Joel McHale takes custody of the blame ball for the Community movie's continued non-existence

"I will say, and please print this… It was not Donald’s schedule. We love Donald. You can fully blame my schedule”

By William Hughes | July 6, 2024 | 7:33pm

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Joel McHale takes custody of the blame ball for the Community movie's continued non-existence

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Over the last few years, conversations surrounding the long prophesied Community movie have steadily shifted from “We’ve got a script!” “Can’t wait to read the script!” “Aw damn, this script!” to “Hey, whose fault is it that we haven’t started filming this script?” (Notably, the film was allegedly supposed to start filming this year, before it… didn’t.) Because the cast of Community is generally pretty chill*, though, this shared custody of the blame ball for the movie’s ongoing non-existence has mostly been pretty amiable—including series star Joel McHale going out of his way this week to clarify that it is, in fact, his fault that the movie hasn’t been made yet, and not, say, the frequently blamed Donald Glover’s.

McHale has previously lobbed a few playful jokes at the expense of Glover’s packed schedule, given that that dude tends to stay pretty damn busy, most recently starring in Amazon’s Mr. And Mrs. Smith and revealing a trailer for his upcoming film project Bando Stone. But in a new GQ interview (timed to one of his occasional appearances on The Bear), McHale gives the full mea culpa, actually seeming to go into a minor panic when the interviewer jokes that it was Glover’s fault: “No! If it’s anybody’s fault, it’s my schedule on this one. It’s not his at all. He was available. No, no, no, no… I will say, and please print this. That was definitely not true. It was not Donald’s schedule. We love Donald. You can fully blame my schedule.”