Insert joke about “stiffs” here.
Gary the Willard Preacher? I miss that guy, sorta.
Back when Twin Peaks was on, some folks thought I looked like Kyle MacLachlan (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jJSCzAHbXm4/SWW1GqMcGBI/AAAAAAAAFzY/Vj6SNDb33Po/s400/Cooper.jpg), but no one ever freaked out over me. I don’t look much like that anymore, anyway (http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/46809.html).
Me? No. But my friend’s dad has signed autographs as both Huey Lewis and Joe Montana (he lives in Daly City, which borders San Francisco).
I’ve been told I resemble Sean Penn, Gerard Depardieu, Shaggy from Scooby Doo and Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry).
I’m often mistaken for the Elephant Man when I’m out, also I bear a strong resemblance to someone who gets drunk alot and throws my clothes all around my room.
In addition to being mistaken for Eddie Murphy, I left out my doppelgangers, although the others I’ve never been mistaken for.
Sammy Davis, Jr., Martin Lawrence and Steve Urkel.
What a mix, but at least they’re all Black.
It’s an honor to meet you, Mr. President!
People always used to ask me if I was Henry Rollins. I looked like him, sounded like him, and was as big an asshole as he was. I never actively used his name to my advantage, but there were times when people asked if I was him and I didn’t disabuse them of the idea and I was given preferential treatment. This only happened when I was wearing long sleeves (to hide the fact that I didn’t have his tattoos), and the lack of a Black Flag tattoo on my neck must have gone unnoticed.
My hair has thinned out some now and I keep it shorter so all I get now is “You look kinda like Henry Rollins.” But 15 years ago I was a dead ringer.
Never been mistaken for him but apparently I look like Leonardo diCaprio. I don’t see it but whatever. When I was younger it was James Dean.
Ugh, Da Shan. He is the mental definition of “white guy” to just about every Chinese person, he is the stick by which we’re all measured. Tall and bespectacled? “You look like Da Shan!” Speak Chinese well enough? “You speak as well as Da Shan!” Canadian? “That’s where Da Shan is from!”
Is it any wonder that he’s so hated among the foreign community here?
More Dreyfus than McCain but John’s a lot older than you.
Soooo, you have a mustache?
Almost daily people tell me I look like Kurt Cobain
Do you ever have fun pretending he is Mark Wahlburg?
Is half your head missing?
Randy Jackson. On more than one occasion.
I could be called a lot worse.
Years ago I was playing in a warm up band in PA for then country artist Gary Morris
We both had a full beard and longer than average dark hair other than that maybe similar builds and coloring.
At the end of the night , with guitar case in hand I walk out back and through a crowd I assume are waiting for Gary, heading for my van.
I hear one woman say, “I can’t believe he just walked right by us without saying anything” I turn back and walk up to them.
“I’d be glad to sign all the autographs you want but I’m really not Gary Morris”
They kinda looked me over and laughed. Nobody wanted an autograph dam it. Later I saw Gary backstage and told him I was out back signing autographs for him. He didn’t see the humor in it.
My brother was once mistaken for Australian Rugby captain Michael Lynagh outside the ground after a rugby test match. He does look like him and happened to be wearing a jumper that could be mistaken for one Lynagh may wear. He ended up in an animated conversation with several fans and rather than disappoint them he and his friends didn’t let on that it was a case of mistaken identity. He said he even accepted their stupid suggestions with good grace and said that he would recommend them to the coach. He made an excuse to get away before anyone asked for an autograph.
When I suggested it was a weird thing to do he said, “It was a thrill for those people that they’ll never forget and it was no skin off my nose. It only took a few minutes.”
Years ago, a person I was talking to on a voice chat over the internet was convinced that I was Sam the Sham, of “Wooly Bully” fame.