Bob Saget has been repeatedly rediscovered as a stand-up comedian. He’s less a “vulgar” comic than a free-associating thinker who understands the value of keeping the conduit to his creativity unfiltered. While his 2014 book, Dirty Daddy, pokes fun at his image, humor has been the therapy that has helped him weather more than his share of personal tragedies. He talked with Las Vegas Magazine’s Matt Kelemen ahead of his Sept. 13 performance at the House of Blues.

I wasn’t sure which Bob Saget to expect for this interview, like an unpredictable side would suddenly show.

I’m not that “blue,” I don’t think. I say dirty stuff, or however you’d want to phrase it, but it’s not vulgar. People have such a weird disposition of what I’m going to be like, then they’re disappointed I’m not dirty as much as they want me to be.

Your colleagues have made you seem like a comedian’s comedian, while a lot of people that knew you through television were surprised you have this other side.

The new stand-up I seem to be growing toward is kind of a result of not wanting to be blue. The book’s not about being dirty. The book is about how to survive through life with a father who uses gallows humor to make you laugh, and how I got through life with jokes. One of the most frustrating things is to be misunderstood, but the most fun thing is to be able to do one hour in stand-up, and you’re not misunderstood anymore.

Describe the latest arc in your career?

Pure stand-up mode. I want to do it more than I have in 20 years right now. A lot of it has to do with what’s happened in the past few weeks. The loss of Robin (Williams), it’s a thing that’s rippled through everybody. I met him when I started in 1978. It was a romance, to be part of stand-up comedy at that time. So I’m really regrouping ... when audiences come and see me now ... they want certain things. They want me to riff, they want stream-of-consciousness stuff.

It’s not quite vulgar, but it is strange.

It’s strange is what it is. All my jokes have always been strange. People want to tag the book as dirty, but they haven’t read it. Then when they read it, they cry and go, “I didn’t know you went through all that.” ... My thing is I love to free-associate, and I love to invent onstage. And I love doing music, so I’ve got all these original songs that I play, and audiences know them. And they want to sing them.