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He also appeared on a week's worth of episodes of the short-lived NBC game show Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour in March 1984. Wayne Fiscus, opposite Ed Flanders and Norman Lloyd. Elsewhere, starting in 1982 and playing the role of Dr. Mandel came to national attention in the United States during a six-year run on St. Mandel was one of the first 'VeeJays' to appear on Nickelodeon's music video series PopClips.

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In 1980, he won the lead role in the Canadian movie Gas, co-starring Susan Anspach and Donald Sutherland. CBC-TV's head of variety programming saw his performance in October 1979 and immediately signed him for a TV special. He was booked to open for David Letterman at shows in the summer of 1979. A producer for the syndicated comedy game show Make Me Laugh saw him there, and booked Mandel for several appearances during the show's run in 19. On a trip to Los Angeles, Mandel performed a set at The Comedy Store, which resulted in his being hired as a regular performer. When the audience reacted uproariously to that and similar antics, his trademark response was to extend his arms palms up, look incredulous, and say, 'It's you.' He was a stand-up comedian at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto, and by September 1978 he had a week-long booking as a featured act, which was billed as 'a wild and crazy borderline psychotic.' His repertoire included placing a latex glove over his head and inflating it by blowing through his nose, the fingers of the glove extending above his head like a cockscomb. Afterwards, Mandel worked as a carpet salesman.

Mandel attended William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute, where he was expelled for impersonating a school official and hiring a construction company to build an addition to the school.

His father was a lighting manufacturer and a real estate agent. Mandel is a distant cousin of Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman. He is Jewish, and his ancestors emigrated from Romania and Poland. Mandel was born and raised in the Willowdale area of North York, Ontario.

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