Danny Tanner Forever

August 09, 2006

Remember when Bob Saget was hosting “America’s Funniest Home Videos?” His role as MC was very family-friendly: full of pratfalls, jokes that made little sense, and a lot of terrible voice-overs for home videos about people getting hit in the jimmies.

And then things changed. Bob started to take delight in shocking audiences by playing roles that parodied his "Home Videos" and “Full House” days. His role on “Huff,” was of a coke-addled actor, carrying a show about an alll-American dad. He played himself (and seemed to be actively reliving some terrible childhood trauma) in The Aristocrats, a movie about the world’s filthiest joke.

Now he returns to television as the host of NBC’s “1 vs 100,” a game show where one person competes to answer trivia questions against a team of one hundred people. The prizes get larger the longer the first person stays on the show.

Confused? So are we. Bu tthe point is that Bob Saget needs this job.

As Howie Mandel’s career has been helped enormously by his role on the gameshow “Deal or No Deal,” so too, could Bob’s.