Beneath Bob Saget's nice-guy tv demeanor lurked a wickedly humorous, typically risque, humorist.
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Bob Saget’s stunning demise is a reminder of life’s fragility as we mourn the passing of a triple-threat expertise who was cool sufficient to allow us to in on the joke: that beneath his nice-guy tv demeanor lurked a wickedly humorous, typically risque, humorist who seen life by way of a prism of honesty and pleasure.
Saget, who died Sunday in a Florida lodge room on the too-young age of 65, not solely co-starred as dad Danny Tanner within the iconic, family-friendly sitcom, “Full Home,” and, 20 years later, its streaming revival, “Fuller Home,” however spent eight years internet hosting the granddaddy of actuality reveals, “America’s Funniest Residence Movies” and voiced Ted Mosby on “How I Met Your Mom.”
All this whereas by no means abandoning his past love, stand-up comedy, with a reducing act that countered his comfortable-shoe on-camera persona. He garnered a Grammy nomination in 2014 for Finest Comedy Album (“That’s What I’m Talkin’ About”); Don Rickles, no slouch within the comedy division, was amongst his largest followers. And the way ironic that he died within the midst of a nationwide comedy tour – and on the day the Golden Globes have been ready to steal the leisure headlines.
Someplace, he’s gotta be laughing at his cosmic ultimate joke.
Looking back, and with a hindsight apparent solely after such a tragedy, comes the belief that the tv trade by no means gave Bob Saget his due, no less than when it comes to essential validation. He garnered one nomination in his nearly-40-year-career, a TV Land Award in 2004 for “Full Home” — and that was 9 years after the collection ended its unique run on ABC.
Then once more, as he would have instructed you himself, awards are simply items of hardware or shlocky plastic; they don’t measure a performer’s reputation or their influence on a medium. When all was stated and executed, Saget didn't want any statues to show how a lot he meant to viewers and to his legion of followers, who would have watched him open an envelope if it meant the prospect to see him in motion. That’s how a lot they liked him. And he by no means took that with no consideration.
So now the world of tv and stand-up comedy and everybody who knew Bob Saget personally or professionally will mourn his passing in equal measure. And whereas his demise is a monumental loss, we are going to, after a while has handed, look again and suppose: how stunning it was that, all through the years and his numerous iterations on tv and on this planet of stand-up comedy, Bob Saget invited us into the totally different elements of his skilled life with a twinkle in his eye and an arch of the eyebrow that stated, “Be a part of the social gathering and have a great time.”
We did. But it surely ended too quickly.
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