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The stars of United States political satire Veep are in disbelief that Australian MP Graham Perrett choked on his dinner and gave himself a black eye while watching the TV show.
The Queensland Labor MP was having a sushi dinner on Sunday while watching the show, before he started laughing "at the wrong time" and choking on some rice.
Mr Perrett then, while running from the lounge room to the kitchen, hit the edge of his kitchen island.
He knocked himself unconscious, resulting in an injured nose, black eye and having to receive three stitches in his cheek.
"My wife is still laughing, every time she looks at me she's like, you're ridiculous," he told the ABC.
But despite the pain, which was "not much fun", he said the best thing to come out of the incident was a message from Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Louis-Dreyfus had trouble believing it when it was brought to her attention by BuzzFeed journalist Mark Di Stefano.
"If Elaine from Seinfeld can say hello ... that almost made the pain worthwhile," Mr Perrett said.
He said the incident was sparked by a "totally politically incorrect but very amusing" scene featuring Jonah during episode one of season six.
The actor who plays Jonah, Timothy Simons, wound up laughing right back at Mr Perrett on Twitter.
David Mandel, the executive producer of Veep, told Guardian Australia he was "very glad someone thinks the episode was as funny as we do".
This is not the first time Veep has made headlines in Australia.
Last year, the show's cast and crew reacted with glee after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull used a phrase that paralleled a campaign slogan from the show.
"The bottom line is there is continuity and there is change," Mr Turnbull said at the time, mirroring the slogan emblazoned on the side of the campaign bus of fictional US president Selina Meyer, played by Louis-Dreyfus in the comedy series.
Topics: television, arts-and-entertainment, comedy-humour, alp, government-and-politics, australia, united-states
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