An Australia MP has laughed so hard while watching the political satire Veep that he started choking and knocked himself out — and his hilarious tale of woe has caught the attention of the show's star Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Queensland Labor MP Graham Perrett was eating dinner while watching an episode of the show he started laughing so hard he began to choke on some rice.

He then fell over and hit his face on the side of the kitchen bench, causing him to get a black eye and pass out.

“I was laughing so hard when Jonah then gets interviewed by Dan,” Mr Perrett told BuzzFeed, referring to the episode where congressman Jonah Ryan gets caught by his friend shaving his head in order to trick people into thinking he still has cancer.

“And then he delivers the first shaving pun, like ‘you recently had a close shave with cancer,’” the politician added.

“Some of the rice went down the wrong way, I started choking and I kind of stumbled forward and knocked my head on the corner of the kitchen cabinet.”

Star of the show, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, saw the story and couldn’t quite believe it was true.

“I mean, c’mon, I’m actually having a hard time believing it. But the real question is – what episode?” the actress tweeted.

Mr Perrett replied, explaining what episode he found so funny.

The two then chatted back and forth, and even actor Timothy Simons, who plays Jonah, joined in, tweeting “hahaha oh my god. Oh my god.”

It’s not the first time an Australian politician has been connected to Veep.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has weighed in on the story. (AAP)