The Soup is an E! Entertainment Television weekly series; it is a revamped version of Talk Soup that focuses on recaps of various pop culture and television show moments of the week. The show is hosted by comedian Joel McHale, who provides sarcastic and biting commentary on the various clips.The show features the host, Joel McHale, on a greenscreened set with a screen to his right. The show is broken up into various segments that focus on themes such as reality television shows or shows on E!. McHale introduces each clip, which is then played. He then comments on the clip before moving on to the next one. There is a live audience on the show, composed of a small group of E! employees, their family and friends, along with the typical production personnel. The audience is heavily involved in the show, laughing and cheering along with the clips.Although the show is scripted, a large portion of the show is ad-libbedOn April 22, 2008, a blog was started for The Soup on E!'s websiteThe Soup has its own cast of recurring characters. They include Mankini (a man wearing a bikini played by Dominic DeLeo, who is also a writer and producer for the show), a dancing maxipad, two nerds who dress as Star Wars characters, an intern named Matt whom McHale shoots with a gun (often with the shooting sound effect purposefully played out of sync, or even played with other objects or with just fingersproducer Edward Boyd's chihuahua Lou is used regularly in segment openings and elsewhere in the show. He also appeared with Joel at the show's intro, which showed them watching a different TV show each week, until the intro was changed in early 2010. The current intro juxtaposes brief clips introduced by announcer Anndi McAfee and a "reaction" by another clip, wildly out of context.
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