John Stamos Remembers Bob Saget By Publishing His Funeral Speech On Fallen Friend
22.01.2022 - 02:45
/ deadline.com
John Stamos has published his eulogy to Full House costar Bob Saget, noting how “Bob was there for me like no other.”
Saget died unexpectedly on Jan. 9 in a Orlando, Florida hotel room after a final standup comedy show. His private funeral was held a week later in Los Angeles.
Stamos published his funeral speech in the Los Angeles Times today.
Read the full text below:
My Bob. I’m not ready to accept that he’s gone. I’m not going to say goodbye yet.
I imagine him out there, still on the road, doing what he loves with all his heart and humor. He’s standing on stage, killing! Another two-hour set in front of a couple hundred of the luckiest people on the planet. They’re laughing so hard they weep. And just when they catch their breath, he grabs his guitar and slays them with one of his musical closers. There’s an encore, and another, and another. Everyone here wants an encore with Bob.
He calls his one true love, Kelly [Rizzo], and tells her about his show. He says he feels 26 again, alive, then asks her to fix up a picture he wants to post, and she says it doesn’t need fixing and tells him how handsome he is. He says he loves her with every bit of his heart. And when he gets to the hotel to put his head on the pillow, he misses his daughters, his family and his friends.
God, he loves us all so much. Bob goes to sleep dreaming of when we’ll meet again — and he’s smiling. I know in my heart he’s smiling, still hearing the laughter from a few hours before.
He should still be out there challenging himself creatively, stripping down all the Hollywood bull—, traveling to small towns around the country, giving the people raw, wild, unpredictable, and uncensored Saget. “Tonight’s specials are cake and cock … and we’re out of cake.”
When I