Bob Saget, a Dirty Comic Who Gained Wholesome Image on Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos, Dies at 65
(LOS ANGELES) — Bob Saget, the actor-comedian known for his role as beloved single dad Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House” and as the wisecracking host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” has died, according to authorities in Florida.
The sheriff’s office in Orange County, Florida, was called Sunday about an “unresponsive man” in a hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, according to a sheriff’s statement on Twitter.Norman Lear, who called Saget a close friend, wrote the comedian “was as lovely a human as he was funny.Saget, also the long-time host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” played squeaky clean Danny Tanner, a widower and father to three young girls, on “Full House,” the ABC sitcom that also brought fame to Olsen twins Mary-Kate and Ashley when it debuted in 1987.That year, Saget took another pass at playing a widowed dad with winsome kids on the short-lived sitcom “Raising Dad.”