When Brad Garrett is in the room, Brad Garrett is in the room. Not quite in an Elvis way, but Garrett’s outsized personality combines with his 6-foot, 8-inch frame to create a stage presence at the stand-up venue named for him at MGM Grand as booming as his voice. Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club moved from the Tropicana to MGM Grand more than seven years ago, and if the capacity crowd on a post-Independence Day weekend is any indication, the club remains an unqualified success.

Garrett loves mining the audience for laughs, and when his schedule allows he’ll host and headline. That’s when you’ll get to see him come out from behind the venue’s iconic red curtain and break into a Mick Jagger dance, and welcome latecomers with old-school comic venom. Once he gets started, the towering titan of Tonight Show appearances, ABC sitcoms and voiceover work relentlessly hammers away at audience members as if possessed by the spirit of Don Rickles. The crowd eats it up, barely able to recover from the previous barrage of blue humor before Garrett strikes again.

Having his own club provides Garrett with several advantages. He has enough headroom onstage, but the ceiling inside the venue is low enough to enable intimacy between entertainer and entertained. He can assign himself hosting duties whenever not working one of his TV day jobs. The former co-star of Everybody Loves Raymond is experiencing a career high right now with a star turn in ABC’s Single Parents, hot off the heels of his recurring role as legendary comic Roy Martin in the second season of Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here, a series about the ’70s comedy scene.

Garrett launched his own career in the early ’80s after being raised in the San Fernando Valley and briefly attending UCLA before rolling the dice on stand-up. He worked on his act at improv clubs in Hollywood and Pasadena before a victory on Star Search led to national recognition and a coveted appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Lending his baritone to the title character of animated series Hulk Hogan’s Rock ’n’ Wrestling led to a lucrative voiceover career, but it wasn’t until 1996 that he went from I-know-that-guy status to recognizable star.

Now he’s a household name, busier than ever after voicing Eeyore in last year’s live-action/CGI box-office success Christopher Robin. The comedy club provides Garrett with much-needed release after working for Walt Disney Studios, and he takes full advantage. There are no sacred cows in the underground realm of ribaldry that Garrett reigns over. Neither his old boss Ray Romano or his current bosses that provide him with his comic cavern escape the lash of Garrett’s acid tongue.

By the time ace comedians such as Kathleen Dunbar, Shuli Egar, Greg Morton, or Jason Collings and James Hollingsworth take the stage, the audience is well-warmed up and ready for more. Garrett still has his headlining slot to perform, which he’ll deliver in inspired fashion. It’s his club, after all, and everybody loves Garrett.

MGM Grand, 8 p.m. daily, starting at $39 plus tax and fee, $59 when Brad Garrett performs, 21+. 866.740.7711