I share a name with a very famous professional athlete. I don’t even think about it usually but as soon as I have to give my name to someone I can pretty much count on some remark about the athlete by the same name.
I’ve dealt with this in many ways over the years but my most recent method is to pretend to have never heard of that famous person by the same name. That makes the conversation awkward and they usually move on.
Also, if you meet someone who shares a name with a celebrity, keep these things in mind:
- There is nothing you can say about it that is funny or clever. We have heard it all before. Just don’t.
- If you do have something to say about it that is truly original and absolutely hilarious, see the previous rule.
I went through something similar.
I realized that a Japanese dishwashing powder company is using my face as its logo.
Well there’s your answer, fishbulb.
What’s really fun is looking like a celebrity. Dear old Dad looks like a very well known actor, possibly one who is famous for driving a silver Dodge truck in a cop propoganda TV show and being talked about in Barrens chat.
I’ve managed to avoid being confused for the same person by having long hair. Now I look like Jesus.
When Chuck Norris does push-ups, he doesn’t push himself up. He pushes the world down.
Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep…he waits.
Only Chuck Norris can use a copy machine and get an original.
Chuck Norris sleeps with a pillow under his gun.
Chuck Norris doesn’t wear a watch because Chuck Norris decides what time it is.
My cousin apparently looked like Chris Brown when we were younger (before the whole Rihanna beating stuff) but I never saw the resemblance.
But we went to a Game Crazy (now you know how long ago it was) and I remember some girls pointing at him and giggling saying “look it’s Chris Brown! Who’s that next to him though?”
The first time I showed my wife Alan Alda, she was so freaked out cause he looked like a clone of her dad.
Alan Alda looks like every upper class democrat who proudly flies a coexist sticker on the back of his car but goes on self righteous, semi racist tirades at Starbucks bitching about how black people cost Hillary the election
Good burn. Take my upvote. Let us hope Alda sees this. He would be hurt, yet impressed.
I share a name with a professional hockey player that’s not too known, but kinda known in my province.
When I search my name in Google, I’m not in the first page. That’s about it. Most people don’t know that player anyway.
Gotta be Dale Hawerchuk.
Hahahaha no. Much, much less known.
I share a name with a major fast food mascot, so I just refer to myself as Mac.
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Hamburgler?
I have two middle names, and they are exactly the same names from a porn star turned politician in my country. Plenty of jokes about it.
The weirdest moment was when a teacher was correcting one of my essays and asked about the origin of my name, after I explained, he mentioned that he liked one of the movies that my name doppelgänger made, I had no answer and just said “ah…” and after some awkward silence he gave me back my essay.
Ilona Staller? Didn’t know Staller is a middle name…
No. But I’ll check her out, thanks ;)
My Dad has the same name as a reasonably famous sports star in a different country. Unfortunately for me when I Google my name it’s just associated with rapists in the US… 😭
Let me guess…Your dad shares a name with hockey star Jack Draper, and he named you Chile after his favourite Jimi Hendrix song?
Why should I change it, he’s the one who sucks.
Calm down, Adolf.
The jokes used to annoy me when I was younger, but now I appreciate the ice breaker they provide and just do a fake laugh and move on
Everyone thinks I sell coke and have tons of money
Hi there Mr. Quincey
Rick Ross?
Hi there Mr. Quincey
Pablo Escobar
My family shares a fairly uncommon surname with a professional athlete we are (as far as we can tell) completely unrelated to.
My father always joked that we should answer “we don’t discuss that” when asked about it, as if there had been some huge falling-out.
I do this when time travel comes up, but more because I get tired of explaining the block universe theory and no one likes a guy that tries to convince them that they don’t have Free Will.
Oh man, don’t you hate it when your social security number is the same as a famous person? Anyways, post your social security numbers ha ha, Lolz, we’re having fun!
I love that my online presence is practically invisible because of the celeb with the same name.
I did get a really spicy email from one of their fans once.
What does spicy mean in this context ? angry ?
Explicitly sexual.
My brother in doppelnamer!!
I share a name with a fairly famous actor with a very uncommon name. After the “wait, is your name really XYZ?” comment I just say “yep, no relation.” with a laugh. I get it about once a week. It used to irritate me but it’s a good icebreaker, and they never forget my name.
I am just grateful he keeps himself out of trouble. Michael Bolton is rough, but no one wants to be the other Jeffrey Epstein.
Yeah, it could be worse. I used to work with a guy who shared a name with some random executive that went on a racist tirade that went public. He had to lock down his social media because of all of the death threats.
Father Johnathan?
A friend of my brother has the same name as a Muppet. Used to haul his ID out in bars and use it as an ice breaker. I mean he could have used “me like you” as an ice breaker, given his physical appearance, so not sure how much of an advantage this gave him.
Edit: just realized I inadvertently imitated Cookie Monster, but it was a different Muppet.
Definitely Elmo
My money’s on Guy Smiley
Wasn’t there an American president named Elmo something?
Well there was president Grover Cleveland; and president Teddy Roosevelt had a son named Kermit. Jim Henson liked to use historical names occasionally for Muppet characters. No Elmos in the White House yet though.
Bobby Benson
… Floyd Pepper?
I have a student named Serena Williams. I asked her the first day if other professors make light of it. She said yes dejectedly and I promised her I wouldn’t. I’ve kept my word so far
Can anyone answer that question?
And we have Serena with the Ace!
It’s terrible. I’m the one who have to deal with the consequences every time that woman makes a bad decision.
She is a great actress though.
Anyone who takes their costume design from Debbie Harry can’t be all bad
I admire the dedication
There are worse people to share a name with haha you lucked out on that one. I guess she still has time to do something awful though
Maybe she’s up to some of her wacky shenanigans again, like making her coworkers wear pink to set every day and fining them if they don’t or pretending to be a fake account of herself to “organically market” her latest movie and mess with a bunch of 30 year old tech workers on an obscure forum just because it’s funny or something.
Who knows.
