Howie Mandel Is A Crazy Germaphobe | Letterman

He's very close to urinating in a bottle.
(From "Late Show," air date: 8/31/09)
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[@JCO2002]

Here's a story. In the early 80's, I worked for a while at a carpet store in NW Toronto where Howie had been a salesman a year or two before (all I did was help move big rolls of carpet and cut them). The other guys had stories about him, but the main one was that as a customer was shopping around, Howie would haul out a big fake hand, slap it down, and say "Can I give you a hand?". I figured it was just a cool joke thing, but after learning about the germaphobe thing, I'm not so sure.

[@BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr]

That’s a beautiful charming story….that we in Toronto are wrapped in a culture of mental health discrimination, makes stories like those less uncomfortable for folks. We should be able to talk openly about our proclivities.

[@FrankBenlin]

He used to come out on stage with a large hand shoulder bag for props.

[@michaelparks6120]

Oh, that is funny....could be...people like that are quite compulsive...I don't like shaking people's hands either, but that is just cause I don't like people 😊

[@gatchpaints]

He talks on his current podcast sometimes about being a spokesperson for a carpet place in Canada.

[@JCO2002]

@@gatchpaints Wow. Thanks for that.

[@Tommyr]

Young Howie was so manic! I'll never forget his first TV appearance. With the curly hair and handbag.

[@Whiplashed]

He looks like the singer from Disturbed

[@Genious.]

I truly wish the Show Laugh Trax (which he was on) would be released to stream or download, etc. It was a unique sketch show that I loved back when I was a kid.

[@michaelparks6120]

He ×s good in that medical show....St Elsewhere....I think.

[@danschoenharl3856]

Of course, post Covid, fist-bumps are pretty much interchangeable with handshakes, though handshakes are making comeback. OCD. Alas I know it well. I would have crippling OCD, if it didn't require so much extra work. Who would have that laziness is better than therapy?

[@user-ej7bs8mk6b]

OCD isn't rational. I have this form of OCD and its extremely hard and a chronic anxiety disorder, therapy and exposure therapy is incredibly hard work. OCD is not a choice, none of us want to be in this position but we are. So please, do not just say I would be one but its too hard, because it is extremely difficult, not a choice and a mental disorder.

[@danschoenharl3856]

@@user-ej7bs8mk6b I’m not making fun of anyone. That was just kind of a joke, but truthfully I work hard at not giving in to irrational compulsions.

[@bobkerr2755]

So how did he managed to have three kids?

[@newtron1]

He was sedated.

[@user-ej7bs8mk6b]

Y'all are so insensitive.. smh. I have contamination OCD and these comments are invasive, rude and insensitive.

[@BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr]

Eugenics?

[@RyanAustinDean]

What a caption.

[@godliam]

I dont remember Howie Mandel being this funny

[@mykingdomforak9]

I saw his stand-up act, in the late 1980s. Recall laughing, throughout. 😊

[@purplebutterfly7257]

Even through the TV screen he gives off a nervous energy I think he’s weird.

[@user-ej7bs8mk6b]

I have Contamination OCD. Thank you for being so open Howie. This title isn't it and these comments are crazy insensitive towards our struggles. I see you.

[@maryhenderson1529]

Today is May 9, HAPPY BOB ROONIE DAY!!!

[@calsavestheworld]

🤷 I dont want to touch him either. So that works out.

[@torontorox]

no offense but i wouldn't touch Howie with a rubber glove on (my hand) see what i did Dave?

[@user-eq2dx2jp6v]

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[@penguin44ca]

Rip

[@worthless_opinion]

Calling him crazy for having a phobia is an incredibly unfair characterization.

[@freewheelburning8834]

who cares?!🤷‍♀

[@worthless_opinion]

​@@freewheelburning8834Anybody who possesses empathy.

[@freewheelburning8834]

@@worthless_opinion Gas lighting, virtue signaling, and projecting much?

[@Symphing12]

I think the word is being used in the sense of “extremely” but it isn't appropriate. I recommend changing it.

[@BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr]

@@freewheelburning8834 no, ableism is a serious and ongoing issue. Vigilance is more like it. Try it.

[@BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr]

We have to get past mental health/ ableism. Canadas parliament and judiciary (re Mike ward) are off the rails. HM and co have been working too hard at destigmatizing for so many years. Lt gov David onley, and David Lepofsky, Julie McFarlaine the mental health commission of Canada, reporting these issues for decades - describes ableism at Jim crowe proportions. Meanwhile, lawpro, the insurers for judges and lawyers, the Canadian bar association and more- all endorse ableist policies from carol Curtis Dan pinnington and others. Can find all this info on all these public figures…well publicized issues, like Vanessa’s law and mk ultra. That’s what “crazy “ looks like, not this wonderful human being we all love. Stigma.

[@S1L3NTG4M3R]

:)

[@worthless_opinion]

:):

[@michelenichele294]

🤜🏻🤛