9 Roles That Reveal Bob Saget’s Disgusting Sense of Humor
In the role of his father’s favorite sitcom 80/90 Danny Tanner Bob Saget with a smile shared useful wisdom, absorbing “ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! At the same time, he hosted America’s Funniest Home Videos , providing funny commentary on user-submitted family movies as if YouTube was only available once a week. These roles earned Saget a reputation as America’s favorite family entertainer, but even then there were indications that he was much more as a performer. His foul-mouthed comedic performances were whispered in playgrounds; In 1998, he made Dirty Job , a raunchy, panned film that has since become a minor cult favorite; he made a brief, memorable cameo in Half Baked as a recovering guy loudly reminding the crowd of what he was doing for cocaine. It’s not unusual for a sitcom star to work on changing his image, and it’s no surprise that the comedian with a predominantly family image has been working to expand his appeal. But it wasn’t so much about the star trying to rebrand, but about the comedian who no longer felt limited by his audience. His nearly 10-minute joke in The Aristocrats , which doesn’t leave a dirty stone unturned or stick it up someone’s ass afterward , proves pretty convincingly that he wasn’t a G-rated guy playing the fool. He was the real deal.
By all accounts, Bob Saget was a model of contrasts: a healthy sitcom father with a dark sense of humor who was also, by all accounts, an incredibly nice person. The secret of comedy is always the surprise; the best jokes seem to lead in one direction, only to end with a punch line no one expected. This ability to surprise and shock – without losing his status as one of America’s favorite TV fathers – has been the secret to an unlikely but impressive career.