‘Full House’ Star Jodie Sweetin Says Bob Saget Would Love Her ‘Wildly Inappropriate’ Comedy Show

Like TV dad, like TV daughter. “I will say that Bob Saget would be very, very proud,” Jodie Sweetin told Oliver and Kate Hudson on their Sibling Revelry podcast this week. What would have the Full House father bursting his buttons with pride? That’s Sweetin following in his NSFW comedy footsteps. 

Sweetin hosts a regular show at the Bourbon Room and the Comedy Store called “Family Dinner,” a panel format with rotating stand-up comedians sharing a meal based on childhood favorite foods. “It's absolutely off-the-rails and insane, and it's so much fun,” she said. “We involve the audience. Inevitably, it’s wildly inappropriate.”

Then, of course, Saget would be proud, said Oliver, who knew the comic through a mutual friend. Once he got to know Saget, he would tell people, “Dude, this guy's dirty as fuck!”

“He was always that,” Sweetin agreed. Friends now ask her when she realized that the guy behind Danny Tanner was so lewd. “I’m like, ‘When did I not know?’ He’s wildly funny.”

When it comes to her own comedy, Sweetin relies on what she took away from her TV elders. “One of the huge lessons that I learned from Bob and Dave (Coulier, who played Joey), who suffered a lot of loss and tragedy in their life, is I watched them make absolutely the darkest jokes at their own expense to deal with death and loss and divorce, and all of these things,” she explained. “I learned that nothing is so big that you can’t make fun.”

Sweetin credits Saget with her “very dark” sense of humor. “I actually out-Bobbed Bob at our wrap party,” she bragged. “I don’t remember what the joke was, which is probably for the best, but he said something, I made a joke back to him, and he just looked at me and he went, ‘Woooooooow, Jodes.’”

Sweetin couldn’t believe it. “I was like, ‘Did I out-Bob you?’ Oh my, this is it. It was a victory moment.”

A laughing Saget looked to the heavens. “What have I done?!”

“I don’t know,” Sweetin replied. “But it’s your fault.”

The hosts lamented Saget’s early death but Sweetin knew that if he had to go, it was in the best possible way. The 65-year-old comic was in the middle of stand-up tour when he passed away after accidentally hitting his head in a hotel room. 

“He got off stage that night and posted that it was one of his greatest shows ever,” Sweetin remembered. “He was on top of the world.”

“For someone like Bob, that is absolutely the most at-peace way he could have gone,” she said. “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.”