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Bob Saget’s final project will finally be released more than four years after his death.
The comedian died at age 65 in 2022 after accidental head trauma caused by an unwitnessed fall while he was on a stand-up tour.
Now, he will posthumously appear in a Netflix documentary titled Who is Martin Mull? about the late painter and musician. Saget co-directed and executive produced the project.
A trailer for the documentary, out October 7, shows Saget conducting core interviews with Mull, who died in June 2024 at the age of 80.
“I don’t know where to begin because, to me, you truly are a jack-of-all-trades,” Saget told Mull at the start of the trailer. Without missing a beat, Mull responded, “Jerk-of-all-trades,” earning a belly laugh from Saget.
Saget began working on the documentary about the cult comedian in 2018, with co-director Neil Berkeley taking over after his unexpected death.
“I’m so, so grateful to have been asked… to help complete the work that Bob Saget started back in 2018,” Berkeley wrote on Instagram. “And huge thanks to everyone at Netflix for guiding the film to the finish line.”
The film will chronicle Mull’s wide-ranging career with footage and interviews. “Told in his own words and by the friends who watched it happen, including Steve Martin, Tom Waits, David Alan Grier, and more, it’s the story of a comedy icon who, as he put it, ‘had a hell of a ride,’” according to an official Netflix description.
Saget served as an executive producer on the film alongside Kevin S. Bright, Morgan Neville and Caitrin Rogers. Sean Bradley, Tara Billik and Berkeley produced the project.
The Independent has contacted Netflix for more information.
The movie is one of four documentaries about comedy that Netflix is putting out in October.
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Berkeley worked on another documentary in the lineup: A film about stand-up comedian Maria Bamford that he co-directed with Judd Apatow.
“Since the 1990s, stand-up comedian and actor Maria Bamford has built a career on turning radical honesty into radical comedy,” Netflix’s official documentary for the movie reads. “In this documentary, co-directors Apatow and Berkeley trace the comedian’s path — and pathos — from her childhood in Duluth, Minnesota, to her hard-won fame in Los Angeles and her present-day life, showing how Bamford’s mental health journey and family relationships shaped her art and career.” Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story will be out October 23.
Apatow also directed Norm: The Tale of Norm McDonald, which will be released on the platform October 16. The doc was built from archival footage, home videos and personal photos, according to Netflix, which “lets Norm tell his own story in his own voice.”
Finally, the documentary out October 30 is SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of. Starring Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy, the documentary follows the rise and fall of one of the most iconic sketch comedy series in TV history.