Bob Saget On Politics And Fielding Olsen Questions: It's "Exhausting"

NEW YORK — Cloris Leachman spares Bob Saget little dignity in her feisty appearance at his Comedy Central roast. In a video snippet of the taped event, set to air Sunday night, the award-winning actress snipes, "Can't believe I shaved for this. I mean, what am I even doing here? Who cares about Bob Saget?" Low blow. But Saget laps it up, laughing large at the award-winning actress' routine. When asked why the cable channel singled him out to be roasted, he says with mock humility, "I don't know. You know, I guess a few other people turned it down. It's always how I look at it." That schtick isn't fooling anyone, though. The actor-comedian is a bona-fide cultural icon, thanks to his role as squeaky clean single dad Danny Tanner on "Full House," the addictively cheesy ABC sitcom that launched the phenomenon known as the Olsen twins, who were barely out of diapers when the show debuted in 1987. An entire generation will always know Saget by his "Full House" alter ego. But it was ... (link)