Joel McHale fessed up to exhibiting bad behavior on “Community.”
The 53-year-old actor recalled how he mistreated reporters who came to the set of the NBC sitcom series on Tuesday’s episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s On Me” podcast.
“The only time — well, I’ve been an a–hole many times — but I would always call out reporters,” McHale said.
Joel McHale in “Community,” which ran for six seasons between 2009 and 2015. ©Yahoo/Courtesy Everett Collection“And they’d be like, ‘Such a great show. It’s just so amazing,'” he added. “And it would be one thing if we were on a red carpet and they were like, here’s this guy from this thing. But it was like, if you come to set, if you’re sitting on our set, you should have like done some research. You should know what show this is.”
Joel McHale and Jesse Tyler Ferguson. jessetyler/Instagram
Joel McHale was a guest on on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s podcast. jessetyler/InstagramMcHale said he would taunt the reporters by quizzing them about the show.
“I’ve had reporters come back and just be like, ‘You really got me,'” McHale said. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, I probably should just enjoy the promotion and not call people out.'”
McHale played Jeff Winger on “Community,” which ran on NBC for six seasons from 2009 to 2015. The show followed a mismatched group of people at a community college.
Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Chevy Chase, Jim Rash and Ken Jeong also starred in the sitcom.
Joel McHale and Alison Brie in “Community.” ©NBC/Courtesy Everett Collection
From left, Yvette Nicole Brown, Danny Pudi, Gillian Jacobs, John Oliver, Joel McHale, Alison Brie, Chevy Chase and Donald Glover in Season 1 of “Community.” ©NBC/Courtesy Everett CollectionOn Ferguson’s podcast, McHale gave an update on the “Community” movie, which was announced to be in development by Peacock in 2022.
“Well, we got the money, which is one of the harder things to do,” McHale said. “And everyone’s in, so that’s the other. It’s really coming down to schedules, and a script was written. So all that is real.”
A “Community” movie was announced to be in development by Peacock in 2022. ©NBC/Courtesy Everett Collection“And I know that we’ve been talking about it for literally years, but it will happen,” McHale added, “and there’s just, you know, it’s just getting those schedules together.”
After confirming he’s read the script for the film, McHale jokingly gave a major spoiler.
“Yeah. I’m not going to tell you anything about it. I’ll just say, everybody dies,” he said.
Keith David and Joel McHale in “Community.” ©Yahoo/Courtesy Everett CollectionLast year, McHale told The Post that he doesn’t think Chase, 81, will be in the “Community” movie. Chase was fired from the show in 2013 after allegedly using a racist slur toward Glover during filming. He also got into a heated confrontation with the show’s creator, Dan Harmon.
“I don’t think he’s allowed to. I don’t think it would happen. I’m guessing if you asked him, he wouldn’t be interested,” McHale said about Chase being in the film.
“Obviously, his unceremonious departure in Season 4 pretty much did that in,” he added.
