Joel McHale: podcast appearances and interviews

Joel Edward McHale is an American actor, comedian, and television presenter born on November 20, 1971. He is best known for hosting the television show The Soup from 2004 to 2015 and for his role as Jeffrey Jeff Winger on the NBC sitcom Community which aired from 2009 to 2015. McHale has appeared in several films, including Spider-Man 2, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, Ted, and The Happytime Murders. In addition to his acting and hosting roles, he starred in the CBS sitcom The Great Indoors from 2016 to 2017 and hosted a reboot of Card Sharks from 2019 to 2021. He portrayed the superhero Starman in the television series Stargirl from 2020 to 2022 and has been involved in voice acting, including voicing Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge and its sequel, X-PO in Lego Dimensions, and The Scientist in Fortnite. He hosted a special aftershow interviewing highlights from the Netflix documentary series Tiger King in 2020. McHale currently has a lead role in the Fox comedy series Animal Control which began in 2023 and recurs as the character David Fields on the FX on Hulu series The Bear, which started in 2022 and is ongoing.