5 things you might not know about Bob Saget

Bob Saget has a reputation for foul-mouthed humor, but over the course of a 23-minute phone interview with the Observer, he avoided using even the mildest of profanity.

“So many comedians are 10 times bluer than I am. I don’t even approach the kind of way they talk about things,” says the comedian, 58, who returns to Charlotte’s The Comedy Zone for four shows this weekend. “I’m doing what I find funny, and it’s not purposefully blue.”

Of course, another F-word he’s known for did come up in our chat – that being “Full House,” the ’80s-’90s-era ABC family sitcom that cast him as warm, affable, neat-freak dad Danny Tanner.

He also talked about the viral video Mashable posted that re-casts the “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie trailer with Saget dubbing both lead characters’ lines. And he talked about ... actually, just read on to learn five things you might not know about Saget.

1. He’ll be returning to “America’s Funniest Home Videos” – for a cameo: “Tom is leaving it now, and so we recently did a little funny thing together that’ll be seen on the show. (The season finale – Tom Bergeron’s last show as host – airs Sunday.) But no one’s supposed to know about it. Big secret. I keep secrets really great.”

2. He’ll (probably) appear in 2016 on Netflix’s “Fuller House,” starring former “Full House” child stars Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber: “I have been asked to not speak to anyone in the media. ... But signs point to yes. And I’m happy to do it to be with the people that I still have a great deal of affection for, and to help the girls kick their show off. But I also don’t want to do something that throws a tomato in everything.”

3. He has some wild ideas about what Danny Tanner has been up to for the past 20 years: “I think he became a certified gynecologist. Or I was thinking transgender surgery. I don’t know. Maybe he just started driving red convertibles across the Golden Gate Bridge for a living. Whatever it’s gonna be, if Danny’s in it, it’s probably not gonna go in-depth. I don’t think it’s going be a psychological profile of what Danny has become. I’m sure he’s a very nice person, who’s two-dimensional, but he loves his kids and I think he’s gotten over the cleaning thing would be my guess.”

4. He was duped into dubbing the dialogue for that send-up of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trailer: “I was put in a corner at South by Southwest (the entertainment festival in March in Austin), where I was very proud to do a benefit for the Ally Coalition. Someone just said, ‘Read this for us.’ And I said, ‘What, are you gonna make some audio thing out of it?’ And they went, ‘Yeah.’ Now they go and make something that makes it look like I worked on it. I just read it outside of a building. ... Total hazing. I was totally hazed into doing that. ... You could just walk up to me in a mall and you could make a series out of it.”

5. He hopes this visit to Charlotte goes more smoothly than his last (in November 2012): “I had done two shows the night before. I woke up and I thought, ‘Oh, you’re on the road, come on, do something you want. Eat something bad.’ And I went for buffalo chicken wings at 2 in the afternoon. So I’m eating them and my tooth breaks off. And being the Cro-Magnon that I am, I just keep eating them. ’Cause I knew it came off, but I figured, ‘Hey, I’m a hot mess, I might as well just finish this thing off.’ It looked like a crime scene. I was just covered in buffalo blood. I cleaned up ... and the club owner took me over to see his friend who’s a dentist at a strip mall. So my last memory of Charlotte was laying back in a chair with a guy that possibly had a couple beers in him drilling into my face.”

This story was originally published May 13, 2015 at 2:43 PM with the headline "5 things you might not know about Bob Saget."