A 62-year-old Jersey City man who is a look-alike of Bill Cosby says the resemblance has been a fun part of his life since he was 16-years-old and a bus load of female students from Peru began shouting “Scotty,” the nickname for Cosby’s character "Alexander Scott" in the “I Spy” television show.

“It was the ticket for me my friends to start hanging out with these girls,” said Ken Martin of the 1968 incident in Miami where he was working as a copy boy for Time Magazine at the Republican National Convention.

Martin, of Harrison Avenue, said at least once a week someone says to him, “’Has anyone ever told you you look like Bill Cosby?’ It is a good icebreaker and I never have to think about how to get into a flow because there is always someone says ‘You remind me of Bill Cosby.’”

Martin said when he walks in Manhattan “People yell, ‘Hey Bill’” and he said on a recent trip to the Hyatt Regency at Exchange Place in Jersey City, the maitre d' greeted him and his wife saying “Right this way to your table Mr. Cosby.” When he stops for a trim his, barber shouts, “Cosby is here.”

Martin is a big fan of Cosby and said being associated with him has always been positive but sometimes people can be overly persistent in their belief that he is Cosby.

“One incident, I was in Seattle where my son lives and we were on the top of the Space Needle and a woman kept following me around asking ‘Are you sure you’re not Bill Cosby?’ I think she thought I was blowing her off. I told her ‘I’m not going to give you his autograph. I’m not him.”

Martin said he planned to meet the star when Cosby was at Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City around the time of the last presidential election “but I got nervous and I donated the money to Obama. Maybe I’ll meet him some other time. I am very committed to my political causes, like WomenRising, the environment.”

WomenRising is a Hudson County organization dedicated to helping women and their families achieve self-sufficiency. Martin’s wife, Christine Martin, is on the board of WomenRising and is a past president of the organization.

“It has been fun,” said Martin, who works as an independent associate for a green energy company selling solar and wind power. “If you looked like someone not well liked, it might be annoying, but everyone likes Bill Cosby, so to me it’s an honor to be associated with someone of that caliber.”

Martin said he is a big fan of Jell-O too.