Premiere Marks Comedian’s First Solo Stand-Up Special In 20 Years

LOS ANGELES – December 20, 2018 – SHOWTIME will premiere Howie Mandel’s first solo comedy special in 20 years, HOWIE MANDEL PRESENTS HOWIE MANDEL AT THE HOWIE MANDEL COMEDY CLUB, on Friday, January 18 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. To watch and share the teaser for the special, go to: https://youtu.be/KBFWpovuhho.

In HOWIE MANDEL PRESENTS HOWIE MANDEL AT THE HOWIE MANDEL COMEDY CLUB, Mandel’s buoyant presence embraces the old and welcomes the new with his return to the comedy special arena at the club that bears his name. Directed by Brian Volk-Weiss and filmed at Howie Mandel’s Comedy Club in Atlantic City, Mandel exercises his mastery of making the mundane hilarious as he tells tales about his 40-year marriage, life and career.

Mandel has reached legendary, multi-hyphenate status in show business, covering nearly all aspects of the entertainment spectrum in his 40-year career as an actor, voice artist, author, host and producer. Mandel serves as host and executive producer of Deal or No Deal, for which he received an Emmy^® Award nomination for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program. For the past nine seasons, Mandel has served as a judge on America’s Got Talent and will appear on the global winter edition of the series America’s Got Talent: The Champions. Mandel is a mainstay on the comedy scene, performing as many as 200 stand-up comedy shows each year throughout the U.S. and Canada.

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