He needs a spoon full of sugar.

David Letterman revealed that a “fan” recently mistook him for Dick Van Dyke.

“Here’s what happens to me now — people used to know who I am, and now I have to wear a name tag to get anything going,” the former “The Late Show with David Letterman” host, 78, said during “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Wednesday.

Letterman hosted “The Late Show” from 1993 to 2015. Since then, he’s hosted the Netflix show “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman,” and he’s grown a bushy white beard.

He recalled an incident when he was recently at a farmer’s market.

“A guy comes up to me and he says, ‘Excuse me, are you who I think you are?’ And now, I’m all loaded up and I respond, ‘Well, that depends on who you think I are.’ That always gets a big laugh,” he exp

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