Joel McHale Talks About His Childhood Past as a Pyromaniac 1.17K Whitney Jefferson 09/20/10 05:05PM Filed to: The Tonight Show The Tonight Show Joel McHale TV Video Star of Community and host to The Soup Joel McHale opened up about his childhood on Friday's Tonight Show. We bet you didn't know he has two brothers, grew up in Jersey (pre-tanning frenzy) and loved to play with fire.