Jodie Sweetin thinks Bob Saget would be proud of her stand-up show: 'Nothing is so big that you can't make fun'

Sweetin says Saget taught her to process "loss and tragedy" by making "the darkest jokes."

Jodie Sweetin is still learning valuable life lessons from her Full House father Bob Saget.

"I will say that Bob Saget would be very, very proud" Sweetin said of her stand-up comedy show "Family Dinner" on Oliver and Kate Hudson's Sibling Revelry podcast. "One of the rules that I give the comedians," Sweetin explained, is "'we're not recording this. Go for it.' And we have so much fun."

Sweetin explained that assembling a panel of stand-up comedians in a room and telling them to "go for it" results "inevitably" in some "wildly inappropriate" material. That's the no-holds-barred edge Sweetin inherited from Saget, who played patriarch Danny Tanner to her middle-child Stephanie for nine years on Full House.

"One of the huge lessons that I learned from Bob and Dave [Coulier], who suffered a lot of loss and and and tragedy in their life," Sweetin explained, came from watching them "make absolutely the darkest jokes at their own expense to deal with death and loss and divorce, and all of these things. I learned that nothing is so big that you can't make fun."

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Saget was cast as the head of the wholesome Tanner clan when he was still a relatively untested young comic. He'd previously appeared in small, often unnamed roles in films like Richard Pryor's Critical Condition and series like Bosom Buddies. After Full House skyrocketed him to fame, audiences who caught his stand-up act were in for a shock to discover how much raunchier and more wild Saget was in stand-up mode, compared Saget on TV.

"He was always bad," Sweetin explained. When people would ask her "'when did you know'" that Saget was closer in real life to George Carlin than Danny Tanner, Sweetin joked, "I was like, 'when did I not know?'"

Saget died in 2022 from head trauma after accidentally hitting his head in a Grande Lakes, Florida hotel room. He was 65. Saget was in the midst of a stand-up tour, having performed the night of his death at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall in Jacksonville and even tweeting he was "happily addicted again" to performing comedy.

Sweetin remarked that while "the way that Bob went [was] so soon, and was so tragic," she can find solace in the fact that "he got off stage that night and posted that it was one of his greatest shows ever" and that "he was on top of the world."

"I think for someone like Bob," Sweetin reasoned, "that is absolutely the most at peace way he could have gone. Bob was not someone who was gonna sit still easily, and I wish he was still here, but I'm so glad he got to go out feeling so much love and appreciation."

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The cast of Full House continue to mourn the sudden loss of their costar. In January, Sweetin commemorated the two-year anniversary of his death with an Instagram post that read in part, "2 years. Still doesn’t feel real... To the best TV dad there ever was."

On what would have been his 68th birthday in May, Sweetin posted a slideshow featuring an older reunion photo of Full House costars Candace Cameron Bure, Dave Coulier, John Stamos, Andrea Barber, and Saget himself with the caption, "Happy Birthday, [Bob Saget]. There’s not a day I don’t think of you."

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