Joel McHale: Conquering Dyslexia & Imposter Syndrome

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Joel McHale (Community, The Soup, Animal Control) joins us in studio to discuss his struggles with dyslexia, ADHD, and imposter syndrome. He shares his experiences working on The Soup and Community, opens up about what it was like to work with Chevy Chase, and his fears about never being taken seriously as an actor. Joel recalls how his challenges with dyslexia impacted him in school and his ability to perform, how he was able to channel his imposter syndrome into positive motivation, and how his kids handle his fame.

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0:00.0	You know, Chevy, there's a thousand stories about Chevy.
0:06.2	It's probably all true.
0:08.0	And he did not really want to be there.
0:11.8	That's, you know, and the hours were long and all that stuff.
0:14.6	And I was like, really?
0:16.1	You don't have to be here if you don't want.
0:18.3	Well, I think, yeah, I think that's sort of, and I'm not, I'm not particularly interested
0:22.9	because like, oh, it's Chevy Chase.
0:24.0	Like, I'm interested just in sort of what it's like to make a comedy also when there's
0:29.4	a complexity, you know, personality-wise.
0:32.8	You know, you have a very, a very bubbly, you know, kind of extroverted presence about you.
0:39.3	Did you find yourself trying to kind of compensate for some of that, you know, like trying to
0:43.5	fill in holes like how do you...
0:46.3	They'd start off that way.
0:48.2	Yeah.
0:49.2	And then, you know, one outfit makes it in the book.
0:52.0	Yeah.
0:53.0	Just fight each other physically.
0:56.2	That happened.
0:57.2	Yeah.
0:58.2	Actually, yeah, I mean, we didn't swing, but he always wanted to kind of...
1:02.7	He's like a horse play wrestle a lot.
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