22 Wild Stories from People Who Legally Died, Only to Be Resuscitated

‘Futurama’s Future Doesn’t Seem Like A Fun Place to Go

Three Meteorologists on Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’

Five Great Comedies Starring NBA Players

Conspiracy Theories That Started As Jokes

13 Things We Never Knew About The Legendary Bob Saget

Rest in peace, legend.

13 Things We Never Knew About The Legendary Bob Saget

January 21, 2022

Welcome to ComedyNerd, Cracked's deep-dive series on funny business. (Also, you can stay up to date with the ComedyNerd newsletter -- sign up here.)

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

13

THE MASKED SINGER

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BOB SAGET ACTUALLY SANG HIS SONGS ON THE MASKED SINGER, THROUGH THE MASK. I'm actually singing through a 35-pound head with a mesh mouth and I'm holding a live mic. And it was impossible. It was really hard, is how he described it. — Source

12

FULLER HOUSE

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE TEARS AT THE END OF FULLER HOUSE WERE IN FACT REAL TEARS, SAYS BOB SAGET. But with Fuller House the girls got married, and as sappy as that could be to some people it really was real tears. It was the real ending to the (original) show that we never got according to him. — Source

11

'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. — Source

10

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. — Source

9

DANNY IN FULL HOUSE

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BOB SAGET CAME THIS CLOSE TO NOT GETTING CAST AS DANNY IN FULL HOUSE. Не was on a show called The Morning Program, and he was unavailable for Full House - but then he got fired and, luckily for him, the Full House offer was still there. — Source

8

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. — Source

7

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. — Source

6

THE PRICE IS RIGHT

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE, BOB SAGET HOSTED THE PRICE IS RIGHT. the PRice is Right 9000 Не was apparently on a list of names they were considering, but it was mutually agreed that I wasn't the right person, he says. — Source

5

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. — Source

4

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. — Source

3

Directing

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SURE, BOB SAGET WAS BEST KNOWN FOR ACTING AND COMEDY, BUT НЕ LOVED DIRECTING. Directing was basically his passion - he started doing it at college, and won a Student Academy Award in 1978. He'd directed four feature-length movies. — Source

2

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. — Source

1

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. — Source

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

Trivia & Jokes

42 of the Funniest Burns from the Week of July 22, 2024

Trivia & Jokes

33 Video Game Facts That Dramatically Sprung Out of Us After a Robot Monkey Pelted Us With a Coconut

Movies & TV

The World’s Biggest Randy Marsh Fan Has Finally Perfected Her ‘South Park’ Shrine

Trivia & Jokes

31 Surprising Celebrity Connections the Deep State Wants to Keep Hidden

Trivia & Jokes

32 Random Bits of Trivia Our Grandmother Pressed Into Our Palm and Said ‘It’s Our Little Secret’

Science & History

12 Weird Things Left at Famous Graves

VIRAL ON CRACKED

1

27 Real (Surprising) Stories Behind Huge Songs

2

22 Shockingly Dark Lyrics in Otherwise Happy Songs

3

21 Movie Scenes That Nobody Would Survive

4

21 Iconic Movie Villains That Weren't Villains At All

5

15 Silly Mistakes In Movies & Shows