Joel McHale

Joel McHale occupies a rare niche in comedy: the smirking insider who bites the hand that feeds him and somehow keeps getting fed. Hosting The Soup for over a decade, he sharpened a brand of media satire that felt both merciless and affectionate, and Community's Jeff Winger let him weaponize that same charm into one of sitcom history's great reluctant heroes. What I admire most is his durability — writer, voice actor, host, leading man — he keeps reinventing the delivery without ever softening the wit. Born in Rome and schooled in Washington, he is proof that sarcasm, done with warmth, can be a career-long art form.

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Name (English)

Joel McHale

Name (Japanese)

ジョエル・マクヘイル

Reading

じょえる・まくへいる

Born

November 20, 1971 (age 54)

Origin

Rome, Province of Rome, Italy

Occupation

actor / voice actor / writer / screenwriter / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Boar

High school

Mercer Island High School

University

University of Washington

• Official sitehttp://www.joelmchale.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/joelmchale/
• Xhttps://x.com/joelmchale
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20McHale
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%98%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311993

Tags

• Province of Rome
• actor
• voice actor
• writer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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