Joel McHale, on the other hand, loves Seattle. He grew up there after being born and spending the first years of his life in Italy. (He dad was an American academic working in Rome.) It’s a very interesting life – he’s the middle of three boys (like me), almost killed himself as a kid while playing while pulling the trigger several times on a gun that he later realized had a bullet loaded in it, and walked onto the national champion University of Washington football team after lying that he’d played in high school.
That’s just a quarter of the way through, and I like it already. I loved Joel on “Community,” and a friend of mine was one of his students while Joel was her T.A. for an acting class at Washington, and she really liked him.
It’s a very good, funny book. Give it a gander.
