Saget in Lauderdale thru Sunday

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on February 25th, 2005

We don’t normally herald a personal appearance (except maybe our own!), but a mini-profile of Bob Saget in the Broward New Times, to promote his appearance at the Lauderdale Improv through Sunday, caught our attention.

Those of us with a clue already know that Saget’s standup act is a bit of a shocker to the goody two-shoes crowd — almost as staggering as his cameo in the 1998 stoner film Half Baked, which put to bed the myth of his nicey-nice image in just one sentence: quot;I used to suck dick for coke.”

If you’ve never seen Saget live, he’s fun to watch. The male half of the staff here recalls that, back in 1982, when he found out that the Comedy Works open mikers were allowed to catch the weekend shows for free (standing up in the balcony), the first headliner he was priveleged to see was Saget. Watched all four shows that weekend. Was chanelling Saget for two weeks after that. Saget lived for a time in the Philly area and graduated from Temple University, so his appearances at the Works were an event… even back then.

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