Joel Edward McHale (born November 20, 1971) is an American actor, comedian and television presenter.

He has performed in the films Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (2011), Ted (2012), and The Happytime Murders (2018).

McHale also starred in the short-lived CBS sitcom The Great Indoors (2016–2017), hosted a reboot of Card Sharks (2019–2021), and portrayed the superhero Starman on the show Stargirl (2020–2022).

In 2020, he hosted a special aftershow interviewing key subjects from the Netflix documentary series Tiger King and voiced Johnny Cage in the direct-to-video martial arts film Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge, a role he reprised in its sequel, Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021).

[6] He received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Washington in 1995, and was briefly in the Theta Chi fraternity but left it because he "couldn't stand it.

He made an appearance as a guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race season 11, episode 4, "Trump: The Rusical".

[15] On August 17, 2018, it was announced that Netflix had canceled the show after 19 episodes, reportedly due to low viewership.

[16] On April 8, 2019, TVLine reported that McHale would host a revival of the game show Card Sharks for ABC.

[24] After earning his master's degree in acting, McHale moved to Los Angeles and landed small roles in Diagnosis: Murder, CSI: Miami, and Will & Grace.

[27][28] McHale starred in the sitcom Community,[29] which premiered in fall 2009, and continued to host The Soup.

He played Rex in Ted (2012) and had a short guest stint on the FX show Sons of Anarchy.

[32] McHale played the lead role in the CBS sitcom The Great Indoors, which began airing in the fall of 2016.

[35] In 2018, McHale was cast in the recurring role of Chris on the second season of the Netflix horror-comedy series Santa Clarita Diet.

[36] In December 2018, it was announced that McHale was cast as Sylvester Pemberton, the Golden Age Starman in the DC Universe and The CW series Stargirl.

[40][41][42][43] In a 2018 interview on Dax Shepard's podcast Armchair Expert, McHale revealed he was dyslexic, having discovered this when his two sons were diagnosed.

"[50] In 2021, McHale has shown his support for the Children's Tumor Foundation, an organization dedicated to raising awareness for and treating neurofibromatosis.