Craig Sailor, staff writer for The Olympian in Tacoma, WA, caught up with comic Dave Coulier prior to his appearance at the Tacoma Comedy Club:
For eight years in the late ’80s and early ’90s, America knew Dave Coulier as “Uncle Joey” on the hit ABC TV sitcom “Full House” – the stand-up comedian with the funny lines, voices and impersonations.
Sailor: Uncle Joey was a nice guy, you perform “clean” comedy, and you’ve hosted a lot of shows that require tact and diplomacy. Are you really that nice of a guy or is it all an act?
Coulier: You’d have to ask my friends and the people who actually know me. The thing about my stand-up is it’s not a conscious choice to be clean. That’s just the way I work. You never know who is sitting in the audience. I’ve always been aware of that with my humor. People just want to laugh and not have the filthy F-bomb aftertaste.
Sailor: Why do you think there are so many foul-mouthed comics out there?
Coulier: Unfortunately, that’s become part of our comedy vernacular. I’m not a prude. I love the Richard Pryors, Lenny Bruces and George Carlins of the world. But when those guys were using that language, it was coming from a real place. Jay Leno said something to me really smart when I was first starting: (doing a Jay Leno voice) “Ah... Coulier... you know if you work clean, you’ll work anywhere.” I’ve never forgotten that.
Read the interview
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