Howie Mandel has worn many hats in his four-decade career, both literally (the man hasn't met a fedora he doesn’t love) and figuratively (he’s worked as a standup comedian, an actor, a game-show host, a reality TV judge, an author and a podcaster). "Even when opportunities present themselves and they seem a little bit weird and different, I usually just say yes and here I am," he once told Fox News of his longevity. "I never dreamed I would be in this business and I never dreamed I would be in this business after all these years … 99 percent of success is just showing up."
“Just showing up” has made Mandel, who will next be seen kicking off Season 20 of NBC’s America’s Got Talent, a very rich man with an astonishing net worth. Keep reading to learn about the ins-and-outs of his career and what he’s earned so far.
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In the late 1970s, Mandel was living in his hometown of Toronto, Canada, working as a carpet salesman, when he attended a comedy show at a club called Yuk-Yuks that would, in hindsight, change the course of his life forever. “I was just fascinated,” he told Ability Magazine. He ended up returning to the club for amateur hour the following Monday “without any thought as to what might come of it,” he explained, and “found a new passion in life.”
A few months later, while vacationing in California, he came across the Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard and decided to do a set there, too. “If I made a fool of myself it was okay because I was 3,000 miles from home,” he recalled. As luck would have it, a producer from Make Me Laugh, an old comedy game show in which contestants were tasked with trying not to crack up while a stand-up attempted to make them do just that, was in the audience and hired Mandel to be on the program.
“So I went back to my regular job, at a carpet place, and after that Make Me Laugh episode aired, I started getting calls from Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas to come out and do shows,” Mandel told Ability. “Diana Ross saw me on Merv Griffin and hired me to be her opening act. I thought, ‘I love doing this. Why not do it full-time?’ So I took the plunge.”
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How did Howie Mandel get famous?
Following his appearance on Make Me Laugh, Mandel continued doing stand-up, including as an opening act for David Letterman. But his particular brand of prop-heavy improvisational comedy, which famously included putting a rubber glove over his face, sometimes alienated him from his comedy peers.
“In their view, I didn’t put a lot of time and work into [my standup], so I didn’t deserve the success that fellow comics saw me getting,” Mandel told Vulture. “I was getting killed for using a lot of silly props. … [But] it’s just as hard to come up with a prop or look at a prop and find something to say alongside it. It’s all subjective, but I was getting killed.”
Mandel persevered, juggling his standup career with auditions for traditional acting roles, and in 1982 he started a six-year run on St. Elsewhere, playing Dr. Wayne Fiscus, a role that would make him a household name in the U.S.
Technically, Make Me Laugh was Mandel’s first TV show, but his breakout role was on the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere, which is set in St. Eligius Hospital, a fictional, rundown teaching hospital in Boston that’s referred to as “St. Elsewhere” for its willingness to admit patients no one else wants to admit. Mandel played Dr. Wayne Fiscus, a young, idealistic emergency room MD.
What is Howie Mandel’s net worth in 2025?
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Mandel’s net worth in 2025 is $60 million. He amassed his wealth mostly through his work as a comedian, actor, host, judge and producer.
Where to begin? During and after Mandel’s career-making run on St. Elsewhere, he continued to work in both television and film, notably voicing Gizmo in the 1984 cult favorite Gremlins and its 1990 sequel, and playing Maurice (the monster) in Little Monsters. The multi-talented comic’s biggest hit in the aftermath of St. Elsewhere was the Fox animated series Bobby’s World, which he created, executive produced and supplied voices for from 1990 to 1998. But he also popped up over the years in episodes of The Ben Stiller Show, The Nanny, Monk and more.
He kicked off his reality era in 2005 with Deal or No Deal, which he hosted for a total of seven seasons, from 2005 to 2009 and then again from 2018 to 2019.
Meanwhile, America’s Got Talent premiered in 2006 and Mandel joined the judges’ table in 2010, starting with Season 4. (He since became a judge on Canada's Got Talent, too.)
How much does Howie Mandel get paid for AGT?
Celebrity Net Worth reports that Mandel makes For $70,000 per episode, which works out to $1.7 million per year for a 24-episode season.
Mandel’s salary for Deal or No Deal was never made public, but the show was an indisputable success and likely infused Mandel's bank account with plenty of cash.
Interestingly, Mandel nearly passed on the show despite usually saying yes to everything. "I went into Deal or No Deal kicking and screaming,” he told Billy Corgan on the singer’s podcast, “The Magnificent Others" (via People).
“And not only because of what I thought being a game show host would be perceived [as], as far as 2005 with what the landscape was for people who [hosted], but also because I didn't understand how you could make an hour of television of having people pick a case and then me, say ‘open the case.’”
His wife convinced Mandel, who was ready to throw in the towel as a comedian due to poor ticket sales, to take the job. “She said, ‘Just go do it, and it doesn't matter if it's embarrassing,’” he recalled. “‘Just go do it. Just be busy, be amongst people, try to be creative.’”
Now Deal or No Deal is one of his best known credits.
Does Howie Mandel have anything to do with Deal or No Deal Island?
Mandel is an executive producer on the spinoff, but he is not its host.
“People ask me why [I] didn’t host it and I say, ‘Because they shot it right at the equator.’ It’s like 100 degrees and there’s snakes and spiders," he's explained. "Sofia [Vergara], who I’m a good friend of, said ‘Send Joe [Manganiello, her ex-husband].’ So I did.”
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In 2009, Mandel gave insight into his struggles with Obsessive-Compulsive Disease and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in his memoir, Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me. It’s unclear how much Mandel made on the frontend or backend for the book, but it was a bestseller, so that presumably means good things for his earnings.
“It’s a really honest look at who I am, the issues I deal with, and what I’ve done,” Mandel said of his memoir. “When I was first approached about writing it, I thought it would be fun; I have a lot of short funny stories to tell. But when I got farther along, I knew it had to be honest. I’ve always had this — it’s part of who I am, so I talk a lot about ADHD and OCD in the book. It’s full of those honest, embarrassing moments that make up everyone’s life — work, home, relationships — it covers the whole gamut.”
Does Howie Mandel still do stand up?
He does. However, around the time he landed Deal or No Deal in 2005, he was planning to retire from comedy. “I was in the midst of retiring, and when I say retiring, it was like, I wasn't going to go out on the road anymore. I wasn't selling tickets,” he said on “The Magnificent Others” podcast. “I was getting kicked in the nuts, my soul was being crushed every day. It was just embarrassing.”
But the successful NBC show revived his career and these days, Mandel continues to perform live. “The one thing that I always come back to, and always continue to do, is stand-up, because there are no boundaries to what I can do,” he told Boca Magazine. “There are no marks to hit, no lines to recite, there’s no commercials to throw to. Anything could happen. To that end, we should say don’t bring the kids because I don’t edit myself either.”
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