John Stamos Shares ‘Last Pic’ With Bob Saget on His 70th

John Stamos isn’t letting May 17 pass quietly. On what would have been Bob Saget’s 70th birthday, his closest friend and Full House costar marked the day the only way that felt right — with memories, love, and one final photograph.

Stamos, 62, shared a carousel of photos and videos to his Instagram on Sunday, giving his more than 4.4 million followers a window into the friendship he and Saget shared off-screen for decades. Clips of the two laughing together, candid shots from over the years, and a short video of the group enjoying live music all made the cut. But it’s the last slide that hits hardest — a group photo of Saget and Stamos standing beside their wives, Kelly Rizzo and Caitlin McHugh, the four of them posed in front of a glittering ocean at sunset. Stamos wrote two words over the image: “Last pic.”

“We used to throw each other great birthday parties,” Stamos captioned the post. “Your 70th today would’ve been epic! I miss you and love you.”

The post racked up more than 43,000 likes within hours. Candace Cameron Bure, who played Saget’s TV daughter D.J. Tanner on Full House, dropped three red heart emojis in the comments. Fans poured in their own messages, wishing Saget a happy heavenly birthday and making clear that, four years on, the loss still stings.

Kelly Rizzo Imagines the Life He Would Have Lived

Saget’s widow, Kelly Rizzo, also shared a tribute of her own — a lengthy, deeply personal Instagram post that included a video of Saget celebrating a past birthday. She asked her followers to join her in honoring him, then painted a picture of the life she believes he would still be living.

“Bob didn’t believe in retirement,” Rizzo wrote. “That word just wasn’t in his vocabulary. He’d still be saying he was ‘just getting started.’ He would still love creating, working, making people laugh, and finding new ways to share his gifts with the world. And honestly, I think his greatest joy right now would’ve been being a grandpa… while still being the incredible dad, husband, friend, uncle, and so many other things to so many people.”

She went on to describe how Saget drew inspiration from legends who never slowed down. “He always talked about his dear friend Don Rickles still doing stand-up close to 90, and his other dear friend Norman Lear still going to work every day and making deals at nearly 100. That’s how Bob saw his future.”

Cameron Bure commented on Rizzo’s post as well, writing: “Happy heavenly 70th birthday to one of my favorite humans in the world. I miss you.”

The Loss That Broke Stamos — and How He Got Through It

Bob Saget died on January 9, 2022, at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Florida, where he had been staying after performing a stand-up show. He was found unresponsive in his hotel room. An autopsy conducted a month later determined the cause of death, with the Saget family releasing a statement confirming: “The authorities have determined that Bob passed from head trauma. They have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep. No drugs or alcohol were involved.” He was 65.

When the news broke, Stamos didn’t hold back. “I am broken. I am gutted,” he wrote at the time. “I am in complete and utter shock. I will never ever have another friend like him. I love you so much Bobby.”

Dave Coulier, who played Joey Gladstone alongside Saget’s Danny Tanner across all eight seasons of Full House, was equally devastated. “I’ll never let go, brother. Love you,” Coulier, 66, wrote on Instagram, before adding in a second post: “I met Bob when I was 18 years old. I didn’t know then that two, struggling standup comics would end up being brothers forever. I wish I could lean on you right now through all these tears. I love you.”

In the months after Saget’s death, a tribute special — Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute — was filmed at The Comedy Store and later made available on Netflix, with Stamos and other close friends gathering to honor him the way he would have wanted: with laughter.

But privately, Stamos found his own way to cope. During a July 2024 appearance on Coulier’s Full House Rewind podcast, he revealed an unexpected source of comfort. “Do you remember when his book came out?” Stamos said, referencing Saget’s 2014 memoir Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian. “It was very dirty and weird. And so for whatever reason, the night [Saget] died, I put on his audio tape and it gave me such comfort. I don’t know why. I listened to it every night when I went to sleep.”

Bob Saget rose to fame as the lovably earnest Danny Tanner on Full House, which ran from 1987 to 1995, before becoming a household name as the long-running host of America’s Funniest Home Videos. He reprised his role as Danny for Netflix’s Fuller House in 2016. Behind the family-friendly image was a fiercely sharp, unapologetically raunchy stand-up comedian — a side of him his closest friends always knew and adored.

He would have been 70 today. By all accounts, he would have been nowhere near done.