Bob Saget, beloved TV dad of ‘Full House,’ lifeless at 65

By Associated Press

LOS ANGELES: Bob Saget, the actor-comedian identified for his function as beloved single dad Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House” and because the wisecracking host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” has died, in response to authorities in Florida. He was 65.

Deputies in Orange County, Florida, had been referred to as Sunday about an “unresponsive man” in a lodge room on the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando and located Saget lifeless, in response to a sheriff’s assertion on Twitter. Detectives discovered “no signs of foul play or drug use in this case.”

Saget was in Florida as a part of his “I Don’t Do Negative Comedy Tour.” After heat viewers receptions to his gigs Friday in Orlando and Saturday within the Ponte Vedra Beach resort space, he celebrated on-line.

“I’m again in comedy like I used to be after I was 26. I assume I’m discovering my new voice and loving each second of it,” he posted Saturday on Instagram.

Fellow comedians and mates praised Saget not just for his wit however his kindness.

“I am broken. I am gutted. I am in complete and utter shock. I will never ever have another friend like him,” wrote John Stamos, who co-starred with Saget on “Full House.” “I love you so much Bobby.”

“I’ve no phrases. Bob was probably the greatest human beings I’ve ever identified in my life. I beloved him a lot,” said Candace Cameron Bure, who played Saget’s daughter on “Full House.”

“In often a ruthless business he was historically not just hilarious but more importantly one of the kindest human beings I ever met in my career,” actor Richard Lewis wrote on Twitter.

In an announcement Sunday, Saget’s members of the family mentioned they’re “devastated to verify that our beloved Bob handed away at present…. Though we ask for privateness presently, we invite you to hitch us in remembering the love and laughter that Bob delivered to the world.”

Saget the stand-up confirmed his flip aspect with what develop into a much-talked-about cameo within the 2005 documentary “The Aristocrats” — through which 100 comics riffed on the world’s dirtiest joke — that exposed his notoriously filthy sense of humour.

It stayed undercover on community TV, each because the longtime host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and as the squeaky clean widower and father to three young girls on “Full House,” the ABC sitcom that additionally introduced fame to Olsen twins Mary-Kate and Ashley when it debuted in 1987.

The present’s reputation did not deter critics, some calling it tacky and others deeming it unreal. Saget, as amiable and droll in an interview as he was on TV screens, took the brickbats in stride.

“‘Full House’ was a loving kind of show but obviously over the top. It had its heightened reality, a glossy Willy Wonka quality to it,” he informed The Associated Press in a 2001 interview.

That yr, Saget took one other go at taking part in a widowed dad with winsome children on the short-lived sitcom “Raising Dad.”

He mentioned he discovered himself repeatedly fielding questions on his behavior of taking part in sitcom widowers, and had a prepared response: ”(Kevin) Costner does three, 4 baseball motion pictures and that’s OK. There’s my rationale.”

He centered sometimes on directing through the years, together with on HBO’s “The Mind of the Married Man,” and the Norm Macdonald movie “Dirty Work.”

He drew reward as producer-director of the 1996 TV movie “For Hope,” loosely based mostly on the battle of his late sister, Gay, with the tissue illness scleroderma, and appealed for elevated federal assist for analysis funds.

He remembered his sister in a January 2020 publish, noting that she died when she was 47 and would have been 73 that month.

Saget had daughters Aubrey, Lara and Jennifer with first spouse Sherri Kramer earlier than divorcing in 1997. He married Kelly Rizzo in 2018.