Tributes for the comedian and ‘Full House’ star are pouring in a day after he was found dead

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are paying tribute to their TV dad.

The twins, who as youngsters shared the role of Michelle Tanner on the hit sitcom “Full House,” mourned the loss of Bob Saget, who died suddenly Sunday at the age of 65. 

Saget played the family patriarch on the series, which ran for eight seasons beginning in 1987.

Saget went on to reprise his role in the Netflix sequel “Fuller House.” The show ran from 2016 to 2020.

And while the Olsens have left acting and now helm a fashion empire, they remained close to Saget, whom they met when they started on “Full House” as infants.

“Ashley and Mary-Kate, I love so much,” he said in 2021 during an appearance on Inside of You With Michael Rosenbaum’s podcast. “When I’m in New York or when they’re here, when we can, we see each other.”

CNN has reached out to reps for the Olsens. 

Fans gathered outside the famous town home in San Francisco where “Full House” was filmed, leaving flowers and signs of affection for actor Bog Saget who died on Sunday.

“It’s sad news. He was the dad of the ’90s for everyone. Loved the show, not just ‘Full House’ but everything that he did,” one fan told CNN.

Another fan told CNN that Saget was a “cultural icon” who raised a generation of Americans.

Saget’s character in “Full House” was also significant at the time as he played a single dad with all the complexity and that character brought, CNN’s Senior Media Correspondent Brian Stelter explained.

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Comedian Gilbert Gottfried says he is still in shock about the death of his longtime friend, Bob Saget, adding that he had talked to him just a few days ago.

Speaking of his conversation with Saget, Gottfried said, “the minute anything seemed to become at all sincere or serious or heartfelt, immediately, we turn it to bad taste, and outrageousness.”

He added:

“I remember in particular for a while, we started sending emails to each other, and then we both had an idea, let’s put all these emails together, and make it into a book. Then his manager read the emails and said, ‘no, the public is not seeing this.’ And that was kind of like talking to Bob.”

He found out about Saget’s death via comedian Jeff Ross.

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Comedian George Wallace, who was a longtime friend of Bob Saget, said he wished everyone had a friend like Bob Saget.

Saget died at 65 on Sunday.

“We both have been busy. We talked every three months. But he’s the kind of friend you talk to on the phone and you go right back to the same conversation you were talking about three months ago. Just absolutely just the funniest man in the world,” Wallace said about Saget.

“He’s gone, but we will never ever forget Bob Saget,” he added.

Wallace also remembered Saget’s parents.

Saget “came from good people. I was at his home for dinner,” Wallace said. “His daddy was crazy. His mom Dolly would always say ‘you talk so filthy.’ And his dad would say ‘do it, do it, do it.’ She would tell him to be clean, his dad would egg him on.”

“I just talked to him on the phone two months ago. What a great guy. Just a lovely friend,” Wallace added.

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The family of actor and comedian Bob Saget, who died Sunday at age 65, is remembering the “love and laughter” that he “brought to the world.”

“We are devastated to confirm that our beloved Bob passed away today,” the Saget family said in a statement to CNN. “He was everything to us and we want you to know how much he loved his fans, performing live and bringing people from all walks of life together with laughter.” 

“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,” they added.

Actor and comedian Bob Saget’s friends are paying their tributes after he was found dead in a hotel room on Sunday at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes, according to a statement from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. He was 65.

His “Full House” co-star Stamos expressed his grief over the loss of his friend and former colleague on Sunday.

“I am broken. I am gutted,” Stamos wrote on Twitter. “I am in complete and utter shock. I will never ever have another friend like him. I love you so much Bobby.”

Another co-star Dave Coulier also marked his former co-star’s death on social media, posting a photo of the two holding hands and writing, “I’ll never let go, brother. Love you.”

Norman Lear also paid tribute to Saget on Sunday.

“Bob Saget was as lovely a human as he was funny,” Lear wrote on Twitter. “And to my mind, he was hilarious. We were close friends and I could not have loved him more.”

Fellow comedian and podcaster Marc Maron added, “Oh no. RIP Bob Saget. Truly one of the nicest guys and so funny. Very sad.”

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried described his “shock” over the news, writing on Twitter, “I just spoke with Bob a few days ago. We stayed on the phone as usual making each other laugh. RIP to friend, comedian & fellow Aristocrat Bob Saget.”

Actor and comedian Bob Saget, though known on the stage and among his friends for his raunchy humor, first became known to audiences on family-friendly programming. He starred as the widowed father of three girls on ABC’s “Full House” and then as host of the network’s “America’s Funniest Home Videos” clip show.

As Saget recalled to Jake Tapper in a July 2021 interview, the track of his career was unexpected.

“‘Full House’ was an accident,” he said. “I got fired on CBS and was asked to be in ‘Full House.'”

The sitcom, which starred Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin and twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in one role, ran for eight seasons. It lived on in syndication with strong enough nostalgia surrounding it that Netflix picked up a spin-off in 2016, “Fuller House,” starring Bure but featuring frequent appearances from original stars, including Saget, Dave Coulier and John Stamos. It ran for five seasons, concluding in 2020.

“I’m close with all the kids. It doesn’t happen a lot in the world where you stay close with all the people,” Saget told Tapper. “We’re an unusual cast in that way that I have been able to remain close with everybody, because I don’t take eight years of my life lightly and then the other five or six years, six seasons.”

Following his first round of sitcom fame, Saget worked steadily in film and television roles but became known to a new generation of sitcom fans on CBS’s “How I Met Your Mother,” acting as narrator and the voice of future Ted Mosby. That show ran until 2014.

Throughout the years, Saget remained a fixture in stand-up comedy, releasing multiple specials over the years and taking his show on the road.

Saget’s reputation for reveling in a much edgier brand of comedy could be seen in movies like “The Aristocrats” — exploring the competition among comics to tell the filthiest version of the same joke — and his guest stint on HBO’s “Entourage” as a version of himself.

Asked by Esquire to define his humor in a 2013 interview, Saget explained, “I am basically just a nine-year-old boy that evolved.” Toward that end, Saget seemed to relish pushing back against his success in squeaky-clean shows, telling dirty jokes at ABC events to make the executives squirm.

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CNN’s Joe Sutton and Brian Lowry contributed to this story.

Bob Saget, the comedian and actor arguably known best by audiences as wholesome patriarch Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House,” has died, his family confirmed in a statement to CNN.

He was 65.

Saget was found dead in a hotel room on Sunday at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes, according to a statement from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

“The man was identified as Robert Saget & pronounced deceased on scene. Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case,” the sheriff’s statement read.

The cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner, the sheriff’s office added.

Saget was in Florida as part of his comedy tour. According to tour dates pinned to his Twitter account, he performed Saturday night at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

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