Doppelgängland

Mick Jones and Stephen Mangan.



When I was watching the first episode of Free Agents and when I was watching an episode of Would I Lie To You?, my new panel show obsession (whatever, David Mitchell is awesome, ok?), that Stephen Mangan was on I would get weirded out regularly because it was like Mick Jones took a time machine at the height of The Clash's fame, when they weren't so stringent about hair length, traveled to the future and decided to do some comic acting and panel show appearances..

For an example of how they're not alike I was going to say that Mangan didn't seem like the type to (sometimes) front a band but apparently he was in a band. BUT that band was apparently a progressive rock band. So yeah, being in The Clash and being in a prog rock band assures that they fulfill the criteria of looking alike but being different. Although I think Mick Jones would be a lovely Would I Lie to You? guest. Imagine all the true stories he could tell.

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