Joel McHale News

Some of Hollywood's biggest stars -- including Mary Tyler Moore, Hugh Jackman, Jay Leno, Amy Poehler and Carol Burnett -- will celebrate the birthday of one of the world's most beloved entertainers in 'Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl' on Monday, January 16 (8-9:30 p.m. ET) on NBC. White's 'Hot in Cleveland' co-stars Valerie Bertinelli, Wendy Mallick and Jane Leeves, along with her 'Mary Tyler Moore' co-stars Ed Asner, Valerie Harper and Gavin MacLeod, will also be on hand to deliver birthday wishes, as will Joel McHale, William Shatner and many more. Immediately following the birthday special will be a sneak preview of the outrageously funny hidden-camera series 'Betty White's Off Their Rockers,' airing from 9:30-10 p.m. ET.

Some of Hollywood's biggest stars -- including Mary Tyler Moore, Hugh Jackman, Jay Leno, Amy Poehler and Carol Burnett -- will celebrate the birthday of one of the world's most beloved entertainers in 'Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl' on Monday, January 16 (8-9:30 p.m. ET) on NBC. White's 'Hot in Cleveland' co-stars Valerie Bertinelli, Wendy Mallick and Jane Leeves, along with her 'Mary Tyler Moore' co-stars Ed Asner, Valerie Harper and Gavin MacLeod, will also be on hand to deliver birthday wishes, as will Joel McHale, William Shatner and many more. Immediately following the birthday special will be a sneak preview of the outrageously funny hidden-camera series 'Betty White's Off Their Rockers,' airing from 9:30-10 p.m. ET.

On Thursday night's episode of NBC's COMMUNITY entitled 'Regional Holiday Music', the Greendale Glee Club is unexpectedly sidelined, so the school's effervescent choir director Cory Radison (Taran Killam, 'Saturday Night Live') sets about recruiting the study group members to fill in.

E!'s popular comedy show THE SOUP is now moving to Wednesdays at 10:00 pm/et beginning tonight.

Beginning November 30th at 10pm, E!'s celebrated comedy series "The Soup," hosted by Joel McHale, is moving to a new night to bring fans more of the sharp-witted humor, clever commentary and hilarious clips that audiences have grown to love.

Ring in the New Year with a fresh and funny tale about dating, relationships and life as Anna Faris (Scary Movie Franchise, The House Bunny) and Chris Evans (Fantastic Four, Captain America) come together in a hilarious quest for 'the one' in WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER? Unrated Ex-tended Cut, debuting on Blu-ray and DVD January 10 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Beginning November 30th at 10pm, E!'s celebrated comedy series "The Soup," hosted by Joel McHale, is moving to a new night to bring fans more of the sharp-witted humor, clever commentary and hilarious clips that audiences have grown to love.

In tonight's episode of NBC's COMMUNITY entitled, 'Documentary Filmmaking: Redux' - When the school board asks Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) to make a new commercial for the school, he enlists the study group to star in his production. As he gets swept away with the project, more of the student body is pulled into the fray, including Magnitude (Luke Youngblood), Fat Neil (Charley Koontz), Garrett (Erik Charles Nielsen), Leonard (Richard Erdman), Star-Burns (Dino Stamatopoulos) and even Greendale alum and genuine celebrity, Luis Guzman ('How to Make it in America'). Meanwhile, Abed (Danny Pudi) films all the activities for a documentary.

Last night was TV's top honors and the queen bee of the night was undoubtedly host Jane Lynch, who rocked the amphitheatre from beginning to end and proved to be a host to boast she is the most of the most - and among the best. The very best. Neil Patrick Harris and Hugh Jackman better watch out now with Jane in town! The rest of the Emmys evening was filled with a few thrilling surprises and some very unexpected upsets, chiefly among them: Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell's MODERN FAMILY wins as the show proceeded to sweep most of the Comedy categories, including Best Comedy for the second year in a row; and, in Drama, Peter Dinklage taking top honors for his ingratiating GAME OF THRONES turn and Kyle Chandler taking home the prize for the final season of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. Grandiloquent DOWNTON ABBEY was shown some serious love in the form of Oscar-winning GOSFORD PARK scribe's Julian Fellowes writing win, Maggie Smith for her supporting role, Brian Percival for directing; as was HBO's MILDRED PIERCE - with Guy Pearce and Kate Winslet scoring the big wins - yet the picaresque big-budget series ultimately lost Best Miniseries to the UK-bred DOWNTON ABBEY, where it was somewhat unfairly juxtaposed by most accounts - and, surprising no one coming after its superb fourth season, MAD MEN expectedly took home Best Drama Series. So, for a rundown of the best, the rest and a whole lot more, read on!

Long before the stage saw puppets having sex and Ugandans confronting Mormons, there was JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA, a joyously foul-mouthed stage musical that's as much of a hilarious guilty pleasure as its title suggests. The Chance Theater in Anaheim Hills is the latest American regional theater to take on this racy, over-the-top show. Due to popular demand--and, frankly, rightly so--this surreal musical's run has been extended through August 14. At the height of its popularity, Jerry Springer's eponymous TV program which inspired this reverent parody cornered the market in shocking reveals, loud on-stage brawls, and outrageous fringe parades. So the idea that this low-brow talk show-slash-circus sideshow has somehow been immortalized into a musical theater piece--specifically an Opera, perhaps the most high-brow of the Arts--attracts nothing less than amusing curiosity.

Dolly Parton, Colin Farrell, Sean Hayes, Chris Colfer, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Allison Janney, Melissa Etheridge, Joel McHale, Kirsten Dunst, and Chaz Bono were among the celebrities who joined the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) as it honored Kristin Chenoweth, NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt, and the best in television and journalism last night at the 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles, hosted by Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones. Check out highlights from the event by clicking below!

NBC gives the gift of holiday-themed series episodes and specials throughout late November and December with a multitude of festivities, a special military audience for 'The Jay Leno Show' airing Thanksgiving evening and a night of holiday-themed Thursday night comedies from 'Community,' 'Parks and Recreation,' 'The Office' and '30 Rock' on December 10.

The 2008 New York Comedy Festival, taking place November 5-9 at various venues throughout New York City, announces the addition of several events to its line-up, including the second annual search for 'New York's Funniest Stand-Up' -a competition open to any and all comedians who think they have what it takes to be called 'New York's Funniest

Carolines on Broadway, 'America's Premier Comedy Nightclub,' announces its all-star line-up of comedy talent for the month of July 2008, highlighted by headliners PAUL MOONEY, from Comedy Central's 'Chappelle's Show' and Spike Lee's 'Bamboozled,' July 3 - 6 and July 24 - 27; CAPONE, 'The Gangster of Comedy,' from BET's 'ComicView,' 'Showtime at the Apollo' and the film 'Death of a Dynasty,' July 4 - 6; GILBERT GOTTFRIED, from Sirius Satellite Radio's 'The Howard Stern Show,' NBC's 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' and the film 'The Aristocrats,' July 10; JOEL McHALE, host of E! Entertainment Television's 'The Soup with Joel McHale,' July 11 - 13; ARTIE LANGE, from Sirius Satellite Radio's 'The Howard Stern Show,' HBO's 'Entourage,' FX's 'Rescue Me' and the films 'Elf' and 'Artie Lange's Beer League,' July 17 and 18; SINBAD, one of Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time, from NBC's 'A Different World,' and the films 'First Kid' and 'Jingle All the Way,' July 18 - 20; and BOBBY LEE, from FOX's 'Mad TV,' HBO's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' and the films 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,' and 'Kickin' It Old School,' July 24 - 27.