Bob Saget, the beloved TV Dad from ‘Full House,’ has died at the age of 65.
Bob Saget, the actor-comedian best known for his performances as Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House” and as the wisecracking host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” has died, according to Florida officials. At the time, he was 65 yrs old.
Deputies in Orange County, Florida, were alerted about an “unresponsive guy” in a hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando on Sunday, and found Saget dead, according to a sheriff’s post on Twitter. “In this case, there were no indicators of foul play or drug use,” cops added.
The “I Don’t Do Negative Comedy Tour” brought Saget to Florida. He celebrated online after receiving enthusiastic applause at his performances in Orlando on Friday and the Ponte Vedra Beach vacation area on Saturday.
“I’m back in comedy, just like when I was 26.” “I think I’m discovering my new voice and loving every minute of it,” he wrote on Instagram on Saturday.
Saget was recognized not only for his wit but also for his generosity, by fellow comedians and friends.
“I’m shattered. I’m devastated. I’m in a state of complete and total disbelief. “I will never have another buddy like him,” John Stamos, who co-starred with Saget on “Full House,” tweeted. “Bobby, I adore you,” I say.
Saget was “as nice a human as he was hilarious,” according to Norman Lear, who considered him a close friend. And he was, in my opinion, hilarious.”
“He was historically not only hilarious, but more importantly one of the nicest human beings I ever encountered in my career,” actor Richard Lewis wrote on Twitter.
A request for a response from Saget’s representative was not immediately returned.
Saget’s dark side was revealed in a much-talked-about cameo in the 2005 documentary “The Aristocrats,” in which 100 comedians riffed on the world’s dirtiest joke, revealing his notoriously filthy sense of humor.
Saget, the long-running host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” portrayed a squeaky-clean widower and father to three young kids on “Full House,” the ABC sitcom that also made Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen famous when it premiered in 1987.
The show’s popularity didn’t deter detractors, who labeled it as corny and unrealistic. In an interview, Saget was as affable and witty as he was on TV screens, and he took the jabs in stride.
“‘Full House’ was a warm and fuzzy program, but it was clearly over the top. In 2001, he observed, “It had its heightened reality, a shiny ‘Willy Wonka’ aspect to it.”
Saget tried again the following year in the short-lived sitcom “Raising Dad,” playing a widower father with endearing children.
He was frequently asked about his propensity of playing sitcom widowers, to which he had a quick response: “(Kevin) Costner makes three, four baseball movies and that’s OK.” That’s my justification.”
Saget has dabbled in directing, with credits including HBO’s “The Mind of the Married Man” and Norm Macdonald’s “Dirty Work.”
He received accolades as the producer-director of the 1996 television film “For Hope,” which was partially based on his late sister Gay’s battle with the tissue disease scleroderma, and he advocated for additional federal research funding.
In a January 2020 post, he honored his sister, noting that she died when she was 47 and would have turned 73 that month.
Before divorcing in 1997, Saget had three daughters with his first wife Sherri Kramer: Aubrey, Lara, and Jennifer. In 2018, he married Kelly Rizzo.
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