When you saw and heard Bernie Sanders for the first time, you thought he looked and sounded just like Larry David. You weren’t alone, so did Lorne Michaels which is why he asked the star of Curb Your Enthusiasm to play the Presidential Candidate on Saturday Night Live.
Does that mean that all tall, white haired, balding Jews from NY look and sound alike? Nope. Yesterday at the TCAs, David revealed that they are something like third cousins. According to Variety, the actor recently found that out when he filmed on PBS’s Finding Your Roots.
Now you know why they look and sound alike, they are cousins just like in The Patty Duke Show. Which makes me wonder how long it will be until Michaels pitches that as sitcom. I would totally watch them reconnecting like Balki and Larry did on Perfect Strangers!
