Bob said, “I really would love it if you could do this.” I said, “Oh for Sharon, I will do anything.” So, Bob wrote For Hope with Susan Rice, who is still a good friend, and he also directed it. But Bob and Brad Grey, who used to manage both of us, called me one day. At the time, there was a big stigma against disease-of-the-week movies and you really didn’t want to be in one.
Bob and I share the same dark sense of humor and we used to joke, “Don’t go to the benefit because you’ll get scleroderma.”Īfter Gay died from scleroderma, Bob came up with an idea to make a television movie about her. A year later, she was diagnosed with scleroderma, which was bizarre. You may have heard this story by now but Bob was asked to host it and - since he was close with his family - his parents and his sister, Gay, went to the event. We just kept going to the events because Sharon was so magnetic and such a powerful human being and the events were a perfect combination of food, fun and a good cause for a remarkable person. It was 1989 and I remember Rosie O’Donnell was one of the comedians who performed. Neither of us knew anything about scleroderma, we just went because chef Susan Feniger invited us and we liked her food.
Not long after Sharon Monsky started the Scleroderma Research Foundation, Bob and I went to the second event they had.
Lifestyle How Death of His Sister Inspired Bob Saget's Tireless Mission to Find Cure for Scleroderma But seeing the outpouring of love for Bob from friends and from all over the world, I feel like he would be so happy to be getting so much attention. Bob was one of those guys that you could just call out of the blue and get right back into the groove, and I’m so unhappy that I can’t pick up the phone now to call him and say how ridiculous it is that he’s dead. We’re the same age, and we kind of started out together. Here, fellow actor Dana Delany remembers her longtime friend.
The multi-hyphenate, whose portrayal of beloved dad Danny Tanner on Full House made him one of TV’s most popular fathers, had just launched a stand-up comedy tour when he died in Florida over the weekend at the age of 65. It had its heightened reality, a glossy Willy Wonka quality to it,” he told The Associated Pres in a 2001 interview.Hollywood continues to mourn Bob Saget. “ Full House was a loving kind of show but obviously over the top.
Saget, as amiable and droll in an interview as he was on TV screens, took the brickbats in stride. The show’s popularity didn’t deter critics, some calling it cheesy and others deeming it unreal. It stayed undercover on network TV, both as the longtime host of America’s Funniest Home Videos and as the squeaky clean widower and father to three young girls on Full House, the ABC sitcom that also brought fame to Olsen twins Mary-Kate and Ashley when it debuted in 1987. Saget the stand-up showed his flip side with what become a much-talked-about cameo in the 2005 documentary The Aristocrats - in which 100 comics riffed on the world’s dirtiest joke - that revealed his notoriously filthy sense of humour. Though we ask for privacy at this time, we invite you to join us in remembering the love and laughter that Bob brought to the world.” In a statement Sunday, Saget’s family members said they are “devastated to confirm that our beloved Bob passed away today.