Althouse: "I've been confused for Anthony Weiner twice now. I don't know how this keeps happening."

May 29, 2014

"I've been confused for Anthony Weiner twice now. I don't know how this keeps happening."

Oh, Paul Ryan, please don't put that image in my head.

Have you ever been mistaken for a celebrity (or if you are a celebrity, for some other celebrity)? If so, what do you do? My father used to get mistaken for Frank Sinatra. He gave autographs!

43 comments:

Eric the Fruit Bat said...: A woman once mistook me for George Clooney so I had sex with her.; 5/29/14, 10:52 AM
Left Bank of the Charles said...: Does Anthony Weiner ever get mistaken for Paul Ryan? That would be funny.

I was mistaken for Michael Moore while wearing a baseball cap and talking on my cell phone in line for tickets to Fahrenheit 9/11 at the Harvard Square Theater.

Michael Moore apparently was then at the level of celebrity where people assumed he had to buy tickets to see his own movie and stand on line to get them.; 5/29/14, 11:14 AM
Humperdink said...: Several people have commented that I resemble Marty Schottenheimer (former NFL head coach). I didn't think much of it until I was once leaving a Pittsburgh Penguin hockey game and someone asked for my autograph. I laughed like crazy and advised them I wasn't the guy.; 5/29/14, 11:21 AM
Lnelson said...: Took my dog to the vet once, he got nervous and mistook my leg for a fire hydrant.; 5/29/14, 11:32 AM
Unknown said...: Depending on the state of my 'stasche, I get mostly Sam Elliot's, some Dale Earnhardts, ant the occasional Jeff Foxworthy.

Once when I was bald-faced, I got a Tom Petty. Go figger; 5/29/14, 11:41 AM
Wilbur said...: Not a case of mistaken idenity, but 40 years ago I sported a thin mustache. My friends' mothers all told me I looked just like Ronald Colman, an actor.

There was no Internet then to search for his image, so it took me a while to find out what he looked like.; 5/29/14, 12:04 PM
mtrobertsattorney said...: Aaron Rodgers, yes. But Anthony Weiner?????; 5/29/14, 12:04 PM
Headless Blogger said...: Robert Gibbs. I respond with a profanity.; 5/29/14, 12:28 PM
George M. Spencer said...: Awesome performance by Prof. Althouse's father.

That's Life; 5/29/14, 12:34 PM
Expat(ish) said...: I am rarely mistaken for someone famous, but I am often told I look like someone else in their life.

Rarely for a woman, though.

-XC; 5/29/14, 12:36 PM
Bob Boyd said...: Was Ryan confused for Weiner on twitter or in person?; 5/29/14, 12:38 PM
Forbes said...: Dennis Quaid, when I was younger (we're about the same age)--my buddies would tell the interloper they must've meant Randy Quaid. More recently, elderly women thought I was Robert Wagner, after my hair turned gray (and he was doing those TV ads for reverse mortgages). Kinda funny.; 5/29/14, 12:46 PM
Amexpat said...: For some reason, I'm often told that I'm the spitting image of a celebrity or someone the person knows. The odd thing is that there's a big difference in the celebrities; Richard Gere, Leonard Cohen,Paul Simon, Chevy Chase and George W. Bush.; 5/29/14, 1:04 PM
Beorn said...: "Folks constantly mistake me for Jesus Christ!"

-Barack H. Obama; 5/29/14, 1:09 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: "Oh, Paul Ryan, please don't put that image in my head."

What - that he's a dick?; 5/29/14, 1:27 PM
richard mcenroe said...: Heck, can't blame the people. We confused him with a conservative, and not an amnesty-pimping Republican.; 5/29/14, 1:28 PM
Strelnikov said...: I am constantly called "Wolf Blitzer" by total strangers.

This is not a good thing.; 5/29/14, 1:29 PM
richardsson said...: I was once mistaken for Richard Dreyfuss, but I am frequently mistaken for other ordinary people. Once when I was walking through the Atlanta airport, a woman shouted at me, "Michael! Michael! Don't you know your own mother?" I said, "Yes, I do. But, you're not my mother." She said, "Oh, I'm so sorry."; 5/29/14, 1:44 PM
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SJ said...: There was a time when I gained a nickname at a new job. Apparently, I looked like one of the characters from the TV Show Happy Days.

Didn't get me any benefits, though.

(Except for an education about Happy Days, which I was not familiar with.); 5/29/14, 1:49 PM
Malesch Morocco said...: It was William Hurt for me. But that was a long time ago and we've both aged a bit since then. And no, I didn't have sex with him.; 5/29/14, 1:53 PM
David said...: Ryan just needs to be sure his fly is zipped up when he goes out.

That should fix the problem.; 5/29/14, 1:55 PM
Anonymous said...: Because Ryan is bland, forgettable.; 5/29/14, 1:59 PM
Carter Wood said...: Acquaintances say I should apply for all the Phillip Seymour Hoffman roles that have opened up. Which is their nice way of saying I should go on a diet.; 5/29/14, 2:20 PM
J Lee said...: Actually, I think Weiner facially looks like an older version of Johnny Manziel, minus the ability to scramble out of trouble. Not sure and don't care to know if any other body parts look like Johnny Manziel.; 5/29/14, 3:01 PM
Quaestor said...: A woman once mistook me for Eric the Fruit Bat, but I told her I was Eric the Half-a-Bee.

She said, "That's even better!"

So we had sex.; 5/29/14, 3:28 PM
John Stodder said...: I think this is what the kids call a "humblebrag."; 5/29/14, 3:53 PM
damikesc said...: My ex fiancee looked a lot like Demi Moore. I fucking hate Demi Moore.; 5/29/14, 3:59 PM
Rosalyn C. said...: By celebrity I assume you mean someone in the public sphere. But I do have had people come up to me and insist I look just like a cousin or aunt. I mean this has happened at least a dozen times in many different places. That doesn't happen to most people, does it?; 5/29/14, 4:00 PM
Illuninati said...: I kept looking for the reason for her radical change but found no clue. Is her biological clock chiming?; 5/29/14, 4:10 PM
Quaestor said...: A woman once mistook me for George Clooney...

Actually this is nothing to boast about. Studies show that most members of the family Pteropodidae have been mistaken for George Clooney. Scientists believe this may be an example of convergent evolution.; 5/29/14, 4:19 PM
dbp said...: I had more than one person claim that I bore an uncanny resemblance to Joe Montana. They never mistook me for him though--I was half a foot shorter and was maybe 80 lbs lighter, back when the comparison was made.; 5/29/14, 4:34 PM
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...: What the what? Weiner is a toad and Paul Ryan is hot.

Did this post have your masculine beauty tag? I forgot to look.; 5/29/14, 5:06 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Ron Howard. Someone once made a shirt for me with Ron's pic and the words "My Ginger."

The shirt was too small and pic way too close to the neckline, but the thought counts.; 5/29/14, 5:09 PM
Tank said...: I've met several people who look like me. None famous.

Mrs. Tank assures me that I do not look like Robert Redford or Paul Newman.; 5/29/14, 7:37 PM
donald said...: I had helluva year ride with a girl that looked like Jaclyn Smith, with the bangingest body I will ever know.

Great gal, got rid of me, had a great life. Can't knock that.; 5/29/14, 8:40 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: My niece was teaching English for a year on some back-of-beyond island in the Solomon's. One day she showed the class a photograph of her six uncles. "Die Hard! Die Hard!" they exclaimed, pointing at me in the photo. Could have been worse, I guess.; 5/29/14, 8:54 PM
effinayright said...: Back before PC kicked in, and when I was a young guy with a moustache, people said I looked like the Frito Bandito.

I ditched the 'stache.; 5/29/14, 10:11 PM
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A to the C said...: Some friends of my wife & mine once played a game via email in which we named who would play each other in a biopic of our lives. Our friends all picked Henry Rollins for me. I thought, "Okay, that's not so terrible." My wife, however, picked Paul Giamotti for me (she swears she went for a personality match, rather than looks). Fuck that game.; 5/30/14, 6:21 AM
Mr. Forward said...: My dog thinks I'm God.; 5/30/14, 6:26 AM
Robt C said...: Quaestor @ 4:19 -- LOL well done; 5/30/14, 7:34 AM
Strelnikov said...: "My ex fiancee looked a lot like Demi Moore. I fucking hate Demi Moore."

You do? Have a you had a chance to do it more than once? Maybe you just need practice.; 5/30/14, 9:42 AM