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Howie does what exactly? - VIDEO
by Eliot Glazer, posted Jan 12th 2009 9:03AM
As far as we can tell, here are the responsibilities for hosting Deal Or No Deal:1. Repeat the painfully obvious rules of the game over and over and over.
2. Loudly announce the names of pretty ladies holding suitcases.
3. Pretend that a game requiring absolutely no skills whatsoever requires skills when choosing numbers in a logically devoid random order.
4. Convince fully-grown adults that you're not pretend-talking on the phone to a villainous, money-hungry banker.
5. Never ever touch the palm of another human being.
NBC would like to have you believe that Howie Mandel possesses charm or insight or talent or something. At the very least, the network would like you to believe that the host of Deal or No Deal has something - anything - to do with the game show's massive success (when, in fact, it's because the show requires literally nothing of the viewer, other than - at the very most - knowing how to guess). So, in a move well-tailored to infuriate Chuck Woolery, Greg Proops, and Peter Marshall, the network has bestowed upon Mandel his own show.
Following in the footsteps of shows bound for cancellation upon the announcement of the pilot, Howie Do It (as in "how he do it," a phrase often used throughout history by nobody) revives the hidden camera genre, a niche in about as high demand as a variety show starring Rosie O'Donnell. Howie Mandel wears wigs, and then takes off the wigs to show people that he's Howie Mandel. And that they're on TV, too (if, of course, they've signed the proper release).
Needless to say (we hope), Howie Do It is an insult to good television (heck, it's an insult to Ashton Kutcher!), and we wish Mandel wouldn't push his luck with such an asinine project. Let's face it: the dude got incredibly lucky with Deal Or No Deal. Does the world really need another prank show, no less one based entirely around the narcissism of a glorified game show host?
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