# "Wait, it's a different guy?" moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157 "2022-02-26T16:45:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/41 "2022-02-26T23:43:40Z")
Dash Riprock, Biff Steel, Bolt Upright, Crunch Hardtack, Race Burley and Tab Strong. Even if you don’t get that obscure reference, you’ll remember the wave of post-James Dean boychik actors of the late 50s-early 60s. They were largely the creation of actors’ agent [Henry Wilson,](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Willson) who re-named and handled such wonders as “ [Rock Hudson](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Hudson), [Tab Hunter](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_Hunter), [Chad Everett](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Everett), [Robert Wagner](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wagner), [Nick Adams](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)), [Guy Madison](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Madison), [Troy Donahue](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Donahue), [Mike Connors](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Connors), [Rory Calhoun](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Calhoun), [John Saxon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Saxon), [Yale Summers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Summers), [Clint Walker](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Walker), [Doug McClure](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_McClure), [Dack Rambo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dack_Rambo), [Ty Hardin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Hardin), and [John Derek](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Derek).” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/42 "2022-02-26T23:53:03Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I always thought the spokes-guy in this commercial was an actor I had seen on some blue-collar comedy like King of Queens. But apparently not. His name is Rob Biesenbach and he has no TV show credits on IMDB. It’s that way he has of speaking with his lower lip and his jaw stuck out that seems so familiar. Reminds me of Joel Murray. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/43 "2022-02-26T23:57:16Z")
I thought Wilford Brimley was in a few episodes of _Better Call Saul_ but it turns out I was mistaken him for Barry Corbin. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/44 "2022-02-26T23:59:42Z")
Bobby Hill. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/45 "2022-02-27T00:00:41Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Eric Braedon: aka “Why is Sean Connery doing a German accent?” ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/46 "2022-02-27T00:12:45Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > > > I always thought the spokes-guy in this commercial was an actor I had seen on some blue-collar comedy like King of Queens. But apparently not. His name is Rob Biesenbach and he has no TV show credits on IMDB. It’s that way he has of speaking with his lower lip and his jaw stuck out that seems so familiar. > > Reminds me of Joel Murray. That’s the guy! Thank you, it was driving me nuts! ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/47 "2022-02-27T00:20:06Z")
Oh and… Colm Meaney > **[Colm Meaney - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000538/)** > > Colm Meaney. Actor: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Colm Meaney was born on 30 May 1953 in Dublin, Ireland. He is an actor and producer, known for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), Layer Cake (2004) and Under Siege (1992). He has been married to Ines... John C Reilly > **[John C. Reilly - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000604/)** > > John C. Reilly. Actor: Chicago. Character actor, dramatic leading man, or hilarious comic foil? With an astonishing range of roles already under his belt, John C. Reilly has played an eclectic host of rich characters to great effect over the years,... ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/48 "2022-02-27T00:38:44Z")
I had Bob Zmuda’s book about Andy Kaufman and it mentions an incident when Andy got a chance to meet one of his childhood idols, Howdy Doody. When the meeting happened, Andy was very upset and said that was NOT Howdy Doody. He was right…it was [Photo Doody](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_Doody_(Howdy)), a copy used in promotions rather than what he’d seen on TV. People thought that Andy Kaufman portrayed the fictional lounge singer Tony Clifton. He did. Sometimes. Other times his writing partner Bob Zmuda put on the makeup and did it instead. The thing about Andy’s comedy was often that he was laughing at the audience instead of the other way around…he’d irk people and get them ready to kill him. With Tony Clifton, sometimes he was sitting at home watching Zmuda on TV, laughing at the fact that he’d fooled them. > In public, Zmuda and Kaufman played an elaborate, years-long Tony Clifton shell game that lasted until Kaufman’s death in 1984. In the 1999 Kaufman biopic _Man on the Moon_ , Jim Carrey played Kaufman doing Clifton, and Paul Giametti imitated Zmuda imitating Clifton. [Source](https://www.vice.com/en/article/mvpz5p/on-the-road-with-tony-clifton) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MOFzOxnTQFw/maxresdefault.jpg "Tony Clifton Letterman 02 18 1982") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOFzOxnTQFw) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/49 "2022-02-27T00:49:27Z")
Molly Shannon [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Molly_Shannon_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/440px-Molly_Shannon_by_David_Shankbone.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Molly_Shannon_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/440px-Molly_Shannon_by_David_Shankbone.jpg) Julia Louis-Dreyfus [![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2013/10/17/1382036698124/Julia-Louis-Dreyfus-at-th-010.jpg?width=300&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=c9af199076143fda23cd043c574b9a55) ](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2013/10/17/1382036698124/Julia-Louis-Dreyfus-at-th-010.jpg?width=300&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=c9af199076143fda23cd043c574b9a55) ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/50 "2022-02-27T00:54:34Z")
This! I _still_ do! ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/51 "2022-02-27T01:07:05Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I used to confuse Lee Marvin with James Coburn. And, now that I look it up, I see that some fans thought that they were brothers, due to the similarity in appearance. Back when they were both alive and working, I always referred to Coburn as “the poor man’s Lee Marvin”—i.e., the guy you’d cast if you didn’t have the budget to hire Marvin. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/52 "2022-02-27T01:17:04Z")
Remember Julia Louis-Dreyfuss and Tina Fey? [![](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/15/article-0-0B9F1AFC000005DC-382_634x418.jpg) ](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/15/article-0-0B9F1AFC000005DC-382_634x418.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/53 "2022-02-27T01:18:49Z")
Separated at birth, maybe? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/54 "2022-02-27T02:07:09Z")
I always confuse Molly Shannon with Catherine Tate ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/55 "2022-02-27T02:07:34Z")
Tina really killed it as Sarah Palin. > **[Tina Fey and Sarah Palin to Reunite on Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary...](https://www.phillymag.com/things-to-do/2015/02/05/tina-fey-sarah-palin-reunite-saturday-night-live-40th-anniversary-special/)** > > Tina Fey’s impressions of then vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential election was no doubt a high point in the history of Saturday \[…\] ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/56 "2022-02-27T02:41:59Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > My inability to tell Ryan Gosling apart from Ryan Reynolds… Can I join your club? I’m just glad Ryan R. has been getting more sarcastic and snarky parts, because now I can tell him apart from the more “sincere” (or “saccharine”?) Ryan G. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/57 "2022-02-27T02:50:45Z")
Here’s another one who never could get their Lee Marvins and James Coburns straight. I know they were two different people, but deep inside I think they were identical. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/58 "2022-02-27T02:51:29Z")
When I first saw Skeet Ulrich in As Good As It Gets, I figured it was Johnny Depp. ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/59 "2022-02-27T02:53:20Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I used to confuse Lee Marvin with James Coburn. And, now that I look it up, I see that some fans thought that they were brothers, due to the similarity in appearance. Yes! My husband and I were talking about the old Magnificent Seven the other day. We were listing the main characters and, not remembering his name, I just called him the “other Lee Marvin”. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/60 "2022-02-27T02:56:33Z")
Now here’s the crucial question: have Lee Marvin and James Coburn ever appeared in the same movie? Or seen at the same place? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157.md?page=4)