Bob Saget
Bob Saget
Robert Lane "Bob" Saget is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and television host. His television roles include Danny Tanner on the ABC sitcom Full Houseand hosting America's Funniest Home Videos from 1989 to 1997. Saget is also known for his adult-oriented stand-up routine. He also provided the voice of the future Ted Mosby on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother from 2005 to 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth17 May 1956
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
What I've learned about comedy people is that they're defined by the harshest level they've been to, their personal Auschwitz.
I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.
The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.
I think comedy is on an organic upsurge right now because when I started, it was 1978 at The Comedy Store and Letterman had just stopped emceeing his morning show.
The film, as crazy as it is, is a love letter to comedians and comedy and all the different ways they improv around something,
A couple people are absent that I love like Cosby and Seinfeld are not there, for obvious reasons, and Chris Rock doesn't tell the joke.
And there she was. It was like something from an old movie.
The thing that changed me the most as a person was the play I did in New York,
I can't do it. I hurt too badly when I think about the folks hurt by the hurricane, or what the government isn't doing about it,
I can't go back now. I've done it. I've gone and done it.
There was one woman at a press junket before the film was released who was very upset over the things I said, ... And Penn and Paul basically had to say, 'You know Bob's not like that at all.'
It's not the feel-good movie of the year and it's not a woman's film, really. It's a guy's sense of humor, the 15-year-old boy behind the school yard kind of humor, ... Bad, wrong, dirty, ugly, wrong, heeheehee; that's what it is.
Just went to the gym and worked on every body part. Four people slapped me.
The Comedy Store - all three rooms were filled with 800 people in the room. And during that time, all these guys and some women, but mostly guys who weren't funny were doing stand up for a living; they weren't accountants, they were making $30-$50 grand a year on the road, or more.