Howie Mandel

While on a trip to Los Angeles in 1979, the then curly-haired Canadian made a splash on amateur night at the Comedy Store. Soon the neophyte funnyman was booking professional gigs both on stage and TV...
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BirthDate
BirthPlace
11/28/1955
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • News Roundup, Nov. 15: Golden Globes to Honor Gene Hackman
    By: Guylaine Cadorette November 15, 2002 11:11am EST
    The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Thursday that actor gene Hackman will be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at this year's Golden Globe Awards. Also: Marion "Suge" Knight Tha Row Merlin Santana Jeffrey Jones Arnold Schwarzenegger George Butler Pumping Iron Tim Allen Howie Mandel MTV Europe Music Awards Eminem
  • Kathie Lee Outta 'Control'
    By: Fiona Ng March 19, 2001 11:50am EST
    HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 22, 2000 -- She’s baaack! Just when you get used to Kathie Lee Gifford-free airwaves, the erstwhile morning talker has signed a deal with E! Entertainment Television to star in the cable movie "Spinning Out of Control," The Hollywood Reporter says. In the TV film, Gifford will play one Amanda Berkeley, the star of a popular sitcom whose life is ravaged by drugs and alcohol. Howie Mandel will costar in the flick as Gifford’s manager. "The over-the-top character Gifford plays is
  • Halle Gives Howie the Business
    By: Steve Ryfle March 19, 2001 11:50am EST
    HOLLYWOOD, July 13, 2000 -- Halle Berry wants to know: Where's Regis when you need him? The actress clashed mildly with fill-in co-host Howie Mandel today on "Live With Regis and Kathie Lee," after Mandel opened the show with a hit-and-run joke at Berry's expense. Mandel quipped that he had "bumped" into Berry backstage before the show, but she failed to stop and kept walking past him down a hallway. It was, of course, an allusion to Berry's hit-and-run accident in Los Angeles earlier this year,