My 10-year-old niece is a fan of The Brady Bunch. So, last year I went on Cameo, a website where you can hire famous and quasi-famous people to record personalized video messages, and got her one from Barry Williams, who played Greg Brady in the show.
It was a big hit. $99 well spent. He’s charging $140 now, so I guess it’s working out for him. Which leads to today’s question: What’s the perfect amount of famous?
If it were up to me, I’d say the sweet spot is the point where you’re:
famous enough to be able do what you want for a living, and maybe even make six or seven figures extra with a simple side hustle, and yet —
sufficiently anonymous that you can live your life without anyone bothering you.
By that standard, the person who has achieved the perfect level of fame has to be Brian Baumgartner, who played Kevin the accountant on The Office from 2005 to 2013.
He’s a big guy, bald — and let’s be honest, he lucked out big-time to get cast in one of the most successful shows of the 21s…
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