Frank Butcher
"Cardinal Ricky, you doughnut! You've broken a commandment, you double yolker." EastEnders icon Frank once turned up on Pat's doorstep, naked apart from a spinning bow tie. It's unlikely Pope Francis will do this. Photograph: Fremantle Media Ltd/Rex Features
Brendan Lynch
Last year's Great British Bake Off finalist had a papal air about him in the marquee kitchen: serene, refined and endlessly patient. For Irish-born perfectionist Brendan, a soggy bottom is the ultimate sin.
Derek Faye
Like Catherine Tate's character, Pope Francis may have to put up with certain insinuations being made about a 76-year-old confirmed bachelor. "Who, dear? Me, dear? Gay, dear? No, dear. How very dare you!" Photograph: Tiger Aspect/BBC
Jim Bowen
The former host of teatime darts gameshow Bullseye. "Keep out of the black robes and stay in the red, nothing in this celibate game for two in a bed. Now let's see what you could have won – it's a shiny Popemobile-cum-speedboat …" Photograph: ITV/Rex Features
Larry David
Pope Francis is a pret-tay, pret-tay good doppelganger for the Seinfeld co-creator and Curb your Enthusiasm star. Let's hope he's not quite as prone to swearing or social faux-pas. Photograph: Fotos International/Getty Images
Donald Pleasence
The veteran actor played cat-stroking Spectre boss Ernst Blofeld in You Only Live Twice. The Bond villain was the role model for Austin Power's arch enemy Dr Evil – kind of paradoxical for a pope lookalike. Photograph: United Artists/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar
Terry Tibbs
The car salesman from Fonejacker and Facejacker hails from Rickmansworth, which is probably a bit like Buenos Aires. "Popemobile prices, talk to me. Thank you and goodnight – much love."
George Bluth Sr
The "pop-pop" from Arrested Development aptly once became a devout Christian after reading a pamphlet he found in a garbage bag while hiding from the taxman in the attic. No touching! Photograph: Matt Baron/BEI/Rex Features
Uncle Junior
Curmudgeonly Corrado from The Sopranos was, like his papal lookalike, fond of wearing hats and talking in homilies. Let's hope that's where the resemblance ends because Uncle Junior later went senile and shot his nephew Tony in the stomach. Photograph: Joe Corrigan/Getty Images
Paul Shaffer
The CBS Orchestra leader has been David Letterman's tinted-spectacled sidekick for over 30 years. He used to play piano in the Saturday Night Live house band and, in 1979, was the first person to drop the F-bomb on the show. Not pontiff-like behaviour at all. Photograph: Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images
