Joel Edward McHale (born November 20, 1971) is an Italian-born American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, television producer, television personality, and voice artist. He is best known for hosting The Soup and for his role as Jeff Winger on the NBC comedy series Community.
McHale's role as a voice actor includes Elliot in Open Season 2, filling in for Ashton Kutcher. He also appeared in Spider-Man 2 in a cameo appearance as bank manager Mr. Jacks, CSI: Miami as Greg Welsh, and Spy Kids: All the Time in the World as Wilbur Wilson.
McHale, the middle of three brothers, was born in Rome, Italy on November 20, 1971. His mother, Laurie, is from Vancouver, British Columbia, and his father, Jack, is from Chicago. McHale and his brothers were born in Rome, where their father worked for an American university. He grew up in the Seattle area, graduating from Mercer Island High School in 1991. He also participated at Youth Theatre Northwest.
He received a bachelor's degree in History from the University of Washington in 1995. While at the University of Washington, McHale briefly belonged to the Theta Chi Fraternity. He was recruited to be on the rowing team, but later walked onto the football team, playing tight end for two years. McHale received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Professional Actors Training Program at the University of Washington.
Gillian Jacobs ( /ˈɡɪlɪən/; born October 20, 1982) is an American film, theater and television actress, best known for her role as Britta Perry on the NBC comedy series Community.
Jacobs was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh.
She made her name locally at the Pittsburgh Public Theater. There she was a perennial contender in the Public's Shakespeare Monologue Contest, which led to her being cast as Titania in its production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. After graduating from Mt. Lebanon High School in 2000, Jacobs moved to New York City, New York, to study acting at The Juilliard School, where she was a member of the Drama Division's Group 33.
Jacobs is of Irish, Scottish, German and French heritage.
Jacobs's first national exposure came as Adele Congreve on the television series The Book of Daniel. Although she played Kimberly in the television pilot of Traveler, the role was recast when ABC acquired the series. She subsequently made guest appearances on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Fringe.
Danny Pudi (born March 10, 1979) is an American actor, best known for his role as Abed Nadir on the NBC comedy series Community.
Pudi, who is of Indian and Polish descent, was born and raised in Chicago and grew up speaking Polish. He attended Notre Dame College Prep in Niles, Illinois. He studied dance in Chicago and attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, graduating with a degree in Communication and Theatre in 2001.
At Marquette, Pudi won the Chris Farley Scholarship. Beyond paying for a year of school, the scholarship led to his performing at an improv comedy event featuring Jim Breuer and Dave Chappelle, increasing his interest in studying improv. Pudi performed in summer stock theatre in Wisconsin after Marquette, then studied at The Second City in Chicago. He became a recruiter for an executive search firm before moving to Los Angeles in 2005 to seek television and film roles. Pudi's home-based job permitted him to attend auditions, helping him to avoid "the struggling actor thing in terms of waiting tables, temping and so on." He performed in several television pilots before joining the cast of Community.
Community is an American television comedy series created by Dan Harmon that premiered on September 17, 2009 on NBC. The series follows a group of students at a community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado. The series heavily uses meta-humor and pop culture references, often parodying film and television clichés and tropes.
As of May 2012, the series has completed three seasons, and has been renewed by NBC for a fourth season of 13 episodes, but with the series changing time slots from Thursdays to Fridays at 8:30 pm, and without series creator Dan Harmon as showrunner.
Community begins when Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), a suspended lawyer, enrolls in Greendale Community College after it is discovered that he falsely claimed to have a bachelor's degree. The series focuses on the experiences of Jeff and the study group that he forms in an attempt to attract the romantic attention of Britta Perry (Gillian Jacobs), a former anarchist trying to get her life back on track. The other members of Jeff's study group include Pierce Hawthorne (Chevy Chase), a millionaire on a late-in-life voyage of self-discovery; Annie Edison (Alison Brie), a young strait-laced student and former prescription drug addict; Troy Barnes (Donald Glover), a former high school star quarterback who lost his scholarship to a top-tier university; Shirley Bennett (Yvette Nicole Brown), a single mother and vocal Christian going to school to jumpstart her brownie business; and Abed Nadir (Danny Pudi), a pop-culture-obsessed film student. The group originally unites as a study group for the Spanish 101 class taught by egomaniacal teacher "Señor" Ben Chang (Ken Jeong), and quickly become friends.
The following is a list of episodes of the NBC comedy television series Community, which premiered on September 17, 2009. The show focuses on disbarred lawyer Jeff Winger, and his attempt to get a bachelor's degree at community college. He is joined by members of his study group, which he originally formed for his Spanish 101 class.
As of May 17, 2012 (2012 -05-17)[update], 71 episodes of Community have aired.
On March 5, 2010, NBC announced that Community had been renewed for a second season. The season premiered on September 23, 2010. On November 3, 2010, NBC ordered 2 additional episodes for the second season, bringing it to a total of 24 episodes.
On March 17, 2011, NBC announced that Community had been renewed for a third season.
On May 10, 2012, NBC announced that Community had been renewed for a fourth season consisting of 13 episodes and will move to Fridays at 8:30 pm. On May 19, 2012, it was announced that Dan Harmon would no longer be executive producer and showrunner of the series.
[Verse 1: Stephen the Levite]
I remember before my church started
A season that I called the darkness
Saved but still living in bondage
Not know the problem was not just my pride and lust,
But that life was so autonomous
But at Epiphany I had an epiphany
Realizing community was the way it was meant to be; why?
In the beginning He who gave us identity was,
Eternally, co-existing as the Trinity
Saying it's not good for man to be alone
It's impossible for Him to model us on His own
He gave man a companion not a clone
Commanding reproduction, expansion, and a throne
And now the new Adam is starting it all over
Sparking it with bride who glorifies Jehovah
Submit, you wanna know who you are then know your role cause
Your ID's in Christ and Christ is part of a whole bruh
[Hook:]
Back back, them church boys are back
Oh! That's that the new life is that
Oh! FOTU with my crew till He comes back
Oh! Live in community, walk in community
Back back, them church boys are back
Hey! That's that the new life is that
Hey! FOTU with my crew till He comes back
Hey! Live in community, walk in community
[Verse 2: Sho Baraka]
Before Real Talk were Ambassadors chopping
Up that milk and meat, having all things in common
Before church planting was an option
Before the albums start dropping
We were in community stomping
Patience with your boy when I was loud and obnoxious
Before I turned my life up in at a concert
Before I learned the truth over nonsense
Before I hit a stage they were caution
Accountability, yeah awesome not produce a man selfish or pompous
Know the process of Learning the scriptures in it's context
Bible study sometime it made me nauseous
But know I never grow sick of spitting up those synoptics
Constantly keeping others upon my conscious
Being honest not just robbing them of their knowledge
Promise to serve one another in righteous conduct
It's common sense I'm something like a communist.
[Hook:]
Back back, them church boys are back
Oh! That's that the new life is that
Oh! FOTU with my crew till He comes back
Oh! Live in community, walk in community
Back back, them church boys are back
Hey! That's that the new life is that
Hey! FOTU with my crew till He comes back
Hey! Live in community, walk in community
[Verse 3: Tedashii]
Give me a sec just to put it in perspect'
He's God, and He deserves more than just your check
He deserves your breath, every one you'll ever get
We deserve death, something (by grace) we'll never get
So, hands, devoted, cause He rose and beat death
We could be right-handed but we all went left
See in order to redeem me He gave up Himself
So I'm laying on the altar till they lay me to rest
What you expect, man we give God our best
Plus, knowing Him, is how we know our, self
So, we learn of Him in the way that He set
Up, so we can get it, Christian fellowship
As I imitate God and conform more to Christ
In the bond of community, I look more like
Him (Him), Him (Him), and the image I was meant to have
Praise God for the Church, showing me just me who I am
[Hook:]
Back back, them church boys are back
Oh! That's that the new life is that
Oh! FOTU with my crew till He comes back
Oh! Live in community, walk in community
Back back, them church boys are back
Hey! That's that the new life is that
Hey! FOTU with my crew till He comes back
Erase all borders, cultural esperanto
Let the people be paupers and the customer king
A stable market exclusive for cosmopolitical elites
May the plebs all be ethnic, they will fight we will sing
Peace
Wealth
Growth
Progress
How many poor do we need to prosper
How much starvation to make GNP rise?
Why are we sliding into hell when they are pointing at Heaven?
Let Europe recollect what must be done with bourgeois Lies
Peace
Wealth
Growth
Progress
Crisis, war, reconstruction
Crisis, war, reconstruction
To keep on climbing You have to fall to the ground
Growth not wealth brings the world to go round
I have a love
That the good lord above cannot fathom
Yet it's rationed
You don't seem to want it
But if pain wears you thin
I could color you in , take the grey away
If you'd let me stay
if you'd let us begin
Know there is purity
bestowed on you and me
I don't believe they'd hate us
In the face of love
How to make you conceive
There is community in each other
Was it your father, or was it the doctor
Or the institution
But if prayer wears you thin
Or the wrath of your kin
I'll take the shame away
If you'd let me stay
If you'd let us begin
Know there is purity
bestowed on you and me
I don't believe they'd hate us