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Bob Saget
Saget at the 2007 O&A Traveling Virus at PNC
BornRobert Lane Saget
Spouse(s)Sherri Kramer (1982-1997) 3 daughters: Aubrey, Lara and Jenny

Robert "Bob" Lane Saget (born May 17, 1956) is an American stand-up comedian, television host, actor, and filmmaker. He is well-known for his role as Danny Tanner in the ABC sitcom Full House from 1987 to 1995 and as host of America's Funniest Home Videos from 1989 to 1997. Currently he is the host of the NBC game show 1 vs. 100 as well as the narrator of the CBS comedy series How I Met Your Mother.

Saget is generally known for his clean-cut, family-friendly television persona from the hit shows Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos, which have been widely rerun in syndication for over a decade. In contrast, Saget is also known for using edgy humor in his stand-up comedy acts and movies.

Early life and career

Saget was born in Philadelphia and moved to Lexington, Virginia when he was two years old. His father was a supermarket executive and a hospital administrator. He attended Rockbridge County High School before moving back to Philadelphia and graduating from Abington Senior High School. Saget originally intended to become a doctor, but his honors English teacher, Elaine Zimmerman, saw his creative potential and urged him to seek a career in films.

He enrolled at Temple University's film school, where he made a student film, Through Adam's Eyes, a black-and-white film about a boy who received reconstructive facial surgery. In 1978, the film was honored with an award of merit in the Student Academy Awards. Saget enrolled in graduate school at the University of Southern California but quit a few days later. Saget describes himself at the time in an article by Glenn Esterly in the Saturday Evening Post, "I was a cocky, overweight twenty-two-year-old. Then I had a gangrenous appendix taken out, almost died, and I got over being cocky or overweight."

Saget started doing stand-up comedy and did a number of national tours. Later, in 1987, Saget became the co-host of Morning Program, CBS's morning show, where he also wrote and produced content for the show. However, Saget left the show after only six months due to low ratings, with both Saget and producers feeling he was not meant for morning TV.

Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos

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. From 1989-1995, 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 pursue other works. In 1997, his contract finally expired, and he left the show. His former Full House cast, except for the Olsen twins, were present at his last episode.

Continued career

why do you have to be such a fussy young man don't want no captain crunch don't want no raison bran well don't you know that other kids are starving in japan so eat it, just eat it

don't want to talk i don't want to debate don't want to hear about the foods you hate you won't get no dessert till' you clean of your plate so eat it don't tell me you're full

just eat it, eat it eat it, eat it get yourself an egg and beat it have some more chicken have some more pie it doesn't matter if it's boiled or fried just eat it

your table manners are some crying shame your playing with your food this ain't some kind of game well if you starve to death you only have yourself to blame so eat it

Other works

Saget directed the 1996 ABC television movie, For Hope, which was inspired by the life story of his sister, Gay Saget, who died from scleroderma three years earlier. Saget is currently a board member of the Scleroderma Research Foundation.

In 2006, Jamie Kennedy released a rap song and music video entitled Rollin' With Saget which featured Saget.

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.

Saget is also the commissioner of Pennsylvania-based independent wrestling promotion CHIKARA

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Filmography and TV appearances

References

  1. ^ Contemporary Authors: Gale Reference Team (2004), Biography - Saget, Bob, Thomson Gale
  2. "www.oscars.org/saa/winners/winners.pdf" (PDF).

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Preceded byFirst Host Host of America's Funniest Home Videos
1990–1997 		Succeeded byDaisy Fuentes and John Fugelsang
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