Speaker 1: Hey there, Fanaritos.
Speaker 2: This is part two of our interview with Debbie Gregory,
Speaker 2: the iconic actress who played the roles of both Connie
Speaker 2: and Karen in Full House. If you thought part one
Speaker 2: was good, just wait until you hear the rest of
Speaker 2: this interview. Here's Debbie.
Speaker 3: You know, I saw him again July twenty one. I
Speaker 3: went your water and I bid on tickets to come
Speaker 3: to a show. So I said, oh, I'm coming to
Speaker 3: your show, and he haves, oh, you know, come backstage
Speaker 3: and meet my in laws. And I said, oh good,
Speaker 3: I you know, I'd like to meet Kelly. And he's like, oh, no,
Speaker 3: Kelly's not here, just all the in laws, so please
Speaker 3: make sure you come by.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, Kelly was like, I don't need to
Speaker 1: see your acts again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kelly couldn't make it, and I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: so I did.
Speaker 1: Guess I love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like six months before, yeah, you know, I almost
Speaker 3: went to that Orlando show and wow, and then he
Speaker 3: didn't want to go, so I didn't drive over there,
Speaker 3: and I wish I went, but yeah, meant to be
Speaker 3: the way everything happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yea.
Speaker 4: I always say he like had such a great show
Speaker 4: and was so like, that was such an amazing show,
Speaker 4: but it was, yeah, you know exactly.
Speaker 3: How how he changed his material after Kelly it got
Speaker 3: so well.
Speaker 4: I think it's he definitely changed his material after Kelly.
Speaker 4: And I know in conversations I had with Bob too,
Speaker 4: there was sort of an element and which I kind
Speaker 4: of get where it's like he wanted so much to
Speaker 4: not be Danny Tanner and he's always sort of had
Speaker 4: that dark, inappropriate sense of humor. But I think he
Speaker 4: and it's so bad to not be Danny that for
Speaker 4: a while, he just really hammered home how inappropriate he
Speaker 4: could be. And then I remember like we were talking
Speaker 4: and I said something. I don't know, I said something
Speaker 4: or whatever, and he was and I said, I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: you're you know what, You're you.
Speaker 1: Know, offended by that or something.
Speaker 4: And he was like, well, it's like I just don't
Speaker 4: have to try as hard to be that guy anymore.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, that's true, it's true, it's true.
Speaker 3: But I also think Kelly helped him. He was more respectful.
Speaker 3: I think he made a point for sure. I think
Speaker 3: it was it was really nice and yeah, still go
Speaker 3: be nasty.
Speaker 4: And.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it Bob.
Speaker 4: Bob has always been Bob, but he definitely, Yeah, it
Speaker 4: was I think after Kelly, it was like, okay, let
Speaker 4: me sort of.
Speaker 1: I mean that's you know, comedy is.
Speaker 4: Always a great reflection of sort of who somebody is
Speaker 4: and where they are at that point. And yeah, you're right,
Speaker 4: he definitely definitely changed a bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kelly saw Kelly Yeah good, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: We talked about him a lot on the podcast. Yes,
Speaker 2: keeping the memories alive here always.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yes, So after Connie and Karen and then Connie again.
Speaker 4: Well and then so so it was well, hold on,
Speaker 4: it was Connie, Karen, Karen, Connie right, Connie Karen, so
Speaker 4: the the Karens were sandwiched in between the Connie's as
Speaker 4: far as appearances go.
Speaker 2: Okay, what was your favorite of the of the five
Speaker 2: episodes you did, or what's your favorite character?
Speaker 1: Connie or Karen, Karen or Karen?
Speaker 3: That much fun? Yeah, I mean that they you know,
Speaker 3: humiliated me and made me sing and lust in the dust.
Speaker 3: I can't sing and they knew that, so they made
Speaker 3: me sing blue Moon and it was terrible, and but
Speaker 3: but I loved being with Bob and it was never
Speaker 3: a dull moment. You know, it was hard. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, you guys know how many I don't Do
Speaker 3: you even remember any of my Do you remember me?
Speaker 3: Like do you remember?
Speaker 1: Yes? You kidding? Absolutely?
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I mean you're It's it's surprising the things
Speaker 4: that we like, I remember the people, and I remember
Speaker 4: even like guest stars and stuff like that. It's weirdly
Speaker 4: more of the stuff where it's like just kind of
Speaker 4: the day to day where you were, like I don't know,
Speaker 4: just kind of all blended together certain things. But no,
Speaker 4: I definitely, I mean I definitely remember you. I mean
Speaker 4: I remember you being around, you know, with with Jeff
Speaker 4: and stuff too, so it was like you were sort
Speaker 4: of just in the circle of people that were around
Speaker 4: at the time.
Speaker 1: And now that I know that, you know, Karen Miller
Speaker 1: was was really the.
Speaker 4: One that that brought you in. But yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: it was uh, definitely remember like, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good. But we were all all doing I
Speaker 3: don't think I ever did a scene with you.
Speaker 1: Andrea, but no, I don't think we did that whole.
Speaker 3: Family scene in the kitchen when DJ and Steph are
Speaker 3: setting us up and we all are sitting there eating
Speaker 3: sandwiches and then everybody leaves, and everybody it took so
Speaker 3: long to do that, like everybody had their thing to
Speaker 3: mess up the scene, like oh, you know right, and
Speaker 3: even like Dave always passed.
Speaker 1: Gas, Oh yeah, Dave. Yeah, Dave started, we're.
Speaker 3: All sitting there and we all set up, and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's that's you got to clear out for
Speaker 4: a couple of minutes with that, yep.
Speaker 3: And then I don't know what John did or Danny
Speaker 3: was being neurotic serving the sandwiches, and and poor little
Speaker 3: Michelle because they said something like everybody was leaving to
Speaker 3: leave us alone and she wasn't leaving, and and she
Speaker 3: was like looked at me really mean, like they're like, Michelle,
Speaker 3: come on, we have to go, and something like she's
Speaker 3: making me l for something weird. And it was so
Speaker 3: funny because I don't think it was meant to, you know,
Speaker 3: like who sitting at this table with the people the
Speaker 3: time and she's making me leave and.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, onces, Yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 4: Once they started talking, you know, it was like have
Speaker 4: I mean, when you have a toddler on set, you're
Speaker 4: like you never know what they're going to say, and
Speaker 4: you have. You know, guest guest stars come into your home,
Speaker 4: your set for the week, and you're like, look, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Responsible for what the toddler does. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they're going to say. There's no filter, r never's on
Speaker 1: their mind. Yeah, just run with it.
Speaker 3: It was great, It's great.
Speaker 2: Was it weird being directed by your boyfriend at the
Speaker 2: time or did it make it easier because you guys
Speaker 2: sort of had a shorthand speak between each other.
Speaker 3: Well, I feel like it was more Joel directing me than.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: I remember Jeff sitting on this couch all the time.
Speaker 3: He was like sitting on the couch watching the monitors
Speaker 3: and he'd get up every so often. But I didn't mind.
Speaker 3: He's so brilliant, you know, look what he created.
Speaker 4: And yeah, he really sitcoms. He just he knew how
Speaker 4: to write family.
Speaker 3: And write something he didn't even live, Like, yeah, it
Speaker 3: was so amazing. I mean sometimes I've heard some of
Speaker 3: your comments about Jesse, like you know, the macho so
Speaker 3: I can toleally tell that that, you know, that's a
Speaker 3: bunch of guy writers. I mean how many women one maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not a ton, And I mean some of them.
Speaker 3: Were married, but some some weren't.
Speaker 5: I guess, yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 4: It is really interesting to watch. And I think that
Speaker 4: was a big difference sort of between full and Fuller
Speaker 4: House was with the three of us on Fuller, with
Speaker 4: it being led by the three women, we definitely had
Speaker 4: a lot more female writers. And I know there were
Speaker 4: times even that the three of us would be like, no,
Speaker 4: that's not how like, that's not how we would do
Speaker 4: it as like you know, it was. It was just
Speaker 4: such a different lens of like looking at family or
Speaker 4: how you would handle something or.
Speaker 1: Have a conversation or whatever.
Speaker 4: But yeah, definitely, Jesse is is all of the things
Speaker 4: that an eighties man was, which is a lot of
Speaker 4: hair and a fair amount of ego.
Speaker 3: But he could write a beautiful family story where everybody
Speaker 3: hugs at the end.
Speaker 1: That's oh my god, Jeff.
Speaker 4: He like he always said, it was like the family
Speaker 4: that he wanted to have, Like he wrote, you know
Speaker 4: what he wished for, and that was kind of our
Speaker 4: you know, our weird little ragtag family.
Speaker 3: And then we're talking about it so many years later.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we well look, I mean, yeah, I that
Speaker 4: the show has lasted.
Speaker 1: That long, is it's wild?
Speaker 3: Five years ago. I was on that show.
Speaker 1: Thirty five years ago. Yeah, yeah, mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Wow, it's so crazy it is.
Speaker 4: I just think thirty five years from now, we're still
Speaker 4: going to be doing this podcast. We're going to have
Speaker 4: gone back through the show seventeen times. You forget what
Speaker 4: we said the first time will be like, I don't
Speaker 4: know what we said. It's it will be old and forgetful.
Speaker 3: Listening. I'll listen more now after I didn't get I mean,
Speaker 3: there are long episodes and and I love how you
Speaker 3: mature beautiful inside and out women are thank you the
Speaker 3: shows that you never really knew what you were getting
Speaker 3: into it. It's so funny to hear you because I'm like,
Speaker 3: that's how That's what I said.
Speaker 4: So yeah, right, like as an ad like we were kids,
Speaker 4: were like sure, just go along with things, and now
Speaker 4: we're watching it as an adult like.
Speaker 1: Filled and elephants in the living room, like you know, right,
Speaker 1: why is Michelle alone in her room again watching turn
Speaker 1: those lights off? She's sleeping, you know whatever.
Speaker 4: It is like just the silly things that like that
Speaker 4: you kind of that you make fun of when you watch,
Speaker 4: especially these old TV shows that are you know, just
Speaker 4: sort of fun and still in ridiculous and and it is.
Speaker 4: It's fun to go back and watch this because it
Speaker 4: is it's a such a time capsule of not only
Speaker 4: our childhood, but like the late eighties, early nineties, just
Speaker 4: so much of it. It's really a weird treasure to
Speaker 4: go back and watch it all.
Speaker 3: It was really better television than it is now. Like,
Speaker 3: I can't believe how many reality shows are on and I.
Speaker 1: Don't, you know, I don't know. I don't watch any
Speaker 1: of them. I don't watch.
Speaker 4: Any reality shame not knockingna I, but I it's not. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't need I have enough drama. I don't feel
Speaker 4: like I need to watch other people's although yeah, I
Speaker 4: like to watch pretend drama. Well, I guess reality shows
Speaker 4: really are.
Speaker 1: Pretend drama at this point. I mean, it's what are we?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Like, are we fooling ourselves? And this is actually people
Speaker 4: are really flipping tables.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know, but.
Speaker 2: Back in the eighties you had you could really flesh
Speaker 2: out characters and storylines with the twenty two to twenty
Speaker 2: four episode season. Now you get thirteen. If you're lucky,
Speaker 2: you're lucky.
Speaker 4: It's like eight or nine, tell me everything you need
Speaker 4: in eight episodes.
Speaker 2: Ah, it's so hard to write for It's it's hard
Speaker 2: for the audience to they're just getting invested and then
Speaker 2: a whoopsoe nope.
Speaker 1: Yeah this season.
Speaker 4: You know, I have I keep reading various comments and
Speaker 4: tweets and things about people being like, oh, give us
Speaker 4: back a twenty two episode season, and audience members not
Speaker 4: just you know, crew and cast that likes working steadily,
Speaker 4: but audience members who.
Speaker 1: Were like, I want, like I don't want to get
Speaker 1: through it in eight episodes.
Speaker 4: So you know, maybe these twenty two episode seasons will
Speaker 4: come back for Fullest House when we're old and and
Speaker 4: Howie is taking care of all of us and yeah
Speaker 4: or Howie, Yeah, it'll be like whatever happened to Baby Jane,
Speaker 4: but it'll be whatever happened to baby Howie and they
Speaker 4: were just all trapped in a house and he's scaring
Speaker 4: for us.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that you guys are so gift lucky,
Speaker 3: like the universe and everything just went in your way.
Speaker 1: Thank you. We feel very lucky. Lots of gratitude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who thought that it would last? Who thought it
Speaker 3: would last past the first season?
Speaker 1: Like, you know, the critics didn't. The critics we didn't.
Speaker 4: We Yeah, we got to thirteen and they didn't hadn't
Speaker 4: even picked us up for the second half of the
Speaker 4: first season, and we.
Speaker 1: Were like, I don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's really a great gift and all well deserved.
Speaker 3: You guys are all thank you.
Speaker 1: I can't thank you.
Speaker 2: Do you do you have any memories from the wedding episode?
Speaker 2: I know that's not we had got a while till
Speaker 2: we get to that one. But what do you remember
Speaker 2: about this epic two parter wedding episodes?
Speaker 3: Well, I remember I spent a lot of time with Laurie,
Speaker 3: and I remember how excited she was to be wearing
Speaker 3: her actual wedding dress. Did you know that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah, I remember.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we went to the wedding in New York where
Speaker 4: she wore it originally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, oh you were Oh she got married after
Speaker 3: she got on the show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she was married to her first husband, Michael, after
Speaker 4: she was on the show. And yeah, she had her
Speaker 4: first wedding at Saint Patrick's Cathedral and Tavern on the Green.
Speaker 1: I remember, I have pictures of John and I at
Speaker 1: the wedding.
Speaker 3: Actually, oh yeah, so yeah, I totally remember spending a
Speaker 3: lot of time with her, and she was just so fun.
Speaker 3: And you know, I didn't see. I mean, the guys
Speaker 3: were out jumping out of an airplane or something, so.
Speaker 1: That's right, they were.
Speaker 4: It was, yeah, he jumped out of a plane. Was
Speaker 4: it dressed as Elvis? Or was that just that was
Speaker 4: like a weird dream sequence part where she was Priscilla
Speaker 4: and he was Elvis?
Speaker 1: Right, I don't remember. I don't remember.
Speaker 4: I seem to remember there being an Elvis. I just
Speaker 4: know because I have a picture of John and Laurie
Speaker 4: dressed as like Elvis and Priscilla, and I feel like
Speaker 4: it was some sort of dream sequence where Jesse's picturing
Speaker 4: like what he wants as a wedding and it's that basically.
Speaker 1: Oh, I feel like it was that same.
Speaker 4: Maybe it was earlier though, because maybe it was when
Speaker 4: they were talking about like what they wanted to do
Speaker 4: for the wedding. But whatever it was, I remember vividly
Speaker 4: Priscilla and yeah, I have you know, because Jeff is
Speaker 4: friends with Priscilla in real life, and so yeah, I
Speaker 4: remember I had a a dinner once where I went
Speaker 4: and I was sat next to Tom Jones and Priscilla
Speaker 4: Presley and then me and I was and there was
Speaker 4: another a whole other group of it was like a
Speaker 4: fever dream at Jeff's house, you know, when you're like
Speaker 4: like deleting are the monkeys and is that like yeah,
Speaker 4: just you know, all kinds of like musicians and whatever.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that was I remember. I was like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't dye my hair black.
Speaker 4: Though I didn't get the memo. I guess I should have,
Speaker 4: although sort of more reddish now. I guess I would
Speaker 4: have looked strange if I showed up dressed exactly like
Speaker 4: her though, So I'm glad it would have been creepy.
Speaker 1: It'd been creepy.
Speaker 4: It would have been creepy, and it would have it
Speaker 4: would have taken a lot of planning, and I just
Speaker 4: don't have the energy.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, and you know, I just have to
Speaker 3: add one more thing because I'm working at HSN as
Speaker 3: a on air talent.
Speaker 1: Yes, I was gonna say, what do you what do you?
Speaker 4: What do you have to do? Okay, so you're on
Speaker 4: HSN Home Shopping Network, My.
Speaker 3: Show will all right. So I'm a health hair and
Speaker 3: beauty demonstration model.
Speaker 1: Oh I need hair.
Speaker 3: I was married for twenty four years. Got divorced two
Speaker 3: years ago, and I just raised my family while I
Speaker 3: was married and didn't pursue a career. And then after
Speaker 3: I got divorced, I started this November of twenty so.
Speaker 3: But Rhonda Shear is always around, yes, and I always
Speaker 3: want to run into her, but like her the timing
Speaker 3: of and where our studios are located. I haven't been
Speaker 3: able to run into her yet.
Speaker 4: But oh yes, yeah, she's great. Later on the show,
Speaker 4: she was so excellent, just great. Yeah, we're all we're
Speaker 4: all still.
Speaker 1: Doing it, you know, well, not all of us.
Speaker 4: We've killed a lot of careers on full House, but
Speaker 4: most of us, some of us a handful, maybe.
Speaker 1: We're still around.
Speaker 3: I feel like you guys could sell something on HSN
Speaker 3: and come down to Saint Pete.
Speaker 1: And floor and right, let's let's develop a bra like
Speaker 1: Ronda wants to do, like a full fuller or something
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, we'm you know what, there's so many
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Speaker 4: All right, people, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: We absolutely loved this.
Speaker 4: This was great and yeah, we will see you when
Speaker 4: you reappear as Karen or Connie next.
Speaker 1: Karen Connie in Fullest House. Yeah, let's spring back more
Speaker 1: than an official all right, all right, I'm good to
Speaker 1: see you. Debbie. Ye, exactly the same. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: love that conversation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she doesn't seem to be at all affected by
Speaker 4: the period of Howie in her life.
Speaker 1: She seems to really have made it through that. She's
Speaker 1: well adjusted. Yeah, that was She's a good sport. She's
Speaker 1: a very good sport for yes, and all of those
Speaker 1: characters for sure. And like she said, she was like
Speaker 1: she had fun doing it. I was talking to Jeffy.
Speaker 4: He was like, yeah, I mean, you know when you have,
Speaker 4: you know, a girlfriend who's an actor, like, sure, do.
Speaker 1: This part, you know, And I love it. It was great.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. Gosh, yeah, thirty five years ago. So wild,
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Speaker 4: see how this outro goes. No, thank you guys for listening.
Speaker 4: We have I think I broke a b She's just laughing.
Speaker 1: Silently, like getting there, I'm getting there? What is wrong
Speaker 1: with this woman? Thank you guys for listening.
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