“Hey, Tony!”

So much for everyone who knows your name.

Bowl star Ted Danson reveals that he’s often been mistaken for another ’80s and ’90s sitcom leading man – even though they don’t look that much alike.

“It was a period of about five years,” Danson said of her surprising celebrity double on Friday’s episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show. “I’ll tell you who it was, it was Tony Danza.”

Family: A man on the inside star Ted Danson just wants to ‘try to be funny at any age’

While Danson noted that he and Who is the boss? star “doesn’t look alike,” he theorized that their somewhat similar names could cause confusion among fans. “There’s Ted Danson, Tony Danza, must have happened.”

Danson played the famous baseball player turned bartender Sam Malone Bowlwhich ran from 1982 to 1993. Meanwhile, Danza is known for playing housekeeper Tony Micelli (also a former ballplayer) on Who is the boss?which aired from 1984 to 1992.

“The first time (the mix-up) happened to me, I was in New York, and a bunch of construction workers passed by and they said, ‘Hey, Tony,'” Danson recalls. “And I don’t look around. because my name is Ted. And “Hey! Tony Danza! What are you, too good for us now?”

Family: A man on the inside star Ted Danson just wants to ‘try to be funny at any age’

Host Jennifer Hudson asked Danson if he responded.

“No,” he replied. “I just kept going to make sure Tony got some…” He playfully punched his other hand. Danson also said he once signed an autograph with Danza’s name.

Then BowlDanson has gone on to play on such shows as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The good place, Beckerand Mr. Mayor.

His latest project is Netflix show A man on the insidewhere he plays an elderly man hired by a private detective to go undercover at a nursing home suspected of elder abuse.

Family: Mike Schur says it was a “no-brainer” to cast Ted Danson as a nursing home spy A man on the inside

Series creator Mike Schur said it was his producing partner, Morgan Sackett, who first pitched the idea of ​​casting Danson in a 2021 adaptation of the documentary The mole agent.

“It was a simple idea that I guess proves that I have no brain,” Schur joked to EW in September. “Because once the idea was presented to me, it was like, oh, of course we’re doing this. It’s a perfect idea.”