Joel McHale
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1971
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Thanks for the money
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Film & TV
Acting · Roma, Italy
Joel Edward McHale (born November 20, 1971) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, television producer, television personality, and voice artist. He is best known for hosting The Soup and for his role as Jeff Winger on Community. He is of Irish-American descent and European-Canadian descent. He voiced Elliot in Open Season 2, filling in for Ashton Kutcher. He also appeared in…
Known for
- Scream 7 — Mark Evans2026
- Xander De Rycke: Houdt Het Voor Bekeken X — Himself2026
- Stop! That! Train! — Male Passenger 22026
- Stocking Shelves — Smitty2026
- Strip Law — Pringus (voice)2026
- The Official House of Villains Podcast — Self2026
- California King — Zane2025
- Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox — James Bunratty2025
- Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special — Self (archive footage)2025
- The 1% Club — Self - Host2025
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Joel Edward McHale (born November 20, 1971) is an American comedian, television personality and actor. Since 2004 he has been the host of The Soup, a weekly comedy series that airs on E!. McHale also stars as Jeff Winger in NBC's Community, which premiered in September 2009. McHale was born in Rome, Italy, the middle of three brothers, and is of Irish and Nordic descent. His mother, who is Canadian, grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. He grew up in the Seattle area, graduating from Mercer
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,227x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,272x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,698x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,782x
- Optical Coherence Tomography
· 1991 · cited 10,963x
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Key facts
- Born
- Joel Edward McHale , ( 1971-11-20 ) November 20, 1971 (age 54) , Rome , Italy
- Citizenship
- United States
- Education
- University of Washington ( BA , MFA )
- Occupations
- Actor comedian television presenter
- Years active
- 1996–present
- Spouse
- Sarah Williams McHale ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1996 )
- Website
- joelmchale .com
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Key dates
- Born
- 20 November 1971
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edward
- Family name
- McHale
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Rome
- Occupation
- television producer
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
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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 has a lead role in the Fox comedy series Animal Control (2023–present), and recurs as abusive chef David Fields on the FX on Hulu comedy-drama series The Bear (2022–2024).
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