Bob Saget left us a beautiful gift
The final episode of his podcast “Bob Saget’s Here For You” was released this week and it is, of course, bittersweet.
It opens with Bob Saget’s friend and fellow stand-up comedian Bill Burr giving an intro, which Burr called an “honor.” Burr said the podcast was “perfectly named.”
“[Saget] really was there for everybody,” and “Just truly one of the funniest human beings I ever met and also one of the nicest. He was as funny as he was nice.”
“I absolutely love the guy and am in shock that he’s no longer with us, but I am just so thankful to have met him, to have known him,” Burr added. “He just was the greatest guy ever.”
During the more than one-hour episode, Saget talks to fellow comic Margaret Cho about her upcoming projects to their shared love of performing.
Saget agreed with Cho when she said she planned on doing stand-up “forever” because she loved it so much. “I didn’t know I was going to love stand-up as much as I love it,” he said. I haven’t loved it this much since I started, I think.”
Saget was found dead in his Orlando, Florida hotel room hours after giving a two-hour performance.
The investigation into the cause of death of the 65-year-old star is ongoing.
Hulu’s How I Met Your Father, a spin-off of the beloved sitcom How I Met Your Mother, premiered on Tuesday (January 18) with two episodes and a tribute to the late comedian Bob Saget. At the end of the first episode, the show honored Saget with a title card that read, “In Loving Memory of Bob Saget.” Bob Saget narrated all the nine seasons of the original 2005 sitcom as an older version of central character Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor). On January 9, he was found dead in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, after performing a stand-up comedy set on tour, at the age of 65.
In a conversation with Entertainment Weekly, the spin-off executive producers Craig Thomas, Carter Bays and Pam Fryman remembered Bob Saget as a ‘truly legendary human.’ “The wit, the wisdom, and, above all, the kindness fans heard in Bob Saget’s voice (as Ted Mosby in the year 2030) was no act,” the trio said. “It’s who Bob really was. And it’s how all of us in the How I Met Your Mother family will always remember him. R.I.P. to a truly legendary human. You’ll be so missed, Bob, because you were so loved.”