Howie doing a prank show
By Luaine Lee
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 01.06.2009
Howie Mandel and his son, Alex, are costarring in a new reality show, "Howie Do It," premiering Friday.
It's a new take on the old prank show where people think they're trying out for a reality show or a television gig and are really involved in another sort of caper. Mandel says he got the idea from the old "Candid Camera."
"It was my inspiration and that's the first time I actually ever saw anything on TV and was inspired as far as comedy is concerned," he says. "You know, I have never been one to be entertained so much by a joke or even by an act.
"But that was the first time where something was really funny because it was real, like I was in on this joke. And I was watching real people in these awkward situations. And that sparked me so much and I never had any inkling or thought of even getting into show business, but even as a kid, everything I was ever expelled for, hit for, punished for is what this show is about."
Mandel says he was expelled from school for hiring a contractor to build an addition to the library.
"Obviously, I didn't have the authority, but for me it wasn't the addition that was going to be — the bids that were (coming) — the humor was the getting caught for it and having people very seriously trying to explain to me that. . . . I didn't have the authority to do so."
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