Joel McHale with Kelsey Cook + Susan Jones

Tickets

Saturday, September 20 at 7:30pm || Doors open at 6:30pm
Reserved Seating - $35 - $70*

• Your ticket includes same-day Washington State Fair admission—present it at any gate for entry, a value of up to $18.
• Ticket required for children 2 years of age and older.

Pre-Show Party

Tickets - $65* (does not include show or Fair gate admission)
Join us at the VIP Tent for the Joel McHale Pre-Show Party. Enjoy a delicious meal in the VIP Tent, private bar, a live DJ playing your favorite hits, a selfie station, early access to select merchandise (subject to availability) and giveaways throughout the night. Pre-show parties are the place to pre-funk before the show! Get tickets here!

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About the Artists

Joel McHale

Joel McHale is an actor, comedian and television host. He currently stars in and executive produces FOX’s
hit comedy series Animal Control, where he plays Frank Shaw. Season 2 premieres on Wednesday,
March 6 and has already been renewed for a season 3. McHale will also reprise his role as Jeff Winger in
the upcoming Community movie on Peacock, based on the hit comedy series of the same name, which ran
for five seasons on NBC with the sixth and final season airing on Yahoo! Joel also continues to host and
executive produce FOX’s competition baking show Crime Scene Kitchen and E!’s reality competition
series, House of Villains, which brings 10 of reality television’s most infamous villains under one roof to
compete for the title of America’s Ultimate Supervillain. Both series have been renewed. Other recent
projects include guest starring on FX’s The Bear, Comedy Central’s Office RaceIt’s a Wonderful Knife,
Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match, hosting the E! Game show, Celebrity Beef and Mortal Kombat
Legends: Battle of the Realms and Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge where he voices Johnny
Cage. McHale hosted The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale on Netflix, a half-hour topical series that
took a sharp, absurdist look at pop culture and news from across the globe. In 2015, he wrapped the
twelfth and final season of E! Network's The Soup, in which he satirized pop culture and current events.

Born in Rome and raised in Seattle, Washington, McHale was a history major at the University of
Washington and a member of their championship football team. He also graduated with an MFA from the
Actor's Training Program.

Kelsey Cook

Kelsey Cook is the daughter of an International Yo-Yo Champion and a Professional Foosball player, which made for a humor-filled life at a young age.

Kelsey’s stand-up special “The Hustler” has amassed over 3 million views on YouTube in just over a year, and is now also streaming on Hulu. She's performed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon multiple times, and has also appeared on Comedy Central’s This is Not Happening, EPIX's Unprotected Sets, NBC's A Little Late with Lilly Singh, and Greatest Party Story Ever on MTV.

She is currently on “The Happy Hour Tour,” headlining over 40 cities across the country. Kelsey also co-hosts the Pretend Problems Podcast with her boyfriend and fellow comedian, Chad Daniels.

Her foosball web-series Wrists of Fury currently has over twenty episodes where Kelsey hustles fellow comedians who don’t know she’s a World Champion foosball player.

Susan Jones

Susan “Cupcake” Jones is a dynamic comedian known for her sharp wit and relatable story telling. “Home-grown” in the Puyallup valley, she has 30 years in both stand-up and improv comedy. She is a comedian, writer, master of ceremonies, and motivational force of nature. Now residing in Las Vegas, her comedy titles include winning “Funniest Person in Washington”, “NBC Stand-up for Diversity”, “Ride TV’s Las Vegas Comedy Shootout” and Hard Rock’s National Comedy competition. Her credits include a Dry Bar Comedy Special, UP Late Northwest, and Kevin Nealon’s New Material. She opened for Dana Carvey, Brad Garrett, Jeffery Ross, and Rick Overton among many others. She brings a unique blend of confident humor from the observational to the self-deprecating.  Nicknamed “Cupcake”, because you can’t trust her with a whole cake, her style often draws on every day experiences navigating relationships, the ups and downs of “adulting” and surviving late-stage cancer. Her infectious energy and authentic voice make her appealing to audiences around the world.