It's Gadhafi Mania!

Aman Ali, a BoingBoing guest blogger, is the co-author of 30 Mosques, a Ramadan adventure taking him to a different mosque in New York City every day for a month. Leaders from around the world are meeting in New York City this week for the United Nations summit, and nothing could be more entertaining than residents in a ritzy NYC suburb protesting Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi staying in a tent on Donald Trump's estate. My co-workers and I today were trying to figure out who Gadhafi looks like. I won by saying he looked like Mickey Rourke, but in second place was pro-wrestling legend Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka. Can you guys think of any other Gadhafi look-alikes?

Aman Ali is a writer and comic that is not afraid to speak his mind. His jokes cross age, cultural and religious barriers with the intention of bringing people together with his humor.

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horsepj

A touch of John Hurt.
Anonymous

http://brickplayer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/lego_snot_3.JPG
Anonymous

I think he looks like Wild Man Fisher with a funny hat and sunglasses. Take a look at the album cover for “An Evening With Wild Man Fisher” and see what I mean… that would be on Bizarre Records label in around 1970(ish)
Anonymous

I think he looks like a beat poet, especially when you see the pictures of him with his handwritten notes.
Anonymous

He is a cross between Gene Simmons and Michael Jackson.
Oshkosh John

Take off the fez and tribal cloak, replace it with a fucked-up cowboy hat and cowboy suit, and you have Bob Dylan!
Boba Fett Diop

It’s weird how you never see Muammar Gadhafi and Mickey Rourke in the same room together either.
johnocomedy

There’s a little bit of “Macho Man” Randy Savage in him too.

Gadhafi even acts like a pro wrestler sometimes.
Irregular Shed

He looks exactly like each and every character in Bo Selecta rolled into one:

http://www.chamone.tv/site/?cat=5
Anonymous

I think it’s pretty obvious that it’s Carlos Santana.
Anonymous

Damn, I just saw him on CNN and thought it was Carlos Santana.
octopede

I think he looks sort of like a melting Sonia Sotomayor.
Anonymous

Hahahaha David Paterson! I cant believe I didnt see that. Anonymous, whoever you are, I crown you the winner!
Aman Ali

Muammar Ghadafi looks like Mickey Rourke from the movie The Wrestler, Jimmy Snuka is another look alike and a real professional wrestler, named after the 70s movie Superfly, which starred Ron O’Neal, who co-starred in Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze, who is best known for an 80s dance movie… just like Kevin Bacon.
emo hex

Count Olaf
Jim Carrey’s character in
“A Series of Unfortunate Events”
Xopher

Hey, is Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon halal? I mean, the bacon and all.

Just Joshin’. :-)
Anonymous

Sherman Hemsley, from The Jeffersons
DeWynken

I’M RICK JAMES, BITCH! I’LL SET MY DAMN TENT UP WHERE I WANT TOO!
bjacques

Gary Oldman in either The Fifth Element or True Romance.
Timx10

He sort of looks like Edward James Olmos or maybe Danny Trejo. I have o say though, Sonya Sotomayor is a good call.
Anonymous

He looks like he should be
Michael Jackson’s father.
Svenski

Mrs. Garrett from Facts of Life.
Anonymous

he looks like some Richard James masks from the Aphex Twin music videos.
Anonymous

Hitler?
Anonymous

Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon)of Entourage.
Anonymous

an old fugly Inigo Montoya in wraparounds.
Anonymous

Gene Simmons on a bender?
ndollak

Back when the movie “Innerspace” came out, the character called “The Cowboy” was a dead-ringer for Gadhafi at the time.
Aman Ali

HAHAHAHA! Xopher you’re hilarious.

And kudos to whomever said he looks like George Jefferson from The Jeffersons. That has to be the best one yet.
Anonymous

when he dons his white jacket/shoes and shiny shirt he can resemble Rigo Tovar..
Anonymous

Obviously, Dylan.
Anonymous

rosie o donnel with a perm and cheap mustache
Anonymous

In that picture he looks alot like Gene Simmons
benher

I miss his military outfit… Now all I can see him as is Queen Latifa.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Now all I can see him as is Queen Latifa.
  
  Oh, please, someone photoshop him into an ad for CoverGirl.
Anonymous

Bob Dylan via Michael Ian Black, but I figure Bob + Gene Simmons = Gadhafi.
Anonymous

Tony Clifton’s running Libya?
Anonymous

I’m pretty sure he is The guy on the couch from Half-Baked.
Kieran O’Neill

Perhaps the question is “who is he paying his expensive team of plastic surgeons to make him look like”?
Manooshi

I think he looks more like Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka than Mickey Rourke, man.
Francesco Fondi

“Guardian Angel”
Anonymous

Mel Brooks squinting and wearing a ridiculous wig and hat.
Anonymous

The Cowardly Lion, of course!!!!!

http://nostraseamus.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/qaddafi500.jpg

http://adorkablegrrl.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/the-cowardly-lion.jpg
Anonymous

Governer David Patterson of NY…

http://imgur.com/Ye0H7.png
Anonymous

Steven Wright
catsparx

Gary Oldman