Ted Danson has a slightly surprising celebrity doppelganger: Tony Danza.

THE Cheers star, 76 years old, revealed in the Thursday, November 21 episode of the Jennifer Hudson Show that he was often confused with Danza, 73, in the 1980s.

“We look nothing alike,” Danson told Hudson, 43, while using his hands to also show off their height difference. The confusion apparently lay in the similarity of their names, he added.

“The first time this happened to me, I was in New York, and a group of construction workers, I walk past and they say, ‘Hey, Tony.’ And I don’t look around because my name is Ted,” he said. “And they say, ‘Tony! Tony Danza! What are you, too good for us now?’ »

Danson joked that he always ignored them to put some pressure on Danza. He also shared that he already signed an autograph with Danza’s name. “People, fame, whatever,” he concluded as Hudson laughed.

The confusion was likely due in part to the fact that Danson and Danza both became sitcom stars around the same time. Danson began appearing as Sam in Cheers in 1982, while Danza Taxi began in 1978. His second major series, Who is the bosscreated in 1984.

Danson stars in new Netflix series A man insidein which he plays a retiree turned amateur private detective who infiltrates a retirement community. Speaking to PEOPLE earlier this monththe actor said he is just as happy working now as he was several decades ago.

“I feel the same joy I felt in my late 20s when I walked through the studio door,” he said. Seeing his fellow cast, crew and security guards “makes me very happy, which is why I think I work a lot,” the two-time Emmy winner explained.

“I’m not sure I’m good, it doesn’t matter. It makes me so happy to do this,” he added. In recent years, Danson has also starred in the series The right place And Mr Mayor.

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He added that his age is an asset when working on new projects. “One of my joys, and I’ve been able to do this many times in life, is to use my age and what I’m experiencing in life and explore that,” he said. “How does it feel to be 76 years old and be funny, trying to be funny?” What does it do? Oh my God, my greatest joy is being funny, maybe in every way possible.