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Standing on the green carpet outside J.J. Abramâs Bad Robot production offices before the US-Ireland Allianceâs Oscar Wilde Awards last night, actor Steven Fry told me a Star Wars joke.
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âDarth Vader says to Luke, âI know what youâre getting for Christmas,ââ Fry began.
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âLuke says, âYou canât possibly know.â
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Vader says again, âI know what youâre getting for Christmas.â
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Luke: âHow can you possibly know?â
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Darth Vader: âI have felt your presents.ââ
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In case you donât know your sci-fi, Abramâs Star Wars The Force Awakens hits theaters in December. Fry and Fisher were arm and arm (well, waist and shouldersâquite a height different) on the press line before making their way inside the crowded celebration. Abrams stopped by before going inside as well. How is this pre-Oscar bash different than the others? âI think itâs the most irreverent, I think itâs the most fun, I think itâs the best music, and certainly the most Guinness,â he answered. Gavin James and Megan OâNeill performed later in the evening.
Once inside the coolest offices on Olympic (this it the fourth time Abrams has hosted the event), you followed the âParty This Wayâ signs painted on the walls (are they always there?) and the revelers took up every spot in the offices from ground floor to the roof. One of Davisonâs paintings was up for auction for the cause and ended up fetching $20,300.
Colbert (the future host of Late Show on CBS) is sporting a distinguished white beard right now prompting a good response from Fisher, âYou are so getting laid with that new beard!â she exclaimed.
Colbert had the last word as he stepped up to the rooftop podium, âWhen one thinks of Ireland, one thinks âLos Angeles. Theyâre very much the same only in Los Angeles the grass is brown, the sheep have implants, and people starve themselves on purpose.â
Other attendees included Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker!), Lionsgate Chairman Michael Burns, Davis Guggenheim, Sarah Bolger, Tim Dowling, and John Cho.
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