What celebrity do you look like?

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So I was in a steam room yesterday and a guy comes in, stares at me and says "You look like Ant and Dec". To which I replied "Which one". He said "BOTH!"


*oh the shame*


Other times folk have labled me a look-a-likey of Brett Anderson, Jaime Harding and (once) Bill Clinton!

kinski (kinski), Friday, 20 September 2002 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Carol bloody Decker (mainly by my friends winding me up, but also by an ex who followed it with "She was quite sought after in her day." Um thanks.)

Molly Ringwald
Melissa Auf DeMayer
Nicole Kidman (not even in my wildest dreams would this be true)
The girl out of Riverdance
Brianna Corrigan, exBeautiful South, the only one I actually look like.

Anna (Anna), Friday, 20 September 2002 09:54 (twenty-three years ago)

David Baddiel
James Dean Bradfield
Carlos the Jackal
Danny Baker

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 20 September 2002 10:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Prince William
Matt Damon
Damon Albarn

To name just three.

Pete (Pete), Friday, 20 September 2002 10:02 (twenty-three years ago)

sting and freddie ljungberg. actually i'm renowned for being told that i look like people, it's weird.

michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 20 September 2002 10:02 (twenty-three years ago)

this a cool thread, btw.

michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 20 September 2002 10:02 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/sarahandelsa/papa.jpg

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 20 September 2002 10:10 (twenty-three years ago)

louis therouax (sp?)

jel -- (jel), Friday, 20 September 2002 10:10 (twenty-three years ago)

The late Princess of Wales, except that I am very much alive of course (but nursing a hangover)

C J (C J), Friday, 20 September 2002 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Sigourney Weaver, Parker Posey, Wallis Simpson, Coco Chanel. Go figure.

suzy (suzy), Friday, 20 September 2002 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't we do this before in the mists of time?

I used to get Anita Pallenberg and Peter Holmstrom quite a bit.

kate, Friday, 20 September 2002 11:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was leaner: Morrissey & Elvis Costello.

Jez, Friday, 20 September 2002 11:11 (twenty-three years ago)

1) When i was little (6 or so) my brother and sister used to tell me i looked like Woody Allen. I had no idea at that point who he was but knew it couldn't be good if they were comparing us (evil older siblings)

2) While paying the bill in a restaurant in NYC, the cashier told me i looked like a cross between "a handsome sammy davis jr and robert de niro in angel heart"

When i looked dubious she insisted it was a compliment but i can't even imagine how someone could come up with that combo.

H (Heruy), Friday, 20 September 2002 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

My (and Laura's) opinion: Ken Stott.

Nath's opinion: Rob Dougan :-)

Marcello Carlin, Friday, 20 September 2002 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to look like Jocky Wilson when I was about 6. Now celebrities get angst ridden because they don't look like me.

Dave B (daveb), Friday, 20 September 2002 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I get a lot of odd comparisons that don't have anything to do with me except for the fact I have red hair (Molly Ringwald, Alyson Hannigan, Gillian Anderson), but my all time favorite was when my sister told me I looked like Marilyn Manson.

Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 20 September 2002 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a Minor Threat picture on my desktop, and at least two people said, "I didn't know you sang in a band? When's that from?" but I think it's just 'cause I have a shaved head more than anything else...

OCP (OCP), Friday, 20 September 2002 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I always thought that they could use the Celeb lookalike technique on such shows as Crimewatch.

The man accused of sexually assaulting 87 yr old Glennis Mason, is approx 14 stone, heavy build and bares a facial resemblance to the Prime Minister Tony Blair, and has a Brian Eno haircut (circa 1972).

kinski (kinski), Friday, 20 September 2002 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

ummmmmmmmmmm, John Malkovich......apparently.

gazza, Friday, 20 September 2002 11:55 (twenty-three years ago)

peter sellers.
and always john lennon. i thought this would stop when i cut my hair short, but since i grew the moustache i'm on my srgt peppers period.

joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 20 September 2002 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)

i get mistaken for chino from the deftones alot

chaki (chaki), Friday, 20 September 2002 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been mistaken for Krist Novaselic before.

Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 20 September 2002 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Daisy from Spaced. I know you're all jealous...

alex, Friday, 20 September 2002 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Daisy from Spaced k-ROWR

Alan (Alan), Friday, 20 September 2002 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm having trubs reconciling ken stott and rob dougan...

me, i don't look like no one. altho someone said i was "just like" ryan phillipe in cruel intentions. but only in cruel intentions.

bob zemko (bob), Friday, 20 September 2002 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

julio, you did that on purpose you mystery wag.

bob zemko (bob), Friday, 20 September 2002 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

BAH CHIZ I don't think I look like anyone famous.

Sarah (starry), Friday, 20 September 2002 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)

TIGGER!

Pete (Pete), Friday, 20 September 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Allegedly: Juiliette Binoche, Audrey Tautou
Reality: Winona Ryder? We both look like racoons

Miss Laura, Friday, 20 September 2002 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Apart from Tigger.

Sarah (starry), Friday, 20 September 2002 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Weirdly I've just had an e-mail from my mate Lucas comparing me to Carol Decker (bastard). And also Kirsty McColl.

Anna (Anna), Friday, 20 September 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

For sufficiently small values of celebrity: Sue Harshe of Scrawl or Susan Marshall of the Afghan Whigs.

j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 20 September 2002 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

just like the devil

or tom verlaine....

mike (ro)bott, Friday, 20 September 2002 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I have been told that I look like Darius Rucker, Denzel Washington and Jesse L. Martin. I remain dubious. (My brother kind of looks like Ice Cube's character in "Barbershop", though.)

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 September 2002 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Allegedly James McNew of Yo La Tengo, which I regard as bemusing but fun. :-) I've also gotten Howard Stern, which fills me with rage.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 September 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

The one I get a lot: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, ex-star of Home Improvement.

The one I've gotten twice recently: Val Kilmer. Dunno why.

Yancey (ystrickler), Friday, 20 September 2002 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

''I've also gotten Howard Stern, which fills me with rage.''

yes if you curled your hair and you took off yer glasses then howard stern would be reasonable hehehe...

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 20 September 2002 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr. Potatohead

Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 20 September 2002 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, but dear Julio, I already have wavy hair and Howard does often wear glasses, so you see the problem...

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 September 2002 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

It is very true about Jel (Louis Theroux) and Marcello (Ken Stott). I don't look like Mr Potato Head, but I do look rather like a potato, though I can't think of any celebrity potatoes just now.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 20 September 2002 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Daryl Hannah.

Graham (graham), Friday, 20 September 2002 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Nobody ever tells me I look like anyone. Except for some German soap star; German girls always giggle at me.

nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 20 September 2002 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I can confirm Ned looks very much like Howard Stern.

I've gotten Anthony Perkins a few times. I don't really see it, but I guess it's not so bad. He was a matinee idol in his youth, after all.

Sean (Sean), Friday, 20 September 2002 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

One man told me that I looked like Robert Redford, but as I'd just told him that he looked like Marilyn Monroe he may not have been entirely serious. In my youth, when I had long curly hair and wore dark glasses a lot I did get Ian Hunter, but so did everyone with long curly hair and shades then.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 20 September 2002 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

German girls always giggle at me.

This may be because "das Nitsuh" is German for "man with great big schlong".

(The preceeding may not be true.)

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 September 2002 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was younger and on a shitload of drugs and my hair color changed every three minutes I used to get Perry Farrell a bit, but I am inclined to think that was just a fantasy on the part of the Jane's Addiction fans I was sleeping with. Now apparently I don't look like anyone famous (although someone not too long ago told me I looked like Ralph Fiennes which just proves that people will say anything to flatter and get laid hahaha).

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It might not be true, Dan, and yet one wonders about this great knowledge you claim to have.

"Ja, das Nitsuh ist der Klingfahrkunst!"

"Er...okay."

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Since I failed to get a rise out of Ned, I'll admit I was kidding about the Howard Stern thing.

Sean (Sean), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Then all is well. ;-)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 September 2002 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Fred Flintsone
George Wendt

brg30 (brg30), Friday, 20 September 2002 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

actually a friend told me that nfl hof pic looks like josh mcroberts : /

mookieproof, Thursday, 12 September 2013 23:47 (twelve years ago)

:(

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 September 2013 23:48 (twelve years ago)

eh, at least it's better than dahmer

mookieproof, Friday, 13 September 2013 00:00 (twelve years ago)

if it makes you feel any better, I got told that I looked like that southern college professor that killed her colleagues

not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Friday, 13 September 2013 00:06 (twelve years ago)

http://khampha.vn/upload/3-2013/images/2013-09-02/1378113110-vu-an-noi-tieng.jpg

not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Friday, 13 September 2013 00:09 (twelve years ago)

back when i was young and agile enough to play pickup basketball, i'd get called all kinds of things if i was the only white guy in the game.

i was never good enough to be bird, i was always a tall white scrub. i went to school in nc so for a while i got joe wolf. the worst was 'big country'. mcbobby isn't so bad, considering

mookieproof, Friday, 13 September 2013 00:11 (twelve years ago)

I also have been told I resemble "Flo" from the Progressive Insurance ads

not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Friday, 13 September 2013 00:14 (twelve years ago)

I've been told I look like Crispin Glover a disturbing number of times.

the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Friday, 13 September 2013 00:17 (twelve years ago)

flo's all right

mookieproof, Friday, 13 September 2013 00:18 (twelve years ago)

Lots of John Oliver lately.

Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Friday, 13 September 2013 02:17 (twelve years ago)

I was told I look like Allison Wolfe but I can't remember who said this! I thought it was funny since I always thought she looked a little like my grandmother.

I am good friends now with the person who compared me to Ann-Margret.

tokyo rosemary, Friday, 13 September 2013 03:01 (twelve years ago)

i've heard a bunch of different theories, mostly unflattering. weirdest was when a girl with a really strong jersey accent told me that i looked like "someone on the jersey shore" which is ridiculous because i am really pale and haven't lifted a weight in my entire life. i think she was either making fun of me for being a pasty wimp or that was her generic way of paying me a compliment, which is more troubling.

zingon grammar (Treeship), Friday, 13 September 2013 03:26 (twelve years ago)

since i've been living in glasgow (last seven or so years), a number of ppl have independently told me i look like john peel. cld be worse i suppose, cld be saville. don't have a beard at the moment, so the resemblance is much less.

Ward Fowler, Friday, 13 September 2013 06:28 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXDK3x5lAYI

Rowan Atkinson in this video, that's me, even his snobbish schtick kind of fits, though I do think my choice of clothing is slightly better :P

some guy in the street compared me to Mr Bean this summer, just a random person. I should've kicked his ass, but well.. what can you do.

Ludo, Friday, 13 September 2013 06:56 (twelve years ago)

if yr built like rowan atkinson, not much i guess

his LIPS !!! (darraghmac), Friday, 13 September 2013 08:00 (twelve years ago)

me, still the french guy who wrote the little prince i spose

on a very bad day, if i have shaved, alan carr

his LIPS !!! (darraghmac), Friday, 13 September 2013 08:01 (twelve years ago)

billy corgan but i grew a beard so it's not an issue anymore

i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Friday, 13 September 2013 08:12 (twelve years ago)

xx-post lol

i should have said something equally offensive though.

Ludo, Friday, 13 September 2013 08:22 (twelve years ago)

A mate of mine looks like Rowan Atkinson too. He can be a bit mouthy, likes to dish out abuse in the name of craic. Once me, him and some pals were on the tube, and a third mate got all giggly about something silly. Atkinson-mate saw the chance to move in for the kill. He turned to a big poster with a buffoonish, grinning face and was all: "this is what you're like". It was Mr Bean's face. It was a beautiful moment.

Ismael Klata, Friday, 13 September 2013 08:51 (twelve years ago)

still Ray Mears

Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 September 2013 08:56 (twelve years ago)

when I was about 13 I was walking down to the chip shop at lunch (Scotland) when a middle-aged woman came running out of her house onto the street going 'oh my god I can't believe it', she called her whole family out onto the street and said 'you look exactly like Martin Fowler'. I didn't really know what to do but I still feel hurt to this day.

Blandford Forum, Friday, 13 September 2013 09:02 (twelve years ago)

Daniel Vettori and I were ringers in our late teenage days, when he was an international-class cricketer and I was a bum. To the extent that for a time, when I didn't have a digital camera, I had a picture of him c&p'ed into my cv.

Oddly it was a guaranteed bye through any sifting process. I was always terrified I'd be rumbled but it never happened.

Ismael Klata, Friday, 13 September 2013 09:03 (twelve years ago)

It was him in a shirt & tie btw, not mid-leg-break

Ismael Klata, Friday, 13 September 2013 09:05 (twelve years ago)

Thesedays, nobody.

Mark G, Friday, 13 September 2013 09:15 (twelve years ago)

The dude that played Puddy on Seinfeld, Patrick Warburton.

One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Friday, 13 September 2013 14:29 (twelve years ago)

still Ray Mears

― Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 September 2013 09:56 (6 hours ago) Bookmark

i remember once thinking on a wdyll that u looked a fair bit like jazz club dude off the fast show

soz if u find that offensive

r|t|c, Friday, 13 September 2013 15:02 (twelve years ago)

no! John Thomson used to be my default celebrity lookalike before his career went down and Ray Mears' went up

Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 September 2013 15:38 (twelve years ago)

in fact i find the John Thomson resemblance pretty uncanny at times

Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 September 2013 15:39 (twelve years ago)

At a show a couple of weeks ago a very dunk dude said I was a "Not ugly Brian Posehn looking motherfucker." I have no idea how to take that.

EZ Snappin, Friday, 13 September 2013 15:51 (twelve years ago)

when i had a massive beard last summer a few people said i looked like will oldham, which was the first lookalike i've had in years and years.

Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Friday, 13 September 2013 16:01 (twelve years ago)

I know a few John Thompson-alikes

Mark G, Friday, 13 September 2013 16:03 (twelve years ago)

fat-faced dudes of a certain age, it's a thing

Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 September 2013 16:06 (twelve years ago)

People used to tell me I looked like Michael Cera quite a bit, especially when I had a bit more meat on me. I was once on the SkyTrain and a girl followed me out and said "Hi". I immediately knew what it was about and was just waiting for her to say it. All the while I was thinking what I could say to not embarrass her.

Now it's Lionel Messi.

I don't really see any of them, to be honest. I've also been told I have a very..."common"(? maybe generic?) face, so I get mistaken for a lot of other people.

c21m50nh3x460n, Friday, 13 September 2013 16:07 (twelve years ago)

will oldham is the spitting image of my dad to an actually creepy degree

i do not have even a vague doppelganger sadly

r|t|c, Friday, 13 September 2013 16:08 (twelve years ago)

One of my kid's friends said I looked like Dr Who. Not sure which one they meant exactly, but presumably it's the skinny white male guy.

i'll be your mraz (NickB), Friday, 13 September 2013 16:09 (twelve years ago)

will oldham is the spitting image of my dad to an actually creepy degree

my dad=carlo ancelotti as i've said a few hundred times.

also raymond carver i've recently noticed.

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/replicate/EXID2858/images/carver_2.jpg

feel free to triangulate between ancelotti/carver to get an idea of my dad's appearance if you so wish.

Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Friday, 13 September 2013 16:13 (twelve years ago)

WDYDLL: spitting image of season 5 Walter White

Blandford Forum, Friday, 13 September 2013 16:26 (twelve years ago)

right now, spud from trainspotting with a moustache.

clouds, Friday, 13 September 2013 16:31 (twelve years ago)

have grown a beard. just got another john peel comparison.

Ward Fowler, Friday, 27 September 2013 14:26 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

At a show a couple of weeks ago a very dunk dude said I was a "Not ugly Brian Posehn looking motherfucker." I have no idea how to take that.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, September 13, 2013 10:51 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

So...

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0w17zOCEAALLSJ.jpg

EZ Snappin, Monday, 27 October 2014 16:43 (eleven years ago)

Ones I have gotten, from most to least flattering I think: Richard Gere (totally not, but hey...), Bruce Campbell, Morrissey, Chevy Chase, George W. Bush.

Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Monday, 27 October 2014 17:00 (eleven years ago)

Oh, and Anthony Perkins and Don Grady (Robbie Douglas from "My Three Sons.") Put those somewhere in the middle there...

Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Monday, 27 October 2014 17:04 (eleven years ago)

good work, EZS

(amazingly i know who BP is)

this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 October 2014 17:12 (eleven years ago)

I think I've said before but I get compared to celebrities all the fucking time, usually by strangers (eg just now in the pub, drunk guy just saw me & yelled "it's mark bolan!")

Charles II, Jesus Christ, Che Guevara, D'Artagnan, Russell Brand, Frank Zappa, Eddie Vedder, John Lennon, Stephen O'Malley, Hagrid, Johnny Depp, "the fat guy from lost" and Vasco Da Gama are among the ppl I've been told I look like. Also last month I was told I was the exact double of Ross Noble - by Ross Noble.

keep the meat alive: pampas grass (wins), Monday, 27 October 2014 17:24 (eleven years ago)

Frank Black :-(
(Pixies, not Millennium)

StanM, Monday, 27 October 2014 18:41 (eleven years ago)

Susan Sarandon. All of my friends say it, strangers say it. It's the eyes and the red hair.

The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 03:50 (eleven years ago)

The only time anyone has ever compared me to a celebrity was weirdly specific- a drunk fratbro type in Philly's El Bar comparing me to Johnny Depp in Secret Window. Which I had never seen, but okay, yes, that is basically my haircut, and basically the glasses I was wearing at the time, and I guess this is my terrifying future
http://o.onionstatic.com/images/19/19624/2x1/1200.jpg

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 04:09 (eleven years ago)

(also I am under no illusions re: handsomeness and kind of hate Johnny Depp)

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 04:10 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

today a student told me i look like turkish actress hazal kaya
it's a huge stretch, but i'll take it!

http://img.habergundem.com/galeri/08/hazal-kaya-nin-sirri-ortaya-cikti_86693_b.jpg

La Lechera, Thursday, 20 November 2014 21:22 (eleven years ago)

I would imagine so!

Vincent Kartheiser with no hair is the nearest Celebrity WDYLL match I could personally get with. Lazier bods have said Moby, perhaps dozens of times over, because bald + white = Moby regardless of whether you resemble him in any other respect.

It's A Living! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 November 2014 21:38 (eleven years ago)


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