These include Omar Khan Sharif, who tried to bomb the Mikes Place bar in Tel Aviv in 2003, and the "shoe bomber", Richard Reid.
"And that's me, too," she said, resting the mike on the bar.
His museum also has regular "open mike" nights in the bar.
That night, he played an open-mike night at a bar in Williamsburg, and, over the next seven days, he had three rehearsals with two different bands, two studio sessions, one sound check, two gigs, one memorable Italian meal, and a radio interview at a public station in the Bronx that frequently plays his music and wanted to talk to him about "the whole Norah thing".
At night he would venture out to open mikes at Chicago bars, watching strangers play music, never really imagining he'd play his own songs onstage.
Pavement had its start playing at open mike nights at clubs and bars.
Nominally employed at a bar with an open-mike night, Martha settles into an apartment in a run-down building called the Madrid.
The lives of the characters seem to consist of an endless round of wild, all-night parties, visits to clubs and bars with permanent open mike policies and impromptu sessions that spring up on roadsides and river banks.
It all starts with an open mike night at a scruffy Lower Manhattan bar when a disgruntled Gretta (Knightley) is goaded into performing a new song on guitar by old pal Steve Tonyy winner James Corden).
But barring the public from stump mike access is Sky saying 'we don't think you are old enough to enjoy or understand this.' And no-one who pays for the Sky service wants to be told that".
On a recent visit, the gin-and-tonics were ice-cold and cheap, and aspiring comedians thronged the bar in advance of an early-evening open mike.
