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The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale |OT| Reheated Soup (Sundays on Netflix)
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Yup.
"Kiss my ass" "Chicken tetrazzini" "Donka doo balls" were my absolute favorites.
"Kiss my ass" was the best though because it had so many uses and worked every time.
This is a phenomenal idea (deeply biased as I watched every main iteration of soup from Talk to The; sidenote: Greg Kinnear was great wasn't he?) and it's so inexpensive compared to anything else they put out. I like my prestige shows, but it's a very smart idea for them to hit up a whole bunch of demographic corners with targeted daily or weekly shows.
Only where it makes sense. Stuff like a talk show it totally makes sense. Doing this for narrative series would be a huge step back.
Is he actually good at this? The only thing I've seen him host was that Ubisoft press conference, and that was... yeah.
It's probably the most fitting thing for Joel McHale that he's ever done.
He and Aisha Tyler are simply terrible at those conferences and always have been. The thing is, you could tell McHale was trying to bring his Soup shtick into a crowd that didn't get the references. For instance, I remember a lot of people in those days wondering why he kept namedropping Ryan Seacrest, which is a long-running thing with McHale.
He was made for The Soup. He did it for 11 years, to the tune of over 600 episodes.
I should note that this stuff does or doesn't work depending on your ability to glom onto the material. The Soup was snarky and deeply invested, by way of its source material, in making fun of celebrities, reality TV, and such. It was an evolution from what "Talk Soup", its forebear, was in the 90s and early 00s, which was making fun of the glut of talk shows on daytime television. I'd also say that while The Soup was very sarcastic and irreverent, it never struck me as purely mean-spirited. That's a big distinction for me as I hate the latter. It was a weird, loving embrace of this awful medium we created as a society while making sure to note that no one is faultless in how it took off, from the producers to the viewers to The Soup themselves.
McHale was getting too busy but still wanted to make the show, E! opted to say fuck it and kill it and replace it with their own trash.
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No, they had a talk show by Chelsea Handler and there's also the Letterman talk show
probably gonna be like Dave letterman's new show. One episode at a time.
YES! Legit excited to see one of my favorite shows return
Joel mchale is fantastic, I still laugh thinking of his game awards gig
came for the chicken tetrazzini, was not disappointed
been enjoying the soup/talk soup since greg kinnear and skunkboy were hosting, joel mchale was pretty good though so.. cautiously optimistic?
been enjoying the soup/talk soup since greg kinnear and skunkboy were hosting, joel mchale was pretty good though so.. cautiously optimistic?
The Soup was a hilarious show. There were so many funny recurring jokes that have already mentioned here like the Greg Kelly bit or the glory hole.
I'll forever be grateful to the Soup for introducing me to my favorite show ever. It was Joel McHale's constant promotion of Community that convinced me to check it out. I'm so glad that I did.
Anyway, I will obviously watch this new show every week like I used to do with The Soup.
I'll forever be grateful to the Soup for introducing me to my favorite show ever. It was Joel McHale's constant promotion of Community that convinced me to check it out. I'm so glad that I did.
Anyway, I will obviously watch this new show every week like I used to do with The Soup.
Oh god, thanks for reminding me of this:
And you're right, McHale was the biggest cheerleader for Community, cool dude.
did that other show where he's a grizzled, wise Gen-X'er who's making fun of LOL SNOWFLAKE MILLENIALS ever take off?
