I never really knew just how funny Bob Saget could be until I saw his cameo in Half-Baked. I spent a good 20 minutes replaying his scene just so I could lose it every time he talked about sucking dick for coke. I haven’t seen his cameo in Dumb and Dumberer, but I’ve heard it’s the only thing that makes the movie worth watching.
Recently, Saget again revealed his knack for being unabashedly vulgar in The Aristocrats, a documentary about history’s oldest dirty joke as told by a succession of different comedians. Saget’s performance is reputed to be one of the foulest (and funniest) retellings ever attempted, not to mention one of the film’s lengthiest and most imaginative renditions of the joke.
Other things you may not know about Bob Saget? He once referred to the character of Danny Tanner as a “a masculine, loving gay father”; he’s tried his hand at directing both TV and film; he starred in the off-Broadway show Privilege; he has his own Wikipedia.com entry; and he’s the subject of one devoted fan’s attentions at www.bobsagetisgod.com.
This article appears in Sep 21-27, 2005.
