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EXCLUSIVE: Joel McHale, star of the NBC comedy series Community and host of E!’s The Soup, has signed with WME for film and television. He will stay with Gersh, where he had been represented, for personal appearances, including his standup comedy gigs. McHale’s NBC series, Community, now in its second season, anchors NBC’s Thursday comedy lineup at 8 PM. And I hear McHale has just signed a new 2-year deal with E! to continue as the host of The Soup, a pop culture satiric news magazine which has run for 7 seasons and recently marked its 300th episode. McHale, who will continue to be manged by Jon and James Dolin, co-executive produces The Soup and is looking to expand further into producing. He has three movies coming out next year, What’s Your Number, The Big Year and Spy Kids 4, and is set to host the Independent Spirit Awards on Feb. 26.
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Nice sign. He’s great.
Love this guy! Great sign for WME!
More Joel McHale on my screen is fine with me. Glad things are going well for him.
seriously..nice to see E! do something bright for a change…he is the only thing worth watching on that channel. If they had let him go it would have been a huge mistake.
Question: Why are James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosting the Academy Awards and not Joel McHale?
Because they are bigger names. But I agree with you that Joel is the right man for the job. Maybe his snarky comments have rubbed too many people the wrong way for something so “polished” as the Academy. Too bad.
Sounds like McHale is doing quite well for himself. Not sure why talent seems to jump to new agencies just as their current agents have built up their career to a nice place. I mean – he has two TV shows and 3 movies coming out. What else does he want from his representation?
He wants to get packaged in a better class of movies. Can’t blame him.
P.S. Has “The Soup” changed it’s format over the years? Is it really now a “pop culture satiric news magazine?”
he appears to have a great, great future. great sign……
Joel Mchale (and ‘The Soup’) is the only – ONLY – thing airing on E! that is not absolute trash.
People are so quick to forget that Chelsea Handler is also on the same channel.
another blow for Gersh
Another blow to his agent- former agent that is. Karm-ahhhhhhhhhhhh
Excellent news! The Soup is the only TV i watch all week, and it’s like a crash course in pop culture while still being entertaining and witty…
What this speaks of is how great Rick Greenstein and his team are- Say a HUGE amount
As long as we get more “Soup” with Joel, ‘m happy. It was a looooong time before the show became funny again after (Talk Soup) John Henson left.
Big get for WME.
This guy has been a star for years. Looks like WME finally realized it. I’m sure Gersh will lose him for public appearances in a matter of weeks. It always happens that way.
I like him on “Community”. The show started off a bit slow, but it’s really a blend of zany humor and some good comedic acting.
McHale will “stay with Gersh” for chump change moving forward but at least they’ll keep the money from “Community” and “Talk Soup.” You have to be more than a great agent to prevent clients from bolting from boutique or mid-size agencies. Once WME, CAA or, to a lesser extent, ICM and Paradigm, get their hooks in someone, forget it. The hard work was done by the guys who twist the casting directors’ arms into seeing an unknown. There is no loyalty in this town, never has been.
THE SOUP is the ONLY thing watching on that wretched network. And Joel’s a cool human to boot. Rock on!
Sorry, he was amusing…but he suffers when compared to Tosh.
Yeah, Tosh.O started out as a rip-off, but slowly overcame Joel.
KARMA is a bitch. Alex Yarosh – this is what happens when you are one of the biggest assholes with the biggest ego at one of the smaller agencies in town. You disrespect every assistant you have ever had (and most of the assistants at the agency) and everyone makes fun of you. Maybe you’ll start treating people with some decency but I doubt it. What comes around goes around.
Karma, Obviously you’re someone that did not make the cut and you are angry because your mother always told you that no matter what you were the best and that you would succeed. The real world is a cold hard place isn’t it? How’s In and Out treating you? Not as many phones to answer I am sure. The Reality is Yarosh is one of the best around, one of the good guys. He finds and nurtures talent only to have it scooped up by a bigger agency. Unfortunately that is the nature of the business but I would imagine he has more up his sleeve. Also to the poster Karma maybe if you didn’t have so much angst in your heart, people would treat you better.
Yarosh is one of the good guys in this town and an extremely talented agent.
Joel McHale is one funny dude. I dig his turn on “Community”, which I consider to be one of the best — if not THE BEST — comedy shows on the boob tube (even though my friends stand by ‘Big Bang Theory’) “Community” and its meta-humor/wink-n-nod sensibilities simply rocks.
Next up I hope someone comes up with a cool silver screen vehicle for Joel to knock out of the park.
(Loved Joel on Seattle’s Almost Live TV show; love him now on Thursday nights on NBC!)
This guy is great. His humor that of Steve Martin. Now can anyone tell me who Shoog is. I seen him with the guy from Rudy. As they finished there conversation here comes a black Ateam van and when the doors opened to let Shoog in it wad like snoop dogg and Willie Nelson were in there. Has any one seen or talk to this guy.
Joel McHale truly needs an ” Ed Helm, Steve Carrell, Zach Galifinakis ” type of film career. Joe is absolutely hilarious, and I always a make an appointment to watch him every weekend on “Talk Soup”. The guy is charismatic, consistently smart, laugh-out-loud funny, quick on his feet, also brutally honest. McHale is that rare contemporary comedian that is always compelling and a joy to watch. I wish him continued success.