We’ve all seen the Masterclass trailers in YouTube ads. Scriptwriting with Aaron Sorkin. How to audition with Samuel L. Jackson. Neil deGrasse Tyson teaching how to... uh... science? Now comedian, actor,
America’s Got Talent judge and Canadian icon Howie Mandel has teamed up with Jimmy Kimmel to offer maybe the most important Masterclass of our times: How to... wash your hands. Ahem.“Is what I teach a science or is it an art? I'd say it's both,” he explains. “I don't refer to it as washing my hands because to me it's so much more than washing. It's my hands making love.” That is definitely an image that will stick with you as Howie takes viewers through the myriad ways your hands can be washed.
First, you gotta know the moves. There’s The Ovation! Pet the kitty! Making stinkies (you gotta see it to believe it)! Starting the Motorcycle! Making it rain! The Anxious Butterfly. And the one that, of course, had to blurred for the kiddies' sake—Sex On the Beach. Odd, but necessary. If you've found yourself slipping in recent weeks, now is the perfect time to refresh and optimize those hand-washing skills.Of course Jimmy Kimmel would recruit Howie for this little
Jimmy Kimmel Live! skit—Howie’s aversion germs has been well-documented over the years. Howie has spoken at length about living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder which manifests itself in an intense, sometimes debilitating fear of germs and dirt."Joking aside, this is the nightmare that’s being going on in my head for the past 64 years,"
he told Jimmy in his interview chat "So welco.me to my nightmare… this is what it’s like to be Howie Mandel."[video_embed id='1933676']RELATED: The Rock just released the best hand washing video ever [/video_embed]What might have seemed peculiar to others before certainly sits different now. Even researchers have confirmed that
Howie’s use of the fist-bump rather than shaking hands is a good way to avoid germs. His own Instagram is dedicated to jokes with a deep basis in the truth of his reality (and now, the reality of the rest of us, too).
Here’s him joking that the person in the hazmat suit is his wife (well, that’s one way to have safe sex).
Here’s him joking that the person in a stretcher being wheeled into an ambulance surrounded by people geared up in PPE is him going to work.
Here’s him flashing his own personal stash of toilet paper (it’s the new ‘wad of cash’ shot these days). And here he is with, uh,
more toilet paper.Still his message in this skit is evergreen—wash ya dang hands, people![video_embed id='6127724370001']BEFORE YOU GO: Howie Mandel says talking about mental health is the first step [/video_embed]
