Here’s another mouth-wetting piece of news… almost as mouth-wetting as the Martin Scorsese TV project we reported on yesterday. Almost.

In my eyes, Steve Coogan can do no wrong. Everyone knows about The Day Today and the peerless Alan Partridge (of which you can always see on a UKTV channel at some point in the day). I even liked Saxondale. A lot. Anyone who can pull of an East Midlands accent with panache deserves a pat on the back. And now our Steve, after successes on the big screen with A Cock and Bull Story and, most recently, Hot Fuzz, is to make a guest appearance in Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Curb is the kind of show that is loved by comedy people in the industry, and they often marvel at Larry David’s supreme ad-libbing skills. Me? I like it because of the swearing – it’s not very often you see middle class people swear with such abandonment.

Anyway, Steve has nailed a guest role as a psychiatrist in the show, which is not at all weird when you think of all the saucy scrapes he’s allegedly gotten himself into recently. He’s already filmed his part, so to speak, so it shouldn’t be too long until we see it on our screens.