Community star Joel McHale admits to being an ‘a-hole’ to reporters on set

Joel McHale has confessed to “calling out” reporters who visited the set of his hit show in a candid new interview.

Joel McHale fessed up to exhibiting bad behaviour on the sitcom Community.

The 53-year-old actor recalled how he mistreated reporters who came to the set of the TV show on Tuesday’s episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Dinner’s On Me podcast.

“The only time — well, I’ve been an a**ehole many times — but I would always call out reporters,” McHale said, reports the New York Post.

“And they’d be like, ‘Such a great show. It’s just so amazing,’” he added. “And it would be one thing if we were on a red carpet and they were like, here’s this guy from this thing. But it was like, if you come to set, if you’re sitting on our set, you should have like done some research. You should know what show this is.”

McHale said he would taunt the reporters by quizzing them about the show.

“I’ve had reporters come back and just be like, ‘You really got me,’” McHale said. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, I probably should just enjoy the promotion and not call people out.’”

McHale has admitted to being difficult at times..

McHale played Jeff Winger on Community, which ran for six seasons from 2009 to 2015. The show followed a mismatched group of people at a community college.

Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Chevy Chase, Jim Rash and Ken Jeong also starred in the sitcom.

On Ferguson’s podcast, McHale gave an update on the Community movie, which was announced to be in development by Peacock in 2022.

“Well, we got the money, which is one of the harder things to do,” McHale said. “And everyone’s in, so that’s the other. It’s really coming down to schedules, and a script was written. So all that is real.”

The show ran from 2009 until 2015.

“And I know that we’ve been talking about it for literally years, but it will happen,” McHale added, “and there’s just, you know, it’s just getting those schedules together.”

After confirming he’s read the script for the film, McHale jokingly gave a major spoiler.

“Yeah. I’m not going to tell you anything about it. I’ll just say, everybody dies,” he said.

Last year, McHale told The Post that he doesn’t think Chase, 81, will be in the Community movie. Chase was fired from the show in 2013 after allegedly using a racist slur toward Glover during filming. He also got into a heated confrontation with the show’s creator, Dan Harmon.

“I don’t think he’s allowed to. I don’t think it would happen. I’m guessing if you asked him, he wouldn’t be interested,” McHale said about Chase being in the film.

“Obviously, his unceremonious departure in Season 4 pretty much did that in,” he added.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.

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