Episode 985 - Howie Mandel

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Howie Mandel went to Hollywood and tried to make a living by putting a latex glove on his head. He never thought he’d be able to maintain it, so he always made other plans: Investor, entrepreneur, actor, voiceover artist. And it wasn’t until Deal or No Deal when all the disparate things he did came together for a project that transformed his life. Howie talks with Marc about his struggles with OCD and AHDH, how those challenges made it difficult for him to fit in, how getting started in comedy came out of his impulsive behavior, and why he remembers the first time he ever laughed. This episode is sponsored by I'm Sorry on truTV, TurboTax Live, Deadly Class on SYFY, and the New York Times Crossword App.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.9	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuck sticks?
0:14.7	I don't know if that's a nice one, but haven't said it in a while.
0:18.3	How are you, Mark Marin?
0:19.5	This is my podcast.
0:21.2	WTF.
0:22.2	I'm okay.
0:23.2	Thanks for asking.
0:24.6	Things are okay.
0:25.6	Howie Mandel's on the show today.
0:27.6	Howie Mandel is a comedian.
0:30.3	He's also a host of the deal or no deal business, but he was a big comic back in the day.
0:36.8	And it's one of those stories, man.
0:39.1	I mean, he was huge.
0:41.2	He was huge in the 80s.
0:42.6	He had a gimmick, he had a hook, he was a thing.
0:45.7	And then like the other thing that's interesting about Howie, I don't know that, well, you know,
0:50.0	if this is interesting to you, he was a, he was really one of the first modern comics
0:55.2	to sort of make the transition onto a television show as a dramatic actor for the most part,
1:01.1	and pull it off.
1:02.8	He was on St. Elsewhere for years.
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