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BJ Novak’s Chilling Tweet About Bob Saget Has Fans Talking

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A tribute meant as a compliment now reads like a goodbye, and fans can’t stop rereading it.

Bob Saget’s sudden death on January 9, 2022, sent his friends, castmates and fellow comedians into a scramble to process what happened, and one tweet from actor and writer B.J. Novak has become the message everyone keeps coming back to. Novak posted it days earlier as a simple, affectionate compliment. Now it reads like something else entirely.

• Saget died at 65 in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes, while on a stand-up tour across Florida.
• Just days before, on January 3, 2022, Saget released an episode of his interview podcast, “Bob Saget’s Here For You,” with Novak as his guest.
• Following that episode’s release, Novak posted a public tribute on Twitter praising Saget’s character, warmth and generosity toward fellow comedians — a message that took on new weight once Saget passed away.

The Podcast Episode That Started It

“Bob Saget’s Here For You” was Saget’s own interview podcast, the kind of low-key, conversational format that let him talk shop with people he genuinely liked rather than run through a press-tour Q&A. Novak sat down with him for an episode that dropped on January 3, 2022 — just six days before Saget’s death. Nothing about the conversation was billed as significant at the time; it was two comedians talking, the way Saget had done dozens of times before with other guests.

Novak’s Tweet

After the episode went up, Novak did what plenty of guests do — he posted about it on Twitter. But instead of a standard promotional plug, his message read as a genuine tribute, praising Saget’s character and calling out just how consistently generous and supportive he had been to other comedians throughout his career. It wasn’t controversial, it wasn’t a joke gone wrong — it was warmth, publicly stated, about a friend who was very much alive at the time.

A tweet written as a thank-you for a podcast appearance turned, within days, into one of the last public tributes paid to Bob Saget while he was still here to read it.

An Eerie, Unplanned Timing

That’s the part that’s had fans doing double takes. Novak had no way of knowing Saget would be gone within the week. When the news broke that Saget had passed away in Orlando while touring, people scrolling back through his recent interactions found Novak’s tribute sitting right there, dated just days before — praise for a man’s generosity, published right before the world lost him. It’s the kind of coincidence that doesn’t need embellishing to feel heavy.

A Comedy Community in Mourning

Novak’s tweet is just one piece of a much larger outpouring. Saget’s “Full House” family and decades of comedy-circuit friends have been sharing their own memories and statements, each capturing a different side of a man widely described as one of the most beloved and generous people in the business. The Olsen twins’ joint statement and John Stamos’ raw tribute have circulated alongside Novak’s tweet as fans piece together just how many lives Saget touched.

What makes Novak’s post stick with people isn’t shock value — it’s the opposite. It’s a small, sincere note about a guy being kind, written with zero awareness of what was coming, which is exactly why it’s still getting passed around days later.