Jimmy Kimmel was overcome with emotion as he addressed the death of his friend, Bob Saget, in the opening monologue of his show.
Jimmy Kimmel broke down in tears as he paid an emotional tribute to Bob Saget in a pretaped monologue on Monday night — calling the late actor and comedian “the sweetest man” who “always had a compliment.”
“Bob was the sweetest. He was the sweetest man,” Kimmel said on his show as he choked back tears, reports the NY Post.
“I have so many wonderfully kind and supportive texts and emails and calls from Bob.
“He always had a compliment. He’d write sometimes just to tell me he loved me and I know he did that for many people … He had something funny to say about everything and nothing bad to say about anyone. Never,” the Emmy Award-winning talk show host said.
“He was so funny, and I’m not talking about Full House or America’s Funniest Home Videos or stand-up comedy or movies, I mean funny for real,” Kimmel continued.
“Like, when you walked into a party, you saw Bob and his wife, Kelly, in the corner, you go straight to them and stay for as long as you could,” he said.
“If there were people he didn’t like, he kept it to himself. He was — unlike me, he was a good person,” he added.
Kimmel also revealed that when his son was in the hospital, Saget “checked in a lot.”
“He was very kind to everyone and he had no problem telling you that he loved you and what you meant to him,” he said.
The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host also took time to recount the Full House star’s efforts to raise money in the fight against scleroderma, a rare auto-immune disease that claimed the life of one of Saget’s sisters, Gay.
After she was diagnosed, Saget joined the board of directors for the Scleroderma Research Foundation, which Kimmel urged people to donate to.
The host later pulled out a copy of an email he received from Saget, in which they discussed their children.
“One night soon let’s go out and have some meat and some good damn drinks and talk about how lucky we are that we have them,” he read from the message.
Saget was reportedly found dead in his Florida hotel room bed by a housekeeper after he missed his late checkout time.
The cleaner made the grim discovery when she entered his room at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando at about 4pm Sunday — an hour after the 65-year-old was due to check out, a source told People.
Saget’s official cause of death has yet to be determined, but investigators said they’d found “no signs of foul play or drug use in this case.”
Law enforcement sources told TMZ that Saget may have suffered a medical emergency such as a heart attack or a stroke.
According to a death investigation report, the comedian was found lying on his back in bed with his left arm across his chest and his right arm resting on the bed.
Sources pointed out to TMZ that the position could be consistent with signs of a heart attack.
Authorities also are investigating Saget’s revelation on the podcast “A Corporate Time with Tom & Dan” days before his death that he had battled COVID-19, which in some cases may cause blood clots, according to the news outlet.
“It is not good, it does not feel good,” he said on the show. “I don’t know if I had Delta or … I might have had a combo. Maybe at one point they [Delta and Omicron] were working together.”
The medical examiner’s office said the investigation into his death “may take up to 10-12 weeks to complete.”
This article originally appeared in the NY Post and was republished with permission.
Originally published as Jimmy Kimmel chokes back tears during emotional tribute to Bob Saget
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