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
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.
25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him.
If you're a host of a video show and you're on the cleanest show on television for eight years, people want to say, 'Well, that's what that person does.' That was the dilemma for me, career-wise.
The other day my twelve-year-old says to me, I don't feel like I'm with you right now. You're in the car with me, you're checking your e-mail, you're not listening to me, I don't feel like I'm with you. And I say, You know what? That was your mother's gripe, too. And she was right. And you're also correct. When you cop to something, you get to the next level. In this case, the next level is: I just learned something from my twelve-year-old.
Full House was a show that was done for ten-year-olds. The critics hated it. They said terrible, terrible things about it. But it should have been reviewed by ten-year-olds. That's who it was made for. They loved it. And if they loved it, great. Why the hell does a fifty-year-old guy working at a big newspaper have to tell me I'm a piece of crap?
I have the brain of a German Shepherd and the body of a 16-year-old boy; they’re both in my car and I want you to see them
The thing that changed me the most as a person was the play I did in New York,
I can't go back now. I've done it. I've gone and done it.
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,
When I saw the finished product -- I watched it with my manager -- I said I think I should sign it, because it's a funny movie.
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.
Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?