Bob Saget’s Humble Beginnings
Bob Saget’s parents, Benjamin and Rosalyn Saget, were white-collar workers. His father was a supermarket executive and his mother a hospital administrator in Philadelphia. A strict, Jewish upbringing did not deter Bob from finding opportunities to use his tongue-in-cheek humor, which got him into a fair bit of trouble in his adolescent years. As a family they moved to Norfolk, Virginia, and then moved back to Philadelphia just before Bob started his senior year of high school.
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Bob Saget was not your ordinary man. He was all set to go into the field of medicine and become a doctor when his English teacher, Elaine Zimmerman, helped nudge him into exploring his creative talent. His passion for exploring his creative potential drove him to study film at Temple University in Philadelphia.