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Im having trouble holding it together with all this, Jillette said.
c’mon let people know what a beautiful person he was.
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Jason Alexander
Bobs sense of humor was ever present.
Im pretty sure Bob and I were introduced to each other through our scleroderma connection.
He was spokesperson for theScleroderma Research Foundation, and I was spokesperson for theScleroderma Foundation.
We made a brief attempt to have a go at get them to merge.
We also bumped into each other in Israel when we were with our families.
When Bob and I were together, we mostly talked about weighty subjects.
More often than not, we ran into each other at charity events.
He was a soft touch; if you called and needed something, hed show up.
Hed literally give you the shirt off his back.
He cared about people, and he kept in touch with people.
Nikki Glaser
Bob would never let a dick joke pass by, even in a tragic story.
He was a father figure.
Im really grateful for the example he set.
And he ended up being exactly that person in my personal life, too.
He was so similar to Danny Tanner.
I would have fared a lot better during the pandemic living with Bob Saget than living with my parents.
The pandemic brought us closer together because we were frequent guests on each others podcasts.
Wed have these really deep conversations that were just the same kind of conversation wed have offline.
Hed talk about how much he loved you, how much he believed in you.
But thats just the way he was he was able to cut through so much b.s.
so quickly and make you feel like youd known each other forever.
Nobody who knew him was in any way surprised.
Thats the way our conversations always were: out-and-out filthy.
There was nothing that was too far.
There was a friendly competition in our conversations.
We would always venture to outdo each other.
We were both looking forward to that.
Its not on the one hand and on the other hand; its exactly the same.
He was wholesome offstage.
I cant stress enough how much he wore his heart on his sleeve.
Im the guy who played a father on TV.
Id like to cum all over your face.
Now you shouldnt hear that either.
Its a horrible thing.
Novak
As a Harvard student, I invited Bob to perform at a show calledThe B.J.
Show, which I was putting on with another student named B.J.
He said yes, and I gave him some award we quickly came up with.
Bob is so wholesome.
Im using present tense because hes still so present to me.
And he brought the house down.
It was one of the best nights of my life.
So I came out that week as a 21-year-old to write forRaising Dad.
It was a head-spinning idea.
He called my mom and said, Its okay.
Hes a good kid.
Im going to take care of him.
I remember her being emotional on the phone because Bob Saget was Americas dad.
Thats what made her comfortable.
He was very social, and he loved being in the mix.
People loved him because he loved everybody.
He was very close to me, like family.
I had him give me a blessing at my 40th birthday as my show-business father.
In my mind, I alternate between crying and thinking of disses and riffs that would crack him up.
Patton Oswalt
Everybody says, He was so dark, he was so raunchy.
But it was never from a mean-spirited place.
It was from a giggly,I cant believe we get to do this stuffkind of place.
It was not coming from a place of personal angst but from a place of just having fun.
When you meet him personally, he still has that same friendly, goofy upbeat energy.
He wasnt just telling dirty jokes although he could, especially if he was with other comedians.
He was just a very nice guy.
I like the fact that hes going to be remembered in very different ways.
He was so immediately warm and funny and kind about my performance.
That speaks to something true about Bob: He was an intensely present person.
Whatever was in front of him was all that was going on.
And in that way, you felt pretty special when you were with him.
He was reallythere.He was also it goes without saying hysterical.
He was just so alive and alert, which is why his passing is so disorienting.
I never tried to keep up with him as far as dirty jokes.
An undercurrent of our friendship was that we had both played these wholesome characters on hit shows.
That comes with a lot of wonderful stuff and some less wonderful stuff.
He was also wildly supportive.
He took his daughters to see me in a Broadway play that I was in.
He was generous with compliments in a way that a lot of people arent.
You never sensed he thought your success was his failure.
He didnt have a scarcity mindset, if that makes sense.
He celebrated his friends good fortune.
I was thinking recently about how unconflicted Bob seemed about his fame.
I think it made the world seem smaller to him in a really nice way.
Losing ones anonymity can be really unnerving, but Bob just seemed to really like meeting new people.
At one of our dinners, the waitress was kind of stunned that we were together.
And Bob said, Which age Ted Mosby are you interested in tonight?
Bob was on his way to being one of the great old guys.
I wish he could have seen the outpouring of love for him after he died.
It reminds me that we really need to eulogize the living.
Luckily, I got to tell Bob I loved him a lot while he was still here.
But Id sure love to be able to tell him again.
