Jimmy Kimmel tears up while remembering Bob Saget: 'He was the sweetest man'

The outpouring of love for Bob Saget continues, as Jimmy Kimmel took time before taping the rest of Monday's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" to give a heartfelt monologue about his friend.

Saget, 65, died Sunday. He was discovered by staff at the Ritz-Carlton he had been staying at in Orlando after missing his scheduled checkout time. The "Full House" star was just two performances into his "I Don't Do Negative" stand-up comedy tour. Per People, an autopsy confirmed "no evidence of drug use or foul play."

"If you read anything about Bob online last night, if you saw any of the many thoughts from people who knew him personally, a word that came up a lot was 'the sweetest,'" Kimmel began, choking back tears. "Bob was the sweetest. He was the sweetest man. And the reason people wrote that is because it's true. It's the best word. If you had to pick one word to describe him, that was it: sweetest."

"I have so many wonderfully kind and supportive texts and emails, calls, from Bob," the 54-year-old host continued. "He always had a compliment. He would write sometimes just to tell me he loved me, and I know he did that for many people. He was so funny, and I'm not talking about "Full House" or "America's Funniest Home Videos" or stand-up comedy or movies. I mean funny for real. Like, when you walked into a party, you saw Bob and his wife, Kelly, in the corner, you'd go straight to them and stay for as long as you could."

Kimmel went on to detail how Saget battled through the losses of his sisters, Andrea to a brain aneurysm in 1985 and Gay to the autoimmune disease scleroderma in 1994, and how Saget was consistently supportive of Kimmel and his family when his son, Billy, was born with a congenital heart defect. Kimmel then threw to footage from April 2017, when Saget and John Stamos memorialized Don Rickles on his show.

Watch the emotional tribute below.