Bernie Sanders: ‘I am Larry David’
Comment came during a prettaaayy prettaaaaayyyyy prettyy good CNN interview
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Your support makes all the difference.From the voice to the gesticulations to the general demeanour - there’s a lot of similarities between Bernie Sanders and Larry David, and now the Democratic presidential candidate has just gone right ahead and admitted they’re the same person.
David is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend and some sort of impression of the Bern and/or reference to the Iowa caucus coin toss is a near certainty.
“I understand Larry David is hosting SNL this weekend - he does a pretty good imitation of you - do you do a Larry David imitation?” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked him during a town hall discussion.
“This is the scoop,” Bernie replied, “I am Larry David.”
Bernie Sanders: "I am Larry David." #DemTownHall pic.twitter.com/NINZNg2p2L
— PolicyMic (@PolicyMic) February 4, 2016
Elsewhere in the debate, Sanders said he would be delighted to run against Donald Trump as it would mean a surefire win.
“Trump is, as you know, a well-known scientist - brilliant scientist,” he joked. “And he has concluded after years of studying the issue that climate change is a hoax brought to us by the Chinese.
“Now, that shocked me, Anderson, because I thought that he would have thought it was a hoax brought to us by the Mexicans or the Muslims - Chinese I didn’t quite get.
“So I think - and I would love the opportunity, frankly, I’m prejudiced - I want Trump to win the Republican nomination. And I would love the opportunity to run against him. I think we would win by a lot.”
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