Saget gets down, dirty

By CRISTINA KINON

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

HBO should run a disclaimer before airing Bob Saget’s new comedy special, “That Ain’t Right,” at 10 tonight: “Not intended for Danny Tanner fans.”

Saget’s standup routine is such a far cry from his character on the long-running family show “Full House” that anyone who didn’t catch his cameo in 2005’s “The Aristocrats” will be shocked to learn that Saget enjoys a good dirty joke, or 50.

“I guess I have some concerns because what I would hate is for parents to put their kids down in front of the television and go, ‘We’re going to go out to dinner tonight. You just watch the dad from ‘Full House,’” Saget told the New York Daily News. “They’re going to come home and the poor kid’s head is going to be spinning around and he’ll be levitating.”

Saget’s act consists of just about every four-letter word in the English language, jokes about farm animals and sexual situations, talk of his kids, ex-wife and current girlfriend, and a whole lot of Kimmy Gibbler and “Full House” banter.

“If I’m going to fault myself, I would say [my show] is very self-aware of how people perceive me,” said Saget. “When I’m walking down the street, it’s like being in a big bird suit. Those shows — ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ and ‘Full House’ — run forever, four hours a day, and to walk around like I see a lot of my actor-friends or other celebrities and go, ‘I’m not that guy, leave me alone, that’s not me!’ It’s like, sorry buddy, you are ... so I cop to it, because they love it.”

Much of his standup is improvisation, says Saget, so it’s never quite the same each time he’s on stage, and a lot of the time he uses the audience as a gauge.

“I’ll just go off on a tangent and the audience will start to cheer it on,” Saget said. “I guess they’re egging on the village idiot.”