Bob Saget: "I'm Not Danny Tanner"
Kent State's campus paper has a new interview with Bob Saget, wherein the comedian talks about the competing personae established by his TV work and his stand-up act:
"Before I even did those shows, I was one of the bluer comedians coming up," he said. "My standup was always all screwed up. All my stuff was weird, sicko crap. Then I got this job on CBS, like in six months, they fired me, and then I got 'Full House.' They had another guy in the part, and they replaced him with me. And, the character was a clean freak; I made him a clean freak. I said, 'Let's have him love his kids.' I had a new baby at the time, I was 29 or 30 years old, I'll hug everybody."
During that time when everyone thought of him as a family-friendly persona, Saget continued with his brand of comedy, albeit under the radar.
"When I was doing those shows, I did an HBO special," he said. "I said 'fuck' like 20 times, I did terrible things, but nobody seemed to care; it was weird. I think I'm a little more abrasive now because I'm like a mission statement, like a 12-year-old jumping up an down going, 'I'm not Danny Tanner!'"
Saget will perform at the Ohio college next Thursday, April 12. The entire interview can be read here.
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