Joel McHale Tickets

Joel McHale is best known for hosting E! TV’s The Soup, where he pokes fun at what we see every day on TV, a prime target for hilarity, but he is also a stand-up comedian and actor who has starred in such movies and TV shows as Spider-Man 2, Lords of Dogtown, Pushing Daisies, and Community.

McHale also has a Bachelor’s Degree in History, as well as a Master of Fine Arts Degree, and he even recently threw out the first ball at Dodger Stadium, making him a true comedy renaissance man. “I’ve always made fun of television shows and how ridiculous some celebrity behavior is, but I never thought my job would be commenting on it.”

Joel McHale In the Soup

McHale was born in Rome, Italy, but grew up in Seattle, Washington (McHale’s family is American, and his father was teaching in Rome when he was born). McHale’s always been a big guy, 6’4, and played football in college for two years.

After being a featured comedian on Almost Live!, a local Seattle show, and doing improv comedy at Unexpected Productions, McHale moved to L.A. like many actors and talents hoping to make it. Small roles in TV shows and movies followed before he hooked up with E! in 2004.

No More Yelling at the TV In His Underwear

Making fun of pop culture, television and celebrity culture has been a big part of comedy for a long time, but Joel McHale is part of a new breed of comedians pointing out the absurdities of what’s on “the idiot box,” and celebrity culture, where the jokes often write themselves. It may not be new to comedy to poke fun at television, you probably do it with your friends at home, but the style of comedy that comedians like Hale bring to the party is what makes him especially funny.

As McHale himself admitted, “I never really imagined this is what I would be doing. But at the same time, I had already been yelling back at my TV, which I think everybody does. I just don’t happen to be doing it in my underwear anymore.”

On both TV and in the live arena, McHale’s comedy delivers. Reviewers have called him “ridiculous, scathing, and audacious,” and that “loyal fans of the Soup loved him” in the live arena. Another critic also wrote that McHale’s act was “endearing and clearly much loved by the audience.”

Joel McHale will also be performing at the five day New York Comedy Festival, featured among 150 comedians, which will hit over ten venues including the famous comedy club Caroline’s, as well as Carnegie Hall, a major career goal for any talent. McHale said, “To be playing Carnegie Hall is a milestone in the Festival’s misjudgment, but for me it is a dream come true.”