Howie Mandel

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776 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

Howie Mandel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And it's not a real conversation.
But I, you know, I don't think or plan.
So we went to a comedy club in 77.
And I'd never seen stand-up comedy live.
I'd seen it on TV, and I wasn't aspiring to be a comic.
And the host said, you know, anybody who feels like they got the chops to do this should get up and try.
And somebody sitting near me said, you should go.
And I went, okay.
not thinking this is what i want to do or i could even be good at it and if there if i thought if i think that there's something funny or entertaining to be had it's kind of the only thing i could think of is somebody would go ladies and gentlemen howie mandel and there's no reason for anybody to say ladies and gentlemen howie mandel i have absolutely nothing to offer and so when they went ladies and gentlemen howie mandel and people applaud because that's what
We're trained to do is you just applaud for even somebody you don't know just for showing up.
And I stood there after the applause died down and the terror just shot through every vein of my body.
And if you look at old videos of me, it's just me terrorized going, okay, all right, okay, okay.
And if they giggled, I went, what, what, what?
And I put my hands in my pocket and I've been open about my OCD and I would carry rubber gloves because, um, if I'm out in public, I have to go to a public restroom.
I don't want to touch anything.
I had gloves and I put, I pulled out the glove and I had nothing to do.
I pulled it over my head and I started breathing and the fingers were going up and the audiences were, the audience was laughing.
And then I blew it off my head and they applauded and I had enough wherewithal to go with that kind of applaud, leave on a high.
I went goodnight.
And the, uh, the, uh,
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