Does the guy below look like David Letterman?

Letterman’s producers evidently think so. Read on:

Tuesday night, the Rev. Deacon Larry Sisterman went to bed early, happy that he and his wife had finally finished their taxes.

He awoke Wednesday just a little bit famous.

“You were on Letterman last night,” said his daughter, calling from California as soon as she knew they would be up. His daughter had caught “Late Night with David Letterman” Tuesday night but didn’t bother to call her parents in Huntsville then. She knew they’d already be in bed.

During a version of “Small Town News,” Letterman had shown Sisterman’s photograph, which is used with his quarterly LifePoints column in The Times Friday Faith & Values section. Sisterman was one of the more Dave-like photographs from around the country shown as “Guys Who Look Like Dave.”

“He used that picture from the column?” Sisterman asked his daughter. “Oh my, that’s not that good.”

After showing pictures of a chiropractor from Wisconsin, a coach from Fargo, a plastic surgeon from Texas, and the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, Letterman put up a clipping of Sisterman’s column in The Huntsville Times, with the mugshot identifying him as a religious columnist.

Though the crowd applauded their agreement of the resemblance, Letterman quipped, “I don’t know. It’s just another male human with glasses.”

Sisterman agrees with Letterman’s assessment.

“There’s no resemblance at all to me,” Sisterman said Wednesday as he compared his own visage to a photograph of Letterman in a gray suit similar to his own. “But then I don’t look at myself much.”

Sisterman, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and an ordained Roman Catholic deacon, spends most of each day as the volunteer executive director of Interfaith Mission Service’s First Stop, a resource center for people who are homeless.

On Wednesday, he took time to laugh about what he termed, “Not what I’d call a moment of fame,” but then turned his attention back to finding blankets and food for a couple living in a tent – all they could afford after they were evicted from their apartment.

The incident with Letterman also reminded him of a favorite family joke from his childhood. When he and his brothers would go fishing with their father up near Little Falls, Minn., the town where Charles Lindbergh had grown up, they enjoyed listening to the stir that inevitably arose around them when their father strode into a restaurant or store.

“People would be whispering that Lindy was back,” Sisterman said, explaining that, like the legendary aviator, his father had deep grin lines above a square Swedish jaw. “My father got such a kick out of that.”

Sisterman didn’t mind being mentioned on the show he says he has rarely seen, but he did mind one part of Letterman’s characterization.

“Small town news?” Sisterman asked. “Now I take that personal. This isn’t a small town.”

And yes, I know: “Rev. Deacon” isn’t quite right. It should be either “Rev. Mr.” or just plain “Deacon.”