(Jewish Group) Bob Saget, comedian and actor who played Danny Tanner on 'Full House,' dies at 65
Bob Saget, the comedian and actor famous for playing a wholesome sitcom father figure but who never lost his flair for raunchy comedy, has died at 65.
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As a performer, Saget alternated between the raunchy standup comic known for darkly funny bits peppered with curse words and the wholesome dad that he played on the 1990s sitcom “Full House,” bringing together his audiences of children and adults in his role as host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”
Even before he got to Hollywood, Saget honed his comedy as a misbehaving Hebrew school student at Temple Israel in Norfolk, Virginia.
“Well, a lot of it was rebellion,” Saget told the Atlanta Jewish Times in 2014. “In my Hebrew school training, I would spend more time trying to impress the girls in the class. I remember the rabbi taking me up to his office and saying ‘Saget, you’re not an entertainer; you have to stop doing this.’ I couldn’t stop.”
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I knew his father Ben slightly. A gentle soul if there ever was one.
"I told my son," he once told me, "do the kind of comedy you wouldn't be ashamed to show to kids. He loves kids."
And Bob Saget (usually) stuck to that.
Now, they're no doubt up there - trading stories, and more than a few laughs.
