Editing Larry David (section)

==== Portrayal of Bernie Sanders ====
Since 2015, David has made multiple guest appearances portraying 2016 and 2020 United States presidential election candidate [[Bernie Sanders]] on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''; he also hosted the show on February 6, 2016, with musical guest [[The 1975]] and a cameo by Sanders himself, and on November 4, 2017, with musical guest [[Miley Cyrus]].

In 2017, [[PBS]]'s ''[[Finding Your Roots]]'' discovered through genealogical research that David and Sanders are distantly related. Sanders told David the news. "I was very happy about that," David said, according to ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''. "I thought there must have been some connection." The comedian explained that Sanders is "a third cousin or something".<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/bernie-sanders-is-related-to-snl-doppelganger-larry-david-122355/ |title=Bernie Sanders Is Related to 'SNL' Doppelganger Larry David |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |first=Joyce |last=Chen |date=July 27, 2017 |access-date=March 20, 2019 |archive-date=November 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101195244/https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/bernie-sanders-is-related-to-snl-doppelganger-larry-david-122355/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="variety" /> He is in fact David's sixth cousin once removed.<ref name="variety"/><ref name="Worland"/><ref name="npr.org"/><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.thewrap.com/snl-larry-david-returns-bernie-sanders-campaign-postmortem/ |title= 'SNL': Larry David Returns as Bernie Sanders for a Campaign Postmortem From His Living Room |website= [[TheWrap]] |date= April 11, 2020 |access-date= May 20, 2020 |archive-date= June 1, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200601200136/https://www.thewrap.com/snl-larry-david-returns-bernie-sanders-campaign-postmortem/ |url-status= live }}</ref>

On January 8, 2020, David joked on ''[[The Late Show with Stephen Colbert]]'', "I would say, I would beg him [Bernie] to drop out so I don't have to keep flying in from Los Angeles to do ''SNL''. I thought when he had the heart attack that would be it, I wouldn't have to fly in from Los Angeles. But, you know, he's indestructible. Nothing stops this man!" He later added, "If he wins, do you know what that's going to do to my life? Do you have any idea? I mean, it will be great for the country—great for the country, terrible for me."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/larry-david-tells-colbert-president-bernie-sanders-would-be-great-for-the-country-terrible-for-me|title=Larry David: President Bernie Sanders Would Be 'Great for the Country, Terrible for Me'|work=The Daily Beast|first=Matt|last=Wilstein|date=January 9, 2020|access-date=March 4, 2021|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308120727/https://www.thedailybeast.com/larry-david-tells-colbert-president-bernie-sanders-would-be-great-for-the-country-terrible-for-me|url-status=live}}</ref>