…and Bob Saget will be the headlining act.
Saget is living proof that it’s better to be lucky than talented.
I too came in here to point out that Bob Saget sucked dick for cocaine.
For those of you who may miss the reference, he has a cameo in the movie Half Baked which perhaps shows the tip of the iceberg as to what he is capable of.
The scene – Dave Chapelle is going to a rehab meeting because his girlfriend wants him to quit smoking pot. So he is trying to 12 step. Bob is one of the guys there and he lets loose with this (courtesy IMDb):
Which is kind of a shock coming from Bob Saget, knowing nothing about him except Full House and AFHV. For that alone, he wins awesome points (much like Dave Chapelle did with Wayne Brady on his skit comedy – “Does Wayne Brady have to choke a bitch?”)
The only semi-blue joke I ever saw him do on Evening At the Improv was about not liking PE in junior high:
“I didn’t like getting undressed in front of the other boys, but now I don’t mind.”
I used to think that Saget on AFHV told the worst jokes in history.
Until I saw Matt Galant on World’s Funniest Animals (or whatever) on Animal Planet. The poor guy delivers his joke with an honest-to-God “Please, kill me now and release me from this torment” look in his eye.
It’s quite sad to watch, actually.
And that’s not a recent joke- it’s from several years ago!
Oh, and if neccessary I will bump this thread until somebody admits that the joke posted by Revtim, about the newborn daughter, was hilarious! Thanks, Revtim, I hadn’t heard that one but will definitely retell it!
Well allow me to do the honors. It was hilarious.
Have to second. As much as I hate to laugh at Infant Sexual Abuse that joke is damn funny.
Nevertheless, his performance is perfect for the show. Same in Full House. So all in all, he does great. On the other hand, the shows suck.
You do know that you guys are talking about God, right?
I saw him on the Rodney Dangerfield Young Commedians Special they used to play on HBO ad nauseum. He was extraordinarily funny: [from memory] “Well, I just got married.” [“Awwww” from audience.] Yeah, she’s great. She’s six years old. [Gasp!] No, seriously, I’m nuts over her. [Holds hand just under his crotch.] She’s this tall."
“I love my parents. And you can too for just $19.95.”
He also did an uncanny Yogi and Boo-Boo impression, but with profanity. To this day I find excuses to use the phrase “Well uck the ranger, Boo-Boo.”
–Cliffy
A very ashamed third here.
The situation made it even funnier- there Dad is totally wiped out, probably just been through the most gut-wrenching moment of his life, and uses THAT to break the tension!
That is sooooo wrong & THAT is why it’s funny.
Nobody could be as lame as his Full House character. I can totally believe he’s raunchy and funny and cool in real life, and good for him. I hope he laughed all the way to the bank.
Unfunny and unhumorous were the only ones I could think of. Not very fun words though. Maybe that’s the reason Two and a Half Men is so popular…People just can’t think of the word to describe it.
I’ll also chime in with the rest to say Saget’s blue standup is really funny. Mostly (for me) because of the “Can you believe what the dork from Full House is saying!” factor.
Slightly OT anecdote:
I can never hear Full House mentioned without thinking of a bizarre incident from 1991.
I was walking through a residential area on the way to do some grocery shopping. Cutting through a back alley. A guy comes out the back door of one of the houses and starts hurrying over to me. “Excuse me! Excuse me!” (He’s an unkempt looking guy around his late thirties. Asian fella.) Anyway, I stop and see what he’s after, because he has this air of panic about him.
“Do you have a VCR?” “Uh, yeah.” “Can you tape something for me? It’s on tonight and I can’t tape it.”
I’m inclined to help the guy out, because I figure if he’s desperate enough to solicit aid from random strangers walking past his house, it’s got to be something important to him. Maybe his daughter’s piano recital is on community cable or something. I ask him what he needs taped.
“Full House.”
I backed away slowly.
(With hindsight, that story works a lot better with an element of surprise.)
Seriously, though – someone liked that show enough to panic about the possibility of missing it? To run around like Kevin McCarthy at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers? What the hell?
A completely unashamed fourth here.
There is ONE SINGLE measure of a joke: how hard did it make you laugh?
One of my favorite jokes of all time. . .
Rodney Dangerfield: I get a lot of women because of who I am. . .a rapist.
Yeah, right. Because I’m sure he was really renting out his daughter for dollar finger bangs. We can only hope she turns out all right.
Well, maybe he had a relative or friend who was going to appear on it that night.
Am I the only one who remembers Saget from his Morning Show segments? He did some sort of “Today in History” thing for one of the network’s AM shows. Can’t remember which one, though. “This Morning”?
Artie Lange always seems to have good things to say about Saget (he was Artie’s director on Dirty Work).
I trust Artie’s judgement :rolleyes:
I remember watching some of his televised stand-up (clean) years ago, and at the start of his set, he got a laugh. He admonished the crowd: “Please save your laughter 'til the end; it throws off my timing, otherwise!”
I thought that was pretty good…