John Stamos and his former Full House co-star Dave Coulier took some time to remember their late friend and colleague Bob Saget during an episode of the series. Full House: Rewind podcast.
While they told a number of stories and anecdotes about the comedian and actor during his time on the iconic sitcom, the duo did not shy away from the emotionally heavy topic of death and, in particular, the loss of Bob Saget in January 2022.
“We’re still processing his loss,” Stamos said, emotion evident in his voice, to which Coulier, who played Joey Gladstone for all eight seasons of Full House, replied, “He’s left a huge void in our lives. We dedicate the first episode of Full House Rewind to Bob.”
Stamos, 60, spoke about how Saget, who played Danny Tanner on Full House, didn’t fully understand or gauge the depth of how much people, including friends, family and fans, loved and respected him.
“The saddest thing for me is that he didn’t know how much he was loved,” the man behind the Jesse Katsopolis character said of his friend. “When he died, it was like a tsunami of love. I’m not kidding, but I don’t remember anyone before Bob getting this much attention when they passed away, maybe Princess Diana.”
John Stamos, 60, sadly reflects on the life and death of his late friend and former Full House co-star Bob Saget; the two longtime friends are pictured here in April 2016.
Stamos continued: “And that’s the sad part because he was so hard on himself, as you know,” before adding: “And we talk about him as an egomaniac, he wasn’t, but he had to take pride in himself because he felt so bad about himself.”
The former General Hospital actor again reiterated Saget’s ignorance about the love the world had for him.
“He didn’t realize how brilliant he was or how loved he was,” she shared. “I’d like to think of him still up there on stage, killing it and making people laugh.”
Stamos then recalled the old line, “Tomorrow is never promised,” that Saget used to tell him throughout their friendship dating back to the 1980s.
“That’s the lesson he left us with and you know it,” he told Coulier. “He never left anything unsaid. He always said, ‘I love you. I care about you. I’m proud of you. You’re my brother. Tomorrow is never promised to people.'”
“I learned from Bob that tomorrow is not promised,” Stamos wrote in his memoir If You Would Have Told Me (2023). “Live every moment to the fullest and tell everyone you care.”
During their podcast chat, Stamos recalled a story from Saget’s memoir, Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles Of A Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian, which was originally released in May 2014.
“The night he died, I played his audiotape and it gave me a lot of comfort. I don’t know why. I listened to it every night before I went to sleep.”
“We’re still processing his loss,” Stamos said with obvious emotion on the Full House Rewind podcast, to which Dave Coulier responded: “He’s left a huge void in our lives. We dedicate the first episode of Full House Rewind to Bob.”
“The saddest thing for me is that he didn’t know how much he was loved,” the man behind the character of Jesse Katsopolis said of his friend. “When he died, it was like a tsunami of love.”
Coulier, Saget and Stamos starred on the hit sitcom Full House for eight seasons from 1987 to 1995; they appear in the first-season episode.
From there, he began to recall a particular story that he thought he might have misheard in the audio version of his memoir.
“One morning I woke up and thought, ‘Did he say in his book that he hit his head and that’s how he died?'” she recalled reflecting at the time after his death. “And I said, ‘No, that can’t be.'” And I went back to what I’d thought and he talked, jokingly, about how “I would hit my head and call TMZ and say I’m dying.”
“That’s just the way he was,” Stamos said of his late friend and former colleague who was 65 when he passed away on Jan. 9, 2022.
The beloved comedian and actor was found dead in his room at the Ritz-Carlton in Williamsburg, near Orange County, Florida, around 4 p.m. ET on that fateful day.
He had just performed his stand-up show in Ponte Vedra Beach the night before and apparently hadn’t left his room since he went to sleep that night.
“That’s the lesson he left us with and you know it,” Stamos told Coulier. “He never left anything unsaid. He always said, ‘I love you. I care about you. I’m proud of you. You’re my brother. Tomorrow is never promised to people.'”
“He’s left a huge void in our lives,” Coulier said of Saget.
After revealing that he listened to the audio version of Saget’s memoir after his death, Stamos recalled how it seemed to predict how he would die: “I woke up one morning and I was like, ‘Did he say in his book that he hit his head and that’s how he died?'” he recalled musing. “And I was like, ‘No, that can’t be.'” And I read it again and he talks, as a joke, about, “I would hit my head and call TMZ and[say]I’m dying.”
“I learned from Bob that tomorrow is not promised,” Stamos wrote in his memoir If You Would Have Told Me (2023). “Live every moment to the fullest and tell everyone you care.”
An autopsy report released a month after his death found that Saget had suffered closed head trauma to the back of the head, likely from an unwitnessed fall that caused a subdural hematoma while he was sleeping.
Stamos was driving with his then-five-year-old son Billy when his publicist Matt Polk called to ask if he had heard from the Grammy-nominated comedian after TMZ claimed “multiple sources” said he was dead.
Full House co-star Candace Cameron Bure reached out to Stamos after receiving a “weird DM” about his death, and that’s when Saget’s wife, Kelly Rizzo, confirmed the tragic news to Stamos in a phone call.
“When I hand over the call to Kelly, all I hear is a pitiful scream. I fall to the ground in the parking lot and my knees crash against the asphalt. ‘Nooooooooo!'” the two-time Primetime Emmy nominee wrote in his memoir, If You Would Have Told Me (2023).
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Saget took to his Instagram page and shared about his final stand-up show in Florida the night before his death and his love for his work in comedy.
In his final post on his Instagram page on January 9, 2022, the day of his death, Saget shared some thoughts on his performance in Florida the night before.
“Okay, loved tonight’s show at @pontevedra_concerthall in Jacksonville. Really nice crowd. Lots of positivity. Happened last night in Orlando at Hard Rock Live too. Very appreciative and fun crowd. Thanks again to @comediantimwilkins for opening the show. I had no idea he did a two hour show tonight,” he wrote, before opening up about his love of comedy.
“I’m back to comedy like I was when I was 26. I think I’m finding my new voice and loving every moment of it. Alright, see you in two weeks, January 28th and 29th, @pbimprov with my bro @therealmikeyoung. And check out BobSaget.com for my 2022 dates. I’ll be going everywhere until I get the special shot. And then I’ll probably keep going because I’m addicted to this shit. Peace.”
Bob Saget, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with ties to Norfolk, Virginia, and Encino, California, left behind his wife Kelly Rizzo and three daughters Aubry, 37, Lara, 34, and Jennifer, 31.
