7 Celebs With Surprisingly Famous Relatives

Wilson has never publicly mentioned her reasons for blocking her cuz, but considering that her display name is Mara "Get Rid of the Nazis" Wilson, we have some theories. In fact, she has never directly acknowledged him on social media at all, but she has talked about having "shitty cousins" and liked some less than flattering tweets about Shapiro:

Don't feel bad for Wilson, though. She may have the human personification of the words "I'm not racist, but" as a blood relative, but she also has Danny DeVito as a spiritual one -- she has talked about how DeVito and his wife Rhea Perlman, who played her awful parents in Matilda, lovingly cared for her after her mom died, thus proving that not all comically short people are evil.

Amy Klobuchar, meanwhile, is known for running 1) for president and 2) out of interns (because she treats them like steaming turds). If you asked the world's most advanced A.I. to produce the exact opposite of a rock star, it would print out Klobuchar's Congress portrait. And yet, before Klobuchar dropped out of the presidential race, Zola confessed in a since deleted tweet that the two are cousins ... but she's still voting for Bernie.

Zola's confirmation that she was talking about Klobuchar came followed by a ":|" -- probably the most enthusiastic emoticon used in conjunction with Klobuchar's name in all of Twitter. She also threw in a flag of Slovenia, the land of the ancestors that the two share with (as Klobuchar is a little too fond of pointing out) Melania Trump. Once you find out they're related, the physical resemblance is impossible to unsee:

It's unclear why Zola deleted the tweets above, but we're guessing it has to do with the fact that not even rock stars are immune to a disappointed phone call from mom.

At first, it sounded like there wasn't much of a relationship ... and to be fair, when's the last time you hanged out with your dad's second cousin? In a 2011 interview, Amy said she'd bumped into Chuck in NYC a few times, but she highly doubted he'd ever seen her act. But then, they were united by a common passion: hating Donald Trump. When Trump accused Chuck of faking his tears during a conference about the Muslim travel ban, Amy jumped in to defend him, in her own way. She said: "I know chuck Schumer and HE CANNOT act trust me. He can barely smile on cue."

The Schumers had a more significant collaboration after a far-right nutcase shot and killed some people during a showing of Amy's Trainwreck in 2015 (it's OK if you don't remember; it was about 1,500 mass shootings ago). Distraught, Amy decided to get into gun control activism, which for celebrities usually means tweeting #gunsbad every once in a while. But in her case, she actually helped her cousin promote a bill that would restrict gun access for violent criminals, abusers, and mentally ill people.

Since then, they've also made cameos on each other's Instagrams and occasionally tag each other on Twitter. Honestly, if that's the entirety of their interaction, they already sound closer than 90% of cousins.

They're not real cousins until they have a public argument about a borrowed kitchen appliance on Facebook, though.

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The two have never met (and sadly never will), so how could they be connected to each other? Well, Key was adopted as a kid, and some years ago his sister decided to do some digging and found Key's biological father ... who is dead. But, they also found out he had two half-brothers ... and they're also dead. One of those brothers was proudly described by Key as a comic book writer who died at age 49 in 2011, worked for both Marvel and DC, and was in charge of putting characters of color on TV.

That can literally only be McDuffie, who in addition to founding a line of comics devoted to minority superheroes, wrote and produced the Justice League cartoons. Those shows are the reason why, when the Green Lantern movie came out in 2011, audiences wondered why the hell Ryan Reynolds was playing a black guy.

But McDuffie's best work has to be the time he was working as an editor at Marvel in the late '80s and, noticing the emergence of a bizarre trend when it came to black characters, sent a memo pitching a new series called "TEENAGE NEGRO NINJA THRASHERS" starring nothing but black guys on skateboards.

McDuffie added that the comic would contain popular elements like "circa 1974 clothing and hair-styles," "bizarre speech patterns, unrecognizable by any member of any culture on the planet," and "a smart white friend to help them out of the trouble they get into." Also: skateboards! Finally, he closed the memo with a fully rhetorical "Have I made my point?" So, yeah, we think he would have gotten along with Key.

Then the crew was surprised to find out that the two share identical DNA on three chromosomes, making them "third or fourth cousins." David was delighted, while Bernie laughed his ass off and acknowledged that David does "a better Bernie Sanders" than him.

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This means that David's SNL role follows the age-old tradition of younger cousins impersonating the older ones when they're not around, though there's no record of Bernie giving David a wedgie when he found out (doesn't mean it didn't happen). Note that David had no idea about the family connection when he agreed to take the part, though. That only happened because David kept doing a Sanders voice while watching the 2016 debates on TV, and then one of his friends called Lorne Michaels and got him the job. Great. Now we can't stop imagining Bernie saying "prettyyyyyy good."

Bacon also found out he's Brad Pitt's thirteenth cousin, while Sedgwick is Marilyn Monroe's eight cousin (apparently, there's a "skirt malfunction" gene). They both turned out to have a surprising number of presidential connections, too: Bacon has a common ancestor with Barack Obama and Sedgwick is distantly related to Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter. Wow, with such distinguished pedigree, we wouldn't be surprised if some generations from now, our 60th or so president is a five-armed Bacon-Sedgwick abomination.