Comedian Howie Mandel talks about growing up in the 70s and 80s and how he got into stand-up comedy. He also talks about how he almost got kicked off America's Got Talent.
00:25:44.020No, but even if you're doing well and probably, you know, from the outside, the better people think you're doing, the harder it becomes mentally.
00:25:52.560Because like, for example, I'll give you my example.
00:26:36.200At that time, you know, when, when Tom Hanks was doing Bachelor Party and stuff, I was doing, you know, Walk Like a Man and Little Monsters and A Fine Mess.
00:26:50.780And I got an offer to do a game show, Deal or No Deal, which I thought was the worst fucking idea anybody could ever have.
00:26:58.080First of all, if you think about that, you know, when it was pitched to me, I don't know that people remember before 2005, there weren't a lot, there weren't any comedians doing talk shows.
00:27:11.820You would act like a game show host on stage if you were doing a parody of something goofy.
00:27:16.680Nobody wanted to be the game show host.
00:27:18.520The last comedian that did a game show host before that was Groucho Marx who did You Bet Your Life, which Jay Leno is recreating now and it's going to be in syndication.
00:27:49.480But what I was saying about the mental health is that, you know, the more I do, you know, I'm on AGT now, which is the number one show of the summer.
00:27:58.700I can't tell you that a week doesn't go by where, you know, I have an idea for something and they say no or they're not putting it on.
00:28:08.640Or they go, we like that idea, but we'd like to use someone else.
00:28:12.420And your mind just goes to weird places.
00:28:16.240And it's not only about being accepted, but if you've got that kind of weakness inside you, getting constantly, you know.
00:28:24.140Yeah, some form of rejection or we don't want you.
00:28:27.700Because I think it goes back to the things in the beginning somewhere in our lives or in our souls that were like, that made us want to be, attract attention to ourselves anyway.
00:28:37.020Well, you just, you brought it up right at the beginning.
00:28:38.980You know, if you wanted to dance for your mom so you could watch TV.
00:28:47.180Whether it got you notoriety or the opportunity to watch TV or to do the things you like, you realize that that became your self-worth.
00:28:55.660And when your self-worth is externally in your mind, the things that you do and who you think you are or who you think other people think you are, then you're at the mercy of everybody outside of you instead of yourself.
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00:32:26.060You're looking at other people's style.
00:32:27.700You figure, I got to get myself fixed up just to walk outside because when you walk into a room, you're self-conscious about how people are seeing you and what they think of you.
00:49:08.260Rich was mad at me for this, where we called a guy.
00:49:11.300I know a guy that was dating a girl, finished dating the girl, and the girl was pregnant, and he did not know whether the baby was his or the next guy she was dating.
00:49:21.740And we found out it was the next guy she was dating.
00:49:34.960And with her father, I played her father, telling him that the baby, the DNA test came back, the baby is his, and as the father of the mother, I'm going to talk to him about his intentions and put together some wedding arrangements.
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01:02:22.980It should only be used as a last resort.
01:02:29.880If you're in a resort and the resort is on fire, the next place you want to be lying and luxuriating is in a fucking life net if the resort's on fire.
01:16:15.360We have this dog, which I named Blackie Chan because he's a black Labrador.
01:16:20.180We ended up giving it to my brother's neighbor when she dubbed himself the Whore Master because he used to go to Cuba and pick up all these young girls.
01:20:44.520It was definitely something, and I'm glad that he put it on.
01:20:46.540I'm glad we had a professional here to judge him for it.
01:20:48.840But one of my friends that worked at Red Bull for a long time told me that they would record the craziest calls that came into their 1-800 number from people on Red Bull.
01:20:56.620And at the Christmas party, they would play them for everybody.