Apparently it's Joel McHale Day here at Mollygood, and we're OK with that because he trumps the Hogans/Spears/Lohans any day. Joel, who says he sometimes feels like he's "doing the Lord's work," gave an awesome interview with The A.V. Club where he provided many, many gems, chief among them this: "On Flavor Of Love, when a woman took a dump on the stairs, I mean, that's like J.R. being shot on Dallas, or like maybe the last episode of M*A*S*H. It's a milestone on television that's covered with chlamydia."

Seriously, he's our favorite celebrity ever. Click through for lots more.

The A.V. Club: How big is The Soup's staff? Does everyone still sort of do everything?

Joel McHale: Yeah. It used to be five of us, which eventually was going to kill us, because we had to watch way too much television. Now it has swelled to 12, and if you throw in an intern, you get up to 13 or 14, because we want to catch everything if we can. We still can't, but it's as much as we can. Like, there's this girl on our staff who watches every hour of the Today show. There's a guy who watches telenovelas, and he doesn't speak Spanish. Even two hours of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition can be brutal every week. We cover everything, including infomercials. We literally record four hours of the Home Shopping Network to see if we can find something.

AVC: What's the worst assignment?

JM: I'm going to have to go with the Today show, because it is just endless now. I think it starts at 6 a.m. and goes 'till 5 p.m. You can't keep track of it. And now that they got Kathy Lee Gifford hosting the final hour, for The Soup, that was great. Great and bad news.

AVC: So you've got 13 people watching all the shows?

JM: Yeah. So, at any given time, for 22 minutes of television we have that many people. But they all do other jobs; everyone does production, and then we do sketches. So everyone kind of does everything, which is great, because we're not producing Lost every week. We're producing 22 minutes on a green screen. Everybody gets to participate, everybody gets to appear on camera if they want to, so it's like this great little Mission: Impossible squad that we have that I can fire at any moment, 'cause I'm the boss.

AVC: How has the workflow changed over the years? Are the days still pretty distinct as far as what gets done on that day?

JM: Yeah. We have a meeting on Tuesday and a meeting on Wednesday at 3 o'clock where everybody brings in clips from all the shows we watched. It used to be that we'd bring in VHS tapes, but now we have this big program called SnapStream that we TiVo everything to our computers. Basically, there's a built-in TiVo in our computers, and we can pull anything from anywhere. And then we shoot a thing for Yahoo on Wednesday night, and then we shoot a promo, because we do a Condensed 'Soup' on Yahoo. It's a three-minute Soup. Then we shoot out sketches usually involving Mankini or Lou The Dog. And then Thursday, we tape the show after Ryan Seacrest—a lot of us pack into his studio. It used to be a lot more intensive, because there were less people, and we didn't know what we were doing, but now it's got into a nice groove. We try to say what's funniest to us. I feel like we're hopefully saying what you're thinking. If it's not, then screw you.

AVC: You joke about E! giving you notes and neutering jokes, but do you get much feedback from the network?

JM: You know what's great about E!—and we kid them all the time—they have been incredibly liberal and good to us. They let us say a lot of stuff. If we piss someone off on the network, they usually don't go, "Hey, they don't say that." They go, "Hey, can you lay off a week? Just don't make fun of Hef this week—he's a little pissed." Why? Because we called him an aging grandpa who's having sex with his granddaughters? You know, that sort of thing. I would say most networks have some false sense of pride. It's just been tremendous that they've been so good to us. They've been able to take a joke. We go after Ryan [Seacrest] all the time, and Ryan is a great sport. He plays clips, that cute little elf munchkin, on his radio show. He's really good to us as well. It's people like Tyra who don't get it and don't like us.

AVC: You don't get a lot of blowback though, do you?

JM: She's the only one that tries to stop us. She's been it. We've heard other people who haven't been exactly happy with us, but then we get other people who are like, "That was great, how you made fun of me!" And I'm like, "Thank you, great! You're welcome."

AVC: What do you mean, trying to stop you? Does she send you angry letters?

JM: "Stop using our clips" and stuff. But it's fair use for a week, according to news rules. You can use 20 seconds of anything the week it airs.