If you feel like Joel McHale is everywhere, you’re not entirely wrong. The actor-comedian’s IMDb credits are jam-packed: McHale currently has a lead role as Frank Shaw in the Fox comedy series Animal Control (which will end its third season on March 13), regularly pops up to torture Jeremy Allen White as abusive chef David Fields on the FX dramedy The Bear, hosts several reality TV competitions— including E!’s House of Villains and Fox’s Crime Scene Kitchen—and even lends his voice as The Scientist in the Fortnite: Battle Royale video game.
And somehow there’s even more where all of that comes from, with the TV star taking over as host of the Fox game show The 1% Club from predecessor Patton Oswalt, and replacing Patrick Dempsey as Sidney Prescott’s husband in the upcoming Scream 7 movie. Plus the 52-year-old Community alum still managed to make time to pop up as part of Fox’s televised Super Bowl LIX celebrations.
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But while he’s busy playing Neve Campbell’s hubby in horror movies, who is his real-life wife at home? "My wife is the queen. She is my queen. You have to lay down and die to your spouse, as she will hopefully do to you,” he revealed to AOL Entertainment about his long-lasting marriage to Sarah Williams back in 2020. "I also got the best one. I got the best one out of a lot of women in the world, so that's going to be hard for anyone to get someone better than her. Because they don't exist. I am very lucky she agreed to marry me."
Here’s everything we know about Joel McHale’s decades-spanning romance with Sarah Williams.
Joel McHale has been married to artist Sarah Williams since July 1996. The couple live in the Studio City area of Los Angeles with their children. Williams frequently posts her artworks to her public Instagram, at the handle @semchale, including paper collages, ink sketches, acrylic paintings, handmade cards and more. In a June 2024 post of a collage entitled “Soul-searching”—made with acrylic paints, photocopy image transfers and paper on canvas—Williams captioned the work: “I see making art as a way into and through the beauty and chaos of life.”
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How did Joel McHale and Sarah Williams meet?
Joel and Sarah both attended the University of Washington, where he majored in history and she studied psychology. In his December 2020 segment for Wired's "Autocomplete Interview" video series, the actor recounted how he initially courted Sarah, enlisting the help of a friend to ask his future bride out on a date.
"I met her twice ... the first time, I was a freshman, and she was a senior. ... I was like, 'That's a very pretty woman,' " Joel said. "Then I did not see her again for, like, three years."
He continued: "I called my friend Kim, and I was like, 'Hey, do you think you could put a good word in for me with Sarah Williams?' And she was like, 'Good luck,' but Sarah took pity on me and allowed me to take her out, and then I wore her down, and she then eventually agreed to marry me."
Joel McHale and wife Sarah WilliamsThe pair tied the knot on July 20, 1996, with Williams sweetly wearing her mother’s 1960s-era wedding dress for her nuptials. Williams and McHale have been going strong ever since, celebrating their 28th wedding anniversary last summer. Sarah posted a loving tribute to her famous spouse on Instagram: “28 years married today @joelmchale!! I’m not sure where this photo was from because after 28 years one loses track. Thanks for choosing me every day. One of the best pieces of marriage advice we got—to make a conscious choice to choose each other each day. I love you!”
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Does Joel McHale have kids with Sarah Williams?
Yes, the couple have two children: they welcomed their first son, Edward "Eddie" Roy McHale, in 2005 and their second, Isaac Hayden McHale, three years later. They also have three fur babies: adopted dogs Beanbag, Cowboy and Harry.
“We have two sons, and I'm the kind of third son. My maturity level is about the same, and I think my sons would agree with that,” McHale joked to People in 2023. “And to quote Mr. Mom from 1981 with Michael Keaton when he was pulling up to school and they were like, ‘You're doing it wrong.’ That's usually what I get.”
But the comedic actor got serious when discussing Eddie’s autism diagnosis with the outlet. "There's no other choice other than to just love that kid and see what he wants to do," McHale said in a February 2024 interview, adding, "Life throws you all sorts of things. And the journey with the kids has not been a traditional one, because everyone else around us is doing more typical things. And I'm like, 'Hey. It's all good. Let's see what happens.'"
Thankfully, it seems like humor certainly runs in the McHale family. "They're both extremely sarcastic and make fun of me. Like when we say grace when we have dinner, Eddie will go, 'God is great. And Joel is not,'” McHale shared with the publication. "Isaac will be like, 'Hey dad. When are you going to be relevant again? Do you think people will like you again at some point?' Yeah, there's a lot of that."
What is Joel McHale’s net worth?
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Joel McHale’s work as a comedian, actor and television personality has earned him an estimated net worth of $14 million dollars. His most notable credits include TV series like the E! satirical weekly The Soup (which he hosted from 2004 to 2015) and the NBC sitcom Community (which ran for six seasons, with a spin-off film to come), as well as movies such as Spider-Man 2, Ted and The Happytime Murders.
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