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Watch: Bob Saget gave inspiring speech ahead of 'Fuller House' final season

By Megan Armstrong | Last updated 1/13/22

It has become clear that the only way to keep up to date with the overwhelming amount of online tributes for Bob Saget would be if looking for them were your only job. The 65-year-old actor and comedian was sincerely and vastly loved.

Saget was found dead by the staff at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando on Sunday (Jan. 9), where he had been staying after beginning his "I Don't Do Negative" stand-up comedy tour two days prior. An autopsy confirmed there was "no evidence of drug use or foul play."

Saget's Full House family immediately began publicly mourning and have continued to share tributes throughout the week, including the below Instagram video from Andrea Barber:

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Barber, who costarred with Saget on Full House (1987-95) and Fuller House (2016-20) as annoying-yet-lovable neighbor Kimmy Gibbler, explained in the caption that the video is of Saget speaking to the Fuller House cast and crew at the first table read for the Netflix revival series' fifth and final season.

In it, Saget emotionally reflected on his time portraying beloved TV dad Danny Tanner:

"For years, you kind of fight a character that you're pegged because a sitcom is not like a movie where you go out and do something else, and people go, 'Oh, you act like that.' And I'm so proud to have been able to raise these girls and know them since they were like my girls. Like my own daughters. I only had one kid when the show started, and I didn't like her.

"Jodie slept over at the house. Aubrey was her friend. I mean, Candace was 10, and we would look forward to our scenes together because they were so real. It was the very, very beginning."

Toward the end of his speech, Saget lauded Full House as "a show that is so loved all over the whole world, and will always be. It's a piece of television history. And what you guys did with Fuller is amazing. ... You guys are so amazing to have done this, and I couldn't be prouder if I was your own dad."

Saget was, of course, referring to Jodie Sweetin and Candace Cameron Bure—his TV daughters. Sweetin played Stephanie, and Bure played D.J. for the original series and reboot. (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen played Danny's youngest daughter, Michelle, but did not reprise their role.)

In real life, Saget leaves behind daughters Aubrey, 34, Lara, 32, and Jennifer, 29. He shared them with his ex-wife, Sherri Kramer, whom he was married to from 1982-97.

Saget married Kelly Rizzo in 2018 and remained happily with her until his death.

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