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Howie Mandel Amusement Park Operator

March 26, 2012 by · Comments Off on Howie Mandel Amusement Park Operator 

Howie Mandel Amusement Park Operator, Howard Michael “Howie” Mandel (born November 29, 1955) is a Canadian stand-up comedian, and television host. He is well known as host of the NBC game show Deal or No Deal, as well as the show’s daytime and Canadian-English counterparts.

Before his career as a game show host, Mandel was best known for his role as Dr. Daniel Auschlander’s (played by Norman Lloyd) young rowdy ER intern, Dr. Wayne Fiscus, on the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere. He is also well-known for being the creator and star of the children’s cartoon Bobby’s World. On June 6, 2009, he hosted the 2009 Game Show Awards on GSN.

Mandel became a judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, replacing David Hasselhoff, in the fifth season of the reality talent contest. He was a supporting character in the 2000 film Tribulation, from Cloud Ten Pictures.
He was born and raised in the Willowdale area of Toronto, Ontario. His family is of Jewish ancestry and he is a distant cousin to Itzhak Perlman. His father was a realtor.

After getting expelled from his high school for impersonating a member of the school board and signing a construction contract to make an addition to his school, Mandel became a carpet salesman who would later open a carpet sales business of his own. He was a stand-up comedian at Yuk Yuk’s in Toronto and by September 1978 had a week-long booking as featured act, billed as “a wild and crazy borderline psychotic.” His repertoire included placing a latex glove over his head and inflating it by blowing through his nose, the fingers of the glove extending above his head like a cockscomb. When the audience reacted uproariously to that and similar antics, his trademark response was to extend his arms palms up, look incredulous, and ask, “What? What?” On a trip to Los Angeles, Mandel performed a set at The Comedy Store, which resulted in his becoming a regular performer there.

A producer for the comedic game show Make Me Laugh saw him and booked Mandel for several appearances during the show’s run in 1979. He was booked to open for David Letterman at shows in the summer of 1979. CBC-TV’s head of variety programming saw a Mandel performance in October 1979 and immediately signed him for a TV special. In 1980, he won the lead role in the Canadian movie Gas, co-starring Susan Anspach and Donald Sutherland.

What did Howie Mandel do before becoming famous? Howie Mandel was fired from his job as an amusement park ride operator in Toronto for making jokes to riders about the ride’s safety.

Bobby s World

November 11, 2009 by · Comments Off on Bobby s World 

Bobby-S-WorldBobby S World, Aired: 1991 – 1998
Show Type: Animated
Country of Origin: US
Bobby’s World premiered on FOX on September 8, 1990. From the wacky mind of comedian Howie Mandel comes the coolest cartoon yet, Bobby’s World. Bobby lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but step inside his imagination and discover a world of daring adventure, incredible wonder and lots of laughs-all in pint-sized perspective. We see BOBBY’S WORLD through the eyes of 4-year-old BOBBY, the alter ego of comedian Howie Mandel. Bobby’s two biggest character traits are his penchant for taking things literally and letting his imagination get the best of him.

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