Comedian and actor Bob Saget has died at the age of 65.
His death was confirmed after he was found unresponsive in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said in a tweet.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
“Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case,” police said.
Saget did a comedy show just the night before in Florida and tweeted his appreciation of the audience.
“Loved tonight’s show … I had no idea I did a 2 hr set,” he said. He had more upcoming tour dates planned for his “I Don’t Do Negative Comedy Tour” in 2022.
Saget was best known for his role as widowed father Danny Tanner in the TV show Full House, where he was tasked to raise three daughters, including twins played by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
He became known as “America’s Dad” through the wholesome role that he took up between 1987 and 1995, and later between 2016 and 2020 in Netflix’s reboot Fuller House. But it came in sharp contrast to his raunchy stand-up comedy, an angle he would highlight in later cameos such as in the 1998 film, Half-Baked, or in the TV show, Entourage, where he was his full, unfiltered self.
While starring on Full House, Saget also hosted America’s Funniest Home Videos from 1989 to 1997, which allowed him to riff on videos of Americans in one predicament or another.
Saget later was the narrator in How I Met Your Mother, playing the future Ted Mosby who recounted his love story to his children.
He was born in Philadelphia on May 17, 1956.
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Comedians took to Twitter to pay their respects to Saget.
Comedian Gilbert Godfried said he had spoken to Saget just a few days ago and is “still in shock.”
“We stayed on the phone as usual making each other laugh,” Godfried tweeted. “RIP to friend, comedian & fellow Aristocrat Bob Saget.”
The two both appeared in the 2005 documentary, The Aristocrats, in which comedians tell their own take on the titular joke, with Saget’s being particularly raunchy.
Magician and actor Penn Jillette said on Twitter that Saget would have wanted him to tweet something funny and “in very bad taste.”
“I can’t do that. I’m just so sad,” he tweeted. “Bob was just great on every level and we will all miss him. #BobSaget”
Jillette was one of the producers of The Aristocrats.
Others remarked on Saget’s kindness, including comedians Richard Lewis, Jon Stewart and Marc Maron.
“Just the funniest and nicest,” Stewart tweeted.
Actor Jason Alexander, known for his character George Costanza on TV show Seinfeld, said the loss of Saget “hits deep.”
“If you didn’t know him, he was kind and dear and cared about people deeply,” Alexander tweeted. “He was the definition of ‘a good egg’. Too soon he leaves. #RipBobSaget”
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