"Danny Tanner Is Not Gay"

Today, my roommate got hooked up with Bob Saget tickets from work so instead of going to the gym, then watching the NBA Draft and the USA vs. Argentina game, I made the short trek through the Tenderloin to the Warfield after work. I think trading David Stern and American soccer for a free comedy show was a good deal.

I'm skipping a quick review of the opener Ryan Stout because I'm tired, not because he wasn't funny... Okay, maybe I'll say something about him because he was pretty funny. He liked to make fun of certain groups of people (little people, special people, poor people, the homeless) and then shake his head at the audience in disgust. I can't remember many of his jokes specifically but my favorite bit of his involved 25 Chinese kids who died in a fire. Apparently, they evacuated the burning school only to run around the building and then right back inside. All of the students were found in the wrong seats. Think about it...

Bob Saget was entertaining. While he was probably the most vulgar person I have ever listened to for an extended period of time, he was pretty hilarious too. He spent most of the night cursing, swearing, cussing, using profanity and apologizing for cursing, swearing, cussing and using profanity. His material ranged from making celebrity jokes to cracking on the audience to singing songs and they all involved various amounts of sexual references and innuendos. Sometimes it was over the top and awkward and sometimes it was right on. Like most good comedians, he spent a lot of time making fun of his family and himself. He also told his joke from The Aristocrats and talked about Half Baked, Dirty Work, America's Funniest Home Videos and Full House. I thought the Full House jokes were the best, which worked out seeing as most of the set was based on Full House references and stories. There were multiple jokes about him having sex with Kimmy Gibbler and him being gay with John Stamos. He also did a bit about San Francisco and slipped in jokes about Pan's Labyrinth, Gollum, the weird old guy from the Six Flags commercials, ET and leprechauns. The evening culminated with a song called "Danny Tanner Is Not Gay", which parodied the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way". I thought that was pretty great.