How Bob Saget created the defining TV dad of his generation

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'I made him a hugger': How Bob Saget created the defining TV dad of his generation

Bob Saget was 30 years old when he gave his first hug as Danny Tanner, the clean-freak, embrace-prone widower raising three daughters with his best friend and brother-in-law in ABC’s “Full House.” He’d give roughly 10 trillion more from `1987 until the show’s end in 1994: Before “virtual hugs” became part of the text lexicon, there was Danny Tanner on TV.

at age 65, told The Times in 2016. “I came up with that. I made him a hugger. That was one of my contributions.”, was set to make its debut on Netflix, and he couldn’t have sounded happier about reprising the straitlaced, warm-hearted character who followed him throughout his career.Bob Saget, a comedian and actor best known for his role in the sitcom “Full House,” has died in Florida.

“I was having kids the whole time it started — my oldest daughter is a year younger than Ashley and Mary-Kate [Olsen],” Saget said, reflecting on that era of his life. “It was a place where everyone was always trying to make it better, including the cast. I realized I was kind of the Rich Cunningham on the show. I was the straight guy. I wasn’t the acerbic guy, which wouldn’t have worked. I was the pure guy.

“With my stand-up comedy, there’s no way to avoid the fact that I did this and I’m proud of it [now],” he said. “My complaining only came from being a 30-year-old guy who has Jewish neurosis and was doing two shows that were very popular and very G-rated. I’m glad there wasn’t Twitter back then because there would be many people to block.”Saget described returning to the character decades later as a special, albeit surreal, experience.

 

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