TV producer Norman Lear said Saget was a close friend who “was as lovely a human as he was funny.
I love you so much Bobby,” wrote John Stamos, a Full House co-star. I will never ever have another friend like him. Tributes poured in on social media from Saget’s co-stars and friends. And Saget often played himself or parodies of himself in one-time or recurring roles in TV shows and movies. He was also the narrator on the show How I Met Your Mother from 2005 to 2014 and reprised the Danny Tanner role on the Netflix reboot Fuller House between 20.
Saget was a prominent presence on American television screens throughout the 1990s as the father Danny Tanner on Full House and the host of America’s Funniest Home Videos. Saget was on tour and had done a show near Jacksonville a day earlier. Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case,” the sheriff’s office said. “The man was identified as Robert Saget & pronounced deceased on scene. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Florida said deputies were called to the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando on Sunday after an unresponsive man was found in a hotel room. All rights reserved.Actor, comedian and director Bob Saget has died at age 65. ™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company.
"Bob was a relentless champion for scleroderma patients and the mission of the SRF-finding a cure for scleroderma. "In loving memory of Bob Saget, a cherished colleague, friend, and Scleroderma Research Foundation Board member for over 20 years," the caption to a photo of Saget posted on the SFR Instagram account read. The "America's Funniest Videos" host went on to serve on the SRF board for nearly two decades and hosted their events for more than 25 years.įollowing the announcement of his death, fellow comic Amy Schumer posted on her verified Instagram account that she would be donating to SRF in Saget's honor and the organization posted a tribute to their most famous advocate. "She had to move to Los Angeles to live with my parents because she needed so much help," Saget said. Drugs including prednisone and cortisone were used to treat her, he said, but it only addressed her symptoms. Saget shared that his sister was 44 and a Philadelphia-area teacher when she was first diagnosed. "Little did I know that just a few years later, my sister would be diagnosed with the disease." "I said yes and hosted the event, which starred Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O'Donnell, and others." he said.
Saget told NIH Medline Plus Magazine in 2019 that years before he "got a call from someone I did not know asking me to host a comedy fundraiser for a disease I knew very little about." The star actually first became involved with the Scleroderma Research Foundation (SRF) prior to his sister's diagnosis with the chronic disease, which can lead to a hardening and tightening of connective tissue and skin. The comedian who became known as America's dad after playing Danny Tanner on "Full House" died Sunday at the age of 65.īut it was the death of his beloved sister Gay following a battle with the autoimmune disease scleroderma which transformed him into an avid advocate for raising money to find a cure. (CNN) - Bob Saget channeled his grief into helping others and now some of his famous friends are doing the same in the wake of his death.