In his first post-Goldbergs casting, Jeff Garlin is joining Never Have I Ever for its final season. Per Deadline, Garlin will be playing “Len, a sweet man who fixes a mean sandwich and who makes Nirmala (Ranjita Chakravarty) reconsider if she really is done with relationships forever.†So we’re getting an adult romance, à la Alice and Sam the Butcher on The Brady Bunch? With Jeff Garlin? Okay.
Garlin’s last series-regular role was on The Goldbergs, which he left after an HR investigation. The show used a CGI Garlin lookalike in season nine, before killing his character off in season ten. He is confirmed to return to Curb Your Enthusiasm season 12, per IndieWire. He also has a role in Damien Chazelle’s Hollywood epic, Babylon. The third season of Never Have I Ever dropped on Netflix earlier this year.