'It was a light roast Bob would have loved. Saget was known to use this kind of humor when grieving losses and would completely understand and support his dear friends using these jokes in his special.

There are some jokes about Saget's death, but Stamos insists that the late comedian would have really appreciated it. And then we just got closer and closer and closer, and we ended up just being there for each other during the happiest and the saddest moments of our lives.'Īs roast comedian Jeff Ross is a part of the special, it's to be expected that there would be some dark humor during the special. He started popping into my life when I needed him the most, when I needed somebody. No one would've guessed that the two of us would end up being best friends.

I came in wanting to approach the sitcom with structure, whereas Bob and Dave (Coulier) just wanted to make everyone laugh all the time. On January 9, 2022, Saget was discovered dead in an Orlando hotel room. 'The truth is - and, you know, I have to say it's so funny - that we weren't the best friends (when we were) on that show. JanuGay Saget Gay Saget, Bob Saget’s sister, died at the age of 47 of scleroderma, and he died on her birthday. As Saget himself wrote for Today, in 1992, Gay Saget, Bobs sister, was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder called scleroderma, just a few years after another sister, Andrea, died of a sudden brain aneurysm (via People ).