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Hey Joel

6.0 / 10

2003

1 season

13 episodes

AnimationComedy

Hey Joel is an American animated television series. It is about Joel Stein, the host of a three-minute rock-star interview show on VH1 called "3 minutes with Joel". However, he is anything but respectful to his famous guests, often badgering them with aggressive, pointless, irreverent, and often insulting questions. Jon Cryer provides the voicing for the part of Joel. His coworkers include Michele, his producer, on whom he has a crush; Kevin, his production assistant; Leif, his nemesis, who is VH1's star; and Z, the all-business head of programming. The band Fountains of Wayne performs their own original compositions for the show, and appear as animated characters during the musical sequences. After an initial run on VH1 in 2003, the show was picked up by Teletoon, and episodes continue to air in Canada. The first season was made available on DVD June 24, 2008.

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Cast

Jon Cryer

Daphne Rubin-Vega

Nancy Giles

Geoffrey Arend

Jacob Tierney

Seasons

Ep 1
1.Judgment Day
03-06-2003
Z becomes bored with Joel and tries to replace him, while Joel is angered when Alicia Keys runs over his toe(nail) with her limo.
2.Tattoos and Taboos
10-06-2003
An e-mail circulates around the office, from a Wendy Pubes. Joel has romantic feelings for Michele, as does Alyson, who thinks Michele is a lesbian. When Alyson implies to Joel tha...
Ep 3
3.Dream
17-06-2003
Joel gets in shape with a personal ""A-list celebrity"" trainer, and takes ""Man Fuel"", which he thinks makes him bulkier and strongier, but ends up giving him breasts. Michele is...
Ep 4
4.Guitar
24-06-2003
In a misunderstanding, Joel autographs a guitar signed by the world's most famous guitarists, then must get his signature removed in time for a charity auction. Meanwhile, when Kev...
Ep 5
5.Dark Week
01-07-2003
In a ticking-clock parody of "24," Joel must overcome the stage-fright Donny Osmond has cursed him with before facing the cameras as an awards show presenter.
Ep 6
6.Big Rack Attack
08-07-2003
Joel grows breasts after overdoing it on a bulk-up supplement, but Michele convinces him to keep them when she realizes that his pubescent look will help her book a celebrity with...
Ep 7
7.Business Affairs
15-07-2003
A totally innocent exchange of emails between two employees is electronically circulated to the entire company, leading to an all-day Sexual Sensitivity Seminar whose leader pits J...
Ep 8
8.Joel Sells Out
22-07-2003
Joel and Michele scheme to score freebies off product-mentions he "casually" gets rock stars to discuss in interviews, but that gives Z the idea for a full-time sponsor: Wobu, a tr...
Ep 9
9.Book'd
29-07-2003
Joel gets hired to write a pre-celebrity bio book of an unknown boy band, then discovers they all hate each other, that their manager is a perv, and that his ironclad contract requ...
Ep 10
10.The Ur-Man And The Seal
05-08-2003
Upset that she's not impressing the right folks at VH1, Michele ropes Joel into playing Pinniped - the hero seal of an 1800-episode Japanese anime series that is the centerpiece of...
Ep 11
11.Hockey
12-08-2003
Joel's search for a celebrity pal leads to an on-air hockey duke-out with heavy-metalman Rob Halford, and then a crush on Eighties's popstress Debbie Gibson, who won't stop believi...
Ep 12
12.The Niece
19-08-2003
Embarrassed by Michele's accusation that he's turned into a suck-up to the stars, Joel lashes out at a celebrity relative intern until he learns she has cancer - and then he has a...
Ep 13
13.Project Televisionary
26-08-2003
Joel gets renewed for next season, but the price is steep: VH1 is finally going to air Project Televisionary, the story of how Joel came to VH1 and met Kevin and Michele-it's unusu...

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