Words matter. These are the best Joel McHale Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn’t use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears – she might lick your face off!
I operate off of fear almost exclusively.
I like anything with Zak Bagans and ghost hunters.
I love making fun of YouTubers.
You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.
Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.
When E! ended the show, it wasn’t because it was low-rated. It was because E! did not want to pay union rerun dues.
Now I tell my mom, I go, ‘Mom, you know when I was a kid and you told me to turn off the television and go outside and play?’ I’d be like, ‘You literally were hurting my career when you did that. You literally stopped me from doing now, what I do for a living.’
E! always wanted me to keep it to entertainment news or entertainment and no sports or anything like that, and don’t get too weird.
When I started ‘The Soup’ back in 2004, I was so anxious because I can’t really read, and I had to read teleprompter.
With ‘The Soup,’ obviously it has to be totally scripted out, and then, within that, I improvise punchlines and sometimes setups if I can’t read the teleprompter properly.
My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That’s a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
I don’t feel any pressure to joke about #MeToo – in fact, I’d say you shouldn’t, because it’s a great movement that is exposing some really awful behavior and hopefully changing the culture.
I don’t think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.
All I care about is making jokes that are funny and making people laugh.
My children do not know what it’s like to flip around channels. They either go to Netflix, Apple TV, or they pull up YouTube, and they can watch their shows.
Netflix is just wonderful.
Acting is what I’d always wanted to do; hosting ‘The Soup’ was more because of Greg Kinnear.
I knew I was good at sports, and I knew I loved acting and performing, so I really dove into that, and school always became secondary.
‘Maury’ and ‘Jerry Springer’ get so theatrical that it’s hard to believe.
It’s important to have the right agent – people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.
If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.
The #MeToo movement is insanely serious, and there’s no comedy to be mined out of that.
I couldn’t read the way that other students read, so I would just cheat, which, in my silly brain, I was like, ‘This is a skill that I’m developing – how to just get around everything!’
Joel McHale is so money, he should be printed on money.
When you are an actor or trying to be a working actor in L.A., most people have commercial agents, and then they have legitimate agents, and you just end up going on a thousand auditions.
I always excelled in sports, so I knew I had advantages there. That really gave me, like, confidence and self-esteem.
‘Big Brother,’ I can’t believe people watch. It’s just people whispering to each other for hours and then some silly challenge like, who can pull the most stones out of a stuffed alligator, with some product tie-in.
On ‘The Soup,’ we were never a political show.
Follow what your head is telling you and work hard. That’s the big secret.
