And he offered what could have been his own parting words in the book's introduction. In his memoir, Saget said jokes have helped him deal with tragedy. His sister, Gay Saget, died of the disease in her 40s. Saget also advocated for people facing scleroderma, a chronic autoimmune disease. Saget's 2014 comedy album That's What I'm Talkin' About was nominated for a Grammy. comedy clubs and whirled off with an adolescent's delight about my grandma's projectile diarrhea." Then, often in the same day, I've gone onstage in the L.A. "By day I've done some of the most family-friendly TV imaginable. "In my career I've had the fortune of being able to work continually in radically diverse creative worlds," he wrote.
His jokes were known to be dirty - a marked contrast to his Full House character's loving and wholesome father persona. Saget was a stand-up comedian as well, having started at age 17, he wrote in his 2014 memoir Dirty Daddy. His stand-up comedy was the opposite of his wholesome on-screen persona
Saget also had credits as a director, with his most notable being the cult favorite movie Dirty Work from 1998 with Norm Macdonald. I loved him and was so lucky to work with someone so funny, soulful and kind," said How I Met Your Mother co-creator Craig Thomas. "I don't even know what to say about Bob Saget.
TV producer Norman Lear said Saget was a close friend who "was as lovely a human as he was funny. I love you so much Bobby," wrote John Stamos, a Full House co-star. I will never ever have another friend like him. Tributes poured in on social media from Saget's co-stars and friends. And Saget often played himself or parodies of himself in one-time or recurring roles in TV shows and movies. He was also the narrator on the show How I Met Your Mother from 2005 to 2014 and reprised the Danny Tanner role on the Netflix reboot Fuller House between 20. Saget was a prominent presence on American television screens throughout the 1990s as the father Danny Tanner on Full House and the host of America's Funniest Home Videos. Saget was on tour and had done a show near Jacksonville a day earlier.
Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case," the sheriff's office said.
"The man was identified as Robert Saget & pronounced deceased on scene. The Orange County Sheriff's Office in Florida said deputies were called to the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando on Sunday after an unresponsive man was found in a hotel room. Actor, comedian and director Bob Saget has died at age 65.