NEW YORK ­- Bob Saget wasn’t sure what to do when Endemol USA asked him to host the new game show “1 vs. 100.” And so, he consulted old pal Howie Mandel, who emcees an established Endemol hit, NBC’s “Deal or No Deal.”

“I called Howie, and I said, “What do you think?’ and he said, “Don’t touch me,”‘ Saget says, quickly adding that he’s just joking about the response (a reference to Mandel’s widely publicized OCD). “I’ve known Howie for 25-plus years. We’re stand-ups. And his stand-up is not unlike mine in that it is bluish. … A lot of my comedy is nasty but not hurtful.

“So Howie said, “It’s not going to affect any of that. It’s going to help everything. It’s a different world than it used to be.”‘

We’ll say. Saget at one time was best known for his eight seasons (1987-95) as widowed dad Danny Tanner on ABC’s “Full House,” and for hosting “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”

But nowadays, when Saget plays college campuses, the kids are more likely to yell out kudos for his “Entourage” stint as a pot-smoking version of himself, or ask him to reprise his rendition of the world’s dirtiest joke from “The Aristocrats.”

“I’ve already gone through enough experience now at 50, finally, that I’m going to colleges and selling out thousands of seats. They don’t expect me to come out and dust-bust like Danny Tanner. They don’t think I’m that guy anymore,” Saget says, pausing half a second. “Some people might. And that’s OK.”

On this October morning, at Rockefeller Plaza for an appearance on NBC’s “Today,” Saget was mobbed by two distinct types – “Full House” fans and “Aristocrats” admirers.

“It’s starting to converge. It’s starting to do some nice things,” Saget says of his career.

Truth is, Saget’s work has long had a split personality.

“Even when I did the family shows, I would go off and do my stand-up,” he says. “I did an HBO special 15 years ago that was PG-19, almost R-rated.”

“1 vs. 100,” which originated in the Netherlands, features one contestant facing “the mob” of 100 for a chance to win up to $1 million. The show lets Saget do something he couldn’t on the strictly scripted “Videos” – ad-lib.

“This really is, for me, like “The Millionaire’ meets “You Bet Your Life,”‘ he says.

On this recent trip to New York, Saget was also filming an episode of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”

“I play a computer nerd,” he says of the episode, in which Catherine Bell is his dancer-wife, and Chris Sarandon is a choreographer friend whose wife dies. “I’m not allowed to talk about it, so I go around telling people that she possibly ate a really bad piece of halibut.”

For all we know, Saget may be the murderer. On “Entourage” and “Huff,” he certainly played unsavory characters. “They always had me with drugs,” Saget says, laughing. “It’s funny, everything I get offered there’s something subversive now, which I love.”

No, he’ll never completely get away from “Full House,” which coincidentally, aired in the same time slot (8 p.m. ET Fridays) where NBC is now running “1 v. 100.” Saget still speaks with his “Full House” cast mates regularly.

“Literally all the time. I talked to Ashley (Olsen) last night. We texted,” says Saget, explaining that he’s been keeping everyone updated about his dad’s recovery from a recent heart attack. “In the past week, I think I’ve talked to pretty much everybody. There isn’t one person on the cast that I don’t talk to.”

R-RATED AND BEYOND

You can see Saget’s “after-dark” persona in the following projects:

“Huff” (2004): He was a sitcom star named Butch, who was addicted to drugs and alcohol.

“The Aristocrats” (2005): Of the 100 dirty-joke tellers in this unrated documentary, he was one of the filthiest.

“Entourage” (2005): He played himself, sort of – this Saget was a pothead who hung out at a brothel.

G-RATED HITS

Bob Saget was a nice, clean-cut guy in the following shows:

“Full House,” ABC (1987-95): He was widower Danny Tanner, a sportscaster/morning talk-show host raising three little girls with the help of his rock musician brother-in-law and his comedian best friend.

“America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC (1990-97): He was host of the show, which ABC carefully scripted and vetted.

“Raising Dad,” WB (2001-02): Once again, he was a widowed dad, this time named Matt Stewart and the father of two daughters.