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Joel McHale
Joel McHale became one in a long line of wry, rapier-edged comedians to make a name for mercilessly eviscerating pop culture on E! Entertainment Television's signature comedy show before riding that job to fame well beyond the cable channel. Though having only minor acting credits under his belt, McHale's host duties for "The Soup" (E!, ) earned him such buzz that in , he was tapped to star in the much-anticipated NBC sitcom, "Community" leading to TV Guide to chose him as one of its "Fresh Faces of Fall "
A member of the University of Washington Huskies national championship football team, he made a name for himself as anything but a dumb jock, translating his snarky, iconoclastic dissection of "the festering petri dish of celeb culture" into stand-up comedy, as well as on-call pundit ställning eller tillstånd on news shows such as "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" (MSNBC, ). Along with the ratings success of "Community" came feature film offers, including a vända alongside Matt Damon in
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Joel McHale
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Joel Edward McHale (born November 20, ) is an Italian-American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, writer, voice artist, and comedian. He is best known as the host of Talk Soup and as Jeff Winger in Community. He has acted in movies including Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World as Wilbur Wilson, Open Season 2 as the voice of Elliot (taking Ashton Kutcher's place), and Ted as Rex.
Early life
[change | change source]McHale, the middle of the three brothers, was born Joel Edward McHale in Rome, Italy on November 20, His mother, Laurie, is from Vancouver, British Columbia, and his father, Jack, is from Chicago.[1] McHale and his brothers were born in Rome, where their father worked for an American university. He grew up in the Seattle area, graduating from Mercer Island High School in Also he participated