Danny Devito and his favourite cigar story

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 “I was flying to Europe right after we finished The War of the Roses. It was an all-night flight. We had a great meal and they were going to pour some Port and I had a stogie with me and there were only a handful of people in first class. I had had a couple of drinks and I was with friends and I was feeling good”.

Too tempted by the luxurious situation, DeVito added, “It was just the perfect time for a nice stogie,” presumably saying so through his familiar charming grin. Asking the friendly flight attendants if he could light the cigar onboard, they replied that he could only do so if he got the permission of every single person sitting in first class.  

“I got up and walked the full length of the plane and said hello to everyone who was awake and asked if I could smoke,” Danny DeVito hilariously recalls, with everyone being surprisingly OK with the request from the actor. Although most people didn’t mind his request, he further explained, “there was one guy in the back of the first-class cabin who said, ‘There is no way you are going to light up a cigar on this airplane’”. 

Thinking his dream of smoking a mile-high stogie was over, DeVito quipped back, “unless you give me one,” and convinced the passenger to let him smoke onboard. 

So, with all his mates around him and a glass of port in one hand, just how good was it to add the cigar into the mix? As the actor recalls, “It was the most enjoyable transatlantic flight I ever had”.