--- title: Larry David and Bernie Sander Are Related description: The comedian said at a panel promoting the return of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' that he learnt this when filming a PBS show about family roots. canonical: https://time.com/4875960/larry-david-bernie-sanders-related-snl/ author: Kevin Lui article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-27T05:07:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:45:04.428Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Larry David and Bernie Sanders Are Actually Related og:description: The 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' comic found out on an episode of 'Finding Your Roots' og:url: https://time.com/4875960/larry-david-bernie-sanders-related-snl/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbe5a7f5d261eb96/6988d7607cdbac6220d595f4/gettyimages-508930790.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Saturday Night Live - Season 41 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Larry David and Bernie Sanders Are Actually Related twitter:description: The 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' comic found out on an episode of 'Finding Your Roots' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbe5a7f5d261eb96/6988d7607cdbac6220d595f4/gettyimages-508930790.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Larry David and Bernie Sanders Are Actually Related > Sponsored content. 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Larry David and Senator Bernie Sanders during the Feb. 6, 2016 episode of 'Saturday Night Live.'Dana Edelson—NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images by [Kevin Lui](https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Jul 27, 2017 5:07 AM UTC Larry David, who [wowed](http://time.com/4077507/larry-david-snl-bernie-sanders/) _Saturday Night Live_ viewers [during the 2016 election cycle](http://time.com/4211061/bernie-sanders-larry-david-saturday-night-live/) with his [portrayal](http://time.com/4211100/bernie-sanders-larry-david-bern-your-enthusiam/) of Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders, revealed Wednesday that they are actually related. _Variety_ [reports](http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/curb-your-enthusiasm-tca-1202508121/) that the _Seinfeld_ co-creator learned of the family links when he was taking part in the PBS program _Finding Your Roots_, in which celebrities discover previously-unknown branches of their family trees. “I was very happy about that,” the comedian said during an appearance Wednesday at the Television Critics Association press tour, where he was promoting the upcoming [return](http://time.com/4368702/hbo-curb-your-enthusiasm-season-9-larry-david/) of his HBO series _Curb Your Enthusiasm_. He didn’t say in detail how he and Sanders are connected, telling the audience that the former presidential candidate is “a third cousin or something.” David also talked at length about how his _SNL_ stint as the Vermont senator came to be. “During the [first debate](http://time.com/4072553/democratic-debate-transcript-primetime-cnn/) between Bernie and Hillary \[Clinton\], Lorne Michaels (the creator of _SNL_) got emails and calls during the debate, saying that I should be doing Bernie Sanders,” he told the audience. It all started in earnest after the debate, according to David, when talent agent Ari Emanuel “called me up and said, ‘What did you think?'” David told the audience that, “I said ‘You know, it would be a good thing for _Saturday Night Live_,’ not thinking in a million years.” _Curb Your Enthusiasm_ returns on Oct. 1 on HBO. \[[_Variety_](http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/curb-your-enthusiasm-tca-1202508121/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4875960/larry-david-bernie-sanders-related-snl/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4875960/larry-david-bernie-sanders-related-snl/"},"headline":"Larry David and Bernie Sanders Are Actually Related","datePublished":"2017-07-27T05:07:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:45:04.428Z","description":"The 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' comic found out on an episode of 'Finding Your Roots'","url":"https://time.com/4875960/larry-david-bernie-sanders-related-snl/","keywords":["celebrities","Larry David","Bernie Sanders","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbe5a7f5d261eb96/6988d7607cdbac6220d595f4/gettyimages-508930790.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin Lui","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbe5a7f5d261eb96/6988d7607cdbac6220d595f4/gettyimages-508930790.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Saturday Night Live - Season 41","caption":"Saturday Night Live - Season 41","creditText":"Dana Edelson—NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4875960/larry-david-bernie-sanders-related-snl/","name":"Larry David and Bernie Sanders Are Actually Related"}}]}] ```