Bob Saget brings his standup comedy to Tilles

Bob Saget has always been a little ahead of his time.

Watch one of his "America's Funniest Home Videos" shows from more than 20 years ago and you see the template for so many of today's clip shows.

"People still tell me, 'I can't believe the things you were saying on there,' " Saget says, calling from his Los Angeles home. "You watch Daniel Tosh and it's a similar format, but you know exactly what you're getting. You're not getting it in a subliminal way, but in a comedian's forum. It's still refreshing to see."

He hopes for similar success with his upcoming A&E series, "Bob Saget's Strange Days." But after spending so much time in the editing room, Saget is eager to get out on the road and do the stand-up he loves, stopping at Tilles Center tomorrow.

Your new stand-up tour is called "Strange Days."

It's named after my show that's coming out shortly, which is about me studying subcultures. It's been a weird year. . . . I toured with a biker gang in a sidecar. I joined a frat at Cornell. I looked for Bigfoot with the Sasquatch hunters in the Pacific Northwest. I did Nacho Libre wrestling. It was intense.

Which was the hardest culture you were involved with?

The overnight camp was a little tough. I had to climb a 100-foot pole, ride a horse, shoot a bow-and-arrow. . . . Basically, the hardest one was what your typical 14-year-old has no problem doing.

Will your stand-up material be from the show?No, my stand-up is kind of the same. Stand-up for me is like jazz. I know what my ending is because it's always my music. But I really don't know what the assemblage of the thousand things I want to say will be from the moment I hit the stage. There's a certain linear way you have to tell stories, but I don't really know what will happen because I weave in the audience.

Have you written new songs for this tour?I've written a song that's kind of like a fable, like "Big John" with a "Pecos Bill" kind of feel to it. I also have a new song about having a relationship where the age separation is too big - she's like 90. . . . My dad used to tell me, "You do like five or six things - if you would have just done one of them right." But I feel like I'm in a good artistic place now.

WHO Bob Saget

WHEN | WHERE 8 p.m. Saturday, Tilles Center, 720 Northern Blvd., Greenvale

INFO $42-$52; 516-299-3100, tillescenter.org