John Stamos on grieving Bob Saget and how an impromptu tribute became a Netflix special

So shut, actually, that Stamos acted as a pallbearer at Saget’s funeral — a day, he confessed on Twitter, that was “the toughest day of my life.”

On the funeral, Saget’s first spouse, Sherri Kramer, gifted Stamos precisely what he wanted to listen to — a tribute to their distinctive friendship that makes Stamos snort as he remembers her phrases: “Bob liked you a lot,” she informed him, in keeping with Stamos, “however he additionally hated you for a very long time.”

Finest pals, then brothers

After the present ended, Saget and Stamos bonded over attempting to shake their healthful “Full Home” characters, Danny Tanner and Jesse Katsopolis, respectively.

“We each knew his true ‘soiled daddy’ self,” Stamos says, as did anybody who was round when the cameras would cease rolling and the jokes would start.

The extra they hung out collectively — together with, ultimately, on a reboot referred to as “Fuller Home” — the extra they grew to like each other. Stamos says the 2 even started seeing the identical therapist.

“He began popping into my life once I wanted him essentially the most, once I wanted any person. After which vice versa,” Stamos says. “After which we simply obtained nearer and nearer and nearer, and we ended up simply being there for one another through the happiest and the saddest moments of our lives.”

He shares this whereas enjoying snippets of the Netflix particular, rising emotional as he watches his greatest buddy seem on display screen, vacillating between crying and laughing.

He’s nonetheless so unhappy, he says.

He performs a clip of comic Jeff Ross, Jim Carrey, Chris Rock, John Mayer and himself riffing on stage about their mutual pal. The stage is scattered with plush chairs and Ross is internet hosting. Ross makes a joke: “John Mayer is right here, and John very, very, very generously employed a personal jet to fly Bob’s physique dwelling. He additionally employed a Goodyear Blimp to fly in Louis Anderson’s physique.”

Stamos laughs, saying, “it was a light-weight roast Bob would have liked.”

‘It was such a intestine punch’

Stamos had been driving round along with his 4-year-old son, Billy, attempting to get him to nap, shortly earlier than he discovered the information. He was in a parking zone not removed from his dwelling when his publicist referred to as.

“He requested if I had spoken to Bob but that day … that persons are saying he is useless,” he remembers. “I’m going, ‘What? He is in Florida to do a present.’”

He hung up and referred to as and texted Saget a number of instances, then began calling Saget’s spouse, Kelly Rizzo. When he reached her; she was screaming and crying. The information was true.

“I hit the bottom within the parking zone. And it was downhill from there,” he says. “It was simply ‘I am so sorry.’ It was such a intestine punch.”

He returned dwelling with Billy nonetheless asleep and went out on a balcony in his home, the place he noticed a hummingbird hovering close by. Within the Stamos household custom, this implies an individual who has died is visiting.

“I do not know why I did it, however I videotaped it,” Stamos says. “And I obtained video of the little hummingbird that I believe was Bob.”

Rock ‘n’ roll shiva

Since within the Jewish custom the funeral ought to happen inside 24 hours of the time of demise, Stamos says he and pals “whipped a funeral collectively,” obtained Saget’s physique dwelling and had a ceremony lower than per week after his demise.

Stamos was there alongside “Full Home” co-stars Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Lori Loughlin and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

Then on Jan. 30, family and friends threw a touching and unhappy “impromptu rock ‘n’ roll shiva” for Saget in a small room above The Comedy Retailer in Hollywood, the place he had began his profession as a standup.

Stamos performs footage of himself giving an emotional speech about Saget, the place he tells the viewers concerning the “honor of being his greatest buddy … one in all his greatest pals, for 35 years.” The viewers was crammed with a combination of pals, household and followers. Stamos performed them a tribute video he manufactured from Saget, however revisiting it was troublesome.

“That is arduous to observe,” he says, tearing up.

Producer Mike Binder, a buddy of Saget and Coulier, got here up with the thought for the tribute, with Ross and Stamos set to host. They did not have a lot ready, however Stamos and Mayer have been in a position to get a band collectively. Binder arrange cameras “simply in case” and well-known faces began rolling in, Stamos recalled.

“I hear these two voices that sound so acquainted by the door, I believe, ‘That seems like Chris Rock. That seems like Jim Carrey.’ I had no concept they have been gonna be there,” he says. “And all people simply walked on stage, and it simply took off from there.”

The result’s uncooked and intimate, and Stamos wouldn’t have a celebration of Saget’s life introduced in another method.

He hopes everybody sees how liked — and loving — his buddy was.

“He would at all times inform you how a lot he liked you, why he liked you. He by no means obtained off the telephone,” Stamos says. “I might present you; it is ‘I really like you. I really like you.’ Fifty instances, one million instances.”

He says that as a result of Saget suffered a variety of loss in his life, he was conscious about getting his message of affection throughout.

“That is our lesson and that is for certain. I imply, lots of people that have been round him, they certain do say, ‘I really like you’ quite a bit,” he says, laughing.

Stamos, selecting up and strumming a guitar of Saget’s, remembers the final time he noticed his buddy in particular person.

It was a double date at Nobu in Malibu, the place he left with a full coronary heart fascinated by their friendship.

“That night time Bob was all the pieces that I wished him to be,” he says. “All one of the best components of him have been at that dinner… I swear to God, he was simply, like, at peace one way or the other.”

He listened, intently considering what was happening in different folks’s lives, Stamos says.

“, generally you might inform, ‘He is simply asking questions as a result of he is imagined to as a result of our shrink informed him to,’” he laughs, “However that night time was completely different.”

He says his favourite traces from the particular come from Jim Carrey.

Within the second, which he performs over Zoom, Carrey addresses the group as a blues track performs within the background.

“Bob wasn’t somebody who was taken away from us; he was one thing that was given to us,” Carrey says. “And at some point, when the laughs had hit a specific amount, he simply unzipped his human go well with and went for a journey.”

He is most likely “floating above us” at this very second, Carrey provides, “flanked by angels.”

“And so they’re sayin’, ‘You made folks snort,’ ‘You made folks really feel liked,’ ‘You made folks cash,’ ‘You created a cathedral of f***ing love on this world.’ And that was your life, Bob Saget, a cathedral of affection, a cathedral of laughter.”

“Soiled Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute” premieres June 10 on Netflix.