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Community Recap: Timeline-by-Timeline Analysis of "Remedial Chaos Theory"

"Bienvenido de la casa Chez Trobed."

There is a lot to go over in last night’s brilliant episode of Community, “Remedial Chaos Theory,” the show’s most clever way of spending little to no money yet (with the exception of the rights to “Roxanne”), so let’s do this timeline-by-timeline, yes?

Actually, before we get to that, a question: Pierce mentioned that he had sex with Eartha Kitt in last week's episode, when the Seven speaks to Omar, and no one blinked an eye; does that mean these episodes airdates were swapped? That would explain why their apartment is 303, the episode's production order. Also: props to writer Chris McKenna, who [...]

Joel McHale on Stand-Up, Steve Martin And Carrot Top as a Beacon to The Children

Joel McHale is much more than just a condescending smirk, though to be fair that smirk is what's keeping his family in chicken dinners and new school pants. In addition to discussing Community and The Soup with Collider, McHale reveals how he got started on his three-year-old stand-up career: "The money was terrific. No. My booking agent said, 'If you put a set together of Soup jokes and you start building an act, you will have an instant audience because people follow the show and you’ll make a lot of money.' And I was like, 'Really?!' So, I started doing that."

While he's currently promoting his upcoming [...]

Joel McHale on Community's Emmy Chances

Having recently received a Critics' Choice Television Awards nomination, Community's Joel McHale is also hoping he'll soon be cradling that sweet, sweet golden lady statuette following an Emmy nomination. As for why his show has received critical praise but not the commensurate industry love of, say, a 30 Rock, Joel explains, "I’ve been told our audience skews young, which is good, and also that older people don’t understand the show, which is something else… But I just try to illuminate Dan Harmon and the writers’ jokes. [If] we don’t get nominated again this year for anything, but we continue to get the critical acclaim, I’ll be [...]

Almost Live!: What Seattle Sketch Comedy Gave to Us

Long before Portlandia, there was another Pacific-Northwest-flavored offering to the world of televised sketch comedy. The production quality was choppy and star power was limited to Soundgarden cameos, but in 1992, Seattle’s Almost Live! scored prime real estate on then-fledgling Comedy Central — and it made a few of its cast members household names.

Unlike Portlandia, Almost Live!’s aesthetic was just a few cuts above public access, and the location-heavy humor was rarely universal. Neighborhood name-dropping was rampant, and jokes weren’t based on popular Seattle stereotypes, if any Seattle stereotypes were to be had (the grunge movement had yet to hit mainstream airwaves as a possible punch line). But [...]

Joel McHale Gets Melissa McCarthy Prepped to Read the Emmy Nominations by Punching Her in the Face

Melissa McCarthy is announcing the Emmy nominations on Thursday morning. In order to be fully prepared to let the world know the nominees for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program, she enlisted the help of an abusive Joel McHale in this video by Lucia Aniello and Paul Downs. Not the smartest move, McHale. Now, if you're nominated, McCarthy will just swap in someone else's name instead.

Joel McHale Drinks Some Morning Scotch with the Ladies of Today

The Today Show is the gift that keeps on giving, at least the last hour of it when Hoda and Kathy Lee are unleashed from the vodka soaking chambers that they rest in for the other 23 hours of the day. This morning, Joel McHale showed up bearing the gift of fine Scotch.

Checking In…with the Hosts of Talk Soup

Starting today, you can see Joel McHale earning a paycheck in the literally diaper-smelling Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World. Just kidding, Joel — I love you dearly, because you play Jeff Winger on Community, make fun of celebrities who deserve ridicule, and were in an episode of Pushing Daisies, and anyone who appeared on Pushing Daisies is good in my book. You are also the host of the always-excellent The Soup, which seems like it’s been on E! since the beginning of time. But lo and behold, there exists a pre-Soup era, one now referred to as the Talk Soup age. And over its [...]

Ricky Gervais, Tracy Morgan and Joel McHale Probably Won't Make The Marriage Ref Bearable

Jerry Seinfeld's near-unwatchable show for NBC The Marriage Ref, in which celebrities make fun of normals and tell them how to have good relationships, because celebrities are relationship experts based on the fact that they are famous and maybe good at acting, returns for season 2 on Sunday night. There are some pretty good guest refs coming in this season, including Ricky Gervais, Tracy Morgan and Joel McHale, but even if Mitch Hedberg and Bill Hicks rose from the dead to do this show, I'm not sure that'd be enough to get me to watch it. Wait a minute…is that Rachel Ray? Nevermind! I'm on board! Tell me how [...]

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