Joel McHale says E! told him: "Don’t make fun of the Kardashians" on The Soup

Variety

The first E! boss McHale worked for was fine with Kardashian-bashing. However, McHale says, "the next administration, the president said to my face, 'Don’t make fun of the Kardashians. We don’t want you to make fun of the Kardashians anymore.' So I was like, oh this show is doomed because that’s why the show worked, because we would make fun of ourselves. It’s like when Letterman made fun of GE in the ‘80s. You have to bite the hand that feeds you. The network really did not like when the Kardashians first came out and then we just said Kim Kardashian was only famous for having a big a– and a sex tape." E! declined to comment, but McHale says he's free to mock Netflix shows now that he on Netflix. ALSO: Netflix's The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale is basically a profanity-friendly version of The Soup.