“He could’ve said something and he just brings up all that weirdness.”
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“Billy’s fine.
“Not at all.”
Bill Burr and Howie Mandel.Credit:Stewart Cook/Getty; Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic
Despite the lasting tension, there might still be hope for Burr’s relationship with Mandel.
“He’s Howie, so he’s sorta hard to hate,” Burr admitted.
“How do you hate a germaphobe?
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He’s like, not threatening.
He just walks with his arms in so he doesn’t rub against curtains that heowns…
He’s a strange man.”
Bill Burr & Billy Corgan on ‘Howie Mandel Does Stuff’.Howie Mandel/YouTube
Burr extended no such grace in the moment though.
As soon as Corgan entered the room, Burr called Mandel an “a–hole.”
Before long, the duo fully turned against Mandel.
Are we going to go play catch?
We’re both in our 50s.”
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Mandel eventually admitted, “This is just uncomfortable.”
He added that he was hoping for a “warm interaction.”
“It’s not that I don’t want to,” Burr said of finally meeting Corgan.
“It’s just…
I don’t think this was the situation.
He continued berating Mandel, adding, “You’re not the guy to do this.
This is outside your skillset.
“At some point, it did become funny to me that he did have multiple families.
But even the heart-to-heart led the duo back to making fun of Mandel.
At least we broke the cycle,” Burr said towards the episode’s end.
Watch Burr discuss the ambush onThe Rich Eisen Showbelow.
