It’s been announced that Joel McHale’s new Netflix series premiere will feature a mini Community reunion.
In a new trailer for The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale, McHale will welcome a long guest list of stars, including his former Community co-stars Alison Brie and Jim Rash make appearances, as well as Kevin Hart (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle), Mike Colter (Marvel’s Luke Cage), Paul Reiser (Stranger Things) and Jodie Sweetin (Fuller House), according to TV Line.
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In addition to the exciting news about the Community reunion, Netflix has dropped a new trailer for the series, which shows McHale in a green-screen outfit that has videos projected onto it.
He jokes that he is a host who can point and laugh “at the same time,” before the crew then projects some NSFW images all over him.
The 13-episode first season of The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale, is scheduled to drop Feb. 18, with new episodes launching each week.
It will be a talk/variety show with the host chatting with special guests, as well as helming sketches and commenting on various topics in pop-culture, sports, news and politics. Essentially, it sounds as if it will be very similar to The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.
McHale announced the show on Twitter and shared a promo clip to get fans excited. Along with the video he joked, “Hey [Netflix]: I think you misunderstood when I demanded “a lot of green” for my new show.”
Hey @Netflix: I think you misunderstood when I demanded “a lot of green” for my new show. #JoelMcHaleShow pic.twitter.com/SICdubeL1m
— Joel McHale (@joelmchale) January 19, 2018
McHale will also serve as an executive producer on the series, as will Paul Feig, the director of Bridesmaids and 2016’s Ghostbusters reboot.
This is not McHale’s first foray into the world of TV-show-hosting, as he was famously the host of The Soup on E! from 2004 until 2015.
The actor and comedian is probably most famous, however, for his role on NBC‘s Community where he played Jeff Winger, “a former lawyer who enrolls at Greendale after being suspended from his law firm for falsely claiming to have a bachelor’s degree.”
Community aired for five seasons on NBC, from 2010 until 2014, and then subsequently cancelled. Yahoo! then picked the show up and gave it a final 13-episode sixth season in 2015.
More recently, McHale stared on CBS’s The Great Indoors, in which he stared as Jack Gordon, ” a globe-trotting adventure reporter now in charge of his magazine’s publishing department.”
Before his show launches in Feb. he can be seen in the Netflix Original Movie A Futile and Stupid Gesture, a part-fictional, part-biographical story about National Lampoon in which he ironically plays Chevy Chase, another on of his former Community co-stars.
