Dave Coulier

[unbibium]

All you Full House fans that are watching Bob Saget's roast this weekend on Comedy Central, might wonder if Dave Coulier is still working.

OK, none of you are wondering that. But I remember Coulier from before Full House, back when he was really corny.

Years before Full House, Coulier had his own cable show, on Nickelodeon, which I watched before I figured out why his name was pronounced that way. It was called Out of Control. This full episode has time travel and tacos. I think the show taught me how to use a carat to insert words between other words on paper. Oh yeah, and he already had his "cut it out" catchphrase worked out.

Oh, wait, looks like he's still around. Look at cleanguys.tv, a clean comedy website, complete with a Clean Guys of Comedy Tour, with no dates left. I hope they have a DVD. It might be a good unicorn chaser after watching The Aristocrats. I know too many comedians that are almost clean, like they don't tell dirty jokes, but they sprinkle their jokes with unnecessary swears. And I know that being clean and funny at the same time is possible, because of Bill Cosby's consistently good stand-up. And he also had a stint on Nickelodeon, with those Picture Pages shorts that aired in the late morning during the preschooler's shows.

tl;dr: After 25 years on television, the Bob Saget roast is going to be Coulier's first time on grown-up TV.

Comments

[templeemc.livejournal.com]

Wow.
I remember 'Out of Control' being so much cooler.
I can admit I am (and definitely WAS) a dork, but surely it got better than this.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

I remember it too, but I also remember at the time having horrible taste in television, so I'm not that surprised. It's the classic "Saved by the Bell" syndrome.

The interstitial animations were pretty good. The extra characters don't hold up that well.

I need to find my old Wallace and Ladmo tapes and upload it.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

I remember it and remember it being bad at the time. This may not have been taste on my part, but rather disliking things my sister was into for the sake of sibling contentiousness. I did lo-o-o-ove "Turkey TV" which was also on around the same time, and probably just as bad.

I remember enjoying it

[notr.livejournal.com]

because Coulier shone as such a perfect straight man for the badly drawn comic characters and idiotic gags, like Uh, Clem surrounded by Bozos. My memory of it probably got fonder after the disaster that was On The Television, where good gags and moderately well-acted sketches were ruined by the worst possible writing and delivery of the straight parts of the reviewers.

*nearly* first

[notr.livejournal.com]

Note that he warmed up with a few voicings of Popeye for Robot Chicken.

Wow, he had an appearance on "It's Garry Shandling's Show."? -AND- there's still no DVD set of that? Man.

[reverendluke.livejournal.com]

I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit I know this, but he was also on one season of "The Surreal Life" on VH1. I'm not sure if that counts, though. VH1 reality shows are like where washed up celebrities go to die.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

I only remember watching the pilot of that series, where they got Corey Feldman and Emmanuel Lewis and a few other people, most of whom I remembered.

And I remember the first night, they served sushi off a naked woman, and at least the two people I mentioned chose not to participate: Feldman because he was a recovering sex addict and also his girlfriend would find out, and Lewis because of some vague "I'm a very private person" reason. And there might have been other people who objected, all men.

If that was a pattern, then I'm afraid to discover what they tried to make Coulier do.

Also, maybe celebrities don't die there, but rather get sucked into a reality show black hole. Feldman has his own reality show with the other Corey. Vern Troyer appeared in a later season, and not only does he have a sex tape now, but it didn't interrupt his being cast by Mike Myers in somewhat exploitative roles.