How are you Mandel? admitted that he had mixed feelings about the apology Kelly Ripa after their unusual interview Stay with Kelly and Mark.
“If someone is angry [or] if anyone feels like I made a mistake, I’m sorry,” Mandel said on the Tuesday, March 31, episode of the “Hot Mics with Billy Bush” podcast. “I don’t believe in apologies but, as I said in my post, I regret doing this, I don’t think you should apologize for a joke.”
The game started on March 23 when Mandel was interviewed by Ripa, 55, and her husband, Mark Consuelosto Live. Ripa revealed that Mandel recently celebrated her 70th birthday, before joking that her age “makes no sense.”
When Consuelos interjected that Mandel looked “beautiful,” the comedian responded, “I [do] look at the good. That means nothing to me.”
I America’s Got Talent The judge complained that he does not like people commenting on his age because it always comes as a “warning.”
“Because you tell someone you’re 70 years old and they go, ‘You look great,'” he added.
Ripa tried to clarify that she wasn’t trying to say Mandel looked “70 years old,” before interrupting to say, “It’s like saying you’re smart to a stupid person. ‘Oh, you look smart! You look smart!’ I don’t look good.”
Mandel added later in the interview, “Well, actually, before we go out, there’s, like a mirror back there. … The truth, now, I’m going to be serious for a minute: I’m beautiful. I am.
“You’re a good thing,” Ripa joked.
Howie Mandel in January 2025.
Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesA clip of the awkward interview quickly went viral, leading to Mandel publicly apologizing for the awkward moment a few days later.
“I’ve been debating for 48 hours whether or not I should make this post, and I don’t know if I’m doing the right thing,” he said via Instagram on Saturday, March 28. “Philosophically, I don’t believe that a comedian needs to apologize for a joke. It’s a joke, it’s meant as a joke, not to be laughed at.”
Mandel stated, “You’re not going to like it and, in all my years in the business, I’ve never apologized publicly [a joke].”
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A long time Live with Kelly and Mark a large producer Michael Gelman poked fun at the controversy in response to Mandel’s Instagram post, writing, “In these different times, one thing we can agree on is that you look great …
The comic made about 50 appearances in it Live with Kelly and Mark and its earlier iterations, dating back to 1995. He was often hosted by guests Live and Ripa following the departure of her first partner, who has passed away Regis PhilbinNovember 2011. (Michael Strahan again Ryan Seacrest (he later found a job as a co-ordinator alongside Ripa before Consuelos joined him full-time in 2023.)
