A long, long way from Full House

Step into a room with Bob Saget, Jamie Kennedy and Jeff Ross, and it's obvious the three comedians go back. Moments before SEE's Homecoming Comedy Show yesterday at Cole Field House, the three joked with each other, comparing their respective tables of food.

Saget and Kennedy had vast spreads, filled with a variety of foods and beverages that covered the entire tabletop. Ross had a plate of takeout from California Tortilla and a card that read "Thank You." He looked around the room puzzled: "What is up with that?"

Saget laughed. "The card might as well read 'F--- You,'" he said. Then he made Ross pose at the table while he snapped a photo with his iPhone.

Saget and Ross also joked about the former Full House star's resurgence into the pop-culture world, especially among college students.

"For you to have a resurgence is to imply you've had a surge," Ross told Saget.

All three comedians were excited to share the stage with each other.

"It's like hanging with your friends," Kennedy said. "We all know each other."

Saget's headlining set was a 45-minute rapid-fire assault of all things vulgar, raunchy and, of course, Full House. Saget riffed on his former castmates Dave Coulier and John Stamos with his stream-of-consciousness delivery, spouting line after line of whatever popped into his head.

One favorite target was the university's mascot.

"I'm very f---ing happy to be here because your mascot is a turtle and that's a hot thing," Saget said as he opened the show. Later he brought the topic back, perhaps to pep up the crowd.

"You guys know that the turtle is the way," he said. "F--- it up and keep going."

Saget repeatedly ripped on a student in the front row of the audience wearing a Stamos T-shirt, an observation Ross pointed out in his opening set.

"Get rid of your half chubby for John Stamos and his mullet," Saget told the student.

Of the three acts, Saget's was the most well received by students, earning the loudest reactions and a semi-ovation from the audience, which filled up most of the available seating.

"Bob Saget was Bob Saget," observed senior physics major Chris Weir. "That's all that needs to be said."

Jon Lawton, a junior accounting major, wasn't as impressed by Saget, but did enjoy his bit where he played guitar, singing parodies and his original song "My Dog Licked My Balls."

Freshman letters and sciences major Keith Bloyd best summed up the night's festivities.

"I thought it was funny as hell," he said.

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