Hugh Grant outside the Ed Sullivan Theater before his appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman (12/14)

The best thing that's ever happened to me when I was drunk is one time in college, I talked my way out of being ticketed for indecent exposure. Compare this with Hugh Grant. One time he got drunk and made $17 million. From the Daily Mail:

Hugh Grant has confessed he was drunk when he  bought a painting of Elizabeth Taylor that later made him an £11million profit ($17.8 million). The actor was lauded as an art connoisseur when he bought the work by Andy Warhol for £2million. And he was praised as a master of timing when he sold it six years later for £13million.  But the star has now admitted that his windfall had little to do with an eye for art.

Grant, 49, had been on a two-day drinking spree when he ordered an assistant to bid for the painting at an auction in New York.

He said: "And to my horror, she did, and even worse, got it. It all began with drink. I'd been having a drunken dinner with my father the night before, and I said, 'We ought to go see my brother Jamie. You know, the Concorde's amazing.' And he said, 'I hear it is.' So I bought him a Concorde ticket and we went. We had lunch, drank a lot of beer. And I was thinking about some stuff in the Sotheby's auction and I saw the Liz Taylor. I slightly regret selling it now, even though it made me rich."

So Hugh accidentally made $17 million on a piece of art he bought while he was hammered? The only way this guy could get any luckier with a sudden cash windfall is if his name were Rachel Uchitel. Of course there is one downside to the fact that Hugh made $17 million in profit off of this sale: it wasn't enough to convince him to retire. I mean, have you seen American Dreamz? That movie is two hours of pure suck.

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