Late Night: Joel McHale’s illegal knife collection

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You’re probably familiar with the saying ‘don’t bring a knife to a gun fight,’ but somebody ought to tell that to Joel McHale.

The star of NBC’s ‘Community’ paid a visit to ‘The Tonight Show’ on Wednesday to promote the cult comedy’s three-episode season finale. After McHale told Jay Leno about a recent opportunity to go feral pig hunting in Hawaii -- he turned it down, if you can believe it -- talk naturally turned to the actor’s somewhat unusual hobby: knife collecting.

‘I collect illegal knives, and now you know, Los Angeles police,’ McHale confessed. In particular, he likes jackknives and Bloody Marys, which apparently can kill something other than a hangover. (Badum-bum!)

McHale has a perfectly reasonable explanation for his knife predilection. ‘If someone breaks in, I would rather have a knife fight than a gun fight, because I would like to turn the last minutes of my life into ‘West Side Story,’ ‘ he joked (we think). ‘I just figure it’s more of a challenge.’

Leno asked McHale, who has two small children, where he keeps his cache of weapons. ‘In the kids’ drawers,’ he replied. ‘Because that’s the last place people would look.’

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