I met him backstage at Lollapallooza in '96. I was talking to him for about an hour or so and he was telling me how his dad was in the Navy and he lived in Guam. He said his dad wanted him to join the service, but he didn't think he could make the cut, but if he was going to go, it'd be the Marines. After I was talking to him for about an hour, my friend who was there with me to interview Courtney Love woke up and comes up to me saying, "DUDE! It's Bobcat Goldthwait!" I say, "Where?" He replies, "Ummm... you were talking to him!" At this point, I do a double-take and realize that the guy with the blond hair and goatee was in fact him. I started talking to him again and got a bunch of pictures with him wearing my flak jacket, posing with me and my friend, and just being silly. As I looked more carefully this time, I read his ID badge that all of us got to be backstage... yep, Bob Goldthwait.
Very nice guy, and VERY military friendly. He later took me and Patrick aside and thanked us for being in the service of our country, and said that we had the more honorable profession between us. Nice guy.