The Dinner Party to own all Dinner Parties

It’s the classic question – the question I love to answer – which leads to the answers that define a person... well, maybe not, but it’s kinda telling. What question? Oh yeah: if you could hold a dinner party with seven guests of your choice, dead or alive - who would they be?  (And yes, let's leave family and friends, and all those kinds of folk off of the ultimate list! Feel free to assume they're there already present if you wish)

My answers are usually subject to change, but for the time being, these are my guests, people; my seven privileged fine dining connoisseurs:

1. Joss Whedon (Like, definitely)

2. Tim Burton (would love to find out what it was like for him growing up, being such a unique individual in a suburban world filled with so-called ‘normal people’)

3. Tina Fey (my favourite nerdy feminist comedienne/mother)

4 .Nick Vujijic (The limbless Christian man, whose book I’m currently reading. Would have to invite his wife too, so she could spoon feed him!)

5. Zooey Deschanel (my favourite quirky/nerdy-in-a-hip-way/ funny non-mother. She would probably leave naked, as I'd steal her clothes)

6. Bill Cosby

7. Martin Luther King Jr. (these last two have remained on the list for the last few years... I can’t go past ‘em.)

My friend Lynda made a list at my request too... it’s a good pastime on a Friday at the office, after all. We both want Joss and Tim at our respective dinner parties. She also plans to invite Sherlock Holmes, (he could solve the crime if someone was murdered at the dinner, at least!) Beethoven (he could provide the music), along with Dr Who and one of his cohorts, River Song,  and Agatha Christie’s Poirot.

If I could add an eighth guest to my doozy of a list, it might have to be Stevie Wonder... Lynda’s eighth would be Spike from ‘Buffy’. Yeah, I could totally go along with that. I’d be happy to merge our dinner parties if Lynda allowed such a thing.

Wow, we could have some really interesting dinner conversations. But what of the menu? I think we’ll need to get the caterers in – after all, I have no idea what to feed dead/fictitious people!

So, tell me, tell me now: who are your seven??

P.S.I need to expand my list I think... Robbie Williams and Russell Brand would add some colour!