Comedian and actor Bob Saget found dead in his hotel room – Orange County Register

Bob Saget, the comedian and actor best known to audiences for playing the kind-hearted patriarch Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House,” has died, according to a statement from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Orlando. , Florida.

He is 65 years old.

“Earlier today, delegates were called to the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes to a call about an unresponsive man in a hotel room. The man was identified as Robert Saget and died at the scene. Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case,” the Sheriff’s statement read.

The cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner, the sheriff’s office added.

Saget was in Florida on his comedy tour. By tour date pinned to his Twitter account, he performed Saturday night at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

He tweeted after the show, “Loved tonight’s show @PV_ConcertHall in Jacksonville. The audience applauds. Thanks again @RealTimWilkins for opening. I didn’t know I booked 2pm tonight. I am happily addicted to this dish. ”

Saget, though known on stage and among his friends for his abrupt humor, was first known to audiences for his family-friendly show. He played the role of the widowed father of three girls on ABC’s “Full House” and was later the host of the network’s clip “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”

As Saget recalled Jake Tapper in a July 2021 interview, his career path was unexpected.

“Full House” was an accident,” he said. “I was fired on CBS and asked to be on ‘Full House.'”

The sitcom, which stars Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, and twins Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen in one role, ran for eight seasons. It lives in association with the strong enough nostalgia surrounding it that Netflix picked up a spin-off in 2016, “Fuller House,” starring Bure but with occasional appearances from the original stars, including including Saget, Dave Coulier and John Stamos. It ran for five seasons, ending in 2020.

“I am close to all the kids. Saget tells Tapper that that doesn’t happen much in a world where you’re close to everyone. “We’re an unusual cast in the way that I can get close to everyone, because I don’t take eight years of my life lightly and then another five or six, six seasons.”

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