In 2016, Saget shared a photo onInstagramof his 21-year-old self, posing with his award.

According to Saget, he lost once and won once.

However, as Saget revealed in an interview withAlabama.com, he almost didn’t get the part.

Bob Saget smiling

When creating the role of Danny Tanner, they had Saget in mind.

“So I took the job, and it meant everything.”

“My family is still having post-traumatic stress disorder.

Bob Saget at Comic Relief

I don’t know how my parents endured.”

Two years later, his sister was diagnosed with that same disease.

Looking back at the sequence of events, Saget added, “It just happened.

Bob Saget on The Dating Game

It’s just supposed to have.”

While this made him one of TV’s biggest stars, the schedule was unrelenting.

“I was working 80 hours a week,” Saget recalled in a 2006 interview withThe Daily Northwestern.

Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, John Stamos in Fuller House

“I was going nuts.

I felt like I was funny but didn’t feel funny on the shows.”

“I felt like my voice was tainted because I had to serve that audience.

Bob Saget in 2005

“I think they’d say I’m respectful and loving and understanding.

I worship them,” Saget gushed.

“The best thing I’ve done, the highest thing in my whole life is my daughters.”

Dan Delany, Bob Saget

Saget expressed similar sentiments in a 2016 chat with People.

), Jodie Sweetin (Stephanie), and twins Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen (Michelle).

It all started with an interview that Fishel gave to Maxim.

Bob Saget onstage

Then he looks my dad in the eye, laughs, and closes the curtain.”

It was funny.'"

Commenting on his role, Sagetconfessed, “I’m not a big singer in this show.

Bob Saget singing onstage

I’m not a big dancer in this show thank God!”

He also described the experience of appearing in Broadway as “a dream … a silly, wonderful dream.

There’s nothing that compares to it.”

Bob Saget with daughters s Lara, Aubrey and Jennie

He had a very specific pre-show ritual

Getting laughs onstage was something that Bob Saget took seriously.

“That half-hour is a sacred hour; everyone focuses,” he said.

At that point, he added, “You just trust.”

Bob Saget, Danielle Fishel

Taking toTwitter, Chelsea Handler wrote that Saget was “the kindest, warmest male comic there was …

He was the guy that everyone loved.”

After the episode aired, Saget spoke about the experience withEntertainment Weekly.

Bob Saget and cast of Hand to God

“We need distractions right now as much as we can.”

Bob Saget performing at The Improv

Bob Saget and fellow celebrities at schleroderma fundraiser

Mary-Kate Olsen, Bob Saget, Ashley Olsen

Bob Saget as the Squiggly Monster on The Masked Singer