You should watch Bernie Sanders find out Larry David is his cousin

Larry David and Bernie Sanders are family now
You should watch Bernie Sanders find out Larry David is his cousin
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Of course, Larry David and Bernie Sanders are actually distant cousins, we learned that this summer. But we never actually saw them find out. Until now.

Finding Your Roots, a series on PBS, posted a video Tuesday of Sanders and David’s actually finding out this pretty unsurprising news. And now we can see the lack of shock on their faces as the comedian and the politician learn they have a lot more in common than just being on Saturday Night Live.

It all makes sense in some twisted ironic sort of way after Larry David impersonated Sanders with a few brilliant sketches on the late night sketch show.

“What the hell,” said Larry David on the PBS show, after flipping through the book and seeing a photo of Bernie Sanders.

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Bernie Sanders' reaction was: “They talk about Larry David and I say he does a better Bernie Sanders than I do.”

Cousins from another mother.

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There are some noticeable similarities in both men. They look somewhat alike and they both have the ability to dig into any topic with an impassioned speech. They both seem very grumpy. And they both are preetttyyy pretttyyyyy pretttyyyyyyy Democratic.

It seems like Larry David is going to refer to Sanders as “Cousin Bernie” from now on.

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