Jimmy Kimmel sheds tears as he remembers Bob Saget

Jimmy Kimmel opening Monday Kimmel Live with an advance tribute to his friend Bob Saget, who dead sunday and is remembered as the “sweetest” man, Kimmel said. He didn’t make it for 20 seconds before tears welled up in his eyes.

Saget “so funny, and I’m not talking about Happy home or America’s Funniest Home Video either a comedy or a stand-up, I mean funny,” Kimmel said. Like when you walk into a party and you see Bob and his wife, Kelly, in the corner, you go straight to them and stay as long as you can. Because he has something funny to say about everything, and nothing bad to say about anyone. Never. If there are people he doesn’t like, he keeps them to himself. He – unlike me, he’s a nice guy. “

Kimmel recounts how Saget’s two older sisters also died young, one of a rare disease called scleroderma, and that he offered to donate to the Scleroderma Research Foundation (srfcure.org) – Who has Saget served on the board – if the viewer is touched.

“He’s really nice to people and he has no problem telling you that he loves you and that you mean something to him,” Kimmel said. He read a short email Saget had sent him and made up a short about Saget and best friend John Stamos Upcoming Kimmel Live in 2017 to write to them mutual friend Don Rickles. Kimmel didn’t finish the setup. “We never imagined that four and a half years later we would be talking about… I’m sorry, I’ve recorded this 14 times, and I just…” and you can watch it inside below.