Hasta La Creative!

Howie Mandel has got himself one heck of a deal. The hit gameshow he hosts, “Deal or No Deal,” returned to CNBC for a new season last week after a nearly 10-year hiatus. Next month, “America’s Got Talent,” for which he serves as a judge, returns to NBC with “The Champions,” featuring the winners and near-winners of previous seasons battling it out in what Mandel calls an “Olympics of talent”: only the best. Meanwhile. he’s been honing his stand-up set on the road.

Ad Age caught up with Mandel, who has recently been outspoken about the havoc that political correctness has played on comedy. He shared his thoughts on hosting gameshows which a generation ago he says would have been career suicide and the perils of social media. This interview has been edited for brevity and flow.

I was a fan of yours as a kind growing up in the ’80s. Do you ever go back and watch your stuff from then? You have a totally different on-stage persona now.

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