{"id":2010785,"date":"2023-08-24T12:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T16:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/howie-mandel-defends-a-joke-he-made-about-sofia-vergaras-divorce-its-never-too-soon\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T16:55:53","slug":"howie-mandel-defends-a-joke-he-made-about-sofia-vergaras-divorce-its-never-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/howie-mandel-defends-a-joke-he-made-about-sofia-vergaras-divorce-its-never-too-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Howie Mandel stands by joke about Sofia Vergara&#8217;s divorce: &#8220;Timing doesn&#8217;t matter.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhowie-mandel-defends-a-joke-he-made-about-sofia-vergaras-divorce-its-never-too-soon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2010785&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>Howie Mandel \u2064Defends \u2064Joke\u200b About Sofia Vergara&#8217;s Divorce<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/television\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">America\u2019s Got Talent<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d judge \u2063 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Howie Mandel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  is defending a joke he made about fellow judge Sofia Vergara\u2019s divorce \u2064from Joe Manganiello, which the couple\u200d just\u2063 announced\u200d last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Episode Drama<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During Tuesday \u200dnight\u2019s live \u200c <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">episode<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a young\u200b ventriloquist named Brynn Cummings enlisted panelist Heidi \u200dKlum to find her puppet, Penelope, a \u2063boyfriend. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mandel\u200d expressed\u200b support \u200cfor Cummings\u2019 performance \u200band then joked, \u201cI \u200dhave\u2063 one\u2063 more piece of advice for you:\u200b If you\u2019re looking \u200dfor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-magazine-hates-that-uppity-clarence-thomas-and-his-white-wife\/\" title=\"NY Magazine Disapproves of Clarence Thomas and His Interracial Marriage\">eligible bachelors<\/a>, you should<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/far-left-cheers-as-homeless-group-seizes-hotel-near-tacoma-city-leaders-negotiating-with-group-as-police-refuse-to-intervene\/\" title=\"Far Left Cheers As Homeless Group Seizes Hotel Near Tacoma; City Leaders Negotiating With Group As Police Refuse To Intervene\">\u2019ve talked<\/a> \u200bto Sofia, because she\u2019s in the market\u200c right\u200d now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vergara \u200cresponded by reaching \u2063her arms in the\u2064 air and cheering. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Host Terry Crews quickly \u200dshut down the conversation, saying, \u200b\u201cNo, \u200dwe\u2019re\u2062 not doing \u2063that here!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Klum said\u2063 to Cummings and her puppet,\u2062 \u201cWell, thank you that \u200dyou picked\u200b me. I think I\u2062 did a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/howie-mandel-defends-a-joke-he-made-about-sofia-vergaras-divorce-its-never-too-soon\/\" title=\"Howie Mandel stands by joke about Sofia Vergara's divorce: \"Timing doesn't matter.\"\">fantastic\u2062 job<\/a>, and so did you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Defending the Joke<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some critics online took issue\u200c with Mandel joking about Vergara\u2019s split from her husband so soon after it was announced. The 67-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/words-hurt-comedian-chris-rock-references-will-smith-oscars-slap-in-new-comedy-tour-report\/\" title=\"\u2018Words Hurt\u2019: Comedian Chris Rock References Will Smith Oscars Slap In New Comedy Tour: Report\">comedian responded<\/a> to the criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cPeople were online saying,\u200c \u2018Too soon.\u2019 \u200cI think as soon as you\u2019re available,\u2064 it\u2019s never too soon. She\u2019s fresh, people,\u201d \u2063Mandel told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/extratv.com\/2023\/08\/23\/howie-mandel-defends-sofia-vergara-single-joke-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Extra<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  following\u200d the episode airing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He continued, \u201cPeople thought that was mean and insensitive. If you watched Sofia,\u2064 she screamed after she came over to me and \u2062thought\u2063 it was \u2064funny. She said, \u2018Yes,\u2019 so she\u2019s got \u2063a great sense\u200c of humor,\u2062 and\u200b I wouldn\u2019t do \u200canything to hurt a fellow \u2014 a friend first, and\u200b a fellow \u200cco-worker.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the interviewer asked\u2062 who Vergara should be paired with, he said, \u201cI\u200d think everybody watching who is\u2063 available believes they\u2019re the perfect \u2063match\u200d for\u200d Sofia. I don\u2019t\u2062 think, Sofia, to be honest . . \u2062. she\u2063 doesn\u2019t need my help.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u2063\u201cAGT\u201d\u2062 judge went on, \u201cShe really doesn\u2019t. I believe that \u200cshe\u2019ll be fending \u2062them off. I mean, she is a great friend, a brilliant person, businessperson, \u200ca powerhouse, an amazing sense of humor. She \u2064checks every box, so whoever ends up with Sofia is going to\u200d be really, really lucky.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLet\u2019s try and \u2063do \u200bit by\u2063 the end of the season,\u201d Mandel joked. \u201cWe\u2019ll find her a match and leave it to America \u200bto vote.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d judge Howie Mandel defends joke about Sofia Vergara\u2019s recent divorce. Mandel expressed support for a ventriloquist contestant seeking a boyfriend for her puppet during Tuesday&#8217;s live episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2010786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}