Howie Mandel

Trivia

• St. Elsewhere, which Howie starred in, won the Peabody Award in 1985.
• Mandel came to national attention in the US during a six-year run on St. Elsewhere, starting in 1982.
• While continuing to work as a comedian, he also did movies, including his role as the voice of Gizmo in the 1984 hit Gremlins, and the role of "Maurice" in the 1989 movie Little Monsters.
• He was the creator and executive producer of the Emmy-nominated children's animated series Bobby's World, to which he supplied the voices of the title character and his father (using Howie's "normal" voice for Bobby's dad).
• Bobby's World ran for eight seasons on Fox Broadcasting Company and was later syndicated.
• Mandel plays his alter-ego, Bobby, in most of his comedy shows and these are a fan favorite.
• Bobby also made a cameo appearance in a February 2007 episode of Deal or No Deal at the contestant's request.
• He played the lead role of the professor in the short-lived TV series The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys, and guest-starred on a 1996 episode of the ABC TV series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as DC Comics supervillain Mister Mxyzptlk.
• He hosted his own syndicated talk show, The Howie Mandel Show, which was cancelled after one season on the air.
• Mandel appeared in the 1995 Clint Black country music video Summer's Coming.

Quotes

• “I am beloved by millions.”
• “It's heart-wrenching because they often need the money.”
• “There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another tax bracket.”
• “You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.”
• “There's nothing else (like it) on television. You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill. And I think it's really obvious there's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another tax bracket.”
• “I've had people come up to me, as home viewers, and tell me they were screaming at the TV, yelling at each other, yelling at the contestants.”
• “We don't want to make them uncomfortable. It doesn't seem like anybody seems to be uncomfortable. We seem to get along .”
• “I've been chased, ... I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.."
• “We get up early Sunday morning, ... and we have cereal and orange juice and we make crank calls.”
• “If my mom came here today, she'd probably join this red-hat brigade, ... My mother got my sense of humor, even when I was a kid. I would just do things that tickled my fancy in the moment, and she would ask me who I was entertaining. I'd say, 'Well, me.' And she would tell me that nobody knew that and they thought I was psychotic. Well, I don't ever want people to think I'm psychotic, but I can't help myself from doing these things.”