Jeff Winger would probably approve.

Community star Joel McHale doesn’t mince words about the way he would treat some reporters on the set of the beloved sitcom.

“The only time — well, I’ve been an a–hole many times — but I would always call out reporters,” he said in a new episode of the Dinner’s On Me podcast hosted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson. “And they’d be like, ‘Such a great show. It’s just so amazing.’ And it would be one thing if we were on a red carpet and they were like, here’s this guy from this thing.”

He continued, “But it was like, if you come to set, if you’re sitting on our set, you should have like done some research. You should know what show this is.”

McHale, who played the sarcastic and overly confident Jeff for all six seasons of the show, explained that he wouldn’t let it go and would instead taunt these reporters a bit. He recalled asking them what their favorite episode was or what his character’s name was, which he claimed left an impression on some journalists.

“I’ve had reporters come back and just be like, ‘You really got me,'” he told Ferguson, while offering a mea culpa of his own. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, I probably should just enjoy the promotion and not call people out.'”

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The show, which followed a ragtag group of community college students, ran for 110 episodes over six seasons, with its first five seasons airing on NBC and its sixth and final airing on Yahoo! Screen in 2015.

Longtime fans know that the phrase “six seasons and a movie” is more than a popular line in the series — a Community film was officially announced by Peacock in 2022.

When prompted for an update on that, McHale said, “Well, we got the money, which is one of the harder things to do. And everyone’s in, so that’s the other. It’s really coming down to schedules, and a script was written. So all that is real. And I know that we’ve been talking about it for literally years, but it will happen, and there’s just, you know, it’s just getting those schedules together.”

The star said he has even seen the script for the project, but wouldn’t divulge any details to Ferguson. In true Jeff fashion, he simply quipped, “Yeah. I’m not going to tell you anything about it. I’ll just say, everybody dies.”

“Everybody” likely includes anarchist activist Britta Perry (Gillian Jacobs), TV superfan Abed Nadir (Danny Pudi), Christian mom Shirley Bennett (Yvette Nicole Brown), overachiever Annie Edison (Alison Brie), irascible Spanish teacher Señor Chang (Ken Jeong), and nerdy athlete Troy Barnes (Donald Glover), all of whom have signaled that they will return for the movie.