Bob Saget, the actor of Daddy’s Friends and How I Met Your Mother died at 66

Shrouded in mystery is the sudden death of Bob Saget, the American comedian and actor best known for his role as Danny Tanner in the sitcom Dad’s friends and narrator of How I Met Your Mother found lifeless in a room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Orlando, where he was performing for a comedy tour. “We are devastated to confirm that our beloved Bob is dead today “, the Saget family said in a press release. “It was all to us, and we want to know how much he loved his fans, perform live and bring people from all walks of life together with laughter.” According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, investigators found no traces of drugs in the room or signs of violence on the body, although the cause of death will be determined by the coroner.

The day before, Saget had performed at the Jacksonville Concert Hall enjoying great public success, the same one that accompanied his entire career, which took off mainly thanks to the role of the widowed father of three girls in Dad’s friends of ABC and then as host of the program on the Net America’s Funniest Home Videos. As Saget himself explained in an interview with Jake Tapper in July 2021, success overwhelmed him in an unexpected way: “Dad’s friends it was an accident. I was fired from CBS and asked to be part of the sitcom, “said the actor, who in 2016 also took part in the spin-off de Dad’s friends, Fuller House, on Netlix as a guest star.

Many messages of condolence and closeness from fans and colleagues, such as Stamos, his co-star in the series: “I am in a state of total shock. I’ll never have another friend like him. ‘ Or like Norman Lear, her guest on the 2020 podcast Bob Saget’s Here For You: «Bob Saget was a lovely and funny human being. We were close friends and I couldn’t have loved him more, ”Lear wrote on Twitter, while comedian Gilbert Gottfried said he was shocked by the news. Bob Saget’s figure has always been that ofangular and cutting irony which, in 2014, also led to him getting a Grammy nomination for That’s What I’m Talkin’ About nominated for best comic album.