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Bob Saget: Mac Nut

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Although comedian Bob Saget came off as squeaky-clean on his television show ”Full House,” his turns in the 2005 cult film The Aristocrats and on his HBO special showed him swearing like a sailor. What few know, however, is that he also swears by his computer.

”I'm a big Mac freak,” he says (if truth be told, he used a coarser word than freak). ”I've been using them since the Mac Plus and Mac SE--you know, the ones that look like diving helmets. I do everything on a Mac. I'm the tech support for my daughters--we're a Mac ­family--and my friends are always calling me to fix their computers. All the ”Full House” guys were Mac boys early on--Dave Coulier, John Stamos, and I would even do videoconferencing.” The jury's still out on whether he gets a little peace on the set of the TV game show ”1 vs. 100”: ”The folks who work there are split down the middle between Macs and PCs.”

Saget hosts ”1 vs. 100,” which airs Friday evenings on NBC. For upcoming comedy tour dates, check https://www.bobsaget.com.

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