Howie Mandel has a deal — or no deal — for Bill Burr.
It seems that as long as Burr continues to voice his disappointment towards the comedian, the “America’s Got Talent” judge will continue to poke fun.
In November, Billy Corgan revealed Burr might be his half-brother while on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast. Earlier this month, Mandel then secretly brought on the Smashing Pumpkins frontman during Burr’s interview.
Burr shared he was not a fan of how the meet and greet went down.
But Mandel doubled-down, posting a photo to his Instagram Stories on Wednesday of Burr and Corgan’s faces Photoshopped onto Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in the poster for the 2008 comedy “Step Brothers.”
The former “Deal or No Deal” host set the story to the Smashing Pumpkins song “Today.”
Burr opened up about feeling blindsided by Mandel on “The Rich Eisen Show.”
“Howie did what he did because he is a Hollywood whore and he doesn’t care what happens,” he said on Wednesday.
He added that Mandel “just brings up all that weirdness.”
Eisen asked Burr if he was “pissed” at the fellow comedian, to which Burr responded that he purposely avoids speaking publicly about personal aspects of his life and “did not appreciate” being ambushed.
“Billy’s fine. That’s the first time I ever met him and it was fine or whatever, but I did not appreciate what Howie did,” he continued. “Not at all.”
But at the end of the day, there are no hard feelings going forward.
“He’s Howie, so he’s sorta hard to hate,” the actor said. “How do you hate a germaphobe? He’s like, not threatening. He just walks with his arms in so he doesn’t rub against curtains that he owns… He’s a strange man.”
During the initial interview when Corgan walked in, Burr told Mandel “You’re an a–hole.”
Corgan previously claimed to Mandel that his stepmom had asked him: “Do you know who Bill Burr is? Bill Burr might be one of the children that your father sired in his days being a traveling musician.”
Corgan continued at the time, “This is a true story. I’m not making this up, there is no joke in this. This is a true story. I’ve never told this anywhere, honestly.”
He said to his step-mom, “‘OK, that sort of works’ and I looked at Bill’s age and we are similar age.”
“And my father did once tell me that I had a half brother named Bill,” Corgan admitted. “Who was basically born around the same time as me. He told me on my 18th birthday. This is all totally true. I swear to God. So I said, ‘Well, how many other possible illegitimate children does daddy have because he did tell me about this one Bill.”
