Dave Coulier is recalling the special bond he shared with the late Bob Saget.
Coulier appeared on a panel at 90s Con alongside his “Full House” co-stars Candace Cameron Bure, Andrea Barber and Jodie Sweetin, where they were all asked if they would ever work together on another “Full House”-related project.
“I would love to do a ‘Happiest House,’ where maybe we’re all like adults, and we’re like the cast of ‘Friends,’ where we sit around and talk, share moments, and we keep Bob’s legacy alive,” Coulier explained, prompting Barber to say, “We’re doing that right now.”
He went on to say that he loved working with the “Full House” cast, especially Sweetin, Barber, and Bure. Coulier explained, “You either have that chemistry or you don’t,” and when they’re all together, all they do is laugh and have fun, saying, “The days fly by and you don’t want them to end because we have so much love for each other.”
Coulier said he would love to work with his former “Full House” co-stars again, explaining that they had so much fun together. (Photo by Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage)
The “Live + Local” star also opened up about meeting Saget for the first time years ago while on the show. When asked about Saget, Coulier said, “I have so many memories,” starting with the first time they met at a comedy show when he was 18.
“I was a new comic, and Bob came to Detroit on a comedy tour with [two other comics], and they were amazing,” Coulier recalls. “I had only been doing stand-up in clubs for a few weeks, and Bob was of course the third act behind those two guys, and he was so funny and so polite and so amazing.”
“And I had braces on, and I said, ‘Hello, Mr. Saget. How are you? You’ve been having a great time, sir.’ And he was like, ‘Call me Bob,’” Coulier continues. “So then he wrote his address on a napkin, and I kept it, and said, ‘Call me when you get to Los Angeles.’ And I thought, ‘Well, how cool is that?’”
Dave Coulier first met Bob Saget when he was 18 and went to see Saget perform stand-up in Detroit. (Photo by Gerardo Mora/Getty Images)
The “Fuller House” star didn’t hesitate to take Saget up on his offer, explaining that he had trouble finding an apartment when he moved to Los Angeles a few years later and called the number on the napkin for help. This led to him sleeping on Saget’s couch for a few weeks while Saget was on the road.
“He didn’t know me! He just let me stay in his apartment, and then art imitated life,” Coulier said. “When we did ‘Full House,’ I moved into Danny’s house and slept in the dog alcove. And Bob would say, ‘This is really weird.’”
The two starred together on the hit ABC sitcom “Full House” for eight seasons, from 1987 to 1995, playing best friends Joey Gladstone and Danny Tanner.
While the show grew in popularity while it was on the air, its first season was not well received by critics, something Coulier told Fox News Digital that they had to admit they were wrong about once before the show found its footing in later seasons.
“Full House” was not a huge success when it first premiered, but it found its footing in later seasons. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
“When you start a show, you’re just making the best show you can and you’re trying to please people,” Coulier told Fox News Digital in June 2022. “You’re trying to make them laugh and tell a story. When we got panned by critics in the first season, Tom Shales of The Washington Post hated us. He said it was a rip-off of ‘Three Men and a Baby.’ And then those people took it back.”
Coulier also shared several three-way phone calls he and Saget had with Garry Shandling while they were on the road, saying the three of them were “like three fifth graders.”
“The references in the jokes and the humor were so extreme that I’m embarrassed to actually say what they were about,” Coulier explained at the time. “But the three of us would often make each other laugh so hard, and it was just because we would try to out-grow each other or say something that was politically incorrect.”
Saget died in January 2022 in his hotel room in Florida while on a stand-up comedy tour. His cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma, most likely
