Bob Saget remembered: Friends and colleagues pay tribute to the Full House star
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Pete Davidson, John Stamos, Jim Carey and more eulogized the legendary actor and comedian
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After news broke of Bob Saget’s sudden death at the age of 65 on January 9, his friends and co-workers spoke out about their love of the comedian and actor. Saget was best known for his role as Danny Tanner on the long-running family sitcom Full House. The comedian also hosted the first eight seasons of America’s Funniest Home Videos. In contrast to his family-friendly TV appearances, Saget was also a stand up comedian who famously loved a dirty joke.
After his passing, his former Full House costar John Stamos tweeted, “I am broken. I am gutted. I am in complete and utter shock. I will never ever have another friend like him. I love you so much Bobby.”
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, who played the youngest Tanner daughter, Michelle, on Full House, said in a joint statement, “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. We are thinking of his daughters, wife and family and are sending our condolences.”
Candace Cameron Bure, who played DJ Tanner, tweeted, “I don’t know what to say. I have no words. Bob was one of the best humans beings I’ve ever known in my life. I loved him so much.” She also shared photos of them together on her Instagram, and wrote, “I love you sooooo much. I don’t want to say goodbye. 35 years wasn’t long enough.” Dave Coulier, who played Uncle Joey on the ABC sitcom, wrote, “My heart is broken. I love you, Bob. Your forever brother, Dave.”
Pete Davidson shared a statement via friend and writing partner Dave Sirus’ Instagram. In it he wrote, “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.”
Saget also voiced the older version of Josh Radnor’s Ted on CBS’ How I Met Your Mother. Radnor shared his remembrances of the actor in a long Twitter thread. He wrote in part, “He was the kindest, loveliest, funniest, most supportive man. The easiest person to be around. A mensch among mensches.” Radnor wrote about how Saget supported him and his performance, saying, “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.”
Norman Lear shared a picture of himself with Saget and wrote, “Bob Saget was as lovely a human as he was funny. And to my mind, he was hilarious. We were close friends and I could not have loved him more.”
Kat Dennings, who starred with Saget on the short-lived WB program Raising Dad, said, “Oh god. Bob Saget!!! The loveliest man. I was his TV daughter for one season and he was always so kind and protective. So so sorry for his family.”
Saget and his family also received an outpouring of love from other stand-up comedians, past and present. Whoopi Goldberg wrote, “Sail on my friend Bob Saget With your huge heart and abject lunacy, my condolences to his daughters & other family,” while Jim Carrey said, “Beautiful Bob Saget passed away today at 65. He had a big, big heart and a wonderfully warped comic mind. He gave the world a lot of joy and lived his life for goodness’ sake.”
Other comedians including Gilbert Gottfried, Billy Crystal, Jason Alexander, Judd Apatow, and Ken Jeong also honored Saget online.
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2022 is off to about the start I figured. Jesus. RIP to a legend.
I’M NOT CRYING, YOU’RE CRYINGI’m actually not crying, though this is depressing.
I don’t know how you’d accomplish this but this article reminds me how awesome I have always thought it would be if you could have like an “anti-roast” where you just go on and on about how fucking awesome someone is but not at their death or birthday or when they win an award or are terminally ill. (I actually teared up a little reading how much he helped Pete Davidson and his mom when it looked like Pete might hurt himself.) Just pick someone at random and set up a party and say “be prepared to heap praise and love on person X for a few hours just because they deserve it.” I got the sense Saget was respected and well-regarded in Hollywood but damn, this is above and beyond.
“how awesome I have always thought it would be if you could have like an “anti-roast” where you just go on and on about how fucking awesome someone”
Sounds great. Hopefully EVERYONE in attendance gets cancer of the need-for-attention.
I love that idea!
I thought the same thing as I read this article and the wonderful tributes in it. It made me a little sad that Bob didn’t get to hear these beautiful words firsthand, but if he truly was the great guy that everyone made him out to be, then there’s no doubt in my mind that he knew what his friends and loved ones thought of him.It reminded me of something a close family friend spoke about when his wife was diagnosed with cancer. The outpouring of support was overwhelming, and he even found himself being more affectionate, more openly expressive of appreciation, etc. “It wasn’t that everyone suddenly started loving her more,” he said. “We’d always loved her, but everyone was suddenly less inhibited about how they expressed those feelings.” He went on to encourage us: “Don’t wait until it’s to late to let your loved ones know how you feel.” I forget that sometimes, and tributes like this encourage me to renew my commitment to make it clear just how loved those close to me really are.Now, if you’ll excuse me, someone seems to be chopping onions in my house…
MY mom died after a brutal three week cancer diagnosis from start to finish two weeks ago.Amen to that sentiment my friend. It’s incredibly true.
I’m so sorry to hear that. My heart goes out to you and your family.
You just described “This Is Your Life.”
I think it would be a hard thing to do without it looking like just more insider ass-kissing. There are very few in the entertainment industry that are near- universally loved.
I don’t remember who it was who tweeted it, but after Betty White died, there was a tweet from someone about how “At least Betty knew how much we all loved her…”So it can be done, and without any pretense.
Honestly, I think his actual roast did just that. Not everyone has Bob Saget’s taste in humor, but I’m sure he understood that it was an outpouring of love told through insults (and occasional straight-up love, such as Norm’s closing words).
Albert Brooks tried this recently. Didn’t work out too well.
I’m sure you mean well and all, but that’s just a terrible idea.I’m sure the people that knew Bob and spent time with him and enjoyed his company have pulled him aside, or told him over drinks, something to the tune of:
“Hey Bob, I know we joke around a lot and say some things, but, like, you’re a really good guy. Like, I mean it.”“Come on, man. You don’t need to say that.”“Nah, I’m serious here. I really appreciate you and think of you as a real friend.”“. . .thanks. You’re alright yourself.”Or something to that effect. It’ll be a clumsy, stuttering mess with real emotion behind it.Genuine, heartfelt feelings expressed towards another person is a one-on-one thing shared between two individuals. These actions are not recorded or written down. There’s no tweeting about them or live-streaming them. They’re most likely never brought up again. And that’s how it should be. Having an audience or trying to follow someone else’s heartfelt message would make the whole event extremely awkward for everyone, especially Bob Saget.
Saget did kind of get that at his very own roast, from Norm Macdonald.In all seriousness, Bob was the first comedian that I ever saw perform, when I was boy, live, and I loved him. But one thing that bonds us as comedians is we’re bitter, and jealous, and we hate everyone else that has any success. But Bob, honestly, has never had an unkind word for anybody, and I love him, and I hope everyone else does, so I just wanna say that. Thank you.
Greg Giraldo too, ended with an anti-roast of Saget.
I have a friend that does that, we’ll be out with a group of people and she’ll just randomly single someone out and tell them all the things she loves about them.
Jodie Sweetin wrote a beautiful tribute on Instagram. And how apt the position of his head in relation to the sign behind him in the, ahem, head photo.
My compliments to the photographer – if you’re going to shoot someone in front of a Peacock sign, that’s the way to do it.
Knowing Saget, he probably asked the photog to do that.
R.I.P & cock.
I teared up reading the article and laughed aloud at our comment. Well done.
There’s this old adage about how the actors who play villains are the nicest people in real life, because they have no inner darkness to get in the way of their performance, so they can play absolute bastards without having to hold back.
Bob Saget had the filthiest mouth this side of a slushie made from slurry, and yet by all accounts he was the kindest guy with a love of goodwill to spread around. He will be missed.
Saget was like an uncle or high school teacher you always assumed was really square then turned out to be secretly one of the most funny and awesome adults you knew. Yes he will be missed.
I like to think his last words were “….The Aristocrats”.
Who could have predicted Artie Lange would be the last one standing from Dirty Work?
It’s nice to see the AV Club remembered him with a sign.OF P COCK
I know his wife Kelly, she’s really nice. I didn’t know Saget, but by all accounts he was a genuinely well-liked guy who no one had any sort of serious beef with.
I really wish there was a higher quality version of this on YouTube:
Bob Saget never did anything for me (admittedly, I never saw his standup), but he did have some interesting things to say. That being said, I listened to him recently on Jordan Harbinger’s podcast from a few years ago (https://www.jordanharbinger.com/bob-saget-dirty-daddy/), and what struck me was he was a pretty humble guy who genuinely cared for people he knew. There was a certain zen he imparted when giving this interview that made me suscribe to Saget’s podcast.So seeing this outpour of love and tributes does not surprise me, because he probably imparted a small part of his love to all he knew, and that we should all take something from that.