Saget called this trait his “sick silliness.” In his 2014 autobiography, Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian, he wrote, “I never do it to shock anyone, even though people have sometimes thought of me as a shock comic … It’s not something I’m proud of. But at moments his stand-up personality poked through, like the time a donkey accidentally became aroused during taping, and he kept calling the animal “pepper mill”-referring to its erection-in front of the entire cast, children and all.
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How could the father who helped his daughters navigate questions about body image and boyfriends also be the comic who joked about copulating with a goat? Saget mostly kept it clean for the young actors he worked with on Full House. Whether you knew him pre– or post– Full House, Saget’s duality was sometimes bewildering. He was one of the guys audiences could “root for.” Saget was an “everyman,” according to Franklin. Franklin knew about Saget’s ribald comedic style, but he also saw something universal in him.
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Full House’s creator, Jeff Franklin, first became friends with Saget when the budding comic warmed up studio audiences for the short-lived 1980s series Bosom Buddies. Saget’s dichotomy perhaps even helped him land the role of Tanner. “But your mind goes sometimes to dirty places.” “You’re a good guy,” Conan O’Brien once told him. Many entertainers have played against type or shirked the roles that made them famous, but Saget was a lesson in authentic complexity. Yet those two sides of Saget, who died yesterday at 65, were what made him so compelling. Inspired by free-speaking legends such as Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, and George Carlin, Saget often worked blue, crowding his sets with filthy innuendo and Rabelaisian wit. Speaking about living in California, Saget said with a smirk, “I’m scared there’s going to be, like, a major quake, and I’ll be getting a vasectomy at the time … It was a 7.3, but now it’s a 4.1.” Saget’s dirty lines couldn’t have been further from Tanner’s persona, or from his later role as the host of America’s Funniest Home Videos, a show that used dad jokes to stitch together clips of unintentional crotch punches. Though his role as Danny Tanner-that affectionate, straitlaced father to three young girls-would eventually define his acting career, his stand-up set showcased a much bawdier side. Saget’s death came as a shock to the world, including Mayer, who took to Instagram to share how devastated he was at losing his good friend.Two years before the beloved family sitcom Full House began airing on ABC, Bob Saget appeared on HBO’s The Ninth Annual Young Comedians Special. “I’m very lucky.” The singer set up a way for fans to donate to Bob Saget’s favorite charity “He’s just one of my dearest friends,” the comedian added. When Mayer returned to Los Angeles, he attempted stand-up comedy and joined Saget at the Laugh Factory. So, instead, the singer sent Saget a video of himself performing one of his favorite songs.
Mayer was on tour at the time and couldn’t attend. And in 2006, the comic reached out to the musician to perform for his scleroderma benefit. In a 2019 interview with Chicks in the Office, Saget revealed he was a fan of Mayer’s work. Mayer is a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter who has released hit tracks like “Daughters” and “Waiting on the World to Change.” Saget was an actor and stand-up comedian known for his role as Danny Tanner in the ‘90s sitcom Full House. Bob Saget and John Mayer | Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images