American actor, comedian (born 1971)
Joel McHale
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McHale at GalaxyCon Raleigh in 2023
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Born
| Joel Edward McHale
(
1971-11-20
)
November 20, 1971
(age 52)
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Nationality
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Education
| University of Washington
(
BA
,
MFA
)
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Occupations
| - Actor
- comedian
- television presenter
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Years active
| 1996?present
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Spouse
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Sarah Williams
(
m.
1996)
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Children
| 2
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Website
| joelmchale
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Joel Edward McHale
(born November 20, 1971) is an American actor, comedian and television presenter. He is best known for hosting
The Soup
(2004?2015) and his role as
Jeffrey "Jeff" Winger
on the
NBC
sitcom
Community
(2009?2015). He has performed in the films
Spider-Man 2
(2004),
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
(2011),
Ted
(2012), and
The Happytime Murders
(2018).
McHale also starred in the short-lived
CBS
sitcom
The Great Indoors
(2016?2017), hosted a reboot of
Card Sharks
(2019?2021), and portrayed the superhero
Starman
on the show
Stargirl
(2020?2022). In 2020, he hosted a special aftershow interviewing key subjects from the
Netflix
documentary series
Tiger King
and voiced
Johnny Cage
in the direct-to-video martial arts film
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
, a role he reprised in its sequel,
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms
(2021). He also voices X-PO in
Lego Dimensions
(2015?2017) and The Scientist in
Fortnite
(2021?present). He currently has a lead role in the Fox comedy series
Animal Control
(2023?present).
Early life
[
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]
McHale was born in
Rome
, Italy on November 20, 1971,
[1]
[2]
the son of Jack McHale, who worked as the
dean of students
at
Loyola University
's Rome Center, and his wife Laurie. His father is American and is from
Chicago
, while his mother is Canadian and a native of
Vancouver
.
[3]
McHale is of Irish and Norwegian descent,
[4]
and was raised Catholic. He grew up on
Mercer Island, Washington
, and briefly lived in
Haddonfield, New Jersey
, before returning to Mercer Island.
[5]
He attended
Mercer Island High School
.
[6]
He received a
bachelor's degree
in history from the
University of Washington
in 1995, and was briefly in the
Theta Chi
fraternity but left it because he "couldn't stand it."
[7]
McHale was recruited to be on the University of Washington's
rowing
team, but later joined its
football
team. He was a
walk-on
as a
tight end
. He spent two years with the team but did not play in any games. He was on the team that played in the
1993 Rose Bowl
.
[8]
[9]
He was part of the
Almost Live!
cast, a local
sketch comedy
television show produced by
Seattle
's
KING-TV
. From 1993 to 1997, he was a member of the
improv comedy
group at
Unexpected Productions
, participating in
Theatersports!
at the Market Theater located in
Pike Place Market
in downtown Seattle.
[10]
He received an
MFA
from the Professional Actors Training Program at the University of Washington.
[11]
Career
[
edit
]
Hosting
[
edit
]
In 2004, McHale began hosting
The Soup
, a satirical weekly television show on the
E!
television network. Throughout the show, he takes the audience through the oddities and ridiculous happenings of the week in television. He frequently appears as a co-host on
Loveline
. He has been a judge on
Iron Chef America
. He was involved in the American version of the British TV show
The IT Crowd
.
[12]
[13]
McHale made a guest appearance on the finale of
Last Comic Standing
'
s sixth season, when he recapped the show's events in his typical format of jokes made popular on
The Soup
. He made an appearance as a guest judge on
RuPaul's Drag Race
season 11, episode 4, "
Trump: The Rusical
".
McHale was the host at the 2014
White House Correspondents' Association
annual dinner.
[14]
He hosted the 2011
Independent Spirit Awards
and the
2015 ESPY Awards
. In 2016, he appeared as an occasional co-host alongside
Kelly Ripa
in the
ABC
morning show
Live with Kelly
. McHale hosted the
43rd People's Choice Awards
on January 18, 2017, and the
2017 Webby Awards
on May 15, 2017.
[15]
McHale hosted video game developer and publisher
Ubisoft
's press conference at
E3 2010
.
[16]
In January 2018, it was announced that he would be receiving his own talk show on
Netflix
in February.
The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale
combined celebrity guests, pre-taped sketches and video clips in a half-hour series that focused on pop culture and news from around the world.
[17]
On August 17, 2018, it was announced that Netflix had canceled the show after 19 episodes, reportedly due to low viewership.
[18]
On April 8, 2019, TVLine reported that McHale would host a revival of the game show
Card Sharks
for
ABC
.
[19]
The revival would premiere on June 12 of that year,
[20]
running for two seasons and 21 episodes until July 7, 2021. The iteration was canceled in April 2022.
[21]
Beginning March 27, 2020, McHale co-hosts
The Darkest Timeline
podcast with former
Community
co-star
Ken Jeong
; the podcast was created in response to the ongoing
COVID-19 pandemic
.
[22]
Also in 2020, he hosted an after-show special of the
Netflix
documentary series
Tiger King
. With Jeong, they became the new hosts of
Fox
's
New Year's Eve
special
New Year's Eve Toast & Roast
.
[23]
The second edition was canceled due to the quickly rising cases of
Omicron variant
in the
COVID-19 pandemic
.
[24]
In 2021, McHale began hosting
Crime Scene Kitchen
, also on Fox.
[25]
In 2023, McHale hosted the
E!
reality competition series
House of Villains
.
[26]
Acting
[
edit
]
After earning his master's degree in acting, McHale moved to Los Angeles and landed small roles in
Diagnosis: Murder
,
CSI: Miami
, and
Will & Grace
. He played a TV reporter in the biopic
Lords of Dogtown
. He guest-starred as a cast member on the
NBC
improv comedy show
Thank God You're Here
during the pilot episode and had a guest role on an episode of
Pushing Daisies
. McHale appeared in
Spider-Man 2
in a small role as Mr. Jacks, a bank manager.
[27]
McHale has a long association with
Circle X Theatre
, where he has done several plays. McHale was a weekly guest on
The Adam Carolla Show
and
Mickey and Amelia
, and occasional guest on
Opie and Anthony
.
[28]
He occasionally appeared on
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
in a humor sequence closing the show.
McHale starred in the sitcom
Community
,
[29]
which premiered in fall 2009, and continued to host
The Soup
.
[30]
McHale made an appearance on the first episode of the fifth season of
Tosh.0
. He played Rex in
Ted
(2012) and had a short guest stint on the FX show
Sons of Anarchy
. He played a police officer in the supernatural horror film
Deliver Us from Evil
.
[31]
McHale appeared in 3 episodes between the tenth and eleventh seasons of
The X-Files
in 2016 and 2018, respectively.
[32]
McHale played the lead role in the
CBS
sitcom
The Great Indoors
, which began airing in the fall of 2016.
[33]
[34]
The series was cancelled on May 13, 2017, due to low ratings.
[35]
In 2018, McHale was cast in the recurring role of Chris on the second season of the
Netflix
horror-comedy series
Santa Clarita Diet
.
[36]
In December 2018, it was announced that McHale was cast as
Sylvester Pemberton
, the Golden Age Starman in the
DC Universe
and
The CW
series
Stargirl
.
[37]
After sporadic appearances in its first two seasons, he was upgraded to series regular for the third.
[38]
[39]
McHale has been a regular guest panelist on
The Masked Singer
. He first guested in episode four of
the first season
, then in two episodes of
season 2
and episode 8 of
season 3
. In
season 4
, he was a guest panelist in episodes 3 and 4, on his first appearance performing
Robin Thicke
's "
Blurred Lines
" as the "Robin" (wearing a cut-out face of Robin Thicke). He went on to be a guest panelist in the third episode of
season 5
and episode 7 of
season 6
. He was absent in
season 7
. He later served as a guest panelist alongside the late
Leslie Jordan
on episode 7 of
season 8
.
Personal life
[
edit
]
McHale married Sarah Williams in July 1996. They live in the
Hollywood Hills
with their two sons.
[40]
[41]
[42]
In a 2018 interview on
Dax Shepard
's podcast
Armchair Expert
, McHale revealed he was
dyslexic
, having discovered this when his two sons were diagnosed.
[43]
Politics and beliefs
[
edit
]
He attends a
Presbyterian church
[44]
and has been supportive of the
LGBT community
. While performing at the
Durham Performing Arts Center
in North Carolina, he wore a handmade
gay-rights
shirt, talked about the
bathroom law
passed weeks prior, and said he was donating all proceeds to the LGBTQ Center of Durham and would not perform in the state again until the law was overturned.
[45]
[46]
[47]
[48]
McHale, along with several of his
Community
castmates, made a campaign video in support of Joe Biden in October 2020 titled "Human Beings for Biden."
[49]
Philanthropy
[
edit
]
In 2021, McHale has shown his support for the
Children's Tumor Foundation
, an organization dedicated to raising awareness for and treating
Neurofibromatosis
.
[50]
Some other charities and foundations that McHale has supported include
DoSomething.org
,
Elton John AIDS Foundation
, Friar's Charitable Foundation,
Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation
,
Make-A-Wish Foundation
,
Motion Picture & Television Fund
,
Noreen Fraser Foundation
,
Screen Actors Guild
, The FEED Foundation,
The Trevor Project
, and
UNICEF
.
[51]
Filmography
[
edit
]
Film
[
edit
]
Key
†
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Denotes films that have not yet been released
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Television
[
edit
]
Video games
[
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Awards and nominations
[
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Books
[
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References
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