I love Jane Lynch...glad to know she's just as awesome in real life as she appears to be on screen.
I'll add one more quick story to the thread, although this doesn't really count since it was an indirect contact with celebrity. Back in the late 80s, my cousin was in the airport and happened to see the dirtiest player in the game, Ric Flair, stylin' and profile'n in one of the terminals. He knew that I was a huge wrestling fan (and his sister was even cool enough to tape wrestling shows and mail them to me since I didn't have cable tv at the time), so he approached Ric and asked for an autograph. They realized that neither of them had anything to write on, so Ric told him to follow him to the magazine shop. He grabbed one of the wrestling magazines, found his pic on one of the pages, and signed the autograph on the spot. I was already a huge fan of wrestling, but knowing that Ric Flair did that and went out of his way just so some kid he didn't know could have his autograph made me an even bigger Flair fan on the spot.