So…they’re not the same person? 
(kidding. I knew this, but I have on my CDP List Mickey Rooney. He’s the old guy who was in Pete’s Dragon, right?)
One is an elderly cranky grumpy guy who … no wait a minute …
Mickey Rooney and Mickey Rourke, now there’s two people I always get confused.
About 15 inches.
As far as I know, Andy has only been married once.
Andy Rooney is more annoying.
As to the potential horror of either appearing naked in a TV ad, it’s a tossup.
Probably
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No, Mickey Rooney is the kid in the Mickey McGuire silent short subjects in the 1920s. It would be ridiculous to believe that he’d still be acting today.
Wouldn’t it? 
“Do you ever notice how people confuse me with Mickey Rooney? Why is that, anyway?”
Mickey Rooney was married to Ava Gardner when she was young and the hottest looking Actress on the planet. Married 8 times?
Andy Rooney was a minor war correspondent at the time but ended up winning a Bronze Star. Only married once.
Mickey was for a while Hollywood biggest earner with the Andy Hardy Series.
Mickey is 5’3”, Andy doesn’t list his height but appears to be taller.
Mickey was best friends with Judy Garland, Andy is a professional curmudgeon.
Jim
Mickey is a born-again Christian. Andy is an adamant atheist.
Is he really? Er… cite?
It’s remotely possible that Mickey Rooney might have said something funny at some point in his life.
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He says he became a born-again Christian in the early 1970s, when an angel appeared to him in a diner. And he fondly remembers being called “the best actor America ever produced” by Laurence Olivier. At some point, credulity snaps.
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Exactly.
One is Roonier than the other.
I forget which one…
One is a little drunk …
Only one has played Santa Clause in a Bass / Rankin claymation special.
{off-topic: I have a weird liking for this one above all the other B/R specials. I think it’s solely because they named a character Burghermeister Meisterburger}
Andy Rooney claims to get mail intended for Art Rooney, who owned a pro football team.