I had a two-celebrity commute this morning.

First, there was a man walking several feet in front of me on the way to my regular subway entrance. He kept clearing his throat and humming to himself. We both walked down the stairs and swiped our Metrocards through the turnstiles, and then I realized he was Boyd Gaines, currently starring opposite Patti Lupone in Gypsy as Herbie. He stopped at the kiosk on the subway platform, bought something, and then continued down to the very end of the platform, where he could get on the first car. I wonder if he lives near me?

(Incidentally, the first time I saw Boyd Gaines perform on Broadway was in The Heidi Chronicles, when I was a teenager. But I will always think of him as Mark Royer, the husband of Valerie Bertinelli’s TV character Barbara Cooper on One Day at a Time.)

The subway soon came, and a little bit later I switched from the local to the express. I managed to get a seat, and I pulled out my book and started reading. On the periphery of my awareness I heard two sibilant male voices, but I was too absorbed in my book. Finally, at Times Square, the train stopped and I looked up just in time to see Jack McBrayer, 30 Rock‘s Kenneth the Page, saying goodbye to someone and getting off the train.

He is such a big ball of cuteness.

I never see any famous people on my morning commute, so it was weird to see two of them. And yeah, Boyd Gaines and Jack McBrayer don’t necessarily count as celebrities, but “two-celebrity commute” sounds better than “two-well-known-performer commute.”

Also, according to the Oracle of Bacon, they are two degrees of separation from each other.