John Stamos on grieving Bob Saget and the way an impromptu tribute grew to become a Netflix particular

So shut, actually, that Stamos acted as a pallbearer at Saget's funeral -- a day, he confessed on Twitter, that was "the toughest day of my life."

On the funeral, Saget's first spouse, Sherri Kramer, gifted Stamos precisely what he wanted to listen to -- a tribute to their distinctive friendship that makes Stamos snigger as he remembers her phrases: "Bob beloved you a lot," she advised him, in accordance with Stamos, "however he additionally hated you for a very long time."

Greatest pals, then brothers

After the present ended, Saget and Stamos bonded over attempting to shake their healthful "Full Home" characters, Danny Tanner and Jesse Katsopolis, respectively.

"We each knew his true 'soiled daddy' self," Stamos says, as did anybody who was round when the cameras would cease rolling and the jokes would start.

The extra they hung out collectively -- together with, ultimately, on a reboot referred to as "Fuller Home" -- the extra they grew to like each other. Stamos says the 2 even started seeing the identical therapist.

"He began popping into my life once I wanted him essentially the most, once I wanted anyone. After which vice versa," Stamos says. "After which we simply received nearer and nearer and nearer, and we ended up simply being there for one another through the happiest and the saddest moments of our lives."

He shares this whereas enjoying snippets of the Netflix particular, rising emotional as he watches his finest good friend seem on display screen, vacillating between crying and laughing.

He's nonetheless so unhappy, he says.

He performs a clip of comic Jeff Ross, Jim Carrey, Chris Rock, John Mayer and himself riffing on stage about their mutual pal. The stage is scattered with plush chairs and Ross is internet hosting. Ross makes a joke: "John Mayer is right here, and John very, very, very generously employed a personal jet to fly Bob's physique house. He additionally employed a Goodyear Blimp to fly in Louis Anderson's physique."

Stamos laughs, saying, "it was a light-weight roast Bob would have beloved."

'It was such a intestine punch'

Stamos had been driving round along with his 4-year-old son, Billy, attempting to get him to nap, shortly earlier than he came upon the information. He was in a parking zone not removed from his house when his publicist referred to as.

"He requested if I had spoken to Bob but that day ... that individuals are saying he is lifeless," he remembers. "I am going, 'What? He is in Florida to do a present.'"

He hung up and referred to as and texted Saget a number of instances, then began calling Saget's spouse, Kelly Rizzo. When he reached her; she was screaming and crying. The information was true.

"I hit the bottom within the parking zone. And it was downhill from there," he says. "It was simply 'I am so sorry.' It was such a intestine punch."

He returned house with Billy nonetheless asleep and went out on a balcony in his home, the place he noticed a hummingbird hovering close by. Within the Stamos household custom, this implies an individual who has died is visiting.

"I do not know why I did it, however I videotaped it," Stamos says. "And I received video of the little hummingbird that I believe was Bob."

Rock 'n' roll shiva

Since within the Jewish custom the funeral ought to happen inside 24 hours of the time of loss of life, Stamos says he and pals "whipped a funeral collectively," received Saget's physique house and had a ceremony lower than every week after his loss of life.

Stamos was there alongside "Full Home" co-stars Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Lori Loughlin and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

Then on Jan. 30, family and friends threw a touching and unhappy "impromptu rock 'n' roll shiva" for Saget in a small room above The Comedy Retailer in Hollywood, the place he had began his profession as a standup.

Stamos performs footage of himself giving an emotional speech about Saget, the place he tells the viewers in regards to the "honor of being his finest good friend ... one in every of his finest pals, for 35 years." The viewers was full of a combination of pals, household and followers. Stamos performed them a tribute video he product of Saget, however revisiting it was troublesome.

"That is onerous to look at," he says, tearing up.

Producer Mike Binder, a good friend of Saget and Coulier, got here up with the thought for the tribute, with Ross and Stamos set to host. They did not have a lot ready, however Stamos and Mayer had been in a position to get a band collectively. Binder arrange cameras "simply in case" and well-known faces began rolling in, Stamos recalled.

"I hear these two voices that sound so acquainted by the door, I believe, 'That seems like Chris Rock. That seems like Jim Carrey.' I had no thought they had been gonna be there," he says. "And everyone simply walked on stage, and it simply took off from there."

The result's uncooked and intimate, and Stamos wouldn't have a celebration of Saget's life introduced in some other manner.

He hopes everybody sees how beloved -- and loving -- his good friend was.

"He would at all times inform you how a lot he beloved you, why he beloved you. He by no means received off the cellphone," Stamos says. "I might present you; it is 'I really like you. I really like you.' Fifty instances, one million instances."

He says that as a result of Saget suffered numerous loss in his life, he was aware of getting his message of affection throughout.

"That is our lesson and that is for certain. I imply, lots of people that had been round him, they certain do say, 'I really like you' rather a lot," he says, laughing.

Stamos, selecting up and strumming a guitar of Saget's, remembers the final time he noticed his good friend in particular person.

It was a double date at Nobu in Malibu, the place he left with a full coronary heart fascinated with their friendship.

"That evening Bob was all the pieces that I needed him to be," he says. "All the perfect elements of him had been at that dinner... I swear to God, he was simply, like, at peace in some way."

He listened, intently considering what was occurring in different individuals's lives, Stamos says.

"You understand, typically you might inform, 'He is simply asking questions as a result of he is purported to as a result of our shrink advised him to,'" he laughs, "However that evening was totally different."

He says his favourite traces from the particular come from Jim Carrey.

Within the second, which he performs over Zoom, Carrey addresses the gang as a blues track performs within the background.

"Bob wasn't somebody who was taken away from us; he was one thing that was given to us," Carrey says. "And sooner or later, when the laughs had hit a certain quantity, he simply unzipped his human swimsuit and went for a trip."

He is most likely "floating above us" at this very second, Carrey provides, "flanked by angels."

"And so they're sayin', 'You made individuals snigger,' 'You made individuals really feel beloved,' 'You made individuals cash,' 'You created a cathedral of f***ing love on this world.' And that was your life, Bob Saget, a cathedral of affection, a cathedral of laughter."

"Soiled Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute" premieres June 10 on Netflix.