Speaker 1: We are back with part two of our interview with
Speaker 1: the one and only Dave Koolier. We are so thankful
Speaker 1: to him for joining us and being so candid about
Speaker 1: questions we've never known the answers to. Without further ado,
Speaker 1: here is part two of Dave Kolier.
Speaker 2: I would love to hear like how you I mean
Speaker 2: talking about comedy and stuff, Like how you got into comedy.
Speaker 2: I know, you know, my Finder was a big part
Speaker 2: of that, like growing up in Michigan and stuff, and.
Speaker 3: Mike Mike uh talked me into moving to la when
Speaker 3: I was eighteen years old. I got into comedy just from,
Speaker 3: you know, the way a lot of comedians do just
Speaker 3: through pain, and it was a way to you know,
Speaker 3: deal with pain that was happening in my life. I
Speaker 3: grew up in a really strong Catholic family, in a
Speaker 3: Catholic neighborhood, in a Catholic community, and I went to
Speaker 3: Catholic school. I went to Catholic All boys High School,
Speaker 3: and so you know, all that guilt that is associated
Speaker 3: with that came crashing down on me when my parents
Speaker 3: got divorced. I was nine years old. I was in
Speaker 3: third grade, third grade, starting a new Catholic school, and
Speaker 3: my way of dealing with the pain that was at home.
Speaker 3: Because my parents were both lovely people, they just should
Speaker 3: never have procreated together, you know, But I'm glad they did,
Speaker 3: you know. But it was my coping mechanism of feeling
Speaker 3: all this Catholic guilt on a daily basis was to
Speaker 3: be the funny kid in the class. And so I
Speaker 3: learned very early how to do voices with my brother.
Speaker 3: My brother and I would lay in our bunk beds,
Speaker 3: and my brother was the funniest person I ever know.
Speaker 3: He was so dry, but so brilliant and witty, and
Speaker 3: he was a savant. He could play classical piano just
Speaker 3: off the top of his head. He was a sculptor.
Speaker 3: He was a painter, but very very troubled, you know.
Speaker 3: But he truly was a savant with a lot of
Speaker 3: different things. And so my brother and I, my brother
Speaker 3: taught me how to do impressions, and we would lay
Speaker 3: in our bunk beds at night, and we would do
Speaker 3: impressions of our neighbors and our family members and friends.
Speaker 3: And my brother would do these impressions and make me
Speaker 3: laugh so hard. My dad would run into our room
Speaker 3: at like one in the morning and go if you do,
Speaker 3: don't knock it off. I'm tired of hearing Hooper and
Speaker 3: mister Rondo in here. And those were our neighbors across
Speaker 3: the street. So my brother Danny and I we would
Speaker 3: sit on the we would sit on the front porch,
Speaker 3: and we called it it narrating the neighborhood. And so
Speaker 3: we would just look across the street. You'd go, okay,
Speaker 3: you take mister Maddox and I'll take mister Hooper, and
Speaker 3: you take mister Rondo and mister Gat and we would.
Speaker 4: Just I can't stand at these kids. They're lawnmower. I'm
Speaker 4: just a dub old buffalo. And then you know, I
Speaker 4: would my brother would do mister Hooper.
Speaker 5: I can't stand my own stomach because he had a
Speaker 5: huge stomach, and my brother would always do this bit.
Speaker 5: I can't stand my own stomach. You know, my belly
Speaker 5: button is like a jar. I could pour a dirt
Speaker 5: in it and grow a plant.
Speaker 3: And we would we would make each other laugh so hard,
Speaker 3: but we would carry that into our bunk beds late
Speaker 3: at night, right And and I I thought farts were
Speaker 3: the funniest thing in the world. Still do because I had.
Speaker 3: I had nine uncles growing up, and my joke was I.
Speaker 2: I pulled and some sort of hereditary bowel disease. So
Speaker 2: absolutely so needless to say, it runs in the family
Speaker 2: quite literally.
Speaker 3: So my joke is, I had nine uncles growing up.
Speaker 3: I pulled more fingers than an orthopedic surgeon. So so
Speaker 3: you know, I was a funny kid, and my my
Speaker 3: aunts and uncles were all funny. My dad was really funny,
Speaker 3: my mom was a great laugher, my sisters were terrifically funny,
Speaker 3: and so comedy for me was just basically something that
Speaker 3: brought intense joy laughter, and because I wasn't here in
Speaker 3: those laughs when I got home, the laughter would stop
Speaker 3: when I got home because it was very painful the
Speaker 3: relationship between my mom and dad. And then I was
Speaker 3: a jock. So being a jock, you've got a built
Speaker 3: in audience.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: I would play hockey and there's twenty kids sitting around,
Speaker 3: and I would do impressions as the coaches. It was
Speaker 3: just an extension of what I was doing at home
Speaker 3: with my brother, but I brought it into locker room
Speaker 3: when I got into high school. Let's back up, I
Speaker 3: met Mark Sandrowski in third grade.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And Mark Sandrawski. By the way, just as a side
Speaker 2: note here, Mark Sandrowski was as far as he relates
Speaker 2: to us, he is Dave's one of Dave's best friends.
Speaker 2: But he was our second ad on full House for
Speaker 2: a while, and then he went on to successfully direct
Speaker 2: Big Bang Theory and win Emmy's and he's directed a
Speaker 2: ton of shows and he's an incredible sitcom director and
Speaker 2: he's a lovely human being. A side note anyway, back
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 3: So I knew Mark Mark and I Mark and I
Speaker 3: met in third grade and I walked by his desk
Speaker 3: to go get my paper from the teacher, and he
Speaker 3: was drawing in his notebook and I was like, what
Speaker 3: the heck is that kid doing? So I walked back
Speaker 3: up my paper. I walk back and I go, what
Speaker 3: are you drawing there? He goes, Oh, these are Martians.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I'm gonna like this kid. And so
Speaker 3: we became best friends and we started writing comedy bits,
Speaker 3: probably end of third grade, fourth grade, and we would
Speaker 3: do little sketches at the hockey banquets, and you know,
Speaker 3: he would always have me do voices and he would
Speaker 3: be the straight man and I would do the funny
Speaker 3: guy and.
Speaker 2: So you know where we're cut it out came from.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I stole it from him because his brother. He
Speaker 3: and his brother Dwight were a comedy duo and they
Speaker 3: used to open for me and they were called Ski
Speaker 3: Squared Sandrowski, so it was Ski Squared and Mark would
Speaker 3: do this Mark Suave character where he would button his
Speaker 3: shirt all the time to a woman in the front, oh,
Speaker 3: and go, I know what you're looking at. Now cut
Speaker 3: it out? And I told him, I said, I'm going
Speaker 3: to steal that, so I did. I started using it
Speaker 3: on a show that I hosted on Nickelodeon called out
Speaker 3: of Control, and it became kind of my catchphrase. I
Speaker 3: remember doing cut it out at one of our run
Speaker 3: throughs early on at full House, and I remember the
Speaker 3: producers laughing and they were like, what was that weird
Speaker 3: thing you did? I went, oh, cut it out. They go,
Speaker 3: we're gonna we're going to write that in and they did.
Speaker 3: You know, so so comedy for me. I had a
Speaker 3: partner in crime early on with Mark, I knew another
Speaker 3: funny kid, and then with stand up. I started doing
Speaker 3: impressions in high school at Notre Dame, where Mark and
Speaker 3: I went and I could do dead on impressions of
Speaker 3: about six or seven teachers and our principal. And one
Speaker 3: day we're in the we're in the cafeteria for lunch,
Speaker 3: and I was doing this bit using our principal's voice,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, everybody's eyes stopped and was
Speaker 3: looking behind me, and I was like, uh oh, and
Speaker 3: I turned around and it was the principle and they
Speaker 3: talked like that, David, I'll see you down in my
Speaker 3: office now. And his name was Conrade Veschan. So I
Speaker 3: went down to his office and he said, you and
Speaker 3: that Sandrowski fellow, you know those kids follow you. Why
Speaker 3: don't you do the announcements? And I said really like
Speaker 3: he goes, yeah, you do it, and I said as you,
Speaker 3: and he goes, well, yeah, whatever you want. So Mark
Speaker 3: and I started writing the announcements in the morning, and
Speaker 3: I would go on as the principal of our school.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's doing the announcements.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of how kind of how I really
Speaker 3: got hooked. And we were always listening to George Carlin
Speaker 3: and Richard Prior albums and sketching stuff and creating funny characters,
Speaker 3: and then we added another friend of our, Tom Keenan.
Speaker 3: So everybody called us the Three Stooges, and we would
Speaker 3: perform at October fests and you know, charities and banquets
Speaker 3: and the Hockey Awards local you know, the banquet, we
Speaker 3: would do a show, and so it was really nice.
Speaker 3: By the time I got to high school, we had
Speaker 3: a whole troop of nine guys and we would do
Speaker 3: kind of Monty Python Saturday Night live sketches to raise
Speaker 3: money for the school. And so that just led into
Speaker 3: doing stand up here in Detroit when stand up was exploding.
Speaker 3: My group was Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, Gary Shandling, Bob Saggat,
Speaker 3: Jim Carrey, Howie Mandel, Drew Carey, Dennis Miller, Louis Anderson.
Speaker 3: It was an extraordinary time to be stand up, Jerry Seinfeld,
Speaker 3: Larry Miller, and it was such an amazing group that
Speaker 3: you couldn't you couldn't follow Jerry Seinfeld and do your
Speaker 3: b material. You had to go on at the comedy store.
Speaker 3: And I'm following Shandling, I'm following sag and I'm following Seinfeld,
Speaker 3: I'm following Robin Williams, and you know, None of us
Speaker 3: were stars. We were just comics. You had to you
Speaker 3: had to go up and really hit it out of
Speaker 3: the park following those guys because they were hitting it
Speaker 3: out of the park. So, you know, when I was
Speaker 3: nineteen years old, it was really exciting, you know. And
Speaker 3: then I was a stand up for a long time,
Speaker 3: right through Full House, and then I quit.
Speaker 2: What made you decide to quit?
Speaker 3: I was burned out. I was doing I was doing
Speaker 3: Full House. I was hosting America's Funniest People on ABC.
Speaker 3: I was doing voices on The Muppet Babies on CBS,
Speaker 3: and I was doing voices on the Real Ghostbusters cartoon.
Speaker 3: And so I thought, you know, this isn't gonna last forever.
Speaker 3: I'm going to tour. I'm gonna do stand up dates.
Speaker 3: So there's a theater here in Michigan called Pine Knob
Speaker 3: and it's like ten thousand seats. So Dennis Miller I
Speaker 3: played there three times. I cohig headlined with Bob Louis
Speaker 3: Anderson one time and with Dennis Miller. The third time
Speaker 3: was with Dennis. Dennis. I opened the show and then
Speaker 3: Dennis closed, And during my set in front of like
Speaker 3: eight thousand people, I started talking to myself and having
Speaker 3: this inner dialogue, and I was telling myself how I
Speaker 3: wasn't into it, how I was just like going through
Speaker 3: the motions, and like, I caught myself. And I don't
Speaker 3: know how long I was taught, Probably it was probably
Speaker 3: just milliseconds, but I caught myself having this inner dialogue
Speaker 3: and I and I thought, ooh, you have just been
Speaker 3: on autopilot. This is really awful, and it scared me.
Speaker 3: And I walked off stage, and then Dennis and I
Speaker 3: went out to dinner and I just told him. I said,
Speaker 3: I can't do this anymore. And I called Brad Gray,
Speaker 3: who was my manager, and I said, Brad, cancel the
Speaker 3: rest of my dates. He goes, what are you talking about, Dave?
Speaker 3: And I said, I'm burned out. He goes, you got
Speaker 3: these theater dates. He goes, You're going to make a fortune.
Speaker 3: I said, I can't do it anymore. I just scared
Speaker 3: the crap out of myself on stage. So I took like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, eight or nine years off and then
Speaker 3: just wasn't interested in it. And you know, never say never,
Speaker 3: but I don't think I'll do it again. You know,
Speaker 3: I achieved everything in stand up. I wanted to do.
Speaker 3: You know. I did an HBO special, I did the
Speaker 3: Tonight Show when Johnny Carson was hosting. I was on Showtime,
Speaker 3: I you know, toured, I you know, it was it
Speaker 3: was awesome. It was really awesome. But to do it now,
Speaker 3: stand up's hard. It's really hard. And if anybody tells
Speaker 3: you it's not that they've never done it. It's really hard.
Speaker 3: And I know what it takes to put an hour
Speaker 3: and a half together, a killer hour and a half.
Speaker 3: I did an Air Force tour a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: I did twenty four US Air Force bases and I
Speaker 3: had to headline and it was so much work. And
Speaker 3: you have to be on a stage every night to
Speaker 3: get good. And I don't want to do that anymore.
Speaker 3: It's a lot, a lot of work, you know. And Jody,
Speaker 3: I know you're out doing stand up and you.
Speaker 2: My finder actually gave me my first opportunity. He had
Speaker 2: me open for him at the Ice House. It was
Speaker 2: my first time getting up and doing original material and
Speaker 2: he was and it was because he was like, I've
Speaker 2: seen you. I know you can do this. I know
Speaker 2: you can do this, and like I got off the
Speaker 2: stage and he was like Bob and Dave would be
Speaker 2: so proud of you, like and that meant the world. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but yeah, it is. I mean I get like I
Speaker 2: haven't put as much effort into it because it's it's
Speaker 2: also like a young people's grind, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: All my friends that are stand ups, like they're out
Speaker 2: every night at the club at comedy's door, I laugh,
Speaker 2: going club club till two three in the morning. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I got kids that got to get up and go
Speaker 2: to school. And I get, you know, I can do
Speaker 2: a couple shows here and there, but it is, it's
Speaker 2: it is. It's a lifestyle. Being a comic, I see
Speaker 2: is kind of and it's it's awesome and it's great,
Speaker 2: and but it is it's a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're either all in.
Speaker 2: Or you're not right right.
Speaker 3: Because you know, audiences will tell you, oh, you're not
Speaker 3: all in right just by their response. And I know
Speaker 3: how much effort it takes to write and go out
Speaker 3: just to get five minutes is hard, you know, to
Speaker 3: get a five minutes set together that's rip roaring killer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, takes you a month.
Speaker 6: Yeah, at least a month for five minutes, you know,
Speaker 6: so to put an hour together is going to take
Speaker 6: you a year. Yeah, And that takes a lot of
Speaker 6: work and commitment, and and you know, I have so
Speaker 6: many other nice things in.
Speaker 3: My life that I can devote that time too that
Speaker 3: you know, I'm not a laugh junkie. I don't need
Speaker 3: to hear the laughs. You know.
Speaker 2: Did you ever have any other jobs like other Didn't
Speaker 2: you tell me that one time you did, like some
Speaker 2: sort of engineering or something right or some sort of Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like I always love bragging about like you and Andrea
Speaker 2: and Scott because like the people that played the stupidest
Speaker 2: characters on our show were actually some of the most
Speaker 2: intelligent people. And so I'm always like Dave's like really bright,
Speaker 2: like don't let Joey fool you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I worked in a mechanical engineering firm here in Detroit.
Speaker 3: I was a detailer where you had to draw everything
Speaker 3: by hands. So I had a giant drawing board and
Speaker 3: we would design cycloidal transfer units and so I would
Speaker 3: take down substations from those huge assembly lines. What it is,
Speaker 3: it's it moves parts down an assembly line, OK. And
Speaker 3: we would design all of these different stations that would
Speaker 3: you know, take a piece of steel, rotate it, drill it,
Speaker 3: counterbore it, you know, switch it and move it on
Speaker 3: to the next station. You know, of the all this
Speaker 3: automation that was going to happen, So I would have
Speaker 3: to break down certain sections of that and draw it
Speaker 3: in detail, it all out, call out all the parts
Speaker 3: and how you could machine it. So I did that
Speaker 3: before I moved to LA And I have two sides
Speaker 3: of my brain. I definitely have a creative side, but
Speaker 3: I also love the technical stuff, like That's why I
Speaker 3: love aviation. That's why I love flying. And as a
Speaker 3: kid growing up, I could never I could never really
Speaker 3: make sense of math or science until I became a pilot.
Speaker 3: And then being a pilot is all math and science.
Speaker 3: You know, it's meteorology, it's you know, it's physics, it's aerodynamics,
Speaker 3: it's you know, and then there's communication, and then there's navigation,
Speaker 3: and then there's you know, all the technical aspects of
Speaker 3: just you know, fuel navigation. I love that stuff, but
Speaker 3: it never made sense until I could put it all
Speaker 3: together in a three D package, which is flying an airplane.
Speaker 3: And so you know, I love that that stuff, which
Speaker 3: is why I love directing television. You know, you get
Speaker 3: to be so creative and you get to work with
Speaker 3: cameras and technical aspects, and you know, you put that
Speaker 3: together and you've got this wonderful, funny symphony.
Speaker 2: I was going to ask, how did you like? How
Speaker 2: was it directing the show?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: How was it directing us?
Speaker 3: It was a wonderful experience.
Speaker 2: How was it directing Bob?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Bob is such a pain in the ass. I mean,
Speaker 3: he was just you know, it made sense why directors
Speaker 3: would just shake their heads all those years, you know,
Speaker 3: because I feel like, like, oh boy, he's not off book,
Speaker 3: but he's out of his mind, off somewhere making people laugh.
Speaker 3: And it's like, Bob, you don't even know your lines.
Speaker 3: You should probably be taking that energy and putting it
Speaker 3: into memorizing your life. But you know, he was. He
Speaker 3: was a laugh junkie, you know, he for sure, you know,
Speaker 3: if he had an audience there, he was going to
Speaker 3: make sure that they were laughing at him. And you know,
Speaker 3: a lot of times it was to his own detriment.
Speaker 1: True. I always loved being directed by you. I've never
Speaker 1: the one time I've seen you serious is when you're
Speaker 1: flying or when you're directing. Other than that, you're just
Speaker 1: making jokes all the time, but or farting, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. We joke. We're like, ooh, it's serious day.
Speaker 1: It's serious day, serious day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but did you have to be?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know, I built this house that I'm sitting in here,
Speaker 3: and it was it was a tough build. It took
Speaker 3: me seventeen months. But I approached it like directing a show,
Speaker 3: like the plans are your script. I just didn't realize
Speaker 3: I was going to be working with so many actors.
Speaker 3: Contractors are a whole world. But you know, I love
Speaker 3: being able to work with all of these different personalities
Speaker 3: doing different things, and then falling back on the script
Speaker 3: the plans to make sure that everything was executed properly.
Speaker 3: It was a real challenge, but I'm glad I did it.
Speaker 2: You know, it was we We love the pictures of
Speaker 2: you in your in your little tractor back hove thing
Speaker 2: with your little hero let me go. Yeah, you've got tractor,
Speaker 2: and I just always pictured Dave. I'm like, he's just
Speaker 2: he's just plowing something on his property, digging a trench somewhere,
Speaker 2: happy and just with the dogs. And that's it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Today I'm going to be loading stone on our driveway
Speaker 3: and we have these big walkways and I have to
Speaker 3: put pea gravel in between those walkway pieces.
Speaker 2: And you're going to drink a lot of water, that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, we'll be a director later today.
Speaker 2: Oh well, enjoy I love that. Do we want to
Speaker 2: play one of these? I mean, I mean, well.
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to talk about full House. Rewind.
Speaker 1: We can't let you go without talking about Congratulations. Your
Speaker 1: podcast is back. It's very exciting. I love watching it.
Speaker 2: It's true, really really fun.
Speaker 1: A unique show that combines video, interviews, impressions, puppets. It's
Speaker 1: like a variety show, and it's so cool to watch
Speaker 1: you create.
Speaker 3: You thanks.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: I love being a host. You know, I kind of
Speaker 3: started in show business being a host hosting a series
Speaker 3: on Nickelodeon called out of Control. So I wanted to
Speaker 3: I wanted to create something that, you know, I could
Speaker 3: do my voices and have puppets, a little bit of
Speaker 3: Pee Wee's Playhouse, but but kind of drag one foot
Speaker 3: in the world of full House, you know, and do
Speaker 3: just something different than a podcast, kind of do a
Speaker 3: video podcast and create like a little show around full House.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we we relaunched with Staymos as our guest.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 3: I'm so excited because you guys are going to come on.
Speaker 2: Yes, can't wait, Yes, it would be really fun. Can't wait.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see the set. The set which
Speaker 1: so cool. You got like the plaid, the plaid couch chair,
Speaker 1: sitting chair. It's so cool.
Speaker 3: It's so tiny, which is a metaphor for my life.
Speaker 3: But it's just a tiny little set, you know. But
Speaker 3: we're having fun and I get to write the episodes
Speaker 3: and it's a real challenge, you know, trying to be
Speaker 3: funny with these characters that you know, I'm borrowing mister
Speaker 3: Woodchuck and comment. We have character Granny Tanner and always
Speaker 3: see her ankles. So it's been really fun. It's been
Speaker 3: a real challenge. You know. We're back, which good. I'm
Speaker 3: going to be very busy again.
Speaker 1: So what has surprised you most? Rewatching or I guess
Speaker 1: watching for the rewatching, your watching it for the first time.
Speaker 3: You guys were so good. You guys were so freaking good.
Speaker 3: I mean, you were so funny. Just to have that
Speaker 3: kind of timing. You you can't teach a kid to
Speaker 3: have timing. You just either have that or you don't.
Speaker 3: And I mean, you know, because I'm going back to
Speaker 3: first season. I just watched the scene Jody with you
Speaker 3: in Candice where you get as episode I think it's
Speaker 3: thirteen called Sisterly Love where you get the commercial boat.
Speaker 2: Yes we did, yeap oak boats.
Speaker 1: Yeah ooatscial.
Speaker 3: So I'm watching you too. And then you have that
Speaker 3: heartfelt scene. First of all, you were so funny in it.
Speaker 3: Secondly you have that heartfelt scene and I'm tearing up.
Speaker 3: I'm like, it got me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I.
Speaker 3: Wasn't expecting that all these years later. I was expecting
Speaker 3: to be a little bit cynical about it, and you know,
Speaker 3: but it pulled me in and I went this, I'm
Speaker 3: seeing why it was so special to so many people. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, to rewatch them because I never watched the show.
Speaker 3: You know, I always thought I'll be hooked up to
Speaker 3: machines having a full house marathon.
Speaker 1: God, let me just.
Speaker 2: See one last time.
Speaker 3: That's right. Oh, look at that. He's dead. That actor
Speaker 3: is dead.
Speaker 5: That guest star is dead.
Speaker 2: I mean we have had that a few times. We're like,
Speaker 2: oh that's so and so is all they're dead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Little Richard's dead.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, comment has been dead for thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know I did have that realization like, oh yeah, crazy.
Speaker 3: But going back, Andrew to your point, you guys were remarkable.
Speaker 3: You were just really and you can't fake that. You can't,
Speaker 3: and you can't fake the chemistry that exists on the show.
Speaker 3: You either have that or you don't. You can't, you
Speaker 3: can't manufacture, and.
Speaker 2: It was it for us. I mean, it's kind of
Speaker 2: been fun to go back, like watching the old episodes
Speaker 2: and really seeing this family kind of find that chemistry
Speaker 2: and come together, Like you really do see the progression
Speaker 2: of our relationships on screen. You see the the you know,
Speaker 2: Ashley and Mary Kate start really warming up and being
Speaker 2: much more like a part of it, and them growing up,
Speaker 2: and you just start seeing the in between stuff of
Speaker 2: affection and real camaraderie amongst us as a as a family.
Speaker 2: And I love that the show really was you know,
Speaker 2: it wasn't about this family that already existed. It was
Speaker 2: about this family sort of coming together and figuring out
Speaker 2: how did it come right? And I realize now, like
Speaker 2: we really watched that, it was like watching these people
Speaker 2: become the family that they turned into.
Speaker 3: And it's also really interesting that we have different perspectives
Speaker 3: because while we were out on that stage, you guys
Speaker 3: were in a classroom, you know, being kids, you know,
Speaker 3: and you know, there's kind of two two generations here
Speaker 3: talking about the same show, which I think is really
Speaker 3: interesting because you know, you guys are driving to Full
Speaker 3: House with your mom's right, I'm driving with Bob or John,
Speaker 3: you know, and we're going to Vegas after the show
Speaker 3: on Friday night. You guys are going to a birthday party, right,
Speaker 3: you know, with Mary, Kate and Ashley, you know. So
Speaker 3: I think it's really interesting that we do have those
Speaker 3: two different perspectives of what life was like as we
Speaker 3: go back and venture and take a look at these episodes.
Speaker 2: It's really interesting. Well, I always think about it, like
Speaker 2: I don't really have a part of my life that
Speaker 2: I remember prior to having Full House in it. I
Speaker 2: don't have experiences that I really viscerally remember prior to
Speaker 2: five years old, you know, so like this has always
Speaker 2: been a part of my life, I don't, you know,
Speaker 2: like you guys as adults have like the before and
Speaker 2: the after. I like, I, you know, even I guess
Speaker 2: really for you you were ten, like you know, at
Speaker 2: same with Ashon Marcatte, like, there was never a before,
Speaker 2: there was just right what it was, and and after,
Speaker 2: you know, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of questions that we don't know
Speaker 1: the answers to, such as who came up with the
Speaker 1: mannequin wearing the same shirt as Joey Gladstone in those
Speaker 1: first the first half of the season, it was that you.
Speaker 3: Were j It was me, yeah, because I just thought,
Speaker 3: I just thought this is really weird. I wondered if
Speaker 3: the audience will get it. And it was just dumb.
Speaker 3: It was dumb. It drove the prop people insane.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they were like absolutely, Roger Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, our prop master. It drove them nuts. And then
Speaker 3: I realized it's not really a you know, it's not
Speaker 3: a catchy, cool thing. It's kind of dumb.
Speaker 1: Oh. I loved it. I enjoyed it. We look every we.
Speaker 2: Made, yeah, every episode, we've made quite the issue out
Speaker 2: of it, and particularly the ones where the mannequin changed
Speaker 2: during the episode, mostly because it led me to the
Speaker 2: questions of who is doing the changing, and why does
Speaker 2: Joey have these extra shirts for the mannequin? And do
Speaker 2: you really have room for a mannequin in an alcove.
Speaker 2: There's lots of things, but yeah, it begs right, And
Speaker 2: if you're living in an alcove, you will have to
Speaker 2: have not only your own stuff, but now the mannequin
Speaker 2: stuff too. Like it just I had a lot of questions.
Speaker 2: I had a hidden wardrobe shack somewhere right yest well
Speaker 2: in that the little yellow bug which was Joey's car,
Speaker 2: wasn't it that we like saw twice Yeah, with the
Speaker 2: friend with the with the fronk, that was that was
Speaker 2: your closet. No, I just yeah, the glove compartment was
Speaker 2: where you kept all the mannequins close.
Speaker 3: But I just watched the Bullet episode. Yes, yeah, you
Speaker 3: know John, somehow the car goes.
Speaker 2: In right, and he's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No one cares about cars.
Speaker 2: We're like, what happen to the car? Oh you almost died?
Speaker 1: Eh?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So then I directed the episode where you recrash
Speaker 3: Bullet right through.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. You've got all the difficult episodes. You
Speaker 1: had the Nutcrackers, you had the car in the kitchen.
Speaker 3: That show was named Nutcracker for a reason. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I had it. Seemed like all the special effects always landed. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he goes, I'm sorry, Dave. I'm like what He's like,
Speaker 3: You've got the this thing where we're doing all this
Speaker 3: green screen.
Speaker 2: Video, right. But I also feel like every week on
Speaker 2: Fuller House was some new fresh hell of a stunt
Speaker 2: or a costume or a thing. So it was much
Speaker 2: more so than the like the original show. I'm like, ah,
Speaker 2: and we had a song montage and every episode, but
Speaker 2: we didn't have a full scale like you know, Hamilton
Speaker 2: costumes or you know, things like that.
Speaker 3: In that Nutcracker episode that was the first one I directed. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and Andrew and you were so funny in that episode.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, one of my favorites, getting that dance, getting
Speaker 1: the ballet on its feet, and Jeff is constantly changing
Speaker 1: the choreography or how many times my character died in
Speaker 1: the ballet, And I remember being so frustrated and I'm like, Dave,
Speaker 1: tell Jeff to stop changing his mind. And you were
Speaker 1: so good talking me down. You were just like, just
Speaker 1: let write it out, write it out. Jeff will see it.
Speaker 1: He'll see the problems in all of his ideas and
Speaker 1: it will all come together. And it did. It all
Speaker 1: came together.
Speaker 3: I remember giving you a bit where you die and you.
Speaker 1: Yes, the feet the feet keep.
Speaker 3: That's how Curly would die in the Three Studies, always
Speaker 3: kick his legs, you know. And I always thought that
Speaker 3: was so funny. And I went, Andrea, let me show
Speaker 3: you something. This is a Three Stooges move.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you were so good at those little details makes
Speaker 1: such a big difference. And you were so good at
Speaker 1: the details of comedy.
Speaker 3: It was so funny, it was It just made me
Speaker 3: laugh seeing you do Curly from the.
Speaker 2: Threes dressed as a giant.
Speaker 1: Rats a giant just as a giant rat.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: The other question we have that to put this debate
Speaker 1: to rest. Is it Uncle Joey or is it just Joey?
Speaker 2: Are you Joey?
Speaker 3: It's just Joey. Here's how it became. Here's how it
Speaker 3: became Uncle Joey.
Speaker 1: Okay, tell us because.
Speaker 3: In one of the early shows, I forget which one
Speaker 3: of your characters said Uncle Jesse and Joey are coming,
Speaker 3: and it it just stuck where we were kind of
Speaker 3: the uncles, and we just we just got bonded, right,
Speaker 3: And I think there is an episode where one of
Speaker 3: you guys says Uncle Joey is coming or Uncle Joey
Speaker 3: was here or something, but I think it's actually said
Speaker 3: in one of the episodes.
Speaker 1: It is. There's there's it's a scene where you're in
Speaker 1: the shower with all of like this pink hair, like
Speaker 1: the shower cap.
Speaker 2: He's got the swimming cap and the goggles. He's given
Speaker 2: the baby a bath or something.
Speaker 1: And and Jesse hands you the baby and says, here,
Speaker 1: go to uncle Joey. That's that's the only time I've
Speaker 1: heard it.
Speaker 2: So it was John. It was n John John John.
Speaker 3: I'd lived that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, yeah, guaranteed that wasn't in the script.
Speaker 3: But everybody you know introduces me as uncle Joey, and
Speaker 3: it's okay, you know, being America's uncle. It's nice.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a term of endearment.
Speaker 2: Exactly, yes, exactly, yes. I just always like to clarify
Speaker 2: because people like uncle Joe. I'm like, well, technically it's
Speaker 2: not Uncle Joe, it's Uncle Jesse and Joey. But I
Speaker 2: get I will let it slide on a technound just.
Speaker 3: I've just accepted it, and I don't fight it anymore.
Speaker 3: I don't correct people. It's like Jeff Daniels lives here
Speaker 3: in Michigan.
Speaker 2: It's very coy have we ever seen you two in
Speaker 2: the same room.
Speaker 3: You haven't. But Jeff and I are good friends. And
Speaker 3: you know, he says, if one more person comes up
Speaker 3: and does that, stupid cut it. Whatever you do. I said, hey,
Speaker 3: if one more person comes up to me and asked,
Speaker 3: are you dom or domer? You know, but we you know,
Speaker 3: we've talked about it, and he just said, he goes,
Speaker 3: I don't fight it anymore. Right, I don't correct people.
Speaker 3: I just say, sure, I'll sign it.
Speaker 2: Does he sign it, Dave Coolier like your dad told
Speaker 2: him to.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Make sure you sign it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just people, Oh, Jeff, how's it going? And then
Speaker 3: I'll sign it like Shirley Temple. There you go.
Speaker 2: They're probably very confused.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Shirley Temple's signature by Dave Coolier on a
Speaker 2: photo of Jeff Daniels and the eBay resale on that
Speaker 2: is astounding.
Speaker 3: You want to talk about dum.
Speaker 1: Well, Dave, we're so happy you got to join us.
Speaker 1: Unless you have more to say, like we can we
Speaker 1: could just keeping.
Speaker 2: I just know we wanted to keep you. I know
Speaker 2: we had you had to be off at a certain time,
Speaker 2: so we don't want to keep. I mean, we'll keep
Speaker 2: you as long as you know you'll let us.
Speaker 3: I saw we've been unpacking stuff, and I saw the
Speaker 3: script and one of you guys wrote Billy de Belle
Speaker 3: inside my script.
Speaker 2: It might have been it might have been Candace, might
Speaker 2: have well might have been anyways. I know I used
Speaker 2: to draw like I. I became the one that would
Speaker 2: just draw in appropriate pictures on people's scripts during notes.
Speaker 3: Oh, I wonder where you got that from?
Speaker 1: Do you know I donated? No idea, I donated accidentally.
Speaker 1: There was a charity that asked for a full house
Speaker 1: script for a donation for an auction, so I donated it.
Speaker 1: I think it was a school actually, like an elementary school.
Speaker 1: And so the secretary called me after.
Speaker 2: She goes like, there's a giant wiener.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a giant wiener on the back of the script.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, sorry, I had to provide a
Speaker 1: new script because I couldn't we couldn't auction that off
Speaker 1: to the children, the needy children we had.
Speaker 3: I mean, Bob would draw those on my script constantly
Speaker 3: during notes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep. And then I started doing it and I
Speaker 2: would draw them on Candace and Andrew's script. During notes,
Speaker 2: Jeff would be giving a very something or or Bob Boy,
Speaker 2: it would be giving a note and I would just
Speaker 2: be drawing, just a wiener on Cannas's script and like,
Speaker 2: and she was just like, what are you stop? And
Speaker 2: I like, I'm dead pan just doing it and she's
Speaker 2: just dying, like what is happening?
Speaker 1: It was great, you've taught us so well.
Speaker 3: Bob was so nuts durring notes. It was so so unproductive.
Speaker 3: It was just he would it was his moment where
Speaker 3: he was he would just lose it for an hour.
Speaker 2: Well, he'd been trying to keep it together so well
Speaker 2: the rest of the day that finally he was just
Speaker 2: and he was sitting down in one place so he
Speaker 2: couldn't past and wander off and do it was just
Speaker 2: it all came out and he would do his uh.
Speaker 3: He would do his Raiders Lost.
Speaker 1: Art, Oh Indiana.
Speaker 3: Jones would slice himself open, carry carry right well all
Speaker 3: his guts out, throw him over a tree, and then
Speaker 3: swing by his own guts. And because he was swinging
Speaker 3: from his guts, his his lungs would open and close
Speaker 3: and that would.
Speaker 1: Such a detailed bit.
Speaker 2: It was such a detailed absurd, where and why did
Speaker 2: this happen? And why is it still funny to us
Speaker 2: to this day. I don't know because everyone else listening
Speaker 2: is like, that's really gross, really horrifying, and we're really
Speaker 2: sorry listener, but this is this is who we are
Speaker 2: as real people. And but I miss.
Speaker 3: Him daily because I'll be driving in my truck and
Speaker 3: this time of year, around the holidays, Bob would call
Speaker 3: me and sing a filthy Christmas song. I especially miss
Speaker 3: him around the holidays, and it was always something false
Speaker 3: out of you know, it was always the filthiest some
Speaker 3: Christmas song where he would sing. He was like an
Speaker 3: insane caroller. And I have so many bits that I
Speaker 3: can only do with Bob, and I'll think of one
Speaker 3: and I'll go, I can't call him and like let this.
Speaker 5: Bob sag.
Speaker 2: And I can't because if you did it to anyone else,
Speaker 2: they'd just be like, are you okay? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2: I'm a concern? Oh man? What a wonderful walk down
Speaker 2: memory lane. Yes, yeah, And I loved hearing just more
Speaker 2: about you know you and growing up and what what
Speaker 2: it was like.
Speaker 1: And you know, i'd never heard the story about your
Speaker 1: brother teaching you how to do impressions.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, he was. He was so funny. My brother
Speaker 3: was like he was the leader of all the kids
Speaker 3: on our blocky. He was like the pied piper, right,
Speaker 3: and he would do the most bizarre things, like my
Speaker 3: brother dressed up like a dead kid and charged a
Speaker 3: quarter to see a dead kid. Yeah, my brother, My brother.
Speaker 3: My brother built a little like funeral parlor down our basement.
Speaker 3: And I went down the basement and he had this
Speaker 3: record going that was just church organ music. And I
Speaker 3: walked down. There's there's light, and he's laying there with
Speaker 3: a rosary with a suit on. And he waxed his
Speaker 3: hair back and put a suit and tie on. And
Speaker 3: I walked down and I go, Danny, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: He goes, I'm going to charge kids a quarter to
Speaker 3: see a dead body. How are you going to get
Speaker 3: him down there? He goes, I'll give you ten cents
Speaker 3: of every quarter if you go get the kids. Yes.
Speaker 3: So my brother put a suit on and made a
Speaker 3: casket down our basement with a little light shining on him.
Speaker 3: And I remember he was probably only like maybe seven
Speaker 3: years old, but it was it was brilliant. And so
Speaker 3: I would go and round up kids in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3: I go, my brother's dead and he's down our basement
Speaker 3: see a dead body. And the kid's like, he's not.
Speaker 3: I'm like, it's going to cost you a quarter. So
Speaker 3: I would bring kids down and it was all scary
Speaker 3: and spooky, and some kids would run out, you know,
Speaker 3: because my brother did like make up.
Speaker 2: And right right right, like he really went for it.
Speaker 3: He like putting.
Speaker 2: It was called but you were getting a lot for
Speaker 2: that quarter. Yes, commitment, yes, production value, but.
Speaker 3: We probably made fifteen barks. It was a lot of money.
Speaker 2: It's also also is just a statement to the age
Speaker 2: old thing, which is also proven by stand by me
Speaker 2: that kids just want to see dead bodies and I
Speaker 2: don't know why and they're weird, but here we are.
Speaker 2: Kids will be like I will go on a three
Speaker 2: day hike to go see a dead body.
Speaker 3: My brother. My brother had the best one liners too,
Speaker 3: Like my dad never went to the dentist his entire life.
Speaker 3: So like every year we'd see a picture of my
Speaker 3: dad and a family photo, we go, he's missing another tooth,
Speaker 3: that one's gone, Like, let's like here's last year the
Speaker 3: tooth was there, right, My dad. I don't know why
Speaker 3: my dad was terrified of doctors and dentists, but he
Speaker 3: never went to a dentist's entire life.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: So, one year, my nephew, Taylor is born. He's a baby,
Speaker 3: and my dad's holding him, and my dad sneezes, and
Speaker 3: my brother said, you better check Taylor's forehead for teeth.
Speaker 3: I remember my dad getting so mad, but he couldn't
Speaker 3: mention anything about it because it was like the thing
Speaker 3: you never talked about. But I remember me and my
Speaker 3: sisters laughing. We couldn't. We had to walk out of
Speaker 3: the room because it was so funny. But my dad
Speaker 3: and my brother had a kind of a weird laurel
Speaker 3: and hearty dynamic where they were always making jokes and
Speaker 3: cutting each other down. But it was hysterical. So every
Speaker 3: year at Thanksgiving, my dad would wait till there was
Speaker 3: a quiet moment and he'd go, boy, this is really nice.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm probably not going to be here next year,
Speaker 3: but you know what, Thank goodness, you know I got
Speaker 3: to spend this Thanksgiving with you guys and my brother
Speaker 3: without missing a beat, says dad. Look when it finally happens,
Speaker 3: can you just make sure it's on a Thursday, so
Speaker 3: I can set you out with the garbage, you know.
Speaker 2: But it was just, you know, very shark right right.
Speaker 3: Funny, weird family, you know somebody. The time I met Bob,
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, I got.
Speaker 2: This right, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: See I make jokes like that. My mom's like this,
Speaker 2: what is something's wrong with you? Something is wrong with you?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My dad would always say, Dave, you got a screw loose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah's I'm wrong with you. But yeah my mom,
Speaker 2: I didn't that. I wouldn't have joked like that. I
Speaker 2: go now, but it's funny. Yeah, oh, thank you. So
Speaker 2: this was such a great I could just talk to
Speaker 2: you for hours sitting here in the rain. We already have,
Speaker 2: I then, yes we have, but we love you and
Speaker 2: we can't wait to do your show. Do you want
Speaker 2: to tell people where they can find it.
Speaker 3: You can find us on YouTube at full House, rewind
Speaker 3: or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2: It's every fantastic.
Speaker 3: And I can't wait for you for you guys to
Speaker 3: come do the show. I can't wait to just see
Speaker 3: you guys because we have I know always it's.
Speaker 2: Very hard you living all the way in Michigan. Now
Speaker 2: because I used to see you a lot more.
Speaker 3: Well, you have to come and see this place. It's
Speaker 3: pretty extraordinary.
Speaker 2: I will say that the giant bathroom house. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: I'm coming just for the beidays.
Speaker 3: Yes, many different.
Speaker 2: One each day, I have to say at least a week.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, you can use a new toilet here every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm so glad. We ended on the same note
Speaker 2: that we started, which was toilet.
Speaker 3: Ye. Yes, welcome to this version of out house. Yes.
Speaker 3: I love you guys so much.
Speaker 1: I love you.
Speaker 2: Go have fun in your tractor.
Speaker 3: The tractors right outside, so yes, get that stuff done.
Speaker 2: And tell tell Mel we said hello and we love her,
Speaker 2: and send big hugs and we will see you soon
Speaker 2: in person.
Speaker 1: Okay, can't wait.
Speaker 2: Bye bye. That interview went exactly as as I thought
Speaker 2: it would, which was hilarious, but also I'm I don't
Speaker 2: know what we did.
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Speaker 1: I knew you couldn't do too many in a row.
Speaker 2: That's what. Yeah, that yet yeh
Speaker 3: Mhm