{"id":152,"date":"2011-06-02T10:18:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=152"},"modified":"2011-06-02T15:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T19:50:50","slug":"how-could-howie-not-laugh-at-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/06\/how-could-howie-not-laugh-at-himself.html","title":{"rendered":"How Could Howie Mandel Not Laugh &#8230; at Himself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It should be rare that I blog about a show twice in three days, but I had to revisit <em>America&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em> after Tuesday&#8217;s season premiere.<\/p>\n<p>The NBC show didn&#8217;t disappoint, with uproariously humorous performances (like the talking bird) and touching ones (the man performing a song in public for the first time).<\/p>\n<p>It also exposed Howie Mandel as a bit of a phony &#8230; the comedian who couldn&#8217;t laugh at himself.<\/p>\n<p>The hysterical segment was the first one on the show, and Mandel agreed to be used as a prop for a high-riding unicyclist\/flame torch juggler (no kidding!).<\/p>\n<p>The man in the act used Mandel&#8217;s head to balance himself initially and had the comic light his torches for him, though writing about it doesn&#8217;t do it justice.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone in the L.A. arena was shrieking with laughter as the pair bobbed and weaved across the stage, except one person &#8230; Mandel.<\/p>\n<p>I can understand Howie being disappointed a little with being the (head)butt of the joke and being a little fearful of his safety.<\/p>\n<p>But well after the act was over Mandel was still being a sour puss and even buzzed the performer to not have him return.<\/p>\n<p>The one knock on the gentleman, Frank Olivier, is he has being doing a very similar act\u00a0 for decades &#8230; even appearing on <em>The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson<\/em> (note the grace and humor Carson displays in the same situation in minute six of this clip).<\/p>\n<p>You put yourself out there Howie, and sometimes those things happen.<\/p>\n<p>Laugh comedian &#8230; laugh.<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Frank Olivier: America&#039;s Funniest Comedian Juggler\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gzd9gfaaK5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should be rare that I blog about a show twice in three days, but I had to revisit America&#8217;s Got Talent after Tuesday&#8217;s season premiere. The NBC show didn&#8217;t disappoint, with uproariously humorous performances (like the talking bird) and touching ones (the man performing a song in public for the first time). 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