Bob Saget podcast
July 1st, 2008 by David Lee Simmons in Comedy
Former “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos” star Bob Saget has reinvented himself in recent years with his stand-up routine and blue humor, most famously captured in the 2005 documentary The Aristocrats, as well as his 2006 direct-to-video comedy Farce of the Penguins.
How do you sense the audience’s reaction to the paradox of your off-color humor compared with your image from “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos” now as opposed to a few years ago?
[After the two shows ended] I started hitting the clubs more, trying to figure out where I lost my funny gene. For me, it was like a 12-year project. I’m always a comedian. It’s the root of what I do and what I want to do. I found out what I thought was funny again and I always kind of talked the way I talk now, but I’m 52 now, when I was 32 hosting those shows, and a guy will change, hopefully. I started not to care as much and do what I thought was funny. Through the whole process audiences thought it was funny, so it’s the longest 15-year overnight transition that an artist can grow through.
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