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The Treatment

Joel McHale: 'Community' and 'The Soup'

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Elvis Mitchell talks to actor Joel McHale, who stars in the NBC comedy "Community" and hosts "The Soup" on E! Entertainment Television.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

0:14.9

Welcome to the treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com.

0:19.0

We last left our guest, Joel McHale, who's here a couple of years ago in the midst of season two of Community, which he stars in, which is on NBC.

0:26.0

And he also is a host of The Soup, which runs almost every week on E.

0:30.3

And he's back as we head for the denouement of Community, probably the only show ever on TV, which was an Oscar-winning screenwriter as part of

0:38.6

its cast.

0:39.2

Yeah.

0:39.8

So suck it, other shows.

0:42.6

I guess is that translating in the ratings?

0:44.4

Did you see a big uptick after the Oscars?

0:46.3

It actually that when Jim Rash, the incredible Jim Rash, won the Oscar for Descendants, Best Adapted Screenplay with his partner, Nat Faxon,

0:57.6

who, by the way, they are now in pre-production on the movie they're directing.

1:01.9

I heard them.

1:02.3

I heard the way back.

1:03.4

Or is it called the way, way back?

1:04.4

I think it's called The Way Way Back.

1:05.9

And Steve Carell is starring in it.

1:08.2

They're directing it, and they wrote it.

1:09.8

Look at that.

1:11.2

Yeah, when Jim stuck his leg out.

1:13.9

It was a real Dean Peltin moment.

1:15.5

Yeah, we, yeah, that got more press for than the show than if they had spent

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