One of the true delights of the last election cycle (and boy were they few and far between) was Larry David's hilarious and pitch-perfect take on Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday Night Live. Part of why it was so great, was that it never seemed like David was acting much. After all, the Curb Your Enthusiasm star is famous for being hilariously crotchety and irritable, two qualities that are not unlike a certain Senator from Vermont.

Well, in an excellent bit of news, today we've learned that maybe there's a reason Sanders' schtick came so natural to the Seinfeld creator. It turns out Larry and Bernie are related.

According to CNN, on an upcoming episode of PBS's Finding Your Roots, a series where celebrities get surprising tours through their family trees, Larry David will learn that he and Bernie Sanders are actually, as Larry put it to the Television Critics Association, "like a third cousin or something." Now, look, I've never been great at deciphering some of these distant family connections work. Like what's the difference between "third cousins" and "a cousin three times removed"? I don't know. But I do know that it feels like if you dig deep enough, you can find that we're all related to George Washington or "third cousins or something" with George Clooney.

That said, this one feels more legit than that kid at college who claimed to be a descendant of Abe Lincoln. There's a reason why Larry was able to do a version of Curb Your Enthusiasm with Bernie as the main character and it felt exactly like his regular show.

I can't wait for video from what will certainly be the most irritable family reunion this country has ever seen.

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