Casting coup for Matt Berry's comedy

Larry David made a surprise guest appearance in the new series of Toast Of Tinseltown tonight, to the delight of fans.

The Curb Your Enthusiasm creator played a character called Sola Mirronek – the author of a book putting forward a new JFK conspiracy.

Matt Berry’s thespian alter-ego Steven Toast was reading the audiobook version, and Mirronek appeared via Zoom to direct proceedings. Which meant David got to utter the catchphrase: ‘Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango’ to the sound engineer.

Short-tempered Mirronek takes issue with Toast’s pronunciation of the very first word of the book – ‘the’ – and pointed out: ‘The idea of an English actor reading this came from my publisher, not from me. I need to make that totally clear. I hated the idea.’

Reaction from fans was universally positive:

Larry David saying ‘Yes, I can hear you Clem Fandango’ is the greatest of late Christmas presents. Welcome back Steven Toast, truly a thespian like no other, what? #ToastofTinseltown pic.twitter.com/eiKJJ7j9a6

— Neil Armstrong (@_neilarmstrong) January 4, 2022

Just a dream come true to have both Larry David and Matt Berry on the same TV show. #ToastofTinseltown

— Fredster (@freddiebr0wn) January 5, 2022

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As am approaching the last episode of season 11 of Curb, to hear LD say "Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango" on Toast means I have reached comedic nirvana. Nothing else to say really #LarryDavid #CURB #ToastofTinseltown #MattBerry

— Iain Duffy (@IainDuffy) January 5, 2022

Everything is right in the world now we have #ToastofTinselTown and Larry David talking to Clem Fandango 🤣 pic.twitter.com/I6eoMTMMKQ

— Adam Hell (@MacJiggy) January 5, 2022

Toast of Tinseltown. Perfection. Larry David in Toast, LARRY DAVID! Unbelievable, worth the wait for that alone pic.twitter.com/IdiksZilUT

— Sam Barry (@sam1barry) January 4, 2022

The pre-title sequence was a rare role for the Seinfeld co-creator beyond his own work – even if the performance was identical to the fictional version of himself he plays on Curb. He previously played Bernie Sanders on Saturday Night Live.

» Here are some of the other guest stars in Toast Of Tinseltown

Published: 4 Jan 2022