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"Whenever my mom comes out to visit me in L.A., we always go for long walks by the massive mansions in Bel-Air or the Holmby Hills (that&amp;#x27;s where the Spelling mansion and the Playboy mansion are, fyi). And every time we do, my mom always says, &amp;quot;I think we should knock on someone&amp;#x27;s door and ask them to let you move in. They obviously have the space.&amp;quot;Truth is, she&amp;#x27;s not kidding. And you know what? She&amp;#x27;s right. I mean, you just know Lisa Vanderpump has about 15 empty guest rooms in her massive Beverly Hills estate (yes, even though she recently downsized). So, when I got an email from a comedian telling me that he actually asked celebs to let him sleep over? Well, this I had to hear more about. Enter New Yorker Mark Malkoff, comedian extraordinaire, former Colbert Report staffer, and celebrity house-guest. Mark, 36, was planning a visit to L.A. and really didn&amp;#x27;t want to spend money on hotels. So, what did he do? He asked celebs to put him up. And what did they say? &amp;quot;Sure, why not!&amp;quot; [For the record kids, do not try this at home.] Glamour: First of all, where do you get the chutzpuh to not only come up with these ideas, but actually pull them off? Mark Malkoff: Some are easier than others. They come out of my curiosity. I just get obsessed with, &amp;amp;#8216;Can I pull this off?&amp;amp;#8217; I&amp;#x27;m a huge fan of persistence. Glamour: Tell me how the celeb sleepovers came about. Mark: I started reaching out through Facebook or sending letters. Some email addresses I was able to dig up, and I would say, &amp;amp;#8216;My name is Mark, and I&amp;#x27;m a comedian/filmmaker and have done some projects,&amp;amp;#8217; and would ask if I could sleep over at their homes. I got 13 people to say yes. More people would have even said yes, but they were on vacation. Mark Malkoff with actor Steven Weber. Glamour: It&amp;#x27;s not a request I&amp;#x27;m sure they get a lot. Mark: Fans usually ask for an autograph or a photo, but no one asks, &amp;amp;#8217;Can I sleep over?&amp;amp;#8217; In my head I thought maybe I could get two or three people to say yes. The fact that I was able to get 13 people to do this... and some of these people I was just such huge fans of! When I was kid, if you told me I&amp;#x27;d be sleeping over at Justine Bateman&amp;amp;#8217;s... I mean, I watched Family Ties all the time! Glamour: What&amp;amp;#8217;s so shocking is that these celebs&amp;amp;#8217; publicists let it happen! Mark: It&amp;amp;#8217;s all about getting to the celebrities because the publicists, agents, and managers would never pursue this. The celebrities I contacted were all for it. It was just about getting to them directly, and that&amp;#x27;s why I was so successful. I think it was Phil Rosenthal [creator of Everybody Loves Raymond] who called me up and said, &amp;amp;#8216;You&amp;amp;#8217;re really sleeping over, right?&amp;amp;#8217; and I said, &amp;amp;#8216;Yeah!&amp;amp;#8217; He said, &amp;amp;#8216;Monica and I are happy to have you, and we just wanted to make sure it was a real thing.&amp;amp;#8217; Glamour: Who was the first person that got back to you, and how did they let you know? Mark: I think Dave Coulier or Camryn Manheim. And Camryn Manheim let me go to sleep holding her Emmy, which was amazing. She&amp;#x27;s hilarious. I just admire her work so much. Ed Begley Jr. also said yes early on. Glamour: You also slept over at one of my favorites--the nicest director in Hollywood--Paul Feig. [Glamour readers, if you want to know why Paul deserves that honor, click here]. Mark: Yes, Paul [who directed Bridesmaids and was of course responsible for Freaks and Geeks] was one of my favorites. I think it was his wife who emailed me back and said, &amp;amp;#8216;Paul thinks your idea is really funny and we&amp;amp;#8217;d love to do it.&amp;amp;#8217; I just remember screaming out loud and my wife was like, &amp;amp;#8216;Are you OK?&amp;amp;#8217; There were a lot of those moments. Glamour: Could you really sleep, or were you on such a high that it was kind of impossible? Mark: I woke up a lot, and would think, &amp;#x27;Am I really here? Am I really doing this?&amp;amp;#8217; Like Dave Coulier from Full House... I slept overnight in his SUV because he was having work done in his house. I thought to myself in the middle of the night, &amp;amp;#8216;I&amp;amp;#8217;m sleeping in Uncle Joey&amp;amp;#8217;s SUV!&amp;amp;#8217; Glamour: Have you become friends with a lot of your overnight buddies? Mark: I definitely email with them and have become friendly with their families. I&amp;amp;#8217;m sure I could ask to stay over again, but I don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to impose either. Glamour: Fans of Private Practice will love your story about Kate Walsh. Mark: She is really funny. She answered the door in pajamas, and she was like, &amp;amp;#8216;Oh, I was just napping!&amp;amp;#8217; She let me even pick out my own pajamas from her closet. We got into bed together, and I was like, &amp;amp;#8216;Can I call my wife?&amp;amp;#8217; I need to ask her if it&amp;amp;#8217;s OK to be in bed with Kate Walsh. [laughs] So we call my wife on speaker phone, and Kate says to my wife, &amp;amp;#8216;Don&amp;amp;#8217;t worry Christine, we are full clothed and I&amp;amp;#8217;m not attracted to Mark at all.&amp;amp;#8217; I was like, &amp;amp;#8216;Thanks, Kate!&amp;amp;#8217; That made me laugh. I thought some of these celebs would just stick me in the garage or in a small corner in a guest room, but there was none of that. They were all so welcoming. They were like, &amp;amp;#8216;We can watch a movie, we can hang out, whatever you need to do to film.&amp;amp;#8217; Glamour: Was there anyone that you were disappointed didn&amp;amp;#8217;t say yes to your request? Mark: There are very few people who said no. Billy Bush actually had to cancel, even though he was going to do it. But the ones that said no, I think it was actually for the best. Glamour: What did the celebs sleepovers teach you about Hollywood? Mark: It sounds so cliche, but I found that everybody really knows each other in this industry. Justine Bateman was like, &amp;amp;#8216;Tell Ed I said hi. We met in 1981.&amp;amp;#8217; That happened a lot and I got a kick out of it. Mary Lynn Rajskub from 24 was hysterical. I hung out with her and her son, and he totally took a liking to me. She even said, &amp;amp;#8216;Can we include my son in the celebrity nap?&amp;amp;#8217; and I&amp;amp;#8217;m like, &amp;amp;#8216;if you say so!&amp;amp;#8217; Mark Malkoff with Ed Begley Jr. Glamour: I should ask Andy Cohen if he&amp;#x27;s up for a house-guest when I&amp;#x27;m in New York next month. [laughs] We&amp;amp;#8217;re both from St. Louis, and we could watch the Cardinals World Series DVD in our matching Cardinals pajamas! Mark: Oh you totally should! He&amp;amp;#8217;d be funny. He&amp;amp;#8217;s got to have a decent-sized place, right? Glamour: Totally. Or I could sleep on the set of Watch What Happens: Live. By the way, what does your wife have to say about all of this? Mark: I felt really bad about not bringing Christine. Maybe if I did the celebrity sleepovers again I could get the celebrities to agree [to let her come with], but the first time I did it, I felt it would be asking too much of them. Glamour: Whose house do you want to sleep at next? Mark: I think Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith would be great. They just seem like they&amp;amp;#8217;d be up for a good party and stay up late. I think Jack Nicholson would be fun, but he&amp;amp;#8217;d probably want a short sleepover. Bill Gates, too. Glamour: Would you ever have the audacity to ask the White House? You know, maybe if you offered to take care of Bo. Mark: It definitely occurred to me. A sleepover with the President and his family would be surreal. They could put me to work. I actually told Camryn Manheim to put me to work, and she did. I took out her trash and did her dishes. Glamour: Which celeb has the nicest house? Mark: Probably Phil Rosenthal, the creator of Raymond. He has the nicest digs. Kate Walsh also had a really nice place. Glamour: Did you bring any thank you gift baskets? Mark: I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t! I thought of being funny and bringing each celeb like $10 gift certificates to Applebee&amp;amp;#8217;s. What do you get someone who has everything? I couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t come up with anything aside from jokey stuff. I sent them all thank you notes, but I should probably be a better house-guest, even though I did make the beds every morning and folded all my towels. Mark Malkoff and Lisa Loeb. Glamour: So what&amp;amp;#8217;s next for you? Mark: I just did a project where I watched as many Netflix videos as I could in a month. I watched 252 movies, which was 404 hours of Netflix movies. I got Andrew McCarthy to do commentary for me on St. Elmo&amp;amp;#8217;s Fire. Then, I&amp;amp;#8217;m about to premiere this new video called The Bill Murray Show starring Mark Malkoff. It&amp;amp;#8217;s going to be a weekly show online and the premise is that I&amp;amp;#8217;m going to attempt to have Bill Murray to come to my apartment in Queens for dinner. The show doesn&amp;#x27;t end until Bill Murray agrees to have dinner with me. In the meantime, I&amp;#x27;ll have guests every week who have met Bill Murray. So this could go on for a long, long time. Glamour: Is this the career you dreamed of having, or has it exceeded anything you possibly could have come up with? Mark: It was all on accident. I did sketch comedy and stand-up, but had no idea this could be a career. I feel so blessed. I do work really hard at it and it&amp;amp;#8217;s a full-time job working six days a week pulling crazy hours. But the highs are highs. The stuff I&amp;#x27;ve gotten to do is so much fun. I just want to see what I can keep doing. Want to see some of Mark&amp;#x27;s sleepovers in action? Click here! You can access all of his videos here as well. Whose house would you most want to sleep over at? More Entertainment: *What TV or sporting event would you cancel all other plans for? See what the celebs had to say! *So is this Honey Boo Boo obsession icky or totally awesome? *The Downton Abbey season 3 trailer is here! Let&amp;#x27;s discuss! Photos: Mark Malkoff P.S. Want more Obsessed? 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