''Hey Joel'' is an American

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television series that aired on VH1 in 2003. It is about

Joel Stein Joel Stein (born July 23, 1971) is an American journalist who wrote for the ''Los Angeles Times''. He wrote a column and occasional articles for ''Time'' for 19 years until 2017. Early life Stein grew up in Edison, New Jersey, the son of a sale ...

, 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.

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provides the voicing for the part of Joel. His coworkers include Michele (

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), his producer, on whom he has a crush; Kevin ( Jacob Tierney), his production assistant; Leif (

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), his nemesis, who is VH1's star; and Z (

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), the all-business head of programming. The band

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performs their own original compositions for the show, and appear as animated characters during the musical sequences. The complete series was made available on DVD on June 24, 2008.

Episodes

# "Judgement Day" # "Tattoos and Taboos" # "Dream" # "Guitar" # "Dark Week" # "Big Rack Attack" # "Business Affairs" # "Joel Sells Out" # "Book'd" # "The Ur-man and the Seal" # "Hockey" # "The Niece" # "Project Televisionary"

References

External links

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"How I Nearly Killed VH1"
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