# RIP Bob Saget **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [January 10, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492 "2022-01-10T00:45:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/41 "2022-01-10T18:06:45Z")
I’m not in the best place to look it up now, but there’s a YouTube video out there of the pilot both with the original actor and Bob Saget playing the same scenes as Danny Tanner. Bob does a much more better job in terms of bringing humanity and relatability to the character, where the original actor played it in more of a typical sitcom dad manner. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/42 "2022-01-10T18:30:44Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > He was in an episode of the short lived show Huff (with Hank Azaria, Paget Brewster, Blythe Danner and Oliver Platt amongst others). > He played a character with a wholesome public persona who was also an actor most known for his leading role in a show called “America’s Favorite Dad”. However he’s an alcoholic and a trope-y coke head\*. > > \*I’m not making this up, right? Does anyone else remember it? I’m surprised I couldn’t find a video or picture of him on the show. I don’t remember this show. I am pretty sure they played up this part of his persona on _Entourage_, though. Are you remembering correctly? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/43 "2022-01-10T18:34:46Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > \*I’m not making this up, right? Does anyone else remember it? I’m surprised I couldn’t find a video or picture of him on the show. [He was indeed in one episode of Huff.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409570/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_38) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/44 "2022-01-10T18:55:09Z")
That part I got, I was just surprised I couldn’t find a clip of the episode. However, I did find a [few](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-played-a-fictionalized-version-of-themselves/507911/31) [posts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-thoughts-on-bob-saget/308848/11) on the board that mentioned it. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/45 "2022-01-10T19:02:49Z")
Definitely sad because his standup was pretty solid and he seemed to be unusually well-liked by a broad spectrum of the comedy world. I have to hope though, that his spending decades on hacky, lowest-common-denominator network slush was (in his mind, at least) getting away with something and not just an endless paycheck gig. Because those shows are just so painfully saccharine and awful. (not including How I Met Your Mother in that, I hasten to add) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/46 "2022-01-10T21:38:30Z")
> [@veryfrank](#): > > he seemed to be unusually well-liked by a broad spectrum of the comedy world. I’ve seen a lot of celebrity reactions by people who knew him, and the word that keeps coming up is “kind.” He was apparently a genuinely good guy. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/47 "2022-01-10T22:24:08Z")
Saget’s last performance was ~1 mile from my house. Had I known he was booked there, I’d have gone. Bob was an entertaining fellow, and he seemed like a genuinely nice guy. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/48 "2022-01-10T23:15:25Z")
> [@Tibby](#): > > …Bob was an entertaining fellow, and he seemed like a genuinely nice guy… Almost every message about him includes references to how nice he was. It’s great to hear about someone. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/49 "2022-01-10T23:56:42Z")
Bob’s wife, Kelly Rizzo is 23 years younger than him. Married in 2018. > **[Bob Saget’s wife and family are ‘devastated’ after his sudden death](https://pagesix.com/2022/01/09/bob-sagets-family-speaks-out-on-his-sudden-death/)** > > The “Full House” actor died at age 65 on Sunday.  ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/50 "2022-01-11T00:16:32Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > No one else could straddle the worlds of raunchy adult comedy and sugar-sweet family comedy better then him. Could anybody else do it at all? ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/51 "2022-01-11T00:51:27Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Could anybody else do it at all? Not quite the same, but the TV show _Sanford and Son_ was clean, family entertainment, but Redd Foxx’s nightclub act was quite blue. Funny guy! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/52 "2022-01-11T00:58:24Z")
Long ago, when the kids were babies, I’d stay up all night watching TV. Sometimes I’d stay up late enough to catch the Straight Dope show. But I’d always at least see Evening at the Improv. One night, a guy was on doing a routine about how bands should tour together based on their names, like Bread and Meatloaf, or Madonna and Supertramp. I thought it was so clever I stayed up until the wee hours to record the second showing. And I just now made the connection as to who that guy was. 😔 wish I could find a link. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/53 "2022-01-11T01:05:04Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Almost every message about him includes references to how nice he was. It’s great to hear about someone. Absolutely. I’ve never seen a single episode of either “Full House” or the home videos show, but at one point I happened to see his 2007 stand-up special (made by HBO, I believe) “That Ain’t Right,” and instantly became a fan. Since then I’ve watched anything in which Bob was playing himself—doing other stand-up and roasts and such. Such sad news. You can tell from the obvious sincerity of the celebrity tributes that he was genuinely loved. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/54 "2022-01-11T01:23:47Z")
Bob recently recovered from covid. I wonder if it contributed to heart problems? I’m just looking for answers. It’ll be interesting to see what’s in the coroner report. > **[Bob Saget revealed he recently had COVID-19: ‘It does not feel good’](https://pagesix.com/2022/01/10/bob-saget-revealed-he-recently-had-covid-19/)** > > “I don’t know if I had Delta or … I might have had a combo,” Saget revealed. “Maybe at one point they \[Delta and Omicron\] were working together.” > **[Heart Problems after COVID-19](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/heart-problems-after-covid19)** > > Chest pain, shortness of breath and palpitations can persist after COVID-19. Are they heart related? A cardiologist provides perspective. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/55 "2022-01-11T01:47:18Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I just now made the connection as to who that guy was. 😔 wish I could find a link. …was it Mark Pitta? ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/56 "2022-01-11T01:50:43Z")
My dad had an old Redd Foxx LP. I’d call it raunchy at the worst. Saget could get downright filthy. Not knocking him, just saying Foxx wasn’t in the same league. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/57 "2022-01-11T02:42:28Z")
You weren’t listening to the right Redd Fox LP unless it was in a plain brown wrapper and kept behind the counter at the record store. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/58 "2022-01-11T22:39:21Z")
Buddy Hackett? Played childlike characters in the movies, but was known for adult themed nightclub gigs. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/59 "2022-01-12T01:02:06Z")
Bob Saget and Norm McDonald were good friends and I listened to this entire (37 mins!) long tribute to Norm by Bob not even 4 months ago. It’s really from a podcast but video here are some nice photos in the montage. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yEYu-7BkNDM/maxresdefault.jpg "Remembering Norm") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEYu-7BkNDM) I also came across this photo and tweet from Tim Allen: [“Miss the ones who have moved to a higher venue.”](https://i.redd.it/uyl83z25m3b81.jpg) [![](https://i.redd.it/uyl83z25m3b81.jpg) ](https://i.redd.it/uyl83z25m3b81.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492/60 "2022-01-13T01:52:38Z")
To which Jon Lovitz replies, “Whatsamatter, Tim, you don’t miss me?” Seriously, though, the number of belly laughs the guys in that picture have given me… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bob-saget/957492.md?page=4)