Bob Saget knows you think you know him. You don't.

Bob Saget knows you think you know him.

Years after garnering a reputation for the raunchy following his iconic run as the squeaky clean Danny Tanner on "Full House," the comic/actor/director says that's just not the case — well mostly.

"For me, I just want to entertain the people. It's not some dirty show where people, you know, 'Oh, he's dirty.' For years it was like, 'Oh, he's Danny Tanner.' And then they profile you for what they saw. And then, of course, I did an HBO special where I dropped F-bombs a lot, but I'm still definitely like a soft R," he says.

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Saget is performing at the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, New York, on Feb. 20, the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood on Feb. 21, and the Hard Rock Casino in Atlantic City on Feb. 22.

"Now that I'm 63, I'm more responsible in what I'm doing just in general," Saget said from a comedy tour stop in Miami.

"I mean, I have daughters that are 33 and 30 and 27. There wasn't anything I got called out on in the past — because I kind of did some stuff you can't do now — but people still want that kind of stuff, which is kind of weird. Some audiences will go 'Do "The Aristocrats" (a notoriously raunchy joke).' I'm like that never worked. Ever as a joke. Ever. And I don't find it funny. And it's just not something you can commit to. And I don't want to be that kind of person."

Saget says he's moved on to more of a storytelling format, which allows him to emotionally connect with audiences.

"I'm telling stories now that are more oriented to things that happened to me when I was a child, that deal with things that we're dealing with today, like racism and profiling and things like that. And from a 5-year-old's perspective, so it's not even dealing with the current climate, but just what it was like when I was younger. And I'm enjoying it a lot. And the audience seems to be as well. But I still do plenty of irreverent stuff. If you get married at the age I'm at, and it's my second wife, that's 10 minutes of material. That's pretty much why I married her," he joked.

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He says the reaction from audiences has been overwhelmingly positive, although some do demand more explicit material. It can be a delicate balance, he says.

"I mean anything's right if it's funny. But not if it's hurtful and not if it dehumanizes women or men or anybody else. And I mean, I couldn't go back and do the stuff that I did. A couple of things, but not a lot of it. Some of my stuff was so G-rated that people didn't like it. I would do like five minutes of my kid and then people are like 'Uhh, I like it better when you tell us more about your penis.' But a lot of it is a work in progress. It truly is an artistry."

Ultimately, Saget says humor is a way to deal with difficult topics and difficult times.

He points to the way the Vietnam War caused division at home and tragedy abroad. He had a cousin hit by Agent Orange who died as a result.

"There's no joke. See, when I talk about it, it's just because it's heartfelt pain," he said. "And that's when I think the arts come out. That's why I wanted to do stand-up, to really bring some happiness to people during stuff that's so stressful.

"Whenever there's repression, whether it be from the left or the right or your parents or clergy or the things that can be the best things in your life, other people can be the worst things in their lives," he continued. "And that's when true great work came out. I think we're going to find it more and more, and that's why it all goes back to performing live."

On a personal level, Saget attributes his sense of humor to his father.

"He had a very warped sense of humor, that's how he dealt with difficult times," Saget said, adding that there were a lot of those growing up.

"My dad got to live to 89 after having two heart attacks in his 40s and his brother Saul passed away," he said. "We had a lot of death in our family, I lost two sisters, my parents lost two other children. So they lost four children altogether in their lives."

Along those lines, Saget says that he's not afraid to have quiet moments in his routine because they allow him pace himself, sometimes get some of his biggest laughs or make a point.

But he will bite back when necessary.

"My comedy is not mean, unless somebody gets mean," he said. "You know that old story about a comic? You throw one rock at them and they'll throw 10,000 back."

But ultimately, Saget just wants to bring joy.

"I just want people to leave and feel really good and laugh," he said. "The biggest compliments I get are 'I haven't laughed that hard in years.' Or 'That was so much fun. I didn't know you were that good.' That's always the backhanded compliment.

"I'm just loving it," he added. "I talk to the audience, which is something I've always done. And I have a lot of new songs, which is really great to have new music."

Saget is on tour working on a new comedy special he hopes to shoot in the fall. Among his projects, he's working on a podcast that he hopes will launch soon, will star in the new ABC series "Videos After Dark," and is directing a documentary on actor/comedian/musician Martin Mull.

Oh, and a little thing called "Fuller House." He reprises his beloved role of patriarch Danny Tanner on the Netflix reboot.

"We all go back to a retro time. That's why 'Fuller House' was so successful," he said. "There's still nine more episodes that will be coming out this year. It's all to make people feel good. I don't mind playing the character. He's a sweet loving character, and it's part of me."

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He's also open to a return to Broadway, where he's seen success in shows like "The Drowsy Chaperone" and "Hand To God."

"If something speaks to me, I'll jump at it," he said.

He's constantly on the go.

"My mind has a lot of bandwidth and there's a lot of freeways lining it between personal stuff and work stuff and different projects and working on my scleroderma research foundation — I lost a sister to that. I am just always doing something."

But he always seems to return to stand-up.

"I didn't know that stand-up would be the focus at this point in my life," he said. "That it always is, it's like an old friend. I can't wait to take the mic out of the stand tonight. There's a romance with stand-up, with the audience. It's really quite amazing."

And right this second, he's just concerned with nailing down the lyrics of his new closing song.

"It's called 'I Don't Do Negatives.' So that's kind of my philosophy," he said. "That's the advantage of maturity, I think, is to not let the negative in. I'm a sensitive guy, so I don't need it. I just want to make people happy."

To more information on Saget's tour dates and upcoming projects, visit bobsaget.com.

This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: Bob Saget enjoying comedy tour, Fuller House, podcast and more