Bob Saget on Comedy, Loss, and Life at 60 | ISP
Industry Standard w/ Barry Katz
Barry Katz
4.7 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Bob Saget sits down with legendary comedy manager Barry Katz for a raw, wide-ranging conversation covering Bob's new stand-up special 0 to 60, his early days performing at the Improv and Catch a Rising Star, managing Louis C.K. and landing him opening spots for Jerry Seinfeld, the Larry David guitar act story, losing both sisters to illness, raising $46 million for scleroderma research, directing dark comedy films, Full House, working with Rodney Dangerfield, Garry Shandling, and his advice to young comedians on originality, craft, and doing the work. A must-watch for comedy fans, aspiring stand-ups, and anyone who's ever been through adversity and come out swinging.Blueprint for Successhttps://barrykatz.com/blueprintAre you a comedian, actor, writer, director, producer, manager, host, podcaster or agent? Would you like personalized help to reach all of your goals in the entertainment business? Click the link to learn more & join our FREE industry networking group full of decades of experience!Barry Katz Entertainmenthttps://barrykatz.comConnect with Barryhttps://www.instagram.com/barrykatz/https://www.facebook.com/BarryKatzOfficialPage/https://www.tiktok.com/@barry_katzhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/barrykatzbkehttps://x.com/BarryKatz
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| 0:00.0 | All right, ladies and gentlemen, I can't believe it. |
| 0:07.0 | It's finally happened. I am sitting across from the man, the myth, the legend. |
| 0:12.0 | It's what an honor to introduce him. Bob Sagin. |
| 0:15.0 | Thank you, Barry Katz, the manager, the myth, the legend. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm two out of those three. I don't know which they are. You are legendary. That's the manager, the myth, the legend. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm two out of those three. |
| 0:23.7 | I don't know which they are. |
| 0:25.2 | You are legendary. |
| 0:27.5 | There isn't anybody that comedy doesn't know you. |
| 0:28.7 | Why is that? |
| 0:34.0 | Because you were one of the people that, when the high days of comedy started back up, |
| 0:40.3 | or maybe ever in the early 80s, late 70s, that's, you were one of those people. There were a dozen people that were doing it. They were managing. |
| 0:44.3 | And you were, wow. How old were you when you started managing? |
| 0:48.3 | I was really, really young. I was in my 20s and my first client was Louis CK. Wow. Back in Boston, he was like 17 or 18 and I remember one of the things that, you know, |
| 1:01.4 | we talk about it before we came in here about managers and what they do and agents and if things |
| 1:06.7 | happen. And I remember with... |
| 1:08.6 | This all things on wheels. |
| 1:09.6 | That doesn't matter. |
| 1:10.6 | It's matter great place |
| 1:10.9 | you're on a bobsled ride with very this is this is IKEA furniture though I love |
| 1:16.3 | this but I remember what I there was something to have and I found out that Jerry |
| 1:20.7 | Seinfeld was coming to town for 10 shows at these 500 seat to a thousand seat theaters. |
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