McHale busy with stand-up, book and ‘The Great Indoors’

McHale released a book last month titled “Thanks for the Money,” is the star of the new CBS sitcom “The Great Indoors” and is in the midst of a stand-up tour, which brings him back to Northern California for his last 2016 stop in the state on Saturday, Dec. 10, at Cache Creek Casino’s Club 88.

Before his claim to mainstream fame as Jeff Winger on the NBC series “Community,” McHale had been appearing on comedy stages for years.

[...] that comedic bite helped land him the glitzy gig as host of the 2014 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which he refers to as a testament to America’s greatness — where else can you tell a drone joke to your president’s face and walk off scot-free, with a laughing Obama, no less?

“The Great Indoors,” in which McHale plays a Generation X globe-trotting reporter forced to take an office job with a team of Millennials, was recently picked up for a full season — despite experiencing some backlash (a Variety reporter confronted the show’s creator and cast during a question-and-answer session in early August over its perceived vendetta against Millennials).

“For it to go from pilot to getting half a season order to a full season — it’s always surprising to me, because it’s such a competitive game,” McHale says.

Brandon Yu is a freelance writer.

Club 88, Cache Creek Casino Resort, 14455 Highway 16, Brooks, Yolo County. www.cachecreek.com