Bernie Sanders and Larry David spoof Curb Your Enthusiasm on SNL

He follows in Trump's footsteps appearing on the show

'I want to change my last name to make it sound less Jewish' (SNL)

At long last Bernie Sanders and his Hollywood doppelganger Larry David came face-to-face on Saturday Night Live.

The show, which was hosted by the Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm comedian, featured a brilliant sketch in which David played his famously disagreeable character on the presidential campaign trail.

Bern Your Enthusiasm, as it's been called, hearkens back to David's celebrated imitation of the curmudgeonly Senator in October of last year.

Sanders, however, didn't feature until later in the show, starting by picking a fight with David on a steam ship destined for America way back when.

David, whose character is desperate to get a place on lifeboat as the ship is sinking, invites the wrath of Sanders' social justice warrior, who rants about the privelged 1 per cent and tries to distinguish 'democratic socialism' from regular 'socialism'.

Sanders jokes that he'll change his last name Sanderwitzky "so it doesn't sound quite so Jewish" to which David replies: "That'll trick them."

The popular left-winger isn't the first presidential candidate to drop by New York for an SNL appearance this campaign; Donald Trump danced to Drake's 'Hotline Bling' a few months ago; and Hillary Clinton played a tough talking bartender called Val not long ago.

Neither is this the first time that Sanders has tried his hand at comedy, appearing two low budget rom-coms in the 1980s and 90s.