RIP Bob Saget

[xenon]

@jon-nyc said in RIP Bob Saget:

I confess I don’t know who he is.

That's really interesting. Between being a prime time TV show host and main character in one of the big 90's sitcoms - he must have been on TV ads all the time.

Maybe you didn't watch a lot of TV in the 90s (I was a kid - that's all I did... I guess I don't really know any of the big network TV stars of today).

[Ivorythumper]

@89th said in RIP Bob Saget:

You'd have to imagine drugs were involved.

kinda my first thought, but the press release was "no foul play, and no evidence of drugs".

[Mik]

@ivorythumper said in RIP Bob Saget:

@89th said in RIP Bob Saget:

You'd have to imagine drugs were involved.

kinda my first thought, but the press release was "no foul play, and no evidence of drugs".

Yeah, I suspect not. More likely just stress and genetics.

[Jolly]

Guys drop dead with MI's everyday.

[Jolly]

Don't know if it was a factor, but...

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bob-saget-spoke-covid-before-death

[Copper]

The vaccine probably got him

[George K]

Wow...

[Larry]

I never found Saget to be funny. Not even a little. I'm sorry to hear that he died, but why is he getting so much mention when so many celebrities died in 2021.

Charles Grodin
Christopher Plummer
Cicely Tyson
Cloris Leachman
Donald Rumsfeld
George Segal Jr.
Hal Holbrook
Jackie Mason
Larry King
Leon Spinks
Ned Beatty
Olympia Dukakis
Robert Downey Sr
Saginaw Grant
William Smith
B. J. Thomas
Charlie Watts
Dustin Diamond (Screech form "saved by the bell")
Ed Asner
Gavin McLeod
Hank Aaron
Markie Post

Being just a few...

[George K]

Because he was the "Dad" on Full House.

However, the reporting of the deaths of others has not been minimal, look at Charlie Watts, Rumsfeld, Leachman. There was a lot of it.

[xenon]

@larry He was big with millennials. He was the archetypical 90's dad. Full house is a pretty bad show - but almost everyone my age watched it growing up.

I don't think I've ever seen his stand-up. He wasn't even funny on Full House.

[George K]

@xenon seek out The Aristocrats.

With no kids in the room, to be sure.

YouTube has a South Park version of the joke too.

[Copper]

Ed Asked

Asner?

[Larry]

@copper said in RIP Bob Saget:

Ed Asked

Asner?

Yes... sorry lol

Autocorrect isn't worth a shirt....

[Aqua Letifer]

@xenon said in RIP Bob Saget:

@larry He was big with millennials. He was the archetypical 90's dad. Full house is a pretty bad show - but almost everyone my age watched it growing up.

I don't think I've ever seen his stand-up. He wasn't even funny on Full House.

Don't forget America's Funniest. He was the host of that torrible show as well.

[Larry]

@george-k said in RIP Bob Saget:

Wow...

Maybe Saget was thought to be funny because he hung out with comedians..

[Mik]

He was a host on CBS' The Morning Show many years ago. I liked him in that setting. Long before Full House and all that crap.

[LuFins Dad]

Evidently he suffered head trauma? Slipped and hit his head? Then went to sleep with a concussion.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1079747879/bob-saget-death-cause

[89th]

@larry said in RIP Bob Saget:

I never found Saget to be funny. Not even a little. I'm sorry to hear that he died, but why is he getting so much mention when so many celebrities died in 2021.

Charles Grodin
Christopher Plummer
Cicely Tyson
Cloris Leachman
Donald Rumsfeld
George Segal Jr.
Hal Holbrook
Jackie Mason
Larry King
Leon Spinks
Ned Beatty
Olympia Dukakis
Robert Downey Sr
Saginaw Grant
William Smith
B. J. Thomas
Charlie Watts
Dustin Diamond (Screech form "saved by the bell")
Ed Asner
Gavin McLeod
Hank Aaron
Markie Post

Being just a few...

Dude, 2021 is so last year. Saget is a 2022 story!

[89th]

@xenon said in RIP Bob Saget:

@larry He was big with millennials. He was the archetypical 90's dad. Full house is a pretty bad show - but almost everyone my age watched it growing up.

I don't think I've ever seen his stand-up. He wasn't even funny on Full House.

I think his character on Full House was supposed to be un-funny, or at least that's how I remember it. Maybe now, as a dad, if I watched again I would appreciate some dad jokes? Who knows. His stand up is pretty funny... but nothing special

[89th]

@lufins-dad said in RIP Bob Saget:

Evidently he suffered head trauma? Slipped and hit his head? Then went to sleep with a concussion.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1079747879/bob-saget-death-cause

This hits close to home. My MIL just last week woke up at 2am in the bathroom covered in blood. She has no memory of it, but she likely fainted while walking in the bathroom and hit her head on something (counter, door frame). I saw her a few days ago and we both had an awkwardly candid commentary about how it really could've been much worse had she not woken up in time to stop the bleeding.