Curb Your Enthusiasm: The 10 Best Guest Appearances In Season 11

Season 11 of Curb Your Enthusiasm has ended, and as the episodes had their ups and downs, it proved to be one of the most bizarre seasons of the show yet. But there’s one constant in the series that continued through season 11: incredible guest actors.

Guest star side characters were part of what fans loved about Curb Your Enthusiasm season 10, so it’s no surprise the trend continued in season 11. Between Seth Rogen starring in a Viking movie, Albert Brooks hosting a fake funeral, and Jon Hamm’s return, being surprised by the show’s guest stars each week was the most exciting part of the season.

Julie Bowen

Most viewers know Julie Bowen as the fast-talking Claire Dunphy in Modern Family, and while she’s one of the most honest characters in that show, that’s not so much the case in Curb.

Bowen starts dating Larry, and she forces him to share a secret with her, which she promises to keep. But it isn’t long until everyone in Hollywood knows Larry’s secret route to the valley, to which he’s hilariously unnecessarily angry about. And though it seems like a one-and-done character, it’d be great to see Bowen return in season 12.

Lucy Liu

With each consecutive season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, it gets less and less realistic. However, the story arc with Lucy Liu might be the most realistic of the whole show.

With Larry now being 74 years old, the women he dates, who tend to be a minimum of 20 years younger than him, seems to be wishful thinking on the Seinfeld creator’s part. But being another one of Larry’s unlikely partners, the movie star starts to worry when she sees signs of Larry going senile. After him walking into a door and spilling wine on a couch, she ditches him, and it leads to a hilarious debate on how unattractive people are after they’ve walked into a door.

Seth Rogen

After Jonah Hill featured in the finale of season 10, running a delicatessen spite store, his friend clearly couldn’t help but get involved. As Curb Your Enthusiasm always sees movie stars making fun of themselves by playing an exaggerated version of themselves, Rogen is one of the best season 11 examples of that.

In the show, Rogen explains that he fakes being dumb so that general audiences have a better perception of him. But what’s even better, and totally random, is that the actor is starring in a random Viking movie. And as there are so many Curb Your Enthusiasm projects fans wish were real, the Viking flick is now one of them.

Elon Gold

Elon Gold isn’t the most famous guest star of the show, but he’s easily one of the funniest. The actor has a resume full of sitcoms, whether it’s the Pamela Anderson-starring Stacked or the short-lived In-Laws. But more than anything he is what he calls an “observant Jew” comedian, which he showcases in perfect form in Curb.

Playing the Head of Hulu, Gold keeps making Jew-related wisecracks that Larry finds strange. But as it’s funny as it is, Gold’s character arc wasn’t wrapped up in the final episode. As Young Larry is in disarray but hasn’t been canceled, it’s another arc that could continue into season 12.

Josh Gad

Josh Gad appears in the same episode as Seth Rogen, making it one of the most star-studded episodes in the history of Curb. But where Gad is usually shown in such a talented light, being in beautiful-looking musicals such as Beauty and the Beast, he plays a scruffy chiropractor with dirty underwear in the sitcom.

In the absurd episode, Larry is the only person to tell Gad about his problem, and he advises Gad that if he changes his underwear he’ll get more clients. As Gad plays a chiropractor, “Man Fights Tiny Woman” can now be inducted into the best Curb Your Enthusiasm doctor episodes.

Albert Brooks

What’s interesting about this season of Curb is that it doesn’t actually have all that many references to COVID-19. But one of the few references happens in the very first episode when the real-life actor and comedian Albert Brooks is found out to be a COVID hoarder. That isn’t the only strange thing about Brooks, as the actor also hosts a funeral for himself whilst he’s still alive.

It’s a great way for the show to pay its respects to the late, great Bob Einstein, who played the fan-favorite character Marty Funkhouser in Curb through season 9. Brooks is Einstein’s real-life brother, so it’s not only a great Easter egg but it also proves that Larry David does actually have a heart.

Tracy Ullman

Tracy Ullman is making a comfortable living out of simply making guest appearances in one or two shows every year, but her performance as Irma Kostroski is by far her best role in years. The comedian is almost unrecognizable in the role, as she plays the most unpleasant woman possible.

Irma has a throaty accent, bad hygiene, and needs vaginal rejuvenation surgery. Every episode she’s in tends to devolve into Larry finding ways to avoid having sex with her. It was a delight that Irma wasn’t just a one-off character, as she had a pivotal role in the entire final half of the season.

Woody Harrelson

Just like Seth Rogen, Woody Harrelson doesn’t mind making fun of his public image, and in Harrelson’s case, it’s his animal rights activism. After Larry accidentally serves Woody milk, Woody starts diary shaming in the Seinfeld writer, and it leads to one lie after another.

And in what can only be a Curb final act, it all ends with Woody Harrelson unknowingly facing off against a white supremacist, naturally. As there are so many hilarious guest star scenes in Curb Your Enthusiasm, the finale of “The Watermelon” is up there with the very best.

Jon Hamm

Jon Hamm is two for two, as he already guest-starred in Curb in the previous season. Larry David very rarely brings back guest stars, so it just goes to show how great of a performance Hamm gave a couple of years ago. The actor returns to give a hilarious eulogy at Albert Brooks’ fake funeral and learn some new Jewish words.

What’s even funnier is that Hamm is the one to give Brooks most of the insults when he finds out he’s a COVID hoarder, storing gallons of Purell in his closet. On top of that, fans finally got closure over the fictional movie Hamm claimed to be starring in that was loosely based on Larry, which was one of the storylines that Curb Your Enthusiasm dropped.

Bill Hader

Bill Hader doesn’t just have the one role in the new season of Curb, but three, as he plays the titular characters in “Igor, Gregor, & Timor.” The three characters are all Eastern European who may or may not be brothers, and the only thing that differentiates them is their facial hair.

It’s the most cartoonish the series has ever gotten, but there’s no denying just how funny Bill Hader is and how he brings a unique quirk to each character. There could almost be a spin-off of Curb that follows these characters, and at the very least, they’ll hopefully return in another season.