This transcript is excerpted from the podcast interview in the video above.
Chicks in the Office: How did you become friends with John Mayer? Such good friends with him?
Bob Saget: I asked him to do my Scleroderma benefit like 13 years ago. And then my dad had just passed away—or was passing, no he just passed away. It doesn't matter, he's living or he's dead. And Mayer went out and did stand-up with me, it was the first time he ever did stand-up. So I took him to the Laugh Factory. And I needed to do stand-up because that's my venting. That's my therapy when I don't have time to go to therapy. And we went to this club The Laugh Factory and he got on stage and did stuff about animals and people uniting. And I said, you got to be careful this stuff. He's hilarious. And he's such a good guy, he's such a good friend.
CITO: Yeah, we're big fans of him here. We watch every single one of his, uh live—
BS: Do you watch his Current Mood? I've been on that. And he had a fake Vanity Fair party where he just had the three letters. I was there.
CITO: Yeah how was that?
BS: It was insane, it was so stupid. And it looked like it was the Vanity Fair party. And he said, "ah!" And then after about seven minutes he just said, "no we're not there," and pull back. And he has Instagram come to his house. Five cameras and a whole crew.
CITO: Yeah, it was funny because so many pictures from his "live" came up, like, on red carpet photos of the Vanity Fair party, and people were like, "is that John Mayer's party or the actual party? You couldn't tell, it was done so well.
BS: And it was fun. And we had—I don't give sponsorships—but we had a famous burger company support it.
CITO: Shake Shack, I heard.
BS: I'm glad you said it.
CITO: Yeah I had to say it.
BS: I've never had before, but at the Vanity Fair party.
CITO: You had it that night?
BS: Yeah I did. It was pretty exciting. Yeah who knew we would get excited about things like, Shake Shack.
CITO: At your fake party.
BS: Yeah, right? That's what's so great about him, is he's—and he's grown up a lot. I mean and so have I, believe it or not. And he's just one of my dearest friends. I'm very lucky.
CITO: And he was at your wedding?
BS: He was not only at my wedding, and so was Stamos, and I kind of messed up with Stamos because he was going to give a speech, but then Mayer jumped the shark and I didn't know what to do.
CITO: I hate when that happens.
BS: And John [Stamos] was like a little bit hurt so I'm making it up to him big time.
CITO: What are you doing?
BS: Well, all kinds of stuff we just did a thing. My wife did a thing for Extra, where she did a hosting thing and he and his wife, Caitlin, and I went out to lunch and promoted this restaurant—not really promoted the restaurant, but just did a segment on our friendship and stuff. But at the benefit on the 25th I'm going to just slobber all over him. He's going to get so much love he's not going to be and Mayer's not there, it's all safe. But I'm talking about a thirty year relationship compared to a thirteen year relationship. But you're allowed to have other friends.
But I think the three of us need to go to dinner and get this thing straightened out. It's serious boy band drama.
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But Mayer, what he did at the wedding was. And Michael was there, my friend. And he's here now. [Makes snoring noise] But what happened at the wedding was, he sits down and—I've had a lot of loss in my life. I wrote about it in my book, Dirty Daddy. It was a comedy book, but it also had a lot—I love two sisters, I lost my parents. We lost a lot of family, just always. My whole childhood. And I had a lot of unfortunate relationships, and a couple of good ones. But you know, it's hard when you have 'em. Everyone has 'em, but they're hard. That's why you listen to John Mayer breakup songs. And John Stamos Beach Boy breakup songs. Everybody go surfing.
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So it was really sweet. Mayer sang a song. Before he sang it, he said, "You have been through so much, Bob, and Kelly is your reward for that." So there were a lot of non dry eyes, except for people that were older that don't have fluid in their eyes.
CITO: I might tear up right now.
BS: Right? And then at the end of it he said, "here is your wedding gift,"—not in front of everyone—but it was a Martin guitar, and he gives it to us.
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So I'm lucky, to have a lot of love in my life.
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