“The goons needed some comic relief, and I needed an audience. I had found my niche.”

—  Brad Garrett

When the Balls Drop https://books.google.com/books?idlLydBAAAQBAJ&pgPT0 (2015), Chapter 2, "Jews Don't Dribble."

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