Looks like Chevy Chase is finally ready for prime time.
The Emmy-winning comedian and Saturday Night Live alum has been cast in the NBC comedy pilot, Community, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Should it get picked up, the series will feature Chase's first regular prime-time role.
Community, described as "Stripes at a community college," stars Joel McHale as Jeff, a lawyer who returns to college after his degree is deemed invalid. Chase will play ...
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You know him as the wiseass host of E! Network's popular series The Soup, but Joel McHale is shaking things up these days in a serious movie with Oscar-winners Matt Damon and Steven Soderbergh in The Informant.
The dark comedy/thriller based on Kurt Eichenwald's "The Informant: A True Story," tells the tale of brilliant academic Mark Whitacre (Damon), a rising star at conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland. But some shady price-fixing tactics within his company ultimately lead Whitacre to become one of the FBI's highest-level executive to turn whistleblower in U.S history.
McHale's role as FBI agent Robert Herndon was "about as fun as it could be." What really stuck out about the experience was ...
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Some of televisions funniest personalities are trading in their camera work for live audiences at the New York Comedy Festival this week. TVGuide.com caught up a few of them, including Tracy Morgan, Frank Caliendo, Joel McHale and Carlos Mencia, to find out how they compare their work on television with live stand-up routines in front of thousands of people.
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E! is offering a new Soup on its menu.Following the success of Joel McHale's The Soup, the network is planning to expand its franchise with the addition of Sports Soup, Variety reports.Set to premiere on sister channel Versus, Sports Soup will do — or at least hope to do — to sports what The Soup does to pop culture in the same format to boot.Comedian and Clean House host Matt Iseman will host the skewering program and offer an "undistorted glimpse into sports," Marc Fein, Versus executive vice president of programming production and business operations, said.Sports Soup will premiere Oct. 14 at 10 pm/ET.Can Iseman match McHale barb-for-barb? — Joyce EngCheck out clips from The Soup in our Online Video Guide.
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Soup's on! Joel McHale has picked the year's best clips from his series that celebrates TV at its most embarrassing and packed them into four The Soup Presents specials airing Monday nights at 10/pm ET through July 21. We asked the funnyman to give us a taste.
TV Guide: What show are you most embarrassed by on E!?
Joel McHale: Where do I start? Thank God Dina Lohan has a show! What a wonderful network we are to give that woman a platform.
TV Guide: Any E! celebrities you're afraid to run into?
McHale: I don't know what I would do if I ran into the Girls Next Door. I would feel like a rancher, wrangling crazy, blonde, orange-skinned creatures. They don't even know what [The Soup] is. They're way too concerned with dressing their dogs up and having photo shoots with them.
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