Joel McHale reflects onCommunityseason 1: 'I would've sawed off a pinkie to do it'

Joel McHalewanted to be a part ofCommunityfrom the moment he read the pilot script way back in 2009.

Suit jacket and sweatpants notwithstanding, McHale related to the character when he read the pilot.

[I liked] that he was always very reticent to do anything but was game to do it.

And that is kind of how I am.

I’m always skeptical to a fault and sarcastic and a cynic to a fault.

And it was just such a well-written script and I would’ve sawed off a pinkie to do it.

I didn’t do that, but I would have."

Like, ‘How can they maintain this level of whatever they’re doing?’

“To be honest here, I didn’t feel a switch.

It all seemed to make sense to me,” says McHale.

“I just never went, ‘Oh well, this show’s gettingcrazy.’

I never did anything like that.”

“I was getting to do what I always wanted to do.

I always wanted to be on a good television show and act.

And so I was skipping to work every day,” he says.

So there wasn’t anything where like, ‘Oh man, how am I going to do this one?

This is the greatest challenge.’

And check back on Saturday for season 2’s episode with Yvette Nicole Brown and Ken Jeong.