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Special Event: Joel McHale

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When

Show 7 PM

Where

Helium Comedy Club
1510 SE 9th Ave, Portland

About

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 Gesture, opposite Will Forte, in which he played Chevy Chase, his

former Community co-star; Queenpins; A Merry Friggin’ Christmas opposite Robin Williams; the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced supernatural thriller Deliver Us From Evil; the Warner Bros' romantic comedy Blended alongside Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore; Seth MacFarlane's comedy smash Ted; David Frankel’s The Big Year; Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant and What’s Your Number starring Chris Evans and Anna Faris. In 2020, Joel co-hosted FOX’s New Years Eve special alongside his fellow Community co-star Ken Jeong. They also hosted a podcast, The Darkest Timeline, together. In 2014, McHale hosted the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington D.C. He also hosted the 2015 ESPYS on ABC.

In the fall of 2016, McHale released his first book through Putnam Penguin, Thanks For The Money: How to Use My Life Story To Become The Best Joel McHale You Can Be, which is part memoir, part self-help guide.

Born in Rome and raised in Seattle, Washington, McHale was a history major at the University of Washington and a member of their championship football team. He also graduated with an MFA from the Actor's Training Program.

McHale resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.

Couple's Package includes:

  • 2 premium seats
  • $90 food & beverage credit ($45 per person)
  • Gratuity
  • Ticket Protection

Management reserves the right to prevent customers from entering the facility who they deem disruptive or dangerous to other patrons.

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