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Speaker 1 (00:17):
We are back with part two of our interview with
the one and only Dave Koolier. We are so thankful
to him for joining us and being so candid about
questions we've never known the answers to. Without further ado,
here is part two of Dave Kolier.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I would love to hear like how you I mean
talking about comedy and stuff, Like how you got into comedy.
I know, you know, my Finder was a big part
of that, like growing up in Michigan and stuff, and.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Mike Mike uh talked me into moving to la when
I was eighteen years old. I got into comedy just from,
you know, the way a lot of comedians do just
through pain, and it was a way to you know,
deal with pain that was happening in my life. I
grew up in a really strong Catholic family, in a
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Catholic neighborhood, in a Catholic community, and I went to
Catholic school. I went to Catholic All boys High School,
and so you know, all that guilt that is associated
with that came crashing down on me when my parents
got divorced. I was nine years old. I was in
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third grade, third grade, starting a new Catholic school, and
my way of dealing with the pain that was at home.
Because my parents were both lovely people, they just should
never have procreated together, you know, But I'm glad they did,
you know. But it was my coping mechanism of feeling
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all this Catholic guilt on a daily basis was to
be the funny kid in the class. And so I
learned very early how to do voices with my brother.
My brother and I would lay in our bunk beds,
and my brother was the funniest person I ever know.
He was so dry, but so brilliant and witty, and
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he was a savant. He could play classical piano just
off the top of his head. He was a sculptor.
He was a painter, but very very troubled, you know.
But he truly was a savant with a lot of
different things. And so my brother and I, my brother
taught me how to do impressions, and we would lay
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in our bunk beds at night, and we would do
impressions of our neighbors and our family members and friends.
And my brother would do these impressions and make me
laugh so hard. My dad would run into our room
at like one in the morning and go if you do,
don't knock it off. I'm tired of hearing Hooper and
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mister Rondo in here. And those were our neighbors across
the street. So my brother Danny and I we would
sit on the we would sit on the front porch,
and we called it it narrating the neighborhood. And so
we would just look across the street. You'd go, okay,
you take mister Maddox and I'll take mister Hooper, and
you take mister Rondo and mister Gat and we would.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Just I can't stand at these kids. They're lawnmower. I'm
just a dub old buffalo. And then you know, I
would my brother would do mister Hooper.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I can't stand my own stomach because he had a
huge stomach, and my brother would always do this bit.
I can't stand my own stomach. You know, my belly
button is like a jar. I could pour a dirt
in it and grow a plant.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And we would we would make each other laugh so hard,
but we would carry that into our bunk beds late
at night, right And and I I thought farts were
the funniest thing in the world. Still do because I had.
I had nine uncles growing up, and my joke was I.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I pulled and some sort of hereditary bowel disease. So
absolutely so needless to say, it runs in the family
quite literally.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So my joke is, I had nine uncles growing up.
I pulled more fingers than an orthopedic surgeon. So so
you know, I was a funny kid, and my my
aunts and uncles were all funny. My dad was really funny,
my mom was a great laugher, my sisters were terrifically funny,
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and so comedy for me was just basically something that
brought intense joy laughter, and because I wasn't here in
those laughs when I got home, the laughter would stop
when I got home because it was very painful the
relationship between my mom and dad. And then I was
a jock. So being a jock, you've got a built
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in audience.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I would play hockey and there's twenty kids sitting around,
and I would do impressions as the coaches. It was
just an extension of what I was doing at home
with my brother, but I brought it into locker room
when I got into high school. Let's back up, I
met Mark Sandrowski in third grade.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And Mark Sandrawski. By the way, just as a side
note here, Mark Sandrowski was as far as he relates
to us, he is Dave's one of Dave's best friends.
But he was our second ad on full House for
a while, and then he went on to successfully direct
Big Bang Theory and win Emmy's and he's directed a
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ton of shows and he's an incredible sitcom director and
he's a lovely human being. A side note anyway, back
to you.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So I knew Mark Mark and I Mark and I
met in third grade and I walked by his desk
to go get my paper from the teacher, and he
was drawing in his notebook and I was like, what
the heck is that kid doing? So I walked back
up my paper. I walk back and I go, what
are you drawing there? He goes, Oh, these are Martians.
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And I'm like, I'm gonna like this kid. And so
we became best friends and we started writing comedy bits,
probably end of third grade, fourth grade, and we would
do little sketches at the hockey banquets, and you know,
he would always have me do voices and he would
be the straight man and I would do the funny
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guy and.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
So you know where we're cut it out came from.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, I stole it from him because his brother. He
and his brother Dwight were a comedy duo and they
used to open for me and they were called Ski
Squared Sandrowski, so it was Ski Squared and Mark would
do this Mark Suave character where he would button his
shirt all the time to a woman in the front, oh,
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and go, I know what you're looking at. Now cut
it out? And I told him, I said, I'm going
to steal that, so I did. I started using it
on a show that I hosted on Nickelodeon called out
of Control, and it became kind of my catchphrase. I
remember doing cut it out at one of our run
throughs early on at full House, and I remember the
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producers laughing and they were like, what was that weird
thing you did? I went, oh, cut it out. They go,
we're gonna we're going to write that in and they did.
You know, so so comedy for me. I had a
partner in crime early on with Mark, I knew another
funny kid, and then with stand up. I started doing
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impressions in high school at Notre Dame, where Mark and
I went and I could do dead on impressions of
about six or seven teachers and our principal. And one
day we're in the we're in the cafeteria for lunch,
and I was doing this bit using our principal's voice,
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and all of a sudden, everybody's eyes stopped and was
looking behind me, and I was like, uh oh, and
I turned around and it was the principle and they
talked like that, David, I'll see you down in my
office now. And his name was Conrade Veschan. So I
went down to his office and he said, you and
that Sandrowski fellow, you know those kids follow you. Why
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don't you do the announcements? And I said really like
he goes, yeah, you do it, and I said as you,
and he goes, well, yeah, whatever you want. So Mark
and I started writing the announcements in the morning, and
I would go on as the principal of our school.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh my god, that's doing the announcements.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
So that's kind of how kind of how I really
got hooked. And we were always listening to George Carlin
and Richard Prior albums and sketching stuff and creating funny characters,
and then we added another friend of our, Tom Keenan.
So everybody called us the Three Stooges, and we would
perform at October fests and you know, charities and banquets
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and the Hockey Awards local you know, the banquet, we
would do a show, and so it was really nice.
By the time I got to high school, we had
a whole troop of nine guys and we would do
kind of Monty Python Saturday Night live sketches to raise
money for the school. And so that just led into
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doing stand up here in Detroit when stand up was exploding.
My group was Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, Gary Shandling, Bob Saggat,
Jim Carrey, Howie Mandel, Drew Carey, Dennis Miller, Louis Anderson.
It was an extraordinary time to be stand up, Jerry Seinfeld,
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Larry Miller, and it was such an amazing group that
you couldn't you couldn't follow Jerry Seinfeld and do your
b material. You had to go on at the comedy store.
And I'm following Shandling, I'm following sag and I'm following Seinfeld,
I'm following Robin Williams, and you know, None of us
were stars. We were just comics. You had to you
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had to go up and really hit it out of
the park following those guys because they were hitting it
out of the park. So, you know, when I was
nineteen years old, it was really exciting, you know. And
then I was a stand up for a long time,
right through Full House, and then I quit.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
What made you decide to quit?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I was burned out. I was doing I was doing
Full House. I was hosting America's Funniest People on ABC.
I was doing voices on The Muppet Babies on CBS,
and I was doing voices on the Real Ghostbusters cartoon.
And so I thought, you know, this isn't gonna last forever.
I'm going to tour. I'm gonna do stand up dates.
So there's a theater here in Michigan called Pine Knob
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and it's like ten thousand seats. So Dennis Miller I
played there three times. I cohig headlined with Bob Louis
Anderson one time and with Dennis Miller. The third time
was with Dennis. Dennis. I opened the show and then
Dennis closed, And during my set in front of like
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eight thousand people, I started talking to myself and having
this inner dialogue, and I was telling myself how I
wasn't into it, how I was just like going through
the motions, and like, I caught myself. And I don't
know how long I was taught, Probably it was probably
just milliseconds, but I caught myself having this inner dialogue
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and I and I thought, ooh, you have just been
on autopilot. This is really awful, and it scared me.
And I walked off stage, and then Dennis and I
went out to dinner and I just told him. I said,
I can't do this anymore. And I called Brad Gray,
who was my manager, and I said, Brad, cancel the
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rest of my dates. He goes, what are you talking about, Dave?
And I said, I'm burned out. He goes, you got
these theater dates. He goes, You're going to make a fortune.
I said, I can't do it anymore. I just scared
the crap out of myself on stage. So I took like,
I don't know, eight or nine years off and then
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just wasn't interested in it. And you know, never say never,
but I don't think I'll do it again. You know,
I achieved everything in stand up. I wanted to do.
You know. I did an HBO special, I did the
Tonight Show when Johnny Carson was hosting. I was on Showtime,
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I you know, toured, I you know, it was it
was awesome. It was really awesome. But to do it now,
stand up's hard. It's really hard. And if anybody tells
you it's not that they've never done it. It's really hard.
And I know what it takes to put an hour
and a half together, a killer hour and a half.
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I did an Air Force tour a couple of years ago.
I did twenty four US Air Force bases and I
had to headline and it was so much work. And
you have to be on a stage every night to
get good. And I don't want to do that anymore.
It's a lot, a lot of work, you know. And Jody,
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I know you're out doing stand up and you.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
My finder actually gave me my first opportunity. He had
me open for him at the Ice House. It was
my first time getting up and doing original material and
he was and it was because he was like, I've
seen you. I know you can do this. I know
you can do this, and like I got off the
stage and he was like Bob and Dave would be
so proud of you, like and that meant the world. Yeah,
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but yeah, it is. I mean I get like I
haven't put as much effort into it because it's it's
also like a young people's grind, you know what I mean.
All my friends that are stand ups, like they're out
every night at the club at comedy's door, I laugh,
going club club till two three in the morning. I'm like,
I got kids that got to get up and go
to school. And I get, you know, I can do
a couple shows here and there, but it is, it's
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it is. It's a lifestyle. Being a comic, I see
is kind of and it's it's awesome and it's great,
and but it is it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, and you're either all in.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Or you're not right right.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Because you know, audiences will tell you, oh, you're not
all in right just by their response. And I know
how much effort it takes to write and go out
just to get five minutes is hard, you know, to
get a five minutes set together that's rip roaring killer.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, takes you a month.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Yeah, at least a month for five minutes, you know,
so to put an hour together is going to take
you a year. Yeah, And that takes a lot of
work and commitment, and and you know, I have so
many other nice things in.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
My life that I can devote that time too that
you know, I'm not a laugh junkie. I don't need
to hear the laughs. You know.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Did you ever have any other jobs like other Didn't
you tell me that one time you did, like some
sort of engineering or something right or some sort of Yeah.
Like I always love bragging about like you and Andrea
and Scott because like the people that played the stupidest
characters on our show were actually some of the most
intelligent people. And so I'm always like Dave's like really bright,
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like don't let Joey fool you.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah. I worked in a mechanical engineering firm here in Detroit.
I was a detailer where you had to draw everything
by hands. So I had a giant drawing board and
we would design cycloidal transfer units and so I would
take down substations from those huge assembly lines. What it is,
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it's it moves parts down an assembly line, OK. And
we would design all of these different stations that would
you know, take a piece of steel, rotate it, drill it,
counterbore it, you know, switch it and move it on
to the next station. You know, of the all this
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automation that was going to happen, So I would have
to break down certain sections of that and draw it
in detail, it all out, call out all the parts
and how you could machine it. So I did that
before I moved to LA And I have two sides
of my brain. I definitely have a creative side, but
I also love the technical stuff, like That's why I
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love aviation. That's why I love flying. And as a
kid growing up, I could never I could never really
make sense of math or science until I became a pilot.
And then being a pilot is all math and science.
You know, it's meteorology, it's you know, it's physics, it's aerodynamics,
it's you know, and then there's communication, and then there's navigation,
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and then there's you know, all the technical aspects of
just you know, fuel navigation. I love that stuff, but
it never made sense until I could put it all
together in a three D package, which is flying an airplane.
And so you know, I love that that stuff, which
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is why I love directing television. You know, you get
to be so creative and you get to work with
cameras and technical aspects, and you know, you put that
together and you've got this wonderful, funny symphony.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I was going to ask, how did you like? How
was it directing the show?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Like?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
How was it directing us?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It was a wonderful experience.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
How was it directing Bob?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Bob is such a pain in the ass. I mean,
he was just you know, it made sense why directors
would just shake their heads all those years, you know,
because I feel like, like, oh boy, he's not off book,
but he's out of his mind, off somewhere making people laugh.
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And it's like, Bob, you don't even know your lines.
You should probably be taking that energy and putting it
into memorizing your life. But you know, he was. He
was a laugh junkie, you know, he for sure, you know,
if he had an audience there, he was going to
make sure that they were laughing at him. And you know,
a lot of times it was to his own detriment.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
True. I always loved being directed by you. I've never
the one time I've seen you serious is when you're
flying or when you're directing. Other than that, you're just
making jokes all the time, but or farting, but.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, that's true. We joke. We're like, ooh, it's serious day.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
It's serious day, serious day.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, I know, but did you have to be?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
You know, I built this house that I'm sitting in here,
and it was it was a tough build. It took
me seventeen months. But I approached it like directing a show,
like the plans are your script. I just didn't realize
I was going to be working with so many actors.
Contractors are a whole world. But you know, I love
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being able to work with all of these different personalities
doing different things, and then falling back on the script
the plans to make sure that everything was executed properly.
It was a real challenge, but I'm glad I did it.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
You know, it was we We love the pictures of
you in your in your little tractor back hove thing
with your little hero let me go. Yeah, you've got tractor,
and I just always pictured Dave. I'm like, he's just
he's just plowing something on his property, digging a trench somewhere,
happy and just with the dogs. And that's it.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Today I'm going to be loading stone on our driveway
and we have these big walkways and I have to
put pea gravel in between those walkway pieces.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And you're going to drink a lot of water, that's right.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Yeah, so yeah, we'll be a director later today.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Oh well, enjoy I love that. Do we want to
play one of these? I mean, I mean, well.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I want to. I want to talk about full House. Rewind.
We can't let you go without talking about Congratulations. Your
podcast is back. It's very exciting. I love watching it.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
It's true, really really fun.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
A unique show that combines video, interviews, impressions, puppets. It's
like a variety show, and it's so cool to watch
you create.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You thanks.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I love being a host. You know, I kind of
started in show business being a host hosting a series
on Nickelodeon called out of Control. So I wanted to
I wanted to create something that, you know, I could
do my voices and have puppets, a little bit of
Pee Wee's Playhouse, but but kind of drag one foot
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in the world of full House, you know, and do
just something different than a podcast, kind of do a
video podcast and create like a little show around full House.
So yeah, we we relaunched with Staymos as our guest.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I'm so excited because you guys are going to come on.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yes, can't wait, Yes, it would be really fun. Can't wait.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I can't wait to see the set. The set which
so cool. You got like the plaid, the plaid couch chair,
sitting chair. It's so cool.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
It's so tiny, which is a metaphor for my life.
But it's just a tiny little set, you know. But
we're having fun and I get to write the episodes
and it's a real challenge, you know, trying to be
funny with these characters that you know, I'm borrowing mister
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Woodchuck and comment. We have character Granny Tanner and always
see her ankles. So it's been really fun. It's been
a real challenge. You know. We're back, which good. I'm
going to be very busy again.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So what has surprised you most? Rewatching or I guess
watching for the rewatching, your watching it for the first time.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
You guys were so good. You guys were so freaking good.
I mean, you were so funny. Just to have that
kind of timing. You you can't teach a kid to
have timing. You just either have that or you don't.
And I mean, you know, because I'm going back to
first season. I just watched the scene Jody with you
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in Candice where you get as episode I think it's
thirteen called Sisterly Love where you get the commercial boat.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yes we did, yeap oak boats.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah ooatscial.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
So I'm watching you too. And then you have that
heartfelt scene. First of all, you were so funny in it.
Secondly you have that heartfelt scene and I'm tearing up.
I'm like, it got me.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, Like I.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Wasn't expecting that all these years later. I was expecting
to be a little bit cynical about it, and you know,
but it pulled me in and I went this, I'm
seeing why it was so special to so many people. Yeah,
you know, to rewatch them because I never watched the show.
You know, I always thought I'll be hooked up to
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machines having a full house marathon.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
God, let me just.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
See one last time.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
That's right. Oh, look at that. He's dead. That actor
is dead.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
That guest star is dead.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I mean we have had that a few times. We're like,
oh that's so and so is all they're dead.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Yeah, yeah, Little Richard's dead.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Oh yeah, comment has been dead for thirty.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, I know I did have that realization like, oh yeah, crazy.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
But going back, Andrew to your point, you guys were remarkable.
You were just really and you can't fake that. You can't,
and you can't fake the chemistry that exists on the show.
You either have that or you don't. You can't, you
can't manufacture, and.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
It was it for us. I mean, it's kind of
been fun to go back, like watching the old episodes
and really seeing this family kind of find that chemistry
and come together, Like you really do see the progression
of our relationships on screen. You see the the you know,
Ashley and Mary Kate start really warming up and being
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much more like a part of it, and them growing up,
and you just start seeing the in between stuff of
affection and real camaraderie amongst us as a as a family.
And I love that the show really was you know,
it wasn't about this family that already existed. It was
about this family sort of coming together and figuring out
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how did it come right? And I realize now, like
we really watched that, it was like watching these people
become the family that they turned into.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
And it's also really interesting that we have different perspectives
because while we were out on that stage, you guys
were in a classroom, you know, being kids, you know,
and you know, there's kind of two two generations here
talking about the same show, which I think is really
interesting because you know, you guys are driving to Full
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House with your mom's right, I'm driving with Bob or John,
you know, and we're going to Vegas after the show
on Friday night. You guys are going to a birthday party, right,
you know, with Mary, Kate and Ashley, you know. So
I think it's really interesting that we do have those
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two different perspectives of what life was like as we
go back and venture and take a look at these episodes.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It's really interesting. Well, I always think about it, like
I don't really have a part of my life that
I remember prior to having Full House in it. I
don't have experiences that I really viscerally remember prior to
five years old, you know, so like this has always
been a part of my life, I don't, you know,
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like you guys as adults have like the before and
the after. I like, I, you know, even I guess
really for you you were ten, like you know, at
same with Ashon Marcatte, like, there was never a before,
there was just right what it was, and and after,
you know, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
And there's a lot of questions that we don't know
the answers to, such as who came up with the
mannequin wearing the same shirt as Joey Gladstone in those
first the first half of the season, it was that you.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Were j It was me, yeah, because I just thought,
I just thought this is really weird. I wondered if
the audience will get it. And it was just dumb.
It was dumb. It drove the prop people insane.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
I'm sure they were like absolutely, Roger Yep.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah, our prop master. It drove them nuts. And then
I realized it's not really a you know, it's not
a catchy, cool thing. It's kind of dumb.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Oh. I loved it. I enjoyed it. We look every we.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Made, yeah, every episode, we've made quite the issue out
of it, and particularly the ones where the mannequin changed
during the episode, mostly because it led me to the
questions of who is doing the changing, and why does
Joey have these extra shirts for the mannequin? And do
you really have room for a mannequin in an alcove.
(28:19):
There's lots of things, but yeah, it begs right, And
if you're living in an alcove, you will have to
have not only your own stuff, but now the mannequin
stuff too. Like it just I had a lot of questions.
I had a hidden wardrobe shack somewhere right yest well
in that the little yellow bug which was Joey's car,
wasn't it that we like saw twice Yeah, with the
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friend with the with the fronk, that was that was
your closet. No, I just yeah, the glove compartment was
where you kept all the mannequins close.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
But I just watched the Bullet episode. Yes, yeah, you
know John, somehow the car goes.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
In right, and he's fine.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah, No one cares about cars.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
We're like, what happen to the car? Oh you almost died?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Eh?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah? So then I directed the episode where you recrash
Bullet right through.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah, that's right. You've got all the difficult episodes. You
had the Nutcrackers, you had the car in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
That show was named Nutcracker for a reason. Yeah, but yeah,
I had it. Seemed like all the special effects always landed. Yeah,
he goes, I'm sorry, Dave. I'm like what He's like,
You've got the this thing where we're doing all this
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green screen.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Video, right. But I also feel like every week on
Fuller House was some new fresh hell of a stunt
or a costume or a thing. So it was much
more so than the like the original show. I'm like, ah,
and we had a song montage and every episode, but
we didn't have a full scale like you know, Hamilton
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costumes or you know, things like that.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
In that Nutcracker episode that was the first one I directed. Yeah,
and Andrew and you were so funny in that episode.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Oh yeah, one of my favorites, getting that dance, getting
the ballet on its feet, and Jeff is constantly changing
the choreography or how many times my character died in
the ballet, And I remember being so frustrated and I'm like, Dave,
tell Jeff to stop changing his mind. And you were
so good talking me down. You were just like, just
let write it out, write it out. Jeff will see it.
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He'll see the problems in all of his ideas and
it will all come together. And it did. It all
came together.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I remember giving you a bit where you die and you.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yes, the feet the feet keep.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
That's how Curly would die in the Three Studies, always
kick his legs, you know. And I always thought that
was so funny. And I went, Andrea, let me show
you something. This is a Three Stooges move.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, you were so good at those little details makes
such a big difference. And you were so good at
the details of comedy.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
It was so funny, it was It just made me
laugh seeing you do Curly from the.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Threes dressed as a giant.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Rats a giant just as a giant rat.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
The other question we have that to put this debate
to rest. Is it Uncle Joey or is it just Joey?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Are you Joey?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
It's just Joey. Here's how it became. Here's how it
became Uncle Joey.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Okay, tell us because.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
In one of the early shows, I forget which one
of your characters said Uncle Jesse and Joey are coming,
and it it just stuck where we were kind of
the uncles, and we just we just got bonded, right,
And I think there is an episode where one of
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you guys says Uncle Joey is coming or Uncle Joey
was here or something, but I think it's actually said
in one of the episodes.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
It is. There's there's it's a scene where you're in
the shower with all of like this pink hair, like
the shower cap.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
He's got the swimming cap and the goggles. He's given
the baby a bath or something.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
And and Jesse hands you the baby and says, here,
go to uncle Joey. That's that's the only time I've
heard it.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
So it was John. It was n John John John.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I'd lived that.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, right, yeah, guaranteed that wasn't in the script.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
But everybody you know introduces me as uncle Joey, and
it's okay, you know, being America's uncle. It's nice.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
You know, it's a term of endearment.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Exactly, yes, exactly, yes. I just always like to clarify
because people like uncle Joe. I'm like, well, technically it's
not Uncle Joe, it's Uncle Jesse and Joey. But I
get I will let it slide on a technound just.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I've just accepted it, and I don't fight it anymore.
I don't correct people. It's like Jeff Daniels lives here
in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
It's very coy have we ever seen you two in
the same room.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
You haven't. But Jeff and I are good friends. And
you know, he says, if one more person comes up
and does that, stupid cut it. Whatever you do. I said, hey,
if one more person comes up to me and asked,
are you dom or domer? You know, but we you know,
we've talked about it, and he just said, he goes,
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I don't fight it anymore. Right, I don't correct people.
I just say, sure, I'll sign it.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Does he sign it, Dave Coolier like your dad told
him to.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Make sure you sign it.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I just people, Oh, Jeff, how's it going? And then
I'll sign it like Shirley Temple. There you go.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
They're probably very confused.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yeah, it's Shirley Temple's signature by Dave Coolier on a
photo of Jeff Daniels and the eBay resale on that
is astounding.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
You want to talk about dum.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Well, Dave, we're so happy you got to join us.
Unless you have more to say, like we can we
could just keeping.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I just know we wanted to keep you. I know
we had you had to be off at a certain time,
so we don't want to keep. I mean, we'll keep
you as long as you know you'll let us.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
I saw we've been unpacking stuff, and I saw the
script and one of you guys wrote Billy de Belle
inside my script.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
It might have been it might have been Candace, might
have well might have been anyways. I know I used
to draw like I. I became the one that would
just draw in appropriate pictures on people's scripts during notes.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Oh, I wonder where you got that from?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Do you know I donated? No idea, I donated accidentally.
There was a charity that asked for a full house
script for a donation for an auction, so I donated it.
I think it was a school actually, like an elementary school.
And so the secretary called me after.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
She goes like, there's a giant wiener.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yeah, there's a giant wiener on the back of the script.
I was like, oh, sorry, I had to provide a
new script because I couldn't we couldn't auction that off
to the children, the needy children we had.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
I mean, Bob would draw those on my script constantly
during notes.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Yeah, yep. And then I started doing it and I
would draw them on Candace and Andrew's script. During notes,
Jeff would be giving a very something or or Bob Boy,
it would be giving a note and I would just
be drawing, just a wiener on Cannas's script and like,
and she was just like, what are you stop? And
I like, I'm dead pan just doing it and she's
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just dying, like what is happening?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
It was great, you've taught us so well.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Bob was so nuts durring notes. It was so so unproductive.
It was just he would it was his moment where
he was he would just lose it for an hour.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Well, he'd been trying to keep it together so well
the rest of the day that finally he was just
and he was sitting down in one place so he
couldn't past and wander off and do it was just
it all came out and he would do his uh.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
He would do his Raiders Lost.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Art, Oh Indiana.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Jones would slice himself open, carry carry right well all
his guts out, throw him over a tree, and then
swing by his own guts. And because he was swinging
from his guts, his his lungs would open and close
and that would.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Such a detailed bit.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
It was such a detailed absurd, where and why did
this happen? And why is it still funny to us
to this day. I don't know because everyone else listening
is like, that's really gross, really horrifying, and we're really
sorry listener, but this is this is who we are
as real people. And but I miss.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Him daily because I'll be driving in my truck and
this time of year, around the holidays, Bob would call
me and sing a filthy Christmas song. I especially miss
him around the holidays, and it was always something false
out of you know, it was always the filthiest some
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Christmas song where he would sing. He was like an
insane caroller. And I have so many bits that I
can only do with Bob, and I'll think of one
and I'll go, I can't call him and like let this.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Bob sag.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
And I can't because if you did it to anyone else,
they'd just be like, are you okay? What's wrong with you?
I'm a concern? Oh man? What a wonderful walk down
memory lane. Yes, yeah, And I loved hearing just more
about you know you and growing up and what what
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it was like.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
And you know, i'd never heard the story about your
brother teaching you how to do impressions.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
That's yeah, he was. He was so funny. My brother
was like he was the leader of all the kids
on our blocky. He was like the pied piper, right,
and he would do the most bizarre things, like my
brother dressed up like a dead kid and charged a
quarter to see a dead kid. Yeah, my brother, My brother.
(38:45):
My brother built a little like funeral parlor down our basement.
And I went down the basement and he had this
record going that was just church organ music. And I
walked down. There's there's light, and he's laying there with
a rosary with a suit on. And he waxed his
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hair back and put a suit and tie on. And
I walked down and I go, Danny, what are you doing?
He goes, I'm going to charge kids a quarter to
see a dead body. How are you going to get
him down there? He goes, I'll give you ten cents
of every quarter if you go get the kids. Yes.
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So my brother put a suit on and made a
casket down our basement with a little light shining on him.
And I remember he was probably only like maybe seven
years old, but it was it was brilliant. And so
I would go and round up kids in the neighborhood.
I go, my brother's dead and he's down our basement
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see a dead body. And the kid's like, he's not.
I'm like, it's going to cost you a quarter. So
I would bring kids down and it was all scary
and spooky, and some kids would run out, you know,
because my brother did like make up.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
And right right right, like he really went for it.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
He like putting.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
It was called but you were getting a lot for
that quarter. Yes, commitment, yes, production value, but.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
We probably made fifteen barks. It was a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
It's also also is just a statement to the age
old thing, which is also proven by stand by me
that kids just want to see dead bodies and I
don't know why and they're weird, but here we are.
Kids will be like I will go on a three
day hike to go see a dead body.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
My brother. My brother had the best one liners too,
Like my dad never went to the dentist his entire life.
So like every year we'd see a picture of my
dad and a family photo, we go, he's missing another tooth,
that one's gone, Like, let's like here's last year the
tooth was there, right, My dad. I don't know why
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my dad was terrified of doctors and dentists, but he
never went to a dentist's entire life.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
So, one year, my nephew, Taylor is born. He's a baby,
and my dad's holding him, and my dad sneezes, and
my brother said, you better check Taylor's forehead for teeth.
I remember my dad getting so mad, but he couldn't
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mention anything about it because it was like the thing
you never talked about. But I remember me and my
sisters laughing. We couldn't. We had to walk out of
the room because it was so funny. But my dad
and my brother had a kind of a weird laurel
and hearty dynamic where they were always making jokes and
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cutting each other down. But it was hysterical. So every
year at Thanksgiving, my dad would wait till there was
a quiet moment and he'd go, boy, this is really nice.
You know, I'm probably not going to be here next year,
but you know what, Thank goodness, you know I got
to spend this Thanksgiving with you guys and my brother
without missing a beat, says dad. Look when it finally happens,
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can you just make sure it's on a Thursday, so
I can set you out with the garbage, you know.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
But it was just, you know, very shark right right.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Funny, weird family, you know somebody. The time I met Bob,
I was like, oh, I got.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
This right, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
See I make jokes like that. My mom's like this,
what is something's wrong with you? Something is wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (42:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
My dad would always say, Dave, you got a screw loose.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Yeah, yeah's I'm wrong with you. But yeah my mom,
I didn't that. I wouldn't have joked like that. I
go now, but it's funny. Yeah, oh, thank you. So
this was such a great I could just talk to
you for hours sitting here in the rain. We already have,
I then, yes we have, but we love you and
we can't wait to do your show. Do you want
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to tell people where they can find it.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
You can find us on YouTube at full House, rewind
or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
It's every fantastic.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
And I can't wait for you for you guys to
come do the show. I can't wait to just see
you guys because we have I know always it's.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Very hard you living all the way in Michigan. Now
because I used to see you a lot more.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Well, you have to come and see this place. It's
pretty extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
I will say that the giant bathroom house. I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
I'm coming just for the beidays.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
Yes, many different.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
One each day, I have to say at least a week.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Yes, Yes, you can use a new toilet here every day.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Yeah, I'm so glad. We ended on the same note
that we started, which was toilet.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Ye. Yes, welcome to this version of out house. Yes.
I love you guys so much.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
I love you.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Go have fun in your tractor.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
The tractors right outside, so yes, get that stuff done.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
And tell tell Mel we said hello and we love her,
and send big hugs and we will see you soon
in person.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Okay, can't wait.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Bye bye. That interview went exactly as as I thought
it would, which was hilarious, but also I'm I don't
know what we did.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I can't tell you a thing we talked about.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
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Speaker 1 (45:04):
I knew you couldn't do too many in a row.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
That's what. Yeah, that yet yeh
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Mhm