beatles and the Marx Brothers.