“You Look Great For Your Age” And Other Backhanded Compliments You Should Avoid
Amy & T.J.
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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
70-year-old Howie Mandel called out Kelly and Mark this week for saying that he looks great, right after he told them his age. Mandel compared it to someone saying “You’re smart for a stupid person.” It got us thinking about how many other backhanded compliments we’ve received over the years, and there are a plenty. Also, we go over a very simple way to avoid ever making someone uncomfortable while trying to say something nice… there are at least three words you should NEVER include in a compliment.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.2 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Thursday, March 26, and don't you love a good compliment? |
| 0:11.8 | Doesn't it always feel good when somebody says to you, wow, you look great. |
| 0:17.7 | But does it change when they add to the end of that for your age? With that, welcome to this |
| 0:23.5 | episode of Amy and T.J. The subject has come up because of Howie Mandel. We'll get into all that. |
| 0:28.7 | Let me start off the top. Is it for you, robes immediately, automatically, an insult if someone |
| 0:35.6 | says you look good for your age? Look, I don't think anybody wants to hear that last for your age. |
| 0:40.7 | And I don't know why you have to say that. |
| 0:42.6 | I think just saying you look good is good enough. |
| 0:45.6 | But when it's around your age, when you're talking about your age, and then that comes up, yeah, it's a, it's, you now have, you're now being compared to either your former self or someone |
| 0:56.5 | it just it doesn't feel like a compliment when someone says that okay well howie mandel |
| 1:02.1 | didn't think it was a compliment either earlier this week he was a guest on live with kelly |
| 1:06.1 | and mark and mark i was still about to say regis well it i mean honestly it honestly, it flows. I get it. Okay. Kelly and Mark's hard to say. Kelly and Mark. He's on, of course, Harvey Mandela is 70 years old, by the way. Can we just say he looks good? He does look good. How he looks good. I like the look he has with the goatee he's been using the past several years. |
| 1:27.8 | No hair. The glasses. It's working for him. You know what? He reminds me of like Jeff Goldblum. |
| 1:32.6 | Just cool. Like getting cooler with age. Like actually like comfortable in his own skin. |
| 1:38.2 | Good comparison. He knows his style. And yeah. And just looks good. And still hip. |
| 1:46.7 | Appropriately hip, right? |
| 1:47.8 | Not trying too hard. |
| 1:48.7 | The guy looks great. |
| 1:49.4 | So he's on. |
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