Bob Saget

He was simultaneously known for his family-friendly image and his profane comedian persona, with his 2014 album That's What I'm Talkin' About being nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.

• Name — Bob Saget • Birth Name — Robert Lane Saget • Born — 17 May 1956 • Birthplace — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. • Died — 9 January 2022 • Place of death — Orange County, Florida, U.S. • Burial Place — Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery • Education — Temple University (BA) • Children — 3 • Website — bobsaget.com

Robert Lane Saget was born into a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 17, 1956, the son of hospital administrator Rosalyn and supermarket chain executive Benjamin Saget. Benjamin had lost four siblings and four of Bob's own siblings died prematurely as well. Early in his life, his family moved to Norfolk, Virginia, where he briefly attended Lake Taylor High School. He later said that his sense of humor developed while he was a rebellious student at the Conservative synagogue Temple Israel in Norfolk. Due to a lack of family in Norfolk, he returned to Philadelphia for his bar mitzvah. The family later moved from Norfolk to the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, where Saget met Larry Fine of The Three Stooges and listened to him tell stories. The family then moved back to the Philadelphia area prior to his senior year, and he graduated from Abington Senior High School. Saget originally intended to become a doctor, but his Honors English teacher saw his creative potential and urged him to pursue an acting career. Saget attended Temple University's film school, where he created Through Adam's Eyes, a black-and-white film about a boy who received reconstructive facial surgery; he received an award of merit in the Student Academy Awards. While attending university, he took the train to New York City and performed at comedy clubs such as The Improv and Catch a Rising Star; his act included a section where he played the Beatles song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", using a water bottle to make his guitar appear to actually weep. He graduated from Temple with a BA in 1978. He intended to take graduate courses at the University of Southern California, but quit after only a few days. He later described himself at that time as a "cocky, overweight 22-year-old" who "had a gangrenous appendix taken out, almost died, [and] got over being cocky or overweight". He further discussed his burst appendix on Anytime with Bob Kushell, revealing that it happened on the Fourth of July at the UCLA Medical Center, and that surgeons put ice on the area for seven hours before taking his appendix out and finding that it had become gangrenous.

• Illustration — Saget with Rolland Smith, Mariette Hartley, and Mark McEwen in 1987 Following a short stint as a member of CBS' The Morning Program in early 1987, Saget was cast as Danny Tanner in Full House, which became a success with family viewers, and landed in the Nielsen ratings' Top 30 beginning with season three. In 1989, Saget began as the host of America's Funniest Home Videos, a role he held until 1997. During the early 1990s, Saget worked on both Full House and AFV simultaneously. In 2009, he returned to AFV for the 20th-anniversary one-hour special co-hosted with Tom Bergeron. • Illustration — Saget acting as Danny Tanner on Full House Saget directed the 1996 ABC television film For Hope, which was inspired by the life story of his sister, Gay Saget, who had died from scleroderma three years earlier. In 1998, he directed his first feature film, Dirty Work, starring Norm Macdonald and Artie Lange. Released one year after he left his role as host of America's Funniest Home Videos, the film received broadly negative reviews from critics and earned low box office returns. However, it has since become a cult favorite, due partially to Artie Lange's later popularity on The Howard Stern Show where the film is sometimes mentioned, often in unflattering terms. In 1998, Saget made a cameo appearance as a cocaine addict in the stoner comedy Half Baked. In 2001, Saget took on another widowed-dad role, starring on Raising Dad on The WB. It co-starred Kat Dennings, Brie Larson, and Jerry Adler and lasted only one season, from October 5, 2001, to May 10, 2002. He served as the voice of the future Ted Mosby, who narrated the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which ran for nine seasons from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014. He was host of the NBC game show 1 vs. 100 from 2006 to 2008. His HBO comedy special, That Ain't Right, came out on DVD on August 28, 2007. It is dedicated to his father, Ben Saget, who died at age 89 on January 30, 2007, due to complications from congestive heart failure. From 2005 to 2010, Saget had a recurring role in four episodes of the HBO TV series Entourage playing a parody version of himself. He later appeared in the 2015 feature film based on the series. 2005 also saw him partake in "Rollin' with Saget", a song by Jamie Kennedy and Stuart Stone, about a night out with him that shows off his raunchier behaviors. The video appeared on the MTV series Blowin' Up, and he came to use it as a pseudo-theme song on his stand-up tours and website. • Illustration — Saget during the 2006 Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour Saget wrote, directed, and starred in Farce of the Penguins, a parody of 2005's March of the Penguins, which was released direct-to-DVD, in January 2007. Saget appeared in the Broadway musical The Drowsy Chaperone for a limited four-month engagement. He played "Man in Chair" while Jonathan Crombie, who normally played the character on Broadway, was with the national tour of the musical. On January 4, 2008, Saget's caricature was unveiled at Sardi's Restaurant. In April 2009, he debuted in a new sitcom along with his co-star Cynthia Stevenson on ABC called Surviving Suburbia. The series, which was originally slated to air on The CW, ended after a single abbreviated season. In 2010, Saget starred in the A&E series Strange Days, in which he followed others in different activities and lifestyles, documenting their adventures in unusual ways. In 2014, his book Dirty Daddy was released, in which he writes about his career, comedy influences, and experiences with life and death. He embarked on a small tour in support of the book, including the Pemberton Music Festival, where he introduced Snoop Dogg prior to performing his own set. In the same year, he toured Australia for the first time with a stand-up show called Bob Saget Live: The Dirty Daddy Tour. The show was performed in the major cities of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Perth. In 2015 and 2016, he guest-starred in two episodes of Grandfathered, starring and produced by his Full House co-star John Stamos. From 2016 to 2020, Saget reprised his role as Danny Tanner for fifteen episodes of Full House sequel series, Fuller House, including the series premiere and finale. In 2017, he released another stand-up special, Bob Saget: Zero to Sixty. In 2019, he was announced as host of ABC's Videos After Dark. Saget also hosted the game show Nashville Squares on CMT, and made his first of three appearances as a panelist on To Tell the Truth. In 2020, Saget competed in season four of The Masked Singer as "Squiggly Monster". Saget also launched a podcast titled Bob Saget's Here for You with Studio71. Its 130th and final episode, with comedian Dane Cook, was released posthumously on January 31, 2022. He also made an appearance on Nikki Glaser's E! series Welcome Home Nikki Glaser? in an episode that aired on June 5, 2022.

Saget married Sherri Kramer in 1982, and they had three daughters before divorcing in 1997. He was later married to television presenter Kelly Rizzo from 2018 until his death in 2022. Saget was a board member of the Scleroderma Research Foundation. His efforts benefited celebrities such as actress Regina Hall. In an interview with Ability, he discussed how his sister was diagnosed with scleroderma at 43 and died at 47. She had previously been misdiagnosed numerous times.

At about 4 p.m. EST on January 9, 2022, Saget was found dead in his room at a Ritz-Carlton hotel near Williamsburg in Orange County, Florida. At the time of his death, Saget was on a stand-up tour and had performed in Ponte Vedra Beach the previous evening. An autopsy report released on February 9 found that Saget had blunt head trauma from an accidental blow to the back of his head, most likely from a fall, and had subsequently died from the resulting injuries (subdural hematoma and subarachnoid hemorrhage) in his sleep. He was infected with COVID-19 at the time, though there were no signs that it played a role in his death. His funeral took place on January 14, and he was buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park near the graves of his parents and sister. On February 15, Saget's family sued to prevent county officials from releasing additional documents from the investigation of his death, arguing that their graphic content would present privacy violations. On March 14, a permanent injunction was issued against releasing the documents.

• Year — Title — Notes • 1990 — Bob Saget: In the Dream State Comedy Special — Himself • 2007 — That Ain't Right — Writer • 2013 — That's What I'm Talkin' About — * Writer and producer * Nominated – Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album • 2017 — Zero to Sixty — Writer

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1981 — Bosom Buddies — Bob the Comic — Episode: "The Show Must Go On" • 1983 — Rook — Episode: "Wizards and Warlocks" • 1985 — New Love, American Style — Various — 4 episodes • 1986 — It's a Living — Dr. Bartlett — Episode: "The Doctor Danny Show" • 1987–1995 — Full House — Danny Tanner — Main role; 192 episodes • 1989–1997 — America's Funniest Home Videos — Himself/host — 191 episodes, guest-hosted 2 episode in 2009 and in 2019; cameo in 2015 • 1989 — Danny Tanner — Episode: "Guest Day" • 1992 — Quantum Leap — Macklyn "Mack" MacKay — Episode: "Stand Up – April 30, 1959" • 1992 — To Grandmother's House We Go — Win-O-Lotto Lottery Host — Movie; uncredited • 1994 — Father and Scout — Spencer Paley — Movie; also executive producer • 1995 — Saturday Night Live — Himself (host) — Episode: "Bob Saget/TLC" • 1996 — For Hope — Movie; director and executive producer • 1997 — Jitters — Movie; director • 2000 — Becoming Dick — Bob — Movie (uncredited); also director • 2000 — Mr. Atkitson — Episode: "Norm vs. Schoolin'"; also director • 2001–2002 — Raising Dad — Matt Stewart — 22 episodes • 2004 — Joey — Himself — Episode: "Joey and the Road Trip" • 2004 — Huff — Butch — Episode: "Flashpants" • 2005 — Listen Up — Mitch — Episode: "Coach Potato" • 2005–2010 — Entourage — Himself — 4 Episodes • 2005–2014 — How I Met Your Mother — Ted Mosby (in 2030) — 208 episodes; Voice-over narration • 2006–2008 — 1 vs. 100 — Himself/host — Game show (28 episodes) • 2006 — Casper's Scare School — Dash (voice) — Movie; voice role • 2006 — Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Glenn Cheales — Episode: "Choreographed" • 2008 — Party Marty — Episode: "Mugger/Cin City"; voice role • 2008 — Himself — Special • 2009 — Surviving Suburbia — Steve Patterson — 13 episodes • 2010 — Strange Days with Bob Saget — Himself/host — 6 episodes • 2011 — Law & Order: LA — Adam Brennan — Episode: "Van Nuys" • 2011 — Louie — Himself — Episode: "Oh Louie/Tickets" • 2014 — Super Fun Night — Mr. Porter Warner — Episode: "Cookie Prom" • 2014 — Legit — Himself — Episode: "Licked" • 2015, 2016 — Grandfathered — Himself/ Ronnie — Episode: "Pilot"/ Episode: "The Sat Pack" • 2016 — Robot Chicken — Mike O'Malley, Galactus, Cable Guy (voices) — Episode: "The Unnamed One" • 2016–2020 — Fuller House — Danny Tanner — Recurring role; 15 episodes • 2017 — Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special — Himself — Variety special • 2017 — Nightcap — Himself — Episode: "Bringing Up Baby" • 2018 — Richie Knight — Episode: "Did the TV Star Do It?" • 2018 — Shameless — Father D'Amico — Episode: "Face It, You're Gorgeous" • 2018 — Bumping Mics with Jeff Ross & Dave Attell — Himself — 1 episode • 2019 — Videos After Dark — Himself/host — 2 episodes • 2019 — Historical Roasts — Abraham Lincoln — Episode: "Abraham Lincoln" • 2019 — Nashville Squares — Himself/host — 10 episodes • 2019–2021 — To Tell the Truth — Himself — 3 episodes • 2020 — Squiggly Monster — Eliminated after second appearance • 2021 — Nickelodeon's Unfiltered — Himself — Episode: "Dreaming of an Awful Waffle!" • 2022 — Phat Tuesdays: The Era Of Hip Hop Comedy — Himself — Documentary series; posthumous release • 2022 — Welcome Home Nikki Glaser? — Himself — Episode: "Love Shack Baby?"; posthumous release

Saget, Bob. Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian. 2014: It Books..

Bob Saget was recorded at birth as Robert Lane Saget. The authorities additionally record the headings Robert Saget and Robert Lane Saget. His recorded language was English. His recorded confession was Judaism. He married Sherri Kramer Saget and Kelly Rizzo.