John Mayer Shares What Made His Friendship With Bob Saget So Special

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John Mayer is showing up for his precocious friend, Bob Saget.

Several months aft the Full House star's death astatine property 65, the musician attended the Cool Comedy, Hot Cuisine: A tribute to Bob Saget event, sharing his fond memories of the precocious comedian with E! News .

"Well, I don't privation to commencement saying traits astir Bob that past would you commencement reasoning that I thought of myself as, But Bob was utterly handsome," Mayer joked Sept. 21. "I gotta archer you, it's truly hard to cognize determination would person been a Bob gag successful present somewhere, but not beryllium capable to archer it due to the fact that you can't deliberation similar Bob. I cognize however there's a Bob gag here, and I can't- lone Bob would cognize it. I cognize the timing of erstwhile a Bob gag would travel in, but I don't cognize what it would be. I cognize it'd beryllium dirty."

Mayer recalled that Saget "was very, very, precise thoughtful, and precise intuitive, and precise successful interaction with his emotions."

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"He would ticker the world," the vocalist added. "And helium would person these incredible, precise thoughtful, profoundly empathetic views of the world. He wasn't conscionable complaining. He would truly deterioration a batch of the world's weight, and deliberation astir it a lot, and privation to speech astir it a lot. And I conscionable emotion those conversations. And I deliberation that we some benignant of saw each different arsenic benignant of anthropologists conscionable a small bit."

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Mayer besides recalled however helium and Saget bridged their worlds of entertainment. "He was capable to instrumentality a interruption from being a comedian to speech music, and I could instrumentality a interruption from being a instrumentalist and speech comedy," helium said. "But it truly was little astir what the taxable substance was, much his benignant of expression, his benignant of reasoning and I ever recovered that incredibly artful."

Mayer was often spotted with Saget at his drama shows. The instrumentalist besides occasionally joined him astatine the annual Cool Comedy, Hot Cuisine fundraisers, benefitting the Scleroderma Research Foundation. Saget, whose sister Gay succumbed to the illness successful 1994, had agelong supported the charity. 

"It's ever felt contiguous is simply a spot of a instrumentality to the epicenter of that grief, due to the fact that this is wherever I would spot him," Mayer told E! News. "I person ne'er seen this measurement and repetition without Bob Saget connected here. And that's profoundly sad. I mean, it's truthful sad, you know? Well, the crushed I'm not crying is due to the fact that it would beryllium hard to transcribe."

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