bob saget
we all remember danny tanner from “full house.” what about the man behind him? the washington post has a pretty interesting story/interview with bob saget. some excerpts:
Question: It was hard, wasn’t it, all those years, the double life, the lies, being this incredibly raunchy comic while playing this little goody-two-shoes on “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos”?
“I was psycho. I was psycho!” Saget says — and off he goes. “I literally would — you won’t even want to print this, but I went to Disneyland last night with John Stamos, Dave Coulier and Lori Loughlin. We all went together, with our girlfriends and her husband.”
Stamos, Coulier and Loughlin were actors on “Full House.” They remain close friends, the kind of friends who visit Disneyland together as adults. Saget says, “Everybody was looking at us, you know? We’re walking around, and we’re acting stupid. You know, people were like walking away from us, like we’re characters, Disney characters. The kids are coming over to us. What the hell are all the grown-ups from ‘Full House’ doing there?”
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John Stamos phones us later. He hasn’t seen the HBO special yet but asks if his dear friend Bob includes the bit about them having, ummmm, what? There’s not even a euphemism. “About Bob being a real pain the neck?” Stamos suggests.
Anyway. “He is this hilarious pervert,” Stamos confirms. “But he’s this hilarious pervert with a heart of gold.” Stamos describes Saget as “the greatest guy I know.” They love each other. Like brothers. “He could have been washed away like a lot of other TV dads,” Stamos says of Saget/Tanner. “But he’s come back.”
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He was invited recently to perform at Harvard University for the Lampoon staff. “We did a 20-minute ‘Full House’ sketch, the filthy lost episodes. Filthy. Filthy. Filthy. And I did 30 minutes of filthy stand-up. It was the first time I sang ‘Danny Tanner Was Not Gay,’ to the Backstreet Boys tune. It was parody,” he says. “You know, it was a kind of a cathartic thing.”
matt @ 1:35 pm on 8/24/07