Prepare to be molded into the best darn former E! personality you can be. It’s been revealed (VOILÀ!) that Joel McHale is working on a book that veers into the realm of self-help without the need to become a Level Five Laser Lotus.
McHale, who will soon be starring in the new CBS comedy series The Great Indoors, has sorted out a deal with G.P. Putnam’s Sons to put out a book titled Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be. Almost too humble! The book is a fusion of self-aware self-help and a memoir stuffed with “unbelievably juicy celebrity anecdotes.” Anecdotes, advice and maybe something about Mankini? Color us intrigued.
The Community alum engaged in a bit of gab with Entertainment Weekly about the decision to add the duties of “author” to his perpetually stuffed schedule. Here’s what McHale had to say about choosing to write a book:
I decided I wanted some more money back in November, and that’s when I was riding high on The Soup — oh, wait, that’s no longer in existence. No, I had thought it over — I’m a massive procrastinator, and have ADHD, and probably post-traumatic … who knows, there’s a lot of letters with periods in between them that stand for things that I probably have — and my friends [Stevens and Vico] and I were like, “We should really write a book, guys. We could make some money off that. And America is begging for it.” And then, here we are. Now the book is almost done.
Included in the dish opened up by McHale in the book: The story of the time he accidentally killed former castmate Chevy Chase. How’d that happen? “It has something to do with physically fighting him,” noted the actor. SOLD!
(via AV Club & Entertainment Weekly)
