'Dating Brad Garrett' review


Brad Garrett is a little like Bob Saget, and believe it or not I'm about to deliver a compliment.

You would never know it from the sitcom work they're most known for, but they are truly solid comics who betray little of their actual potential in sitcoms. Saget is the polar opposite of the cuddly cipher we got to know on "Full House," almost congenitally profane when outside the three-camera straitjacket. Garrett may be even funnier, a mordant wit that moves impossibly quick whenever he appears as a guest on talk shows, a genre he should probably consider hosting, which, once again, believe it or not, I mean as a compliment.

If only there were more flashes of his talent in Crackle's "Dating Brad Garrett," an unlikely vehicle for the actor for the simple fact that he actually is currently working on TV (Fox's "Til Death") and presumably doesn't need the money. My guess is he lost a bet of some kind with an executive at Sony Pictures Television, which produces "Death" and owns Crackle.

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