Howie Do It

Howie Do It is an awful, awful show. To put it quite simply, Howie Do It just stinks. I can't think of a worse hidden camera "Candid Camera" type show I've ever seen. Howie Do It is so bad it is easily worse than Punk'd, which I also hate.

Howie Mandel is a comedian who I don't think has been doing much for years. By that I mean he probably has been working as a stand up comic and making tons of money and is successful, I just mean I don't remember seeing him on TV for years, since I was a kid even. So all of a sudden to see him on Deal or No Deal and that he has this TV show I was surprised, he is much older now and shaves his head, maybe because he was older and going bald anyway or maybe going gray? Just a guess but based on how old he must be now that can't be too far off.

Nothing on this show is funny, it is just either unfunny and bad or trying to gross us out for no reason and again still not at all funny. Just a stinker.

I was a teenager when Howie Do It was on TV. I didn't laugh then. I re-watched it now fifteen years later, and I still didn't laugh. I feel like by the mid 2000s, people's standards for humor had started declining. I'd be curious to know the demographic of the population who thought it was funny. I mean seriously, what kind of person laughs at this crap??? The pranks were immature, stupid, and offensive. A guy bringing his parents on a fake news segment called "mystery reunions" to reveal that he made a woman pregnant; Howie disguised as a waiter and putting his fingers in customers' drinks; a woman who was told she would be doing an instructional DVD for yoga, and she's placed in the middle of two men who pass gas the whole time. Howie said it was real - no sound effects. Yeah, okay. Well, if that was the case, she was crazy for staying, because if I was her, I would've left the room. Why would you subject yourself to being around people who are intentionally trying to be disgusting? I know pranks are supposed to be dumb, but I don't see anything humorous about embarrassing or making people feel uncomfortable. Plus it seemed like they were all actors, not just the ones who were being pranked. Their reactions came off as staged. This was a show for children, or childish adults. I'm glad it didn't stay on long. It was a waste of money and time to make in the first place.

I had the displeasure of being in the audience for this show, basically, a ripoff of Candid Camera where real life people would be set up by Howie and, in this case, other family members.

I won't bore you with the details but of the 4 separate families we had to sit through 3 misfired, in other words the victim, instead of getting upset and crazy which seemed to be the point, kept their composure and decided as a family they would work through it. Big credit to the victims, no credit for idiot Howie.

The final target was so upset she started crying and became so hysterical she had to be seen to by the set medic. Big laughs there.

Mandel has never been much of a talent and this pathetic, badly written outing shows how only 'Canadian content' rules set down by the CRTC keeps losers like this on the air.

Avoid at all costs!!

This show was awful on every level you can think of. Howie Mandell is uncomfortable to watch, smiling through all the awful hidden camera pranks he presents on this show. The actors he uses are terrible, the pranks are lame and unfunny, and they people they prank don't give great reactions either. The only laughs I had were unintentional ones when Howie would wear really bad costumes to surprise people with who he really was and the people would be like "oh OK I guess I kind of recognize you from the eighties or whatever"......

This is quite the unremarkable show that is similar to Candid Camera, where host Howie Mandel makes practical jokes to other people while the camera is on. Unfortunately, this show does not match the humor and surprises as Candid Camera due to its mediocre jokes and boring concept.

Howie Mandel doesn't come across as the funny host he was supposed to be, instead, pulling off unfunny gags and lackluster execution that makes him come across as annoying sometimes.

That overzealous Ravidrums guy banging on the drums while Mandel is hosting, like an over-excited and drugged up kid, added to the annoyance and talent-less aspect of the show. He makes you want to grab his drumsticks and throw him off the stage.

It's just as well that this TV show didn't last long on the air. Howie doesn't do it as far as talent and entertainment in this show.

Grade F