Leslie Jordan‘s last appearance on Call Me Kat aired last month, but the show waited a beat to reveal how it would move ahead to fill the space left by his character Phil.
On Thursday, it was announced that 30 Rock alum Jack McBrayer is joining the show as Gideon, the new hire at the cat café owned by Mayim Bialik‘s title character. The news, which was shared by TVLine, comes after Jordan’s character received his farewell in the form of an off-screen wedding in Tahiti and a special end-of-episode tribute from longtime friend Dolly Parton.
In a sneak peek for Thursday’s episode, Kat introduces the new coworker to her friends: “The search is over. We finally found our new baker. This is Gideon.”
Viewers quickly get a sense of McBrayer’s unfiltered Amish import, who flusters Kat’s friend Carter (Julian Grant) and Kat’s mother Sheila (Swoosie Kurtz).
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