Jamie Lee Curtis Calls Christopher Guest the 'Funniest Dude on the Planet'

Jamie Lee Curtis was smitten with now-husband, Christopher Guest, before they even met. “I married Chris five months after seeing his picture in Rolling Stone. I said out loud to my friend, the late, great Debra Hill, ‘Oh, I’m going to marry that guy,’” Curtis told Sigourney Weaver in a 2015 conversation for Interview magazine. “It was a picture of Chris with Michael McKean and Harry Shearer from Spinal Tap, but just as regular guys. Debra said, ‘Oh, I know him, and he’s with your agency. I tried to get him in a movie.’ So I called the agent, left my number, but Chris never called me. And then I ran into him at a restaurant.” Despite being excited to see Guest at the dining establishment, Curtis couldn’t muster the courage to introduce herself. Luckily, he rang her up the next day. “He had kept my number. That was June 28, 1984, and I married him four months later, on December 18,” she recalled. Curtis and Guest went on to tie the knot in 1984 and adopted their daughters, Annie and Ruby, in 1986 and 1996, respectively. Scroll below to see the pair’s complete relationship timeline:

After nearly five months of dating, the Scream Queens alum and Guest tied the knot.

The pair’s eldest daughter, Annie, was born on December 13.

Curtis revealed in July 2021 that daughter Ruby, who was adopted shortly after her 1996 birth, is transgender.

“My husband and I are opposites. We have been for 33 years, and we always will be,” the Oscar nominee told Good Housekeeping in a 2018 profile. “He’s an intellectual, and I was from the movie star/alcoholic/drug addict side, where ­education was not the most important thing. We don’t listen to the same radio station, we don’t read the same paper, we don’t go to bed at the same time.”

She added at the time: "But we read the same history books. For our 30th anniversary, we both read a book called Undaunted Courage, [which is] the story of [explorers] Lewis and Clark. Then we took eight friends and retraced a section of the Missouri River in canoes that followed the path of their expedition. We’re a little nerdy.”

The twosome held hands as they walked the Tribeca Film Festival red carpet for the This is Spinal Tap screening.

To celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary, Curtis wrote the musician an original song that featured the lyrics, “I feel safe when I drive up and see that you are home.”

She recalled writing the song during a July 2021 interview with AARP magazine, noting, “That's the long marriage. It's the safety of knowing his car is in the garage, that I'm not alone, and that he's here."

“Fathers. Day in and day out. In our home a source of steady strength,” Curtis gushed of Guest via Instagram while celebrating Father’s Day.

The duo and their two daughters were all smiles at the Hand and Feet Imprinting Ceremony in the Halloween Ends star’s honor.

Guest supported Curtis on the red carpet for her big Oscars night. Later in the show, the Freaky Friday actress took home her first win for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

“How is it possible that I’m married 40 years? I don’t understand it,” Curtis quipped during an appearance on Today ahead of the couple’s milestone anniversary later that month. Reflecting on their journey together, she shared: “Chris wasn’t a director when I married him. I wasn’t a writer. Chris wasn’t a producer when I married him. I wasn’t a producer when he married me. We have grown into these new jobs that we’ve done.” 

Curtis went on to note that Guest makes her laugh “more than any human being,” adding, “And I’m sure there’s something about me that he likes. I don’t know what it is, but I’m sure there’s something.”

Later on Today With Hoda & Jenna, Curtis stated that she “manifested” her relationship with Guest before revealing the pair didn’t have any major plans in store for their anniversary. “We’re gonna celebrate by just being in the same city at the same time together,” she said.

Nearly one week after her Today appearance, Curtis and Guest celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. The actress posted a sweet tribute for her husband on social media.

“40 years ago today, on a rainy Tuesday afternoon at 4:30, Christopher and I married. We loved each other but barely knew each other. Today, we know each other really well and still love each other,” she wrote via Instagram alongside a throwback photo from the couple’s wedding day. “We've been through a lot and have raised and loved two beautiful daughters and started many new careers and weathered the myriad storms of life on life's terms of loving and loss. We held hands that day as we walked back down the aisle and we're still holding hands today. I guess the beginning of ‘my hand in yours.’ The long and winding road.” 

Curtis gushed about her husband’s sense of humor in an interview with AARP The Magazine. 

“I married the funniest dude on the planet. Christopher Guest can drop me to the ground with a look, let alone a phrase. It can be annoying to be married to somebody who can use his humor to disarm any natural rage that you might have, but it’s also an amazing blessing,” she said. 

When asked about the secret to their long marriage, Curtis pointed out that they’d be together “forever.” 

“That’s the term, right? That’s what you’ve vowed to,” she added.