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[ Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006 ]

From sitcoms to game shows

Collegian Staff Writer

Philadelphia native Bob Saget is a man of many hats. He is perhaps best know for his wholesome, clean-cut roles as the host of America's Funniest Home Videos and as Danny Tanner on Full House. More recently, he's been able to showcase the more risqué dynamic more common to his stand-up act, which can be seen in guest spots on various TV shows as well as his performance in the movie The Aristocrats. In his newest venture, he's hosting NBC's new game show, 1 vs. 100, which airs Friday night at 8.

Q: As the host of 1 vs. 100, how do you compare to other game show hosts?

A: There's no way I'm better [than Howie Mandel]. I didn't shave my head for this show, but I did shave everything else. I don't compare myself with anybody. I compare myself to the Lincoln exhibit in Disneyland. I think of myself as a comedian who's doing a game show. I think of myself as a woman. You ever do that, just look in the mirror and think, God, I'd be a pretty girl? I compare myself to spokesmodels. When I look at other people on television that I want to be like, it's the Deal or No Deal models, because they're beautiful. That'd be so good to be a hot girl.

Q: I watched the first few episodes of the show, and I was wondering, why are the questions so easy?

A: They do get harder. I didn't know what was going on. We were learning what the show was, you know? It wasn't like, "What color is the American flag," but it wasn't as difficult as, "The professor tried to make a bra out of Ginger's what?" I think it just gets harder as it goes.

 

Q: You graduated from Abington High School. Why did you choose to go to Temple instead of Penn State?

A: They had a film school that I wanted to go to. And I think economically, like my family wasn't made of dough. I lived at home during college. We lived in a barn--my parents were carnies, my mom was a bearded lady. No, but really, I should have gone to Penn State. I wanted to; I had friends there.

Q: How did you become the commissioner of the CHIKARA wrestling league?

A: That's the funniest thing. Like, what's that? A camera guy came up to me and said, "Would you look at the camera and say you're the commissioner of wrestling?" I was just like "Please go away, yes, I'm the commissioner of wrestling, whatever you want." And the next thing I know, I'm the commissioner of wrestling. Too bad they didn't say like, "You're the mayor of the world," or something.

Q: What is the funniest home video you've ever seen?

A: I guess it was the one with the monkey that scratches the inside of his butt and he sniffs his hand and he inhaled it and he passed out. He lost his balance in the tree and passed out from smelling his own funk. It's on the Web, you can find it. I think it's under "monkey sniffing." But now on 1 vs. 100, there's no videos. I just get to talk to nice people. No one seems to be doing what that monkey did. See, 1 vs. 100 has 100 contestants, and if someone on the very top did what that monkey did, they'd pass out. They'd fall all the way to the studio floor in front of a live audience.


 

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