Profession: Actor, comedian, filmmaker, television host

Bob Saget, the man one is familiar with for his various roles that were funny, touchy, witty and above all highly entertaining. You might know him for his amazing hosting of the show America’s funniest Home Videos, or for his role as Danny Tanner in Full House or even as the voice of the future Ted Mosby on How I Met Your Mother. Some even remember him as Vincent Chase’s next door neighbor from the televisions show Entourage. Whatever it maybe, he sure is remember fondly.

The young talent

The young Bob Saget, who was all out to become a doctor was told by one of his teachers, who spotted the innate talent in Bob entertain people, to pursue a career in movies. Well, that advice sure seems to have done well for Bob.

He was born in Philadelphia but his family moved to Lexington, Virginia when he was very young. He attended Rockbridge County Hihg School before moving back to Philadelphia and graduating from Abington Senior High School, the very place that led him to pursue his inborn talent as a profession.

Later he attended Temple University’s film school, where he created Through Adam’s Eyes, a black-and-white film about a boy who received reconstructive facial surgery, and was honored with an award of merit in the Student Academy Awards.

He started off his career by performing stand-up comedy and did a number of national tours. Later, in 1987, he became the co-host of a morning for CBS called The Morning Program, for which he also wrote and produced content.

The Big Break

He got his big break in acting when he was cast as Danny tanner in the television show Full House, which became an instant hit with the audience and gave him the much needed rise to fame. The show landed in the Nielsen’s rating’s Top 30 from the third season onward. Soon after, he got offered to host the show America’s Funniest Home Videos. This was a huge hit with the audience as he took television to a whole new level. During the early 1990s Saget worked both on Full House and America’s Funniest Videos simultaneously, and in 2009 returned to Americas Funniest Videos for a 20th anniversary one-hour special co-hosted with Tom Bergeron.

In addition to the above, he directed MGM’s cult favorite movie ‘Dirty Work,’ directed and produced the highly acclaimed ABC television movie, ‘For Hope,’ which was based on his sister and her struggle with the disease scleroderma. He also starred in the critically acclaimed, Paul Weitz off-Broadway play, ‘Privilege’ and the Broadway Tony Award winning ‘The Drowsy Chaperone.’ He won a Student Academy Award in 1977 for his documentary film Through Adam’s Eyes, which he made while he was enrolled at Temple University’s film school.

In 2005, the audience got to witness a whole new side of Saget in The Aristocrats, a documentary about a famous dirty joke. He also became the narrator for the sitcom How I Met Your Mother that same year. Being best at what he does, making fun of his role, Saget also made a hilarious guest appearance on the HBO comedy series Entourage, portraying himself as a dope-smoking divorced man with a fondness for prostitutes.

Saget then went on to write, produce, and provide some of the voices for the nature documentary spoof Farce of the Penguin, a parody of 2005′s March of the Penguins, which was released direct-to-DVD, in January 2007.Other vocal contributors included Dane Cook, Dave Coulier, Jason Alexander, Samuel L. Jackson, and Christina Applegate. Returning to television, Saget became the host of the prime time game show, 1 vs 100.

In 2010, Saget starred in an A&E series Strange Days in which he follows others in different activities and lifestyles, documenting their adventures in unusual ways.

Did you know that he is probably one of the very few comedians who have been called both the worst comedian ever and the best comedian ever? Well, that’s a first.

He was paid around $100, 000 per episode for hosting America’s funniest videos. And currently he is being paid around $150,000 per voice over narration of the popular television series, how I Met Your Mother.

Dedicated to charity

It is only too obvious for him to be associated with an organization working for people with cance, since his sister Gay, passed away because of cancer. He is currently a board member of the Scleroderma Research Foundation. An organization whose to mission is to find new and improved therapies as well as a cure for scleroderma by funding major research. In addition, the organization funds and supports various Scleroderma Centers of Excellence, which provide multi-specialty clinical care in dedicated facilities throughout the US, including the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center. He is involved in many fundraising benefits, towards finding a cure for this disease.

Personal Life

He may be a man with all the charm and funny dialogues but ironically his personal life seems all too bland and well out of tabloids for unknown reasons. He presently stands divorced, being previously married to Sherri Kramer Saget. He has three children with his ex-wife.

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Introduction

Jason Alexander was born on September 23, 1959 in Newark, New Jersey. His birth name is Jay Scott Greenspan which later changed to Jason Alexander as his professional name. Jason is a professional American actor, director, producer, writer and singer. He married to Daena E. Title in the year 1982. He has two children – Gabriel Alexander and Noah Alexander. He is famous for the role of George Costanza on Seinfeld from 1989-1998. He is a very rich man. He is multitalented and is a comedian also. He received a number of titles and wards in the awards functions. He received Tony award as the best leading actor in musical. He is the director of the film ‘Reprise’. He is also a good poker player.

Early Life

He is a son Jewish parents, mother Ruth Minnie was a nurse and health care administrator and father Alexander B. Greenspan who was an accounting manager. He has a half-sister and half-brother, Karen Van Home and Michel Greenspan respectively. Though he born in Newark, New Jersey but he grew up in Livingston, New Jersey as he is a graduate from Livingston High School in 1977. At the early age he was suffered from Asthma because of which his vice was wheezy, after his school, he joined Boston University but left in the senior year as he got the job. He was magician at time but left that and switched to acting because of the intuition that he might not be successful as a magician.

Career

Jason began his career in acting in New York and got half of his fortune from acting. He appeared in Stephen Sondheim’s Merilly We Roll Along, Kander & Ebb’s The Rink, Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound and Jerome Robbin’s Broadway for which he got the 1989 Tony Award for bet featured actor in Musical.

In 1977, while he was studying in high school, one of his classmates, Julia Montgomery co-starred in numerous high school productions. He also known for playing flute. Some of his high school credits are ‘Guys and dolls’, ‘The Old Couple’ and ‘Oliver’. He is really an awesome actor and director, this can be easily see from the fact that he has an extensive knowledge of the original Star Trek (1966) episodes. On the radio show, Howard Stern (1944) he asked many skill testing question about the episode Star Trek. In 2002, he decided to join the University of Southern California not to learn but to teach the acting to the students. It is funny that he started losing his at the very age of 16.

While filming Seinfeld he always use the dress one size small, so that it give funny look and look ‘uncool’. In 2006, at the ‘Magic castle in Los Angeles’ he acted as a magician and gave a performance on studying a predicting behavioral patterns. He won $250,000 on the episode ‘who wants to be a Millionaire’ in 2002. He completed his task of correctly identifying the Gerald Ford as the president. This money was later divided into three charities. He lent his voice to the album Family Guy in the year 1999. Later in the year 2010, he started running his own company called Angel Ark Publications in Los Angeles.

Personal Quotes

Some of his personal quotes are ‘I am not bald. I shave my head to keep in character with George’.  Jason Alexander was popular for his role of George Costanza in the comedy show Seinfeld. Next quote is ‘The greatest part of the job was..that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work’, ‘I still don’t know much about movie’ whereas he played roles in TV shows and Movies including the role in Pretty Woman, where he played a role of a lawyer, and a shallow hall in which he is actually pretending and inept womanizer.  Another quote is ‘the shoe is like an Edwardian play- emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that’s terrific for actors to play in’.

Poker

Recently Jason competed in various tournaments of poker. He won the final table of the 8^th season on the Bravo’s Celebrity Poker Showdown. He won $500,000 and donated it to the charity. He is an avid poker player. He played in 2007 World Series of Poker event, but unluckily eliminated in the second round.

Richness

His total worth is $75 Million. He has homes in New York and California, U.S. at the age of 14 he used to drive the bicycle on the roads and today is so much rich that he owned number of cars. His nicknames are Jay and Pretzel Boy. He earned a lot from the films and the TV shows. His main role was in Seinfeld and people really like it. He is good actor and director at the same time. He also earned from his shows of magician. He donated $500,000 in the charity which he won in the poker game. Not only had this he lent his voice to the episodes of ‘Twilight Zone radio Dramas’. Recently it was in the news that he soon going to join the series of Nickelodeon. In the music videos ‘Celebrity’ and ‘Online’ , Jason was featured in the country music star Brad Paisley.

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