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November 22, 2024 11:42 AM

Jeremy Allen White lookalike contest in Chicago draws more than 50 participants, won by Glenview therapist

See also: Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, and Timothy Chalamet, plus an obligatory chin-scratching trend piece or two

posted by chavenet (19 comments total)

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posted by AlSweigart at 11:48 AM on November 22 [2 favorites]

Chicago has really taken to The Bear, which is kind of fun in some respects but if you were a regular patron of, say, Mr Beef or Kasama, the lines are insane now. There are tourists coming to town just to hit all the restaurants shown in the series. I'm sure Ever is now booked into oblivion as well.
posted by JoeZydeco at 11:57 AM on November 22 [5 favorites]

the 21st century is so delightfully strange in some ways
posted by Kitteh at 12:12 PM on November 22 [6 favorites]

You must mention the grand prize: $50 and a pack of cigarettes
Somehow this warms my heart more than it ought to
posted by St. Peepsburg at 12:12 PM on November 22 [11 favorites]

British show The Last Leg is also having a multiple-episode Keir Starmer lookalike contest, with four people competing each week. The winner of each advances to a semifinals and then they will pick the winner.

The winner of one episode's contest was a dog.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 12:32 PM on November 22 [7 favorites]

Dear therapist: I have really appreciated our work together but I really feel like my mental health needs will be better served by the hot therapist who looks like The Bear. Sincerely, Every straight lady in therapy in Chicago.
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 12:37 PM on November 22 [12 favorites]

Because the bragging rights are priceless
posted by St. Peepsburg at 12:40 PM on November 22 [1 favorite]

Not fair for Jeremy Allen White to win his own look alike contest!
posted by Carillon at 12:43 PM on November 22 [2 favorites]

Dolly Parton famously entered a lookalike contest and lost it. Charlie Chaplin supposedly did but Snopes says they can't make ruling.
posted by SaltySalticid at 1:06 PM on November 22 [3 favorites]

Duolingo posted an “Emo girl from Duolingo lookalike contest”. Made me chuckle.
posted by misterpatrick at 2:26 PM on November 22 [1 favorite]

Adele in an Adele contest

Also, in my Chicago days I met a lot more guys who looked like Richie than looked like Carmy. My best friend's husband could win a Cousin Richie in 10 More Years contest.
posted by Sweetie Darling at 4:55 PM on November 22 [3 favorites]

I want more abstract look-a-like contests. I'm not interested in who looks like an actual guy I can already look at a picture of. I want to know who looks most like a birdsong. Who looks most like a tree. Who looks like a steak knife.
posted by phooky at 5:47 PM on November 22 [11 favorites]

I think Jeremy Allen White looks like a young Robert Mitchum. Look up pictures of Mitchum when he was young.
posted by SoberHighland at 6:23 PM on November 22 [6 favorites]

I'm going to host a Andy Garcia lookalike contest in Denver because of my major nostalgia for Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead and because I would like a husband.
posted by alex_skazat at 7:23 PM on November 22 [5 favorites]

I think Jeremy Allen White looks like a young Robert Mitchum.

I think he looks way more like Gene Wilder - and so do the people who do some of those clickbaity ads you see mixed in with the thumbnails on news sites. There's one I see a lot that has a picture of Wilder as Willy Wonka next to White in a still from The Bear, with a link to an article about "twelve celebrities who are the mirror image of their famous grandparents" or something.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 5:07 AM on November 23 [3 favorites]

And Chalamet showed up at his own look a like competition
posted by atomicstone at 9:40 AM on November 23

Young Robert Mitchum wears the signs that he will become grown Robert Mitchum all over his face. He doesn't have enough of that "about to burst into tears/sweet tiny huge-eyed baby squirrel all alone in the world needs your love to survive" quality that makes J.A.W. so disabling.
posted by Don Pepino at 11:36 AM on November 23 [2 favorites]

Well this is delightful. Also, TIL that Carson Daly is a host on the Today Show.
posted by bluloo at 4:33 PM on November 23

I’ve never heard Adele speak before but now I’m starting to think that she’s probably a hell of a lot of fun to hang out with.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 8:52 PM on November 23