Special Event: Joel McHale

Joel McHale is an actor, comedian and television host. Most recently, McHale hosts FOX’s The 1% Club. McHale stars in and executive produces FOX’s hit comedy series Animal Control, where he will return as Frank Shaw in Season 5. McHale was in Yellow Jackets Season 3 on Paramount+ with Showtime. McHale also returned on FX’s season 3 of The Bear. In February 2026, McHale joined the Scream franchise, appearing in Scream 7 opposite Neve Campbell. McHale will also reprise his role as Jeff Winger in the upcoming Community movie on Peacock, based on the hit comedy series of the same name, which ran for five seasons on NBC with the sixth and final season airing on Yahoo! Joel also continues to host and executive produce FOX’s competition baking show Crime Scene Kitchen and E!’s reality competition series, House of Villains, which brings 10 of reality television’s most infamous villains under one roof to compete for the title of America’s Ultimate Supervillain. McHale hosted The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale on Netflix, a half-hour topical series that took a sharp, absurdist look at pop culture and news from across the globe. In 2015, he wrapped the twelfth and final season of E! Network's The Soup, in which he satirized pop culture and current events. He previously starred in CW’s DC Universe series Stargirl, The Great Indoors on CBS, Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet with Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant, Paramount+’s reboot of Twilight Zone and Fox's revival of The X-Files. He also hosted ABC’s show Card Sharks. Other starring feature roles include the dark romantic comedy Happily, thriller Becky, The Happytime Murder; Netflix’s A Stupid & Futile