Where To Stream The ‘Community’ Cast Members’ Film Roles

Though McHale is most known for his lead role on Community as well as his hosting duties on Talk Soup, he’s had a couple of move roles since Community premiered in 2009. He turned up in Steven Soderbergh’s crime comedy The Informant! starring Matt Damon, played a spy-hunter (and Jessica Alba’s husband) in Robert Rodriguez’s kid’s adventure Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, brought his comic timing to Ted and Blended, and showed his serious side as a hardened cop in the thriller Deliver Us From Evil.

Jacobs, who has turned up on this season of Girls as Adam’s new performance artist girlfriend, has had some equally hilarious moments on the big screen. She had a brief role in Lorene Scafaria’s truly darling apocalyptic romantic comedy Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and played opposite Ken Marino in the horror comedy Bad Milo! She tried out her serious side in Life Partners, a dramedy also starring Leighton Meester and Adam Brody. Most recently, she can be seen in Walk of Shame playing a friend to Elizabeth Banks’ protagonist.

Pudi is most recognizable for his Community role as the socially awkward Abed, but he’s appeared in a few other shows (including Gilmore Girls) and movies over the year. His biggest roles are, well, still kind of small, including small parts in Road Trip: Beer Pong (the Road Trip sequel you were desperate for) and The Guilt Trip with Barbra Steisand and Seth Rogen. He also appears in The Pretty One and Knights of Badassdom, the latter being up the Community fans’ alley.

Before landing her plum role on Community as the hilariously conservative — yet ridiculously sweet — Shirley, Brown had minor parts in various feature films, including comedies like Tropic Thunder, Hotel for Dogs, (500) Days of Summer, and The Ugly Truth. But don’t you dare put her in a box: she can also be seen in the sci-fi action film Repo Men with Jude Law and Forest Whitaker.

For someone who was relatively unknown before Community (aside from her role on Mad Men as Peter Campbell’s wife, Trudy), Brie may have had the most success transitioning to film. She appears, well, briefly in Scream 4, and co-starred with Lizzy Caplan in the indie dramedy Save the Date. Her biggest stretch so far may have been playing sister to Emily Blunt in The Five-Year Engagement (nailing a British accent). She followed that with a small role in the coming-of-age film The Kings of Summer, and most recently provided the voice of Princess Unikitty in The LEGO Movie.

Before making a name for himself as one of the stars of Community (which he left last season), Glover co-wrote and starred in the comedy Mystery Team as a member of a trio of teen detectives. He also co-wrote “Episode 210” for the second season of 30 Rock (on which he also served as an executive story editor). He had a cameo appearance in The Muppets, starred in The To Do List with Aubrey Plaza, Bill Hader, Alia Shawkat, and Andy Samberg, and had a small role in the family comedy Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

Rash is a character actor who has had a variety of small parts in moves like One Hour Photo, Slackers, Minority Report, and Balls of Fury — equally comic and serious. But his biggest success, other than his portrayal of Dean Craig Pelton on Community, is as an Oscar-winning screenwriter. Rash picked up an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay for Alexander Payne’s dramedy The Descendants starring George Clooney, sharing the honor with his writing partner Nat Faxon. Rash and Faxon collaborated again, co-writing and co-directing The Way Way Back, which stars Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, and Sam Rockwell.

You likely remember Ken Jeong from his scene-stealing role in The Hangover (which he followed up in The Hangover Part II and The Hangover Part III) as the often naked gangster Leslie Chow. He brings a similar manic aggressiveness to his Community character Ben Chang as he does in all of his roles, particularly those in Pineapple Express, Role Models, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

I dunno, maybe there’s a Community fan or two who don’t know of Chase’s illustrious career following his Saturday Night Live days? I doubt it, but it’s possible! So if you’re curious as to where you can find the former Community star (Chase, of course, left last season), might I suggest Caddyshack, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Fletch, National Lampoon’s European Vacation, ¡Three Amigos!, Funny Farm, or National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation as great places to start.