Bob Saget (1956-2022)

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[JO Sweet Heart]

Originally Posted by TMC

Given how utterly reclusive they've become, I'm genuinely shocked that even the Olsen twins have released a statement.

With the news being the form of news that it is, I am not surprised. Losing someone who helped raise them is as bad as it gets. Actually, the cast member who I am the most worried about is Jodie Sweetin. She has been clean from her drugs and alcohol past since December of 2008. May she continue to make her TV dad proud of her.

God bless you and each remaining cast member always!!!

Holly (a day one fan of Mary-Kate and Ashley)

P.S. Nothing has come from Lori Loughlin yet either.

[HuntingtonM15]

Originally Posted by JO Sweet Heart

P.S. Nothing has come from Lori Loughlin yet either.

Lori has now issued a statement:

"Words cannot begin to express how devastated I am. Bob was more than my friend, he was my family," Loughlin said in a statement. "I will miss his kind heart and quick wit. Thank you for a lifetime of wonderful memories and laughter. I love you Bobby."

https://people.com/tv/bob-saget-dead...was-my-family/

[JO Sweet Heart]

^^^ Go here for Andrea Barber's thoughts.

God bless you and her and the other remaining cast members always!!!

Holly

P.S. Jodie Sweetin and Scott Weinger (Steve) are the only people now of the main cast who haven't said anything. The boys who gave us Nicki and Alex haven't come forward yet either, but of course, they don't remember as much and so I don't know if anything will come from them or not.

[icecream]

Originally Posted by JO Sweet Heart

With the news being the form of news that it is, I am not surprised. Losing someone who helped raise them is as bad as it gets. Actually, the cast member who I am the most worried about is Jodie Sweetin. She has been clean from her drugs and alcohol past since December of 2008. May she continue to make her TV dad proud of her.

Jodie Sweetin appeared on this season's Celebrity Wheel of Fortune airing on ABC. She seemed normal there.

[TVShowAddict]

Originally Posted by TMC

Given how utterly reclusive they've become, I'm genuinely shocked that even the Olsen twins have released a statement.

I am really glad the Olsens did honestly, it shows respect and love for Mr. Saget

[JO Sweet Heart]

Originally Posted by icecream

Jodie Sweetin appeared on this season's Celebrity Wheel of Fortune airing on ABC. She seemed normal there.

But now is when it may get harder for her. One of my most favorite male singers is a recovering alcoholic and his second rehab stint took place the year that his dad went forward in 2014. His first time in rehab was in late 2002 and so he was clean for over a decade before succumbing to temptation, country singer Trace Adkins that is.

God bless you and him and Jodie always!!!

Holly (a day one fan of Trace)

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Full House creator and stars release a joint statement honoring Bob Saget

"Thirty-five years ago, we came together as a TV family, but we became a real family. And now we grieve as a family," read the statement from John Stamos, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Andrea Barber, Scott Weinger, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and creator Jeff Franklin. "Bob made us laugh until we cried. Now our tears flow in sadness, but also with gratitude for all the beautiful memories of our sweet, kind, hilarious, cherished Bob." ALSO: Saget's touring partner Mike Young tells how the late comedian would like to be remembered.

Full House creator Jeff Franklin: "I wrote the role of Danny Tanner for my friend Bob Saget"

Franklin paid tribute to Saget, who died Sunday at age 65, writing on Instagram: 'I wrote the role of Danny Tanner for my friend Bob Saget. The character was kind, genuine, neurotic, a bit nerdy, a hugger with a heart of gold, and endearingly funny. That was Bob. And the x-rated sense of humor that was left out of Full House. But Bob’s charm and love-ability was the reason people embraced Danny Tanner. It was my joyful honor to be a brother of Bob’s for 42 years. Comedy icon and exceptional human being. Your spirit and your work will live on. Love you Bob." Franklin previously worked with Saget when he was a warm-up comedian on Bosom Buddies. But Saget was the second actor to play Danny Tanner. The original pilot starred John Posey as Danny Tanner because Saget had signed up to star in a CBS show called The Morning Program. When Saget suddenly he became available, he took over the Danny Tanner role.

ALSO:

• Jodie Sweetin recalls her favorite memories of working with Bob Saget on Full House: "There aren’t enough words to express what I’m feeling today," Sweetin began a lengthy Instagram post. "Nor are they big enough to capture even a slice of who he was. One thing I do know, is that we never missed a chance to tell each other, 'I love you'. Every time we talked, there were at least 3 or 4 exchanged at the end of a conversation, whether it was text, phone call or in person. And he usually had to have the last word, 'I love you more…' There are so many songs that I hear of and think of him… he introduced me to some of my favorite music through the years. Talking comedy bits with him. The love of standup and comedy history he shared. The hundreds of inside jokes we all had, the kind that only a family knows and that nobody else will ever understand or think is funny. Notes sessions on the show, sitting and laughing all together at the kitchen table on set. He and Dave dancing together at my 13th Birthday party, being ridiculous, as usual. Spending weekends at his house with his daughters when I was young, and having blueberry pancakes..." Sweetin also vowed to tell an inappropriate joke at Saget's funeral.
• Lori Loughlin says "Bob was more than my friend, he was my family": "I will miss his kind heart and quick wit," Loughlin said in a statement of her former Full House co-star. "Thank you for a lifetime of wonderful memories and laughter. I love you Bobby."
• Andrea Barber says "this one hurts": "He had the biggest heart of anyone in Hollywood," Barber wrote of her Full House co-star. "He gave the biggest hugs. I am gutted that I will never be able to hug him again. Bob ended every text, every interaction with 'Love you.' Didn’t matter how long or short we’d been apart. He loved so deeply and so fiercely. And he never hesitated to tell you just how much you meant to him. This is the greatest lesson I learned from Bob Saget - don’t hesitate to tell people you love them. I feel at peace knowing that Bob knew exactly how much I adore him."
• Full House's Scott Weinger says Saget was like a big brother: "Nobody ever made me laugh harder, the kind of laughter where your ribs are sore the next day," he tweeted. "He was also a wonderful human being who never missed a chance to say "I love you" to the people he cared about."
• Josh Radnor: "Bob Saget was the older wiser ‘me' for nine years on How I Met Your Mother": "He was the kindest, loveliest, funniest, most supportive man. The easiest person to be around. A mensch among mensches," tweeted Radnor, who shared the Ted Mosby role with Saget. "I had so much imposter syndrome when HIMYM started, thought I’d be found out, kicked off set & sent home. When I'd run into Bob on the Fox lot in those early days he'd gush over my performance & tell me how he was studying me to make sure his vocal performance felt right. This man that I’d delighted in seeing on TV for years cheering me on, letting me know I had a right to be there and playing that character... I can’t overstate how meaningful his words were. (He also, true to form, told me jokes that I cannot tell here or in polite company.) We had a very special bond from Day 1, were never out of touch for long. We found a way to grab dinner once a year, even after HIMYM wrapped. We went to see each other in our Broadway plays. We talked a lot about how to live a meaningful life amidst all the chaos."
• Alyson Hannigan recalls when she worked as Saget's babysitter as a teenager: "One of my fav memories of Bob was when I was babysitting his daughter," she tweeted of her HIMYM co-star. "I was 15 & couldn’t get her to sleep/stop crying. Bob came home, took her in his arms, played a Tracy Chapman song & danced with her until she fell asleep. He was a wonderful Dad and human #RipBobSaget Love u."
• Pete Davidson says Saget helped him deal with mental health struggles: "Just wanted you guys to know that Bob Saget was one of the nicest men on the planet," he wrote on Instagram. When I was younger and several times throughout our friendship he helped me get through some rough mental health stuff. He stayed on the phone with my mom for hours trying to help in anyway he can - connecting us with doctors and new things we can try. He would check in on me and make sure I was okay. I love you Bob it was an honor to know you. Thank you for your kindness and friendship."
• Inside Bob Saget's final standup show Saturday night: One attendee said he seemed "very humbled by the fact that so many people were there to see him."
• Video shows Saget saying goodbye at the end of his comedy show Friday night
• Saget's daughter Aubrey shares his last text message to her
• On a podcast last week, Saget discussed battling COVID (but he didn't clarify when)
• Saget was found dead by Ritz Carlton housekeeping an hour after his checkout time: A source tells People that the room was neat, with no signs of trauma, and Saget's bags were packed by the door.
• An autopsy found no evidence of drugs or foul play: "An autopsy was performed this morning on Robert Lane Saget. Mr. Saget is a 65-year-old male, who was found unresponsive in his hotel room. At this time, there is no evidence of drug use or foul play," Joshua Stephany, the chief medical examiner of Orange and Osceola Counties, said in a press release. "The cause and manner of death are pending further studies and investigation which may take up to 10-12 weeks to complete. Our condolences go out to Mr. Saget's loved ones during this difficult time."

[TMC]

Originally Posted by JO Sweet Heart

^^^ Go here for Andrea Barber's thoughts.

God bless you and her and the other remaining cast members always!!!

Holly

P.S. Jodie Sweetin and Scott Weinger (Steve) are the only people now of the main cast who haven't said anything. The boys who gave us Nicki and Alex haven't come forward yet either, but of course, they don't remember as much and so I don't know if anything will come from them or not.

From Marla Sokoloff (Gia):

My very first episode of Full House was also one of the most memorable. I was walking back to my dressing room after rehearsal, when I heard a voice inviting me to have dinner with the cast. It was Bob. I couldn’t believe it. As he drove us to Jerry’s Deli, I remember sitting in the back seat with @jodiesweetin, while Freedy Johnston’s Bad Reputation played at full blast through his car speakers.
Every time I saw him thereafter, his genuine kindness was ever present. It was a solid through line of his personality. That was just who he was.
One of a kind, always for the laugh, but managed to do it with a whole lot of heart. You will be missed by so many, Bob. Sending so much love to my Full & Fuller House family, your three girls and Kelly. 🖤Xox

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Originally Posted by HuntingtonM15

Lori has now issued a statement:

"Words cannot begin to express how devastated I am. Bob was more than my friend, he was my family," Loughlin said in a statement. "I will miss his kind heart and quick wit. Thank you for a lifetime of wonderful memories and laughter. I love you Bobby."

https://people.com/tv/bob-saget-dead...was-my-family/

From Natasha Bure (Candace Cameron Bure's daughter):

A man with the biggest heart of them all 🤍 There was truly no one like him. Endless gratitude forever for the kindness and laughter you brought to everyone’s lives. Rest In Peace Bob. We love you so much 🕊

[TMC]

Originally Posted by TVShowAddict

I am really glad the Olsens did honestly, it shows respect and love for Mr. Saget

I absolutely don't know for sure if this is actually Ashley Olsen posting this on Twitter since it's not verified:

This can’t be reality. There will NEVER be another. My heart is shattered. We love you
@bobsaget
#RipBobSaget Broken heart

[TMC]

Bob Saget delivered one of the great postmodern performances as America’s Funniest Home Videos host

On America's Funniest Home Videos, Saget was "a raunchy comedian trapped in an endless 'family-friendly' montage of nut shots, begging hack writers to save him," says Miles Klee, in a tribute to the late comedian and actor, who died on Sunday at age 65. "For AFHV, Saget was required, like on Full House, to present a harmless side, guiding the audience from one catastrophe to the next, the smiling, PG-rated emcee for a thousand compilations of testicular injury," says Klee. "The producers added wacky sound effects to each snippet, but none could match Saget’s wry narration and color commentary. And then, between videos, it would be just Saget, standing in the liminal nightmare of a half-finished living room set, doing a Beckett-level postmodern performance of the guy who made a Faustian bargain in Hollywood. On the surface, he became all slick charisma, but underneath, there was a gorgeous strain of sardonic self-loathing, arched-eyebrow smarm and can-you-believe-this-sh*t winking. His attitude ranked among the most subversive stuff on network TV at the time. Where Garry Shandling had sledgehammered the fourth wall with It’s Garry Shandling’s Show and The Larry Sanders Show, Saget secretly embodied the duality of being one person and playing another, or showed that such contradiction is the truth. He’s remembered by his fellow comics as one of the kindest in the business, and this, no doubt, is how he wound up doing Full House and America’s Funniest Home Videos — he realized you could justify your naughtiness by being, actually, nice."

ALSO:

• An emotional Jimmy Kimmel struggled to hold back the tears in his late-night tribute to Bob Saget: “I’m sorry, I taped this like 14 times,” Kimmel said in his Jimmy Kimmel Live! tribute to Saget that he decided to tape without an audience. Kimmel noted that Saget was special not because of Full House or his standup comedy, but because of who he was as a person. “Bob was the sweetest," said Kimmel. "He was the sweetest man. I have so many wonderfully kind and supportive texts and emails and calls from Bob. He always had a compliment. He’d write sometimes just to tell me he loved me and I know he did that for many people… He had something funny to say about everything and nothing bad to say about anyone. Never.”
• Danny Tanner's hugs were a key part of Saget's Full House character: "Bob Saget was 30 years old when he gave his first hug as Danny Tanner, the clean-freak, embrace-prone widower raising three daughters with his best friend and brother-in-law in ABC’s Full House," says Yvonne Villareal. "He’d give roughly 10 trillion more from 1987 until the show’s end in 1994: Before 'virtual hugs' became part of the text lexicon, there was Danny Tanner on TV. Though there were plenty of beloved TV dads before him, and plenty since, it’s hard to overestimate how Saget’s displays of affection on Full House, beamed into the living rooms of millions of homes, soothed a generation of young viewers — even the cool ones who mocked the corniness." Ahead of the 2016 premiere of Fuller House, Saget said of Danny Tanner showing affection: “I didn’t know I was being called the biggest geek in the world while it was happening or that I would be revered as the guy who loved hugging. I came up with that. I made him a hugger. That was one of my contributions.”
• Saget's filthiness as a standup comedy makes his acting work on Full House even more stellar: "The Full House projects added another dimension to what had become Saget’s public persona, but they didn’t erase his association with Danny Tanner, approachable sportscaster and caring father," says Jen Chaney. "If anything, they made it possible to appreciate what he did on Full House more because it was so far afield from his own instincts as a comic. The most important quality that Saget needed to bring to Danny wasn’t quick-wittedness or perfect timing, though Saget had both. It was sincerity. No matter how corny the dialogue or situations he found himself in, it was imperative that the audience believe Danny was a genuinely good man raising his daughters with supreme love and care in a land where the filthiest jokes were 'Oh Mylanta!' and 'You got it, dude.' As goofy as Full House could be, a lot of kids — maybe kids who had negligent dads or no dads at all — watched it and saw, in Saget’s version of fatherhood, a model of parenthood that brought them comfort for a half-hour a week. There was value in that. Saget certainly saw that value, too, as evidenced by his enthusiastic participation in the Fuller House reboot that ran on Netflix from 2016–2020. While Saget was obviously acting when he played Danny, the affection and sincerity he displayed in both series didn’t seem like a stretch. They seemed like an extension of who he was."
• Saget embodied contradictions with his bawdy standup act: "Yet through them, he was perhaps entertainment’s consummate father figure," says Amanda Wicks. "Many kids grow up understanding their parents from one perspective, only to realize, in time, that moms and dads have desires, needs, and even personalities outside of the expected strictures. Saget was a reminder that humans are so much more than any one script. We do—and can and should—play all sorts of roles."
• Saget's dirty mouth was a wholesome gift: "There was something wonderful about the shocking way a straight-laced TV sitcom father could turn into the Dostoevsky of filth," says Travis M. Andrews, adding: "All this kindness — both the golly gee television persona and the grace he showed in his private life — only served to sharpen the blade of his comedy. It felt incongruous watching Saget, knowing twinkle in his eye, say the most disgusting things imaginable. It didn’t make sense. It was like watching a cat bark or a dog meow. Even when you expected him to tell a dirty joke, there was always some part of your brain thinking, Oh my God, that’s Danny Tanner!"
• Entourage creator Doug Ellin recalls enlisting Saget to play a hooker-loving womanizer: “We had lunch and he said, ‘I’ll do anything you say except for play broke. Hookers or drugs? Yeah, that’s fine. But I don’t want to be broke,'" says Ellin, who described Saget as “gracious, sweet and incredibly smart.” “There was no sensitivity to anything else, but being successful was important to him."
• George Wallace remembers his four-decade-plus friendship with Saget: "Bob was my friend for more than 42 years," says Wallace. "To truly honor him, fight the sadness and come with the laughter. It was his gift to find humor in darkness. Trust me, he’d already have a joke written about you. He always had a smile, the best smile — I recommended my dentist to him, and the rest is history. We got a chance (in August 2020) to reminisce when I did his podcast (Bob Saget’s Here for You), and we shared some of our favorite moments as we were coming up in comedy in the early days. We also talked about the weight of the world. He was always conscious and wanted to bring mankind forward and help make the world better. We both just wanted to put a smile on people’s faces. Only Bob Saget would go die in the Happiest Place on Earth. Good one, you twisted mofo. Hey, Bob, I’m already missing you. Forward your heaven Hmail.com address ASAP. Love you, my friend!"
• Tom Bergeron says when he hosted America's Funniest Home Videos, Saget was especially supportive: Saget showed up for AMFV's 20th anniversary and for Bergeron's final day. "It meant the world to me," Bergeron told E.T. of Saget's support. "A couple years prior to that, when the video show was having its 20th anniversary, I said to Vin Di Bona, the executive producer, I said, 'We have to get Bob for that.' So we were already friends at that point and I have to admit, I really worked him hard. I went to one of his Scleroderma Foundation benefits and wooed him a lot. He was still somewhat hesitant and he had a sitcom on ABC briefly ... and the network asked if I would do promos with Bob, which I was happy to do but I figured here's my attempt to blackmail him. So I said, 'All right, Bobby, I will do the promos but you've got to do the 20th anniversary special with me,' and he finally relented and it turned out to be just a wonderful episode that the team titled 'The Summit With Saget.' And I told Bob, I said, 'Listen, look. You just do whatever you do. I will get us to the videos, I will get us to the commercial breaks.' If you see that show, you see me just laughing, just spending the hour just enjoying that lovable lunatic that he was."
• Watch Bob Saget's final interview, from last Wednesday with Orlando radio station Real Radio/WTKS-FM
• Conan O'Brien posts his 2007 Full House San Francisco Late Night sightseeing tour with Saget: "I’m seeing so many lovely memories of Bob today," Conan tweeted. "He was extraordinarily sweet, genuine, and always generous with his talent. My heartfelt sympathy to Bob’s family and his fans all around the world."

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R.I.P. Bob

[80sTrivia]

Wow.... so many tributes for Bob coming from all across the industry. I suppose most of us just loved him as Danny Tanner and the amiable host of AFV, but obviously within the industry he was absolutely adored and loved...

[Dude111]

Yes this is very sad.....