Bob Saget doesn't think he'll drop the "f-bomb" too much at the O'Connell Center tonight.
Maybe only 200 times.
Saget will perform his brand of stand-up comedy at 8 p.m., which is free to the public and funded by Student Government Productions and Accent, Student Government's speakers bureau.
Steven Blank, Accent chairman, said Accent and SGP paid about $55,000 for Saget and opening-act comedian Anthony Jeselnik, who was featured on Comedy Central and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."
It's an event for mature audiences only, Blank added.
Saget agreed.
"I don't want to see kids there thinking they're coming to a 'Full House' thing," Saget said in a telephone interview last week.
He said he's not planning on censoring his "sick" humor for UF students, who grew up watching his squeaky-clean, cardigan-wearing, "Danny Tanner" image.
But he said he thinks most people know the jig is up, especially if they've seen his latest HBO special, "That Ain't Right," and his YouTube music video with Jamie Kennedy, "Rollin' with Saget."
Saget has been doing stand-up comedy since he was 17, but he said he found his comedy voice about 10 years ago, and it's right in line with "college people."
"I'm a hall monitor with an R-rated vocabulary," he said, laughing. "I'm here to serve and protect."
He said most members in his audiences tend to be in their 20s and can connect to his jokes.
"You can't really bulls- them," he said. "They're kind of smarter audiences."
That's not to say he knows exactly what he's going to say yet - that falls into place once he gets a feel for Gainesville and gets on stage, he added.
"I don't care that much," Saget said. "I just want to have fun."
As for the graphic, profanity-laced jokes, he said he doesn't tell them to shock people. He only wants to crack some smiles.
Tragedies early in his life instilled an urge to make people laugh, he said.
He said two of his sisters and four uncles passed away during his childhood, and his family dealt with the losses through humor.
"It's a craft, an art form and all that Fruity Pebbles-sounding stuff," Saget said. "But it really is."
The last 20 minutes of his comedy are usually more "concrete" and feature songs with titles such as "Danny Tanner is Not Gay."
He said one song tonight would be about his relationship with a 90-year-old woman. He's 51.
And is he still "the ill-est motherf--er in a cardigan sweater," as claimed in his YouTube music video?
"Absolutely," Saget said.
