Show Rundown: March 31, 2011

March 31, 2011
Photo: The Howard Stern Show

Today on the Stern Show: Howie Mandel stops by to discuss how he almost quit show business before landing a new show, Ronnie gets ticketed for having tinted windows, and Piers Morgan is not a fan of being pranked.

Howie Mandel Almost Quit

March 31, 2011
Photo: The Howard Stern Show

Howie Mandel stopped by to promote his new TV series, ‘Mobbed,’ and told Howard he’d considered retiring just a few years ago: “Right before ‘Deal or No Deal’…[in] 2005, I was going to quit the business.”

Howie said he was so battered (“Every day I woke up and felt like I’d been kicked in the nuts by this business.”) that he even thought ‘Deal or No Deal’ would be “the nail in the coffin of my career,” but “my wife said to me, ‘What career?”