13 Things We Never Knew About The Legendary Bob Saget

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13 Things We Never Knew About The Legendary Bob Saget

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Bob Saget had a pretty darn extraordinary life and career, and we've got 13 highlights from both.

'Why is Ted doing this? What is he feeling?"

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BOB SAGET PUT WAY MORE EFFORT INTO HIS HIMYM ROLE THAN YOU MIGHT THINK. And I'd really watch the episodes. I'd be on the Fox lot, in a soundstage. It took me four to six hours to do one episode for a while. I was like, 'Why is Ted doing this? What is he feeling? he says.

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HIMYM

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BOB SAGET KIND OF GOT THE OFFER TO BE IN HIMYM THROUGH HAPPENSTANCE. One of the executive producers on the show was also the director of a play he was in, and was also someone that he'd known from his kids' schools - their daughters were friends.

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USC FILM SCHOOL

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BOB SAGET WENT TO USC FILM SCHOOL FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF THREE DAYS. It was for a graduate degree, but apparently he'd decided going into comedy would make more sense.

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SCLERODERMA

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BOB SAGET DID A LOT OF WORK FOR THE SCLERODERMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION. Не had lost his sister to the disease, and that experience eventually led him to join the Foundation's board of directors and host benefits for the charity.

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GROSS PICS

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM PEOPLE WOULD WALK UP TO BOB SAGET AND SHOW HIM GROSS PICS ON THEIR PHONE. Apparently, they thought he'd laugh or something, but he'd just go Dude, I can't look at that.

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DANNY TANNER

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM FOR CHARITY, BOB SAGET RECORDED VOICE MESSAGES AS DANNY TANNER. People really wanted that for their kids and asked him to do it all the time, and Saget would generally oblige.

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Two Angels

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BOB SAGET BASICALLY NAMED HIS COMPANY AS A WAY TO GET BACK AT PEOPLE. It's called Two Angels, after his sisters who'd died young - he chose the name partly so that, when someone asks why he'd call his company that, he could say Those are my two dead sisters, dude. Have a nice lunch.

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GUITAR АСТ

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BOB SAGET ACTUALLY STARTED OUT AS A GUITAR АСТ-НЕ DIDN'T DO STANDUP PER SE. Не was part of the Comedy Store's college tour, and he'd come on at the end of the show with his guitar, playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps, with water actually leaking out of it.

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