Bob Saget at The Crest Theater

by Steven Bloom

Comedian Bob Saget

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Saget started performing stand-up comedy and did a number of national tours. Later, in 1987, he became the co-host of The Morning Program; an attempt by CBS to take a different direction with morning television, where he also wrote and produced content for the show.

Soon after, Saget was cast as Danny Tanner in Full House, which became a huge success through family viewers and landed in the Nielsen Ratings’s Top 30 from the third season onward. In 1989, Saget was cast as the host of America’s Funniest Home Videos, which also became a smash hit. During the early 1990s, Saget was quite busy with his career, doing both Full House and AFV simultaneously. In 1995, Full House ended its run after eight years (due to increasing production costs), and Saget continued to host AFV, despite his desire to move on. In 1997, his contract finally expired, and he left the show. His former Full House cast were present at his last episode.

Saget was also host of NBC’s game show 1 vs. 100, which debuted October 13, 2006 , and the uncredited narrator of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, that premiered on September 19, 2005.

His HBO comedy special, That Ain’t Right, came out on DVD on August 28, 2007. It is dedicated to his father, Ben Saget.

He has had recurring roles in HBO’s “Entourage” playing a parody of himself.

Saget appeared in the Broadway musical, “The Drowsy Chaperone,” for a limited four-month engagement. He played, “Man in Chair,” while Jonathon Crombie, who normally played the character on Broadway, was with the national tour of the musical. On January 4, 2008, Saget’s caricature was unveiled at Sardi’s Restaurant.[7]

On August 17, 2008, Saget was roasted by Comedy Central in a special titled The Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget.

In April 2009, he debuted in a new sitcom along with his co-star Cynthia Stevenson on ABC called Surviving Suburbia.[8]

In 1998 Saget played a coke-head in the stoner-comedy classic Half Baked.

In 2006, Jamie Kennedy released a rap song and music video entitled Rollin’ with Saget, which featured Saget and is on his website.

Saget wrote, directed, and stars in Farce of the Penguins, a parody of 2005’s March of the Penguins, that was released direct-to-DVD, in January 2007.

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