American comedian randomly finds his doppelganger at a London gig

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Sam Haysom
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LONDON -- There's something spookily fascinating about doppelgangers.

Thanks to the website Twin Strangers there's no shortage of stories about people finding their doppelgangers online, but it's even stranger when you hear about someone who just happens across their exact double during day-to-day life.

No-one knows this better than American comedian Rob Winston.

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Winston, who works as a stand-up comedian in London, told Mashable he was at a TNT Comedy gig in Kentish Town when he stumbled across his doppelganger.

"It was intermission and I had just performed," he explained. "During the interval, a member of the crowd pointed out Kobi (my doppelganger). Apparently people were coming up to him and complimenting him on my material."

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Winston told us he'd never met Kobi before in his life.

"He just moved here from Israel and I'm from America originally," he said.

"It was really shocking. We were both like, damn! There is no way to deny the similarity."

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