Joel McHale

When E! ended the show, it wasn't because it was low-rated. It was because E! did not want to pay union rerun dues.

The #MeToo movement is insanely serious, and there's no comedy to be mined out of that.

I don't feel any pressure to joke about #MeToo - in fact, I'd say you shouldn't, because it's a great movement that is exposing some really awful behavior and hopefully changing the culture.

I like anything with Zak Bagans and ghost hunters.

'Maury' and 'Jerry Springer' get so theatrical that it's hard to believe.

E! always wanted me to keep it to entertainment news or entertainment and no sports or anything like that, and don't get too weird.

The editors and the creators of 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' they are so good at casting and at finding these young, beautiful lunatics to go on the show.

I love making fun of YouTubers.

There are always ridiculous things on television or on the Internet that make people go, 'Did you see that?' That could be anything from a clip from the 'Real Housewives' to someone jumping off their roof and missing the pool to a zillion other things.

On 'The Soup,' we were never a political show.

I couldn't read the way that other students read, so I would just cheat, which, in my silly brain, I was like, 'This is a skill that I'm developing - how to just get around everything!'

Now I tell my mom, I go, 'Mom, you know when I was a kid and you told me to turn off the television and go outside and play?' I'd be like, 'You literally were hurting my career when you did that. You literally stopped me from doing now, what I do for a living.'

With 'The Soup,' obviously it has to be totally scripted out, and then, within that, I improvise punchlines and sometimes setups if I can't read the teleprompter properly.

I operate off of fear almost exclusively.

When you are an actor or trying to be a working actor in L.A., most people have commercial agents, and then they have legitimate agents, and you just end up going on a thousand auditions.

Acting is what I'd always wanted to do; hosting 'The Soup' was more because of Greg Kinnear.

'Big Brother,' I can't believe people watch. It's just people whispering to each other for hours and then some silly challenge like, who can pull the most stones out of a stuffed alligator, with some product tie-in.

I like 'American Idol' because it's an actual talent contest.

I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!

Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.

You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.

Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

Follow what your head is telling you and work hard. That's the big secret.