Brad Garrett Quotes

Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling.

Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

For comedy, timing is key.

I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

I used to have this joke: 'Every hallway is a runway.'

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen.

I know what's funny, and I probably know the best way to deliver the joke. Whether it's walking out of a room, facing that way, facing this way. I just have a sense of that.

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch.

I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

I'm not a good joke teller.

There's this little recipe that you have to hit pretty well to get somebody to laugh. And it's a combination of the way in which you say something, with the facial expression that you have, married with the body language that you have, etc.

Comedy is all about the pause.