Bob Saget is one of the best people on the planet.

Bob Saget recently came to NYU to film an upcoming HBO stand-up comedy special. I got the chance to talk with the actor/comedian before the release of his movie in January (but never wrote about it until now):

On a January afternoon, five reporters sit at a small round table in a cozy room at the Gramercy Hotel, fiddling with tape recorders and arranging, and rearranging, their notebooks and pens and bottles of sparkling water in front of them while they wait for Danny Tanner to arrive. Sorry, not Danny Tanner – Bob Saget, former star of the mega-hit family TV show “Full House” and also one of the dirtiest minds in stand-up comedy.

Saget doesn’t make them wait long. He enters the room with a broad grin, as everyone stands to shake his hand and introduce themselves. The 50-year-old comedian actually seems happy to be here for the next hour to talk about Farce of the Penguins, his low-budget straight-to-DVD spoof of the hit documentary March of the Penguins. His smile and laughter are infectious, and set a mood as if everyone is just bullshitting with their divorced uncle at a family picnic.

And like your uncle, Bob Saget will use his polite indoor voice and offer fatherly advice in front of your mother. As soon as she leaves the room, though, he’s joking about having sex with the entire cast of “Full House,” or his current favorite: penguin anal rape.

“I’m affectionate to this crazy thing,” Saget says of his new movie, once the official questioning begins. “I just said, you know, I’d love to take March of the Penguins and just be an idiot and make a stoner movie out of it.”

Farce of the Penguins, the newest entry in the growing penguin genre, is comprised entirely of stock documentary footage, in which the penguins have been given voices by Saget’s friends and colleagues – ranging from Lewis Black and Mo’Nique to Dane Cook and Abe Vigoda, and countless more – to deliver 80 minutes of sex and fart jokes. Samuel L. Jackson narrates.

Farce allowed the comedian and host of such TV hits as “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and “1 vs. 100” to showcase what he does best – add middle-school humor voiceover to shots of people getting hit in the balls, or more often in this case, penguins taking a crap.

“We’re desperate for footage. It’s one in the morning. [Editor] Michael Miller’s gone home - he has a life. I’m in the editing room thinking, ‘What are we gonna do? We’ve got two weeks. We gotta deliver. We’re overtime.’ And the assistant editor goes, ‘I got some footage of a monkey banging a coconut, you wanna see it?’ He was just a beaten man. And I’m like, ‘Yeah!’”

Although recent high-profile appearances in “Entourage” and The Aristocrats have allowed, or even encouraged, Saget to show off his dirty old man persona, in real life he is as charming and pleasant as Danny Tanner. And even if it is all just an act (because after 30 years in show business, celebrities like Saget tend to be savvy with the press), the reporters at the Gramercy sense his sincerity.

“People ask me to do cameos and be the dirty guy in the movie,” Saget says, “and I’m like, ‘I’ve done seven cameos in the past five years, that’s enough.’ I think we’ve suffered enough. Because it takes ten years to get a job, and then ten years to do the job” – in this case, playing a straight-laced single father of three on “Full House” – “and then ten years to tell people you’re not that person.” He laughs and says, “Please forgive me for what I’ve done.”