As a former star of Everybody Love Raymond, Brad Garrett gets all the perks of appearing in a slightly depressing sitcom about a dull family who hate each other – and one of those perks appears to be bitchslapping the paparazzi.
Brad Garrett has made the news thanks to a video of him appearing to smack a camera into a photographer's face outside a restaurant after being goaded about being a racist. And the video of Brad Garrett is truly shocking, although not for his violent reaction to the photographer's cat-call. We're shocked because the sight of Brad Garrett being called racist by a photographer, slinging an uppercut into another photographer's camera and then having the original photographer screaming the word 'angry' nine times in a row has proved that Brad Garrett isn't the completely unfunny tool he appears to be on Everybody Loves Raymond.
When, like Brad Garrett, you're in a show as inexplicably popular as slow-motion depressathon Everybody Loves Raymond it's hard for you to be be known as anything but The Tall Stupid One From That Crappy Show, but that would be doing Brad Garret down. Not only has Brad Garrett been the voice of Hulk Hogan in the 1980s TV show Hulk Hogan's Rock N Wrestling, the voice of Greasepit from Biker Mice From Mars and the star of films like The Pacifier, but now he'll make sure that he'll forever be known as the guy who punched out a photographer when he was called racist.
Although Brad Garrett only crawls into the headlines now and again, like last year when he got divorced without telling anyone, this time he's making sure that people remember not to mess with him – especially if they seemed determined to repeat racist phrases they swear he bellowed at them last time they met. New York Daily News reports:
Everybody loves Raymond, but the actor who played Ray Romano's brother on the hit TV series literally punched out the lights of a paparazzo in a hate-filled encounter… The 6-foot-8 actor was furious that Joe Mansour, 38, called him "racist." Mansour, who is from the West African nation of Senegal, insists that a month ago Garrett told him: "Man, I didn't know they had black people in Malibu. We don't like you here." Moments after Sunday's verbal sparring started, Garrett got physical, lashing out at another photographer, a TMZ.com lensman, and knocking a light from atop his camera.
So let's welcome Brad Garrett to the league of celebrity paparazzi-attackers. Brad will find plenty of sympathetic ears there, from people like Avril Lavigne and Britney Spears and Denise Richards and sort of James Blunt a bit too. All terrifying bruisers we're sure, none of which we'd ever like to meet down a dark alley. Especially Britney Spears if she hasn't got her wig on.
But let's return to the incident that sparked off Brad Garrett's photographer attack. Joe Mansour claims that Garrett had previously told him "Man, I didn't know they had black people in Malibu. We don't like you here." If this is true – bearing in mind what happened to Michael Richards – this Brad Garrett affair is just further proof that should never ever star in a mainstream American sitcom unless your name forms at least part of the show's title. Or, failing that, you should try to probably be a bit less racist sometimes.
Watch the Brad Garrett photographer attack here
Read more:
dr. truth says
that video is lame