Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas and drummer Neal Daniels have been on a airplane when a passenger was escorted off just lately. Daniels performed the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song on his cellphone throughout the incident, as seen in an Instagram video they shared on Sept. 23.
Within the caption, Thomas claimed {that a} girl was “screaming racist issues” at Daniels and attempting “to open the door to the airplane whereas within the air.”
The airplane made an “emergency touchdown,” and the passenger was escorted off the plane, Thomas wrote. As the lady walked by with safety personnel, Daniels performed the HBO comedy’s theme music and was met with laughter from fellow passengers. Thomas referred to as Daniels’ response “perfection.”
Daniels posted an Instagram Story on Wednesday, Sept. 25, screenshotting the submit’s metrics, which confirmed the video obtained over 2.15 million views and had almost 115,700 interactions.
A number of folks commented on Daniels’ comedic response. “As a flight attendant, I wouldn’t have been in a position to maintain a straight face if I’d been there. Effectively performed 😂,” one person wrote.
One other person wrote, “An precise ‘everybody preferred that’ second caught on digicam lmao.”
“That music was made for this second. Perfection. 😂😂😂,” added one other person. Others shared GIFs of Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David saying, “Fairly, fairly good.”
Curb Your Enthusiasm wrapped in April after 12 seasons on HBO. The improvisational sitcom starred David, 76, as an exaggerated model of himself, who would discover himself within the mixture of catastrophic occasions attributable to his trivial observations and reactions. The sequence first premiered in 2000, took a pause in 2011 following season 8, and resumed in 2017.
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Matchbox Twenty just lately carried out on the Bourbon & Beyond music festival in Louisville, Ky., which ran from Sept. 19 to Sept. 22. The group’s present lineup consists of Thomas, Daniels, bassist Brian Yale and guitarist Kyle Cook dinner. Musicians Matt Beck, Jamie Arentzen and Whynot Jansveld additionally tour with the band.
After a decade hiatus, the band launched their fifth studio album, The place the Gentle Goes, in Might 2023.