Joel Edward McHale was born on November 20,1971 and is an American actor, comedian, and television host.
39 Facts About Joel McHale
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Joel McHale is best known for hosting The Soup and his role as Jeff Winger on the NBC sitcom Community.
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Joel McHale has performed in the films Spider-Man 2, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, Ted and The Happytime Murders.
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Joel McHale's father is American and is from Chicago, while his mother is Canadian and a native of Vancouver.
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Joel McHale is of Irish and Norwegian descent, and was raised Catholic.
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Joel McHale grew up on Mercer Island, Washington, and briefly lived in Haddonfield, New Jersey, before returning to Mercer Island.
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Joel McHale was recruited to be on the University of Washington's rowing team, but later joined its football team.
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Joel McHale spent two years with the team but didn't play in any games.
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Joel McHale was on the team that played in the 1993 Rose Bowl.
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Joel McHale received an MFA from the Professional Actors Training Program at the University of Washington.
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Joel McHale was involved in the American version of the British TV show The IT Crowd.
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Joel McHale made a guest appearance on the finale of Last Comic Standings sixth season, when he recapped the show's events in his typical format of jokes made popular on The Soup.
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Joel McHale made an appearance as a guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race season 11, episode 4, "Trump: The Rusical".
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Joel McHale was the host at the 2014 White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner.
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Joel McHale hosted the 2011 Independent Spirit Awards and the 2015 ESPY Awards.
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Joel McHale hosted the 43rd People's Choice Awards on January 18,2017, and the 2017 Webby Awards on May 15,2017.
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Joel McHale hosted video game developer and publisher Ubisoft's press conference at E3 2010.
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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.
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Joel McHale played a TV reporter in the biopic Lords of Dogtown.
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Joel McHale 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.
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Joel McHale appeared in Spider-Man 2 in a small role as Mr Jacks, a bank manager.
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Joel McHale has a long association with Circle X Theatre, where he has done several plays.
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Joel McHale was a weekly guest on The Adam Carolla Show and Mickey and Amelia, and occasional guest on Opie and Anthony.
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Joel McHale occasionally appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann in a humor sequence closing the show.
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Joel McHale starred in the sitcom Community, which premiered in fall 2009, and continued to host The Soup.
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Joel McHale made an appearance on the first episode of the fifth season of Tosh.
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Joel McHale played Rex in Ted and had a short guest stint on the FX show Sons of Anarchy.
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Joel McHale played a police officer in the supernatural horror film Deliver Us from Evil.
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Joel McHale appeared in 3 episodes between the tenth and eleventh seasons of The X-Files in 2016 and 2018, respectively.
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Joel McHale played the lead role in the CBS sitcom The Great Indoors, which began airing in the fall of 2016.
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In 2018, Joel McHale was cast in the recurring role of Chris on the second season of the Netflix horror-comedy series Santa Clarita Diet.
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In December 2018, it was announced that Joel McHale was cast as Sylvester Pemberton, the Golden Age Starman in the DC Universe and The CW series Stargirl.
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Joel McHale has been a regular guest panelist on The Masked Singer.
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Joel McHale first guested in episode four of the first season, then in two episodes of season 2 and episode 8 of season 3.
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Joel McHale went on to be a guest panelist in the third episode of season 5 and episode 7 of season 6.
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Joel McHale is a fan of the Seattle Seahawks football team and the Los Angeles Gladiators esports team.
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Joel McHale attends a Presbyterian church and has been supportive of the LGBT community; while performing at the Durham Performing Arts Center, he wore a handmade gay-rights shirt, talked about the bathroom law passed weeks prior, 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.
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In 2021, Joel McHale has shown his support for the Children's Tumor Foundation, an organization dedicated to raising awareness for and treating Neurofibromatosis.
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Some other charities and foundations that Joel McHale has supported include DoSomething.