Roughly once a month I'm accused of being 'funnyman' Alan Davies.

It's a game to see how long it takes before someone tells me I'm just like Hugh Laurie. My record was thirty seconds after sitting down in the hotel bar.

I'm not Hugh Laurie.

I didn't want to post first for fear of appearing incredibly self-involved if no-one else replied...

A few years ago, I was often told I looked like Adam Brody aka Seth Cohen from The OC - this is a good thing.

Nowadays, my only comparison seems to be Stephen Mangan - this is not a good thing (especially as he is repeatedly compared to the donkey from Shrek in Green Wing).

I claimed to be the tall Frank Black, but I think I'm probably more like the (slightly) thinner Pink Eye:

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My sister in law once saw an old school photo of me when aged 11. Pudgy, speccy and with a fringe only a mother could love.

She thought I looked like Grange Hill's Roland, or Ro-land as his adoring little girlfriend referred to him.

I did not, and do not, look like Ro-land.

Nevertheless Ro-land I am to my sister in law.

Equally I think she looks like the Mayor of Hooville's wife in 'Horton Hears a Hoo' so that shuts her up.

Peter Tork, a younger version of Jonathan Ross / Rodger Hodgson / James May, Derek Smalls... also "Trevor From Eastenders".

Antilles, better known as actor Denis Lawson. When I was younger it was Andrew McCarthy.

In both Florida and New York in the 1990's I was stopped by people who thought I was Paul Shaffer

In the past I was asked for my autograph at a Stackridge gig (more than once) after being mistaken for my hero James Warren (front of picture)

How my daughters see me *sigh*

So if you think you see any of these characters at Mott The Hoople on the Saturday night...it will be me!

... it's Vic Reeves. It used to be Chris Evans, and I get a fair bit of Alan Carr as well.

Unsuprisingly, I wear glasses. If I got some Sven-style rimless jobs, it would all stop.

Someone once told me I looked like Lenny Henry as well...

About 100,000,000 times a day.

Google him.

A 'friend' told me I went from looking like Paddy (the thin security guard in Phoenix Nights) to looking like Max (the other one) in the space of two years. Which I thought was a little cruel.

...and when she answered the door she said "either Ian Botham has come around for a cup of tea, or you are my long lost nephew".

The original one from the 80s, that is. The updated one just isn't the same.

Pete From Cold Feet, Fast Show etc - that's me!

Shrek, according to one 'entertainer' who shall remain nameless. Cuh. He's no oil painting himself.

… I was constantly accused by the populace of looking like Adam Sandler.

In four week's time I am embarking on my second trip and will see if the same thing happens again.

In honour of the above poster...

25 odd years back, without the extra carriage, I was a dead ringer. Lost count over the amount of times I was told to "Just Say No" and had tin foil passed to me. When hugely pissed off with it, I did sign a couple of autographs outside Ealing Broadway station on said Zammo's behalf that were not essentially complementary and used a level of language that I would not be proud of...

Was heartened to see on a fairly recent reunion type show that Zammo had similarly put on the pounds. Then disheartened when he joined Celebrity Thin Club and lost a load (which I didn't!)...must try harder...

AND in a very spooky twilight zone twist, my next door neighbour, in deepest south Essex 6 or 7 years ago, ended up being the actress who played Fay Lucas

although he's now somewhat thinner than I. The git.

I was once told I resemble former Egyptian president Bani-Sadr. Nope, me neither. Oddly, I once saw one (and only one) photo of Keanu Reeves when I and my girlfriend of the time did a double take. To my knowledge, he's never been mistaken for me.

... only far, far less handsome.

Kyle Maclachlan was another observation, as was Damon Albarn (back in my early 20's).

Could never see it myself.

EDIT: 15/10/09

With added beard

between Jamie Cullum and a Hobbit. A jazz hobbit

...and thus have been likened to EVERY FAMOUS REDHEAD EVER:

Carol Decker, Bianca from Eastenders, Rula Lenska, Molly Ringwald, Elizabeth 1st, Jane Fonda (huge compliment from very drunk, borderline blind man), Her out of Poldark etc etc.

However, I'm mostly told that I look like Sigourney Weaver - same stature, fright wig, and determined jaw.

Get it often, in various forms, e.g.,
Walking in The Lake District: car passes me and the wife, screeches to a stop, reverses, window wound down... "Are you Art Malik ? "
Swimming pool in Tuscany: Man wades over..."My wife thinks you're Art Malik...you're not, are you ? "

a pie-eating Ming The Merciless

It's a hard life.

from Full Metal Jacket. At least I did when I was 16 and had my head shaved.

Which really isn't a great look for a girl.

... so I have had Moby, Michael Stipe, Jimmy Somerville, Bob Hoskins, William Hague and Jason Donovan among many others depending on how the scales are tipping.

Currently I am unfortunately looking very Hague-ish.

... several relatives (including my wife) think I look like John Cusack. Depends on how long/short my hair is apparently...

was convinced that I was the chap who plays the bass guitar for the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain. Didn’t know whether to be flattered or insulted. And still don’t.

I've been told I reminded people of Lenin, Jack Nicholson, and Quentin Wilson (car pundit). At no time have I ever fomented revolution, attacked doors with axes or spoken in car-trader-speak, to the best of my knowledge.

Yep - I look like a rectangular bar of off-white chocolate (well something closely related to that).

Mind you, a doorman in Dublin thought I looked like Harry Potter a few years back, which, given my hair colour, was a bit odd.

apparently

and I was trying to look so rock too

i look like Graham from the Jeremy Kyle show. You wouldn't believe the amount of domestics i've had to sort out in pubs.

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a picture of me in a restaurant in Chennai with a group of much smaller/thinner Indian colleagues.

'Family Guy' was her response! Cruel- telling her about my much younger and larger brother didn't help.

in fact we walked passed each other shopping in Loblaws supermarket and both did a double take,curiously he was wearing the same jacket..I was better looking though..but a far worst guitar player!

Nicholas bloody Lyndhurst. I'm not even particularly tall.

Gerard Depardieu, though I've also had Milton Jones and James May mentioned on occasion. Form a queue, ladies.

with a hint of Bono.

About 20 years ago a bloke came up to me in a pub, pointed at me and said, "Hurrr! Look! It's Tanita Tikaram!"
About 10 years later another bloke in another pub told me I looked like John Lennon. "I'm not saying you're not gorgeous, but you do look like John Lennon." Needless to say, this approach didn't succeed.

Jeff Goldblum (and can I head this off at the pass: NOT as the fly) or occasionally Dave Gahan. now I am too much of a greying fat biffa for that. And those two gents are still looking good. Must find out who did their paintings in the attic.

Morphine looks like this

Actor Dustin Diamond apparently. I'm OK with it, since I think I look like Vincent Cassel...

and varyingly Jim Davidson and much more complimentary and accurate!!! Steve McQueen. Of course all of these comparisons were pre the middle aged weight gain but now apparently I am Kevs Dad out of Coronation Street.
We played this game at work and I got a thick ear for suggesting my sales coordinator looked like Muriel out of Muriels Wedding. She wont let me forget my error which was made more than 10 years ago when she had temporary weight gain.

about ten years ago, for Steven Malkmus from Pavement.

I am now, alas, fatter than that.

Seriously. We're the same age, and from about 1993 onwards (or whenever Heavenly Creatures was released) I'd always get people telling me that I looked like Kate Winslet.

Admittedly, these days (two kids on) I look like a pudgy Kate Winslet.

I have the nose of Elvis Presley accordingly to my good lady wife, circa 1976 Elvis that is. That's where the similarity ends however (apart from the stomach and the penchant for burgers and toilets) Still...it's got to be better than having Michael Jackson's nose.

Cash In The Attic bloke, Paul Hayes...

There probably is a similarity, and, no, I don't watch it.

When I was a moody teenager, I got this from my English teacher...

(I wish)

A few years ago, a work colleague made this observation...

(I think he needed new glasses. Or he fancied me...)

I felt the need to add these two. I mean, the bloke from Cash In The Attic. F*ck's sake... What's that doing to my self esteem?

The lost years, unfortunately, rather than his recent rehabilitation, because he got thin again and I didn't, but there's still enough of a resemblence to attract double takes whenever I'm in the States.

We both have curly hair so every few months I get told I look like him. I don't. At all. We just both have curly hair.

I hate Queen btw. So does my wife.

One night in a pub in Manchester, Mike Atherton spent five minutes being rambled at by a couple of drunken medical students who though he was my mate Justin.

when I was 16 I wanted to look like Bowie, but was told it was Les McKeown out of the Rollers; later I was told I looked like Michael Palin, later still it was Brian Clough. The worst was a security pass photo when I was told I looked like Robbie Coltrane, "Only fatter". Best is David Lynch. If you can make a link between all these bastards I'd like to hear it. When I was younger I had a drink with one of my college tutors who remarked, "You have a remarkably esoteric face" What the dickens does that mean> Mind you, he died of a failed liver a few years later

Charlie Nicholas, the footballer

The height, build and cleft lip point towards Richard Hawley, but it all goes wrong when you consider my receding and greying hairline, a lack of eyewear and an utter inability to hold a tune. So perhaps not.

We've a friend who is scarily similar to Dave Grohl. Furthermore you never see them in the same place at the same time!

Being a regular on the Sheffield club scene I was asked several times for Martin Fry's autograph. Then the hair fell out and I was told I looked like Michael Stipe (never saw that one really.

Now the waist has expanded and the beard has arrived it's sadly Santa....

Pretty soon now my transformation will be complete and I´ll be the spitting image of Bob Hope

I was told I looked like Paul Nicholas from Just Good Freinds, once by a waitress from one of those "School Dinners" places (great night). Age and wear and tear left me looking like Justin from The Darkness but with better teeth. Now I am hanging on to my hair and waiting for the wife to tell me I have gone completely Bill Bailey so baldness awaits. I love growing old........

....Was once refused to me here in Chester as the bouncer on the door thought I was Roy Wood.

This begged some obvious questions: As I didn't at that time sport multi coloured hair or any obvious musical talent, how was the judgement that I must be Mr. Wood made?

What had Roy Wood done in order to have been barred from this Cestrian night club?

Why has this never happened before or since?

I do sport a Word Cover beard that is, to my mind, our only point of similarity!

every time someone mentions her resemblance to Stephen Fry. I don't see it and maintain that she has the air of Drew Barrymore about her, but someone once substituted her work pass photo for a picture of Courtney Love and even she didn't notice for three days.

from the Moody Blues when I was younger, people mistake me for Robert Elms these days. Although I'm not ginger.

Typically follows the phrase 'do you know who you remind me of', or 'that bloke from The Office' as it's usually put - but have had Colin Firth mentioned a couple of times..which shocked me more as I thought they were talking about Colin Welland

A tipsy Scottish girl told me I "reminded her" of Hugh Grant. It didnt get me anywhere with her and it must have been my manner rather than looks, but I lived on the compliment for quite a while. Blurred female eyesight is wonderful.

But to come crashing back to earth another young lady told me a few years later that I looked like one half of Beavis and Butthead.

And finally I recall vaguely that some bloke once told me I reminded him of Ives from The Great Escape (the short Scottish bloke who breaks out with Steve McQueen and gets shot on the barbed wire).

Actually, I just look like me.

When Sir Bob was at the height of his Band Aid/Live Aid fame, I was a teenager and was told frequently that there was a likeness there. Girls used to come up to me on the street and everything. No-one actually thought I *was* him, but strangers sometimes felt the need to share.

It seemed that all I had to do was swear in an Irish accent and big laughs ensued. However, the spell was broken by a senior work colleague who agreed that it was a good impression but there was one problem, "Bob Geldof doesn't have acne". Everyone laughed (including me) but inwardly I was incredibly hurt.

Following on from the Rodney Trotter comments further up, a young girl I was looking after on my very first ward as a fresh faced student nurse told me that I looked like "him off the telly". Unfortunately it turned out to be Rodney Trotter. I don't think I looked anything like him.

Fast forward 20 years though and every time I see John Profumo turn up on one of those documentaries about the sixties it's like looking in a ruddy mirror!

From Aberdeen to London when a gentleman adjacent alighted somewhere along the line.I found myself staring at him.He looked the spitting image of Jimmy Hill.he noticed me staring and I could detect the groan of mistaken identity upon his face.I guess for some people,the resemblance to a famous personage is just a hassle they could do without. However if you happen to be famous in actuality,then you've raised your head above water.Let the sport begin!

Once got filthy scowls from Alan Davies at Highbury after shouting "Jonathan Creek! Jonathan Creek!" at him for over five minutes with no initial response. The thing is, that's what she calls him, and honestly thought she was shouting at my B-i-L at the time.

Of The Tragically Hip.

At a gig recently a girl told me I was a young John Martyn . I then upset her by telling her he was dead .

Honest to God, when I showed my girlfriend the picture of Jim James in the new issue, she shrieked.

once told a younger me that I looked like Boy George.

And if that wasn't bad enough on reflection I was able to see what she meant (it is/was a nose/double-chin thing - make-up was not involved).

Joseph Fiennes

Least flattering, Bob Monkhouse.

In between: Ayrton Senna, Gary Wilmot (err, I'm not actually black), Clive Owen and Dermot Murnaghan (probably the closest)

But only when its reaaly dark.

has, for those of us who've posted pictures of ourselves, rendered this thread somewhat redundant. How many are now going to change their profile pics now they're so prominent?

I'm not, BTW. I'm gorgeous me.

Tom Green's former sidekick, Glen Humplick and one of my friends say I look like early 90's period Krist Novoselic. I think I look like a fatter version of '68 - '69 period Paul McCartney.

Chesney Hawkes at the height of his one hit wonder - I had a whole pub sing "I am the one and only" at me, after seemingly weeks of piss takes.

Kurt Cobain - women of a certain age saw a (slim) similarity. I nurtured this with wearing Nirvana t-shirts and cardigans, i was young and I stopped as soon as he shuffled off this mortal coil.

Recently its been remarked that I resemble the singer out of Kasabian. But shorter. And Welsh.

depending on weight (currently lardy) and floppiness of hair I've had
Dec out of Ant and Dec; Paul Merton or Matthew Perry.

And apparently I look just like the brother of Lindsay who works down the Blood Donor Clinic

I was once mistaken for Tim Burgess

More recently Charlie Brooker *CLANG* described me as a cross between Edwyn Collins and Stewart Lee (with "half the brain of a baby and half the brain of a cow stapled together and steeped in brandy" - he didn't meet me on a good day).

I have a sneaking suspicion that when people comment that I resemble the following it's borderline racist, i.e. 'they all look the same, don't they?' ;-)

Alex 'Big Eck' McLeish (although I'm somewhat wee-er than him)

Mo Johnston, history-making Scottish footballer (although I'm somewhat less history-making than him), currently managing MLS side Toronto FC

Also Simon Pegg, weirdly, although I canny see it masel'...

why am I doing this? my (later) best mate said on my first day at college that I looked the spitting image of Lord Charles, the ventriloquist dummy of Ray Alan, minus monacle. At least it wasn't Titch or Quackers

to be sitting in Bangkok Airport a few weeks ago and a young Asian woman sitting opposite me held up a copy of a magazine and showed me a photo of Cameron Diaz and said "She look like you"

An older fatter balder version no doubt.

One that was perhaps more on the money was some years ago involving a long forgotten tennis player. I was walking down the street and a lunatic grabbed my arm and demanded an autograph. I said "Who do you think I am?" and the bloke apologised and said "I'm sorry but until you opened your mouth I thought you were Gene Mayer"

I mentioned that incident to a friend once when Mayer was playing on TV and the friend said,"I can't say I'm surprised"