FILE -
Bob
Saget
arrives
at the
People's
Choice
Awards
at the
Microsoft
Theater
on
Wednesday,
Jan. 18,
2017, in
Los
Angeles.
Saget, a
comedian
and
actor
known
for his
role as
a
widower
raising
a trio
of
daughters
in the
sitcom
“Full
House,”
has
died,
according
to
authorities
in
Florida,
Sunday,
Jan. 9,
2022. He
was 65.
(Photo
by
Jordan
Strauss/Invision/AP,
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FILE -
Bob
Saget,
from
left,
Dave
Coulier
and John
Stamos,
winners
of the
award
for
favorite
premium
comedy
series
for
"Fuller
House,"
pose in
the
press
room at
the
People's
Choice
Awards
at the
Microsoft
Theater
on
Wednesday,
Jan. 18,
2017, in
Los
Angeles.
Saget, a
comedian
and
actor
known
for his
role as
a
widower
raising
a trio
of
daughters
in the
sitcom
“Full
House,”
has
died,
according
to
authorities
in
Florida,
Sunday,
Jan. 9,
2022. He
was 65.
(Photo
by
Jordan
Strauss/Invision/AP,
File) |
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Bob
Saget,
beloved
TV dad
of 'Full
House,'
dead at
65
By LYNN
ELBER
apnews.com
LOS
ANGELES
- Bob
Saget,
the
actor-comedian
known
for his
role as
beloved
single
dad
Danny
Tanner
on the
sitcom
“Full
House”
and as
the
wisecracking
host of
“America’s
Funniest
Home
Videos,”
died
while on
a
stand-up
tour. He
was 65.
Deputies
in
Orange
County,
Florida,
were
called
Sunday
about an
“unresponsive
man” in
a hotel
room at
the
Ritz-Carlton
in
Orlando
and
found
Saget
dead,
according
to a
sheriff’s
statement
on
Twitter.
Detectives
found
“no
signs of
foul
play or
drug use
in this
case.”
Saget
was in
Florida
as part
of his
“I Don’t
Do
Negative
Comedy
Tour.”
After
warm
audience
receptions
to his
gigs
Friday
in
Orlando
and
Saturday
in the
Ponte
Vedra
Beach
resort
area, he
celebrated
online.
“I’m
back in
comedy
like I
was when
I was
26. I
guess
I’m
finding
my new
voice
and
loving
every
moment
of it,”
he
posted
Saturday
on
Instagram.
Fellow
comedians
and
friends
praised
Saget
not only
for his
wit, but
his
kindness.
“I am
broken.
I am
gutted.
I am in
complete
and
utter
shock. I
will
never
ever
have
another
friend
like
him,”
wrote
John
Stamos,
who
co-starred
with
Saget on
“Full
House.”
“I love
you so
much
Bobby.”
“I have
no
words.
Bob was
one of
the best
humans
beings
I’ve
ever
known in
my life.
I loved
him so
much,”
said
Candace
Cameron
Bure,
who
played
Saget’s
daughter
on “Full
House.”
“In
often a
ruthless
business
he was
historically
not just
hilarious
but more
importantly
one of
the
kindest
human
beings I
ever met
in my
career,”
actor
Richard
Lewis
wrote on
Twitter.
In a
statement
Sunday,
Saget’s
family
members
said
they are
“devastated
to
confirm
that our
beloved
Bob
passed
away
today....
Though
we ask
for
privacy
at this
time, we
invite
you to
join us
in
remembering
the love
and
laughter
that Bob
brought
to the
world.”
Saget
the
stand-up
showed
his flip
side
with
what
become a
much-talked-about
cameo in
the 2005
documentary
“The
Aristocrats”
— in
which
100
comics
riffed
on the
world’s
dirtiest
joke —
that
revealed
his
notoriously
filthy
sense of
humor.
Raunchy
comedy
wasn’t
part of
his
long-running
network
TV
shows.
He
hosted
the
family
friendly
“America’s
Funniest
Home
Videos”
and
played
the
squeaky
clean
widower
and dad
to three
young
girls on
“Full
House,”
the ABC
sitcom
that
also
brought
fame to
Olsen
twins
Mary-Kate
and
Ashley
when it
debuted
in 1987.
“Bob was
the most
loving,
compassionate
and
generous
man. We
are
deeply
saddened
that he
is no
longer
with us
but know
that he
will
continue
to be by
our side
to guide
us as
gracefully
as he
always
has,”
the
Olsens
said in
a joint
statement.
The
show’s
popularity
didn’t
deter
critics,
some
calling
it
cheesy
and
others
deeming
it
unreal.
Saget,
as
amiable
and
droll in
an
interview
as he
was on
TV
screens,
took the
brickbats
in
stride.
“‘Full
House’
was a
loving
kind of
show but
obviously
over the
top. It
had its
heightened
reality,
a glossy
Willy
Wonka
quality
to it,”
he told
The
Associated
Press in
a 2001
interview.
That
year,
Saget
took
another
pass at
playing
a
widowed
dad with
winsome
kids on
the
short-lived
sitcom
“Raising
Dad.”
He said
he found
himself
repeatedly
fielding
questions
about
his
habit of
playing
sitcom
widowers,
and had
a ready
response:
“(Kevin)
Costner
does
three,
four
baseball
movies
and
that’s
OK.
There’s
my
rationale.”
Saget
was born
in
Philadelphia
on May
17,
1956, to
Benjamin,
a
supermarket
executive,
and
Rosalyn,
who
worked
in
hospital
administration.
He
graduated
Temple
University
and
enrolled
briefly
in the
University
of
Southern
California
to study
film.
He left
the
college
but
stayed
in Los
Angeles
and
shifted
to
stand-up
comedy,
which
led to
small
roles in
TV and
film
before
he found
success
with
“Full
House.”
He also
appeared
in some
episodes
of the
sitcom’s
“Fuller
House”
2016-20
sequel
and was
heard as
the
narrator
on “How
I Met
Your
Mother,”
which
ran for
nine
seasons
on CBS.
“Bob
Saget
was the
older
wiser
‘me’ for
nine
years on
How I
Met Your
Mother,”
tweeted
cast
member
Josh
Radnor.
“He was
the
kindest,
loveliest,
funniest,
most
supportive
man. The
easiest
person
to be
around.
A mensch
among
mensches.”
In guest
appearances
on the
Hollywood-set
dark
comedy
“Entourage,”
Saget
played a
warped
character
named
Bob
Saget
who was
foul-mouthed
but,
unlike
the man
himself,
was a
misogynist
and
worse.
In early
2020,
Saget
was
preparing
for the
start of
his
comedy
tour
when the
pandemic
put it
on hold.
He
turned
his
energies
to a
podcast,
“Bob
Saget’s
Here For
You,”
which
gave
fans an
open mic
to
comment
and ask
him
questions.
He
focused
occasionally
on
directing
over the
years,
including
on HBO’s
“The
Mind of
the
Married
Man,”
and the
Norm
Macdonald
film
“Dirty
Work,”
and
appeared
on
Broadway
in “Hand
to God”
and in
“The
Drowsy
Chaperone.”
He drew
praise
as
producer-director
of the
1996 TV
film
“For
Hope,”
loosely
based on
the
battle
of his
late
sister,
Gay,
with the
tissue
disease
scleroderma,
and
appealed
for
increased
federal
support
for
research
funds.
He
remembered
his
sister
in a
January
2020
post,
noting
that she
died
when she
was 47
and
would
have
been 73
that
month.
Saget
had
daughters
Aubrey,
Lara and
Jennifer
with
first
wife
Sherri
Kramer
before
divorcing
in 1997.
He
married
Kelly
Rizzo in
2018.
___
AP
Writers
Lindsey
Bahr and
Beth
Harris
contributed
to this
report.
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