Dave Coulier

David Alan Coulier (born September 21, 1959)[1] is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, impressionist, television host, and private pilot. He is well known for playing Joey Gladstone on the ABC sitcom Full House and for voicing Peter Venkman on The Real Ghostbusters, the cartoon adaptation of Ghostbusters[2] and the infant incarnations of Animal and Bunsen on Muppet Babies.[3]

Dave Coulier
Coulier in 2010
Birth name	David Alan Coulier
Born	(1959-09-21) September 21, 1959 St. Clair Shores, Michigan, U.S.
Medium	Stand-up, television, film
Education	Notre Dame High School University of Michigan
Years active	1979–present
Genres	Sketch comedy, observational comedy, clean comedy
Spouse	Jayne Modean ​ ( m. 1990; div. 1992) Melissa Bring ( m. 2014)
Children	1
Website	davecoulier.com

Early life

David Alan Coulier, formerly Couwlier, was born to David Alan Couwlier and Arlen Couwlier in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, on September 21, 1959.[1] His mother's side of the family is from Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada, and his paternal grandmother was a Jewish immigrant from Germany.[4] He got his start in stand-up comedy in high school by impersonating his principal and other staff over his high school's PA system. He graduated in 1977 from Notre Dame High School in Harper Woods, Michigan, where he was a member of the varsity ice hockey team, playing defense alongside future NHL player John Blum. Coulier also attended high school with Mark Cendrowski, whose claim to fame is directing The Big Bang Theory. Coulier and Cendrowski have been friends since the third grade and were always making 8mm films together during high school. Coulier also attended The University of Michigan but dropped out after his freshman year to pursue comedy full time.[5]

Career

Coulier met future Full House co-star Bob Saget through the Los Angeles comedy circuit. The two became good friends and Coulier briefly lived with Saget and his then-wife Sherri on their couch in the early 1980s as he struggled to get his career started.

He was initially cast as a player for Saturday Night Live for the 1986 season. However, right before the season started, casting changes were made and he was left off the show. It was said that many of the producers felt he was too similar in humor style to Dana Carvey, who was also joining the show in 1986, and that was why the change was made.

Coulier has done extensive voice work for shows including Scooby and Scrappy-Doo, The Real Ghostbusters, Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters (taking over the character of Peter Venkman after Lorenzo Music's departure from the role), Extreme Ghostbusters, Muppet Babies after Howie Mandel left (Baby Animal, Baby Bunsen, Bean Bunny, and Uncle Statler and Waldorf, and a preteen Janice for one episode), The Jetsons, Rude Dog and the Dweebs, and Detention. From 1984 to 1985, he was also the host of a comedy series on Nickelodeon known as Out of Control.

Coulier is known for playing Joey Gladstone on the ABC sitcom Full House.[6] He stayed on the show from 1987 until its cancellation in 1995. He was famous for doing voices and impersonations. In addition to Full House, Coulier appeared on George and Leo and Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher. He has also hosted America's Funniest People (first with Arleen Sorkin and later with Tawny Kitaen) and Opportunity Knocks. Additionally, he was also a voice actor in Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose and has voiced Felix the Cat on a few occasions. He also put out a solo album called Cut It Out, a self-proclaimed tribute to "tank tops and short shorts."

In addition to his voice work, Coulier has also taken a few acting parts, appearing in the Disney Channel Original Movie's The Thirteenth Year and The Even Stevens Movie (where he had a cameo as a reality show host), as well as the Nickelodeon original movie Shredderman Rules. He wrote and starred in an unaired pilot for FX called Whispers and Balls.

He also founded his own children's entertainment company, F3 Entertainment, in 2000. In 2003, Coulier appeared on season three of The Surreal Life. In 2006, he appeared on the TV reality show Skating with Celebrities on FOX, where he was paired with Olympic medalist Nancy Kerrigan. They were eliminated in episode four.

Currently, he is a member of Duck's Breath Mystery Theater touring comedy troupe (which he claims is clean comedy but "not quite as creepy" as Full House) as well as the host of the series Animal Kidding. His work on Robot Chicken is probably his most "adult" to date, voicing off-color situations, like Popeye savagely beating Wimpy over a debt.

On June 2, 2008, Chikara, a professional wrestling promotion based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, announced that Coulier was elected by the Chikara Board of Directors as the new commissioner of the company, a position that he held for two years until the next election (which took place on May 25, 2010). Coulier is the successor to former Commissioner and fellow Full House cast member Bob Saget.

In 2009, Coulier provided the voice for Bob McKenzie on the Canadian animated series Bob & Doug, based on the SCTV characters Bob and Doug McKenzie. Coulier became the first person other than Rick Moranis to portray the character, as Moranis (who serves as executive producer) was not interested in resuming the part. Coulier says he understands that longtime fans might be skeptical of his take on the role, but he could not help jumping at the chance to portray one of his favorite comic characters. "It's huge shoes to fill, stepping into Rick Moranis' shoes. It's such an established, great character and I guess the only thing I have going for me is that it kind of sounds alike and that half of my family is from Canada." His mother's family is from Bathurst, New Brunswick.[7]

Coulier continued to make regular television appearances as the host of shows such as America's Funniest People and America's Most Talented Kid. He continues to tour the U.S. and Canada as a stand-up comedian.

Coulier reprised his role as Joey Gladstone for the Full House spin-off Fuller House.[8]

Personal life

In the early 1990s, Coulier was married for two years to Jayne Modean. They have one son, named Luc Coulier, born in 1990.[9] Having divorced, he started dating Alanis Morissette, but they broke up shortly before she recorded her album Jagged Little Pill.[10] He is rumored to be the subject of Morissette's song "You Oughta Know." In 2005, Coulier began dating photographer and producer Melissa Bring.[11] They married on July 2, 2014, in Montana.[12]

Coulier is a private pilot who owns and flies a B35 Bonanza. His first general aviation flight was at the age of five in Michigan. He earned his pilot's license at the same airport later in 1979 and is now instrument rated. In 2012, he did more flight training in a Cirrus SR20 to "keep current."[13] He is part of the Hat in the Ring Society to support the AOPA foundation, an organization that promotes safe flying.[14]

Coulier is an ice hockey fan and participates in charity events with the Detroit Red Wings. He is also an avid fan of the Detroit Tigers and has played in a few celebrity softball games alongside Tigers fan Tom Selleck.[15]

In popular culture

The Same Picture... blog

The Same Picture of Dave Coulier Every Day is an image blog which publishes the same photograph of Coulier every day.[16] Begun in 2011[17] by comedian Aaron Littleton[18], it is the progenitor of a trend of similarly themed blogs which feature the same content in every daily update.[19] The trend of such "content heterogeneity" has been studied in academic literature.[20] The trend has also been called "single-topic", and Forbes has called The Same Picture of Dave Coulier Every Day the apotheosis of the movement.[21]

Reception

Media coverage has attributed the blog's unchanging nature as reason for its popularity. BBC Trending featured the blog and said "It could be that in the constant chaos of social media, perhaps what sometimes people really need is just the same thing over and over again."[22] The AV Club commented on the blog saying: "A port in a storm, The Same Picture Of Dave Coulier Every Day tumblr is perhaps the only consistent thing left in this tumultuous world." [23] The Toronto Standard said, "In a world pervaded with financial uncertainty and intractable conflict, a little consistency is surely warranted, and an anonymous philanthropist has given us just that in blog form."[24]

Other outlets have noted the inherent humor of the blog. In reference to blog, the Mary Sue commented, "Either Tumblr must be crowned King of the Comedy-Based Internet, or it must be stopped. It is difficult to tell which is the better option." The book Geek Lust says, "how long can this madness continue?"[25]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Scooby and Scrappy-Doo	Muscles Malone / Additional voices
1982	Things Are Tough All Over	Man with Tongue in Restaurant	Credited as David Couwlier
1984	Out of Control	Dave / Ha Ha	8 episodes
1984	Detroit Comedy Jam	Himself	Special
1985	The Jetsons	Additional voices	New version of the 1962 TV series
1986–1991	Muppet Babies	Animal / Bean Bunny / Bunsen	Voice roles
1987–1991	The Real Ghostbusters	Peter Venkman (voice)	Seasons 3–7 (replaced Lorenzo Music)
1987–1995	Full House	Joey Gladstone	Main role
1987	Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose	Firkin (voice)	TV movie
1989	It's Garry Shandling's Show	Garry's Voice Box	Episode: "Garry Acts Like a Moron"
1989	Rude Dog and the Dweebs	Dane	Voice role
1990	America's Funniest People	Himself/host
1992–1993	The Little Mermaid	Moray the Eel (voice)	3 episodes
1994	Burke's Law	Eddie Bartlett	Episode: "Who Killed the Legal Eagle?"
1995	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	The Real Anonymous	Episode: "Chip Off the Old Clark"
1995	Freakazoid!	Teenage Boy (voice)	Episode: "Freak a Panel/Tomb of Invisibo"
1995	The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries	Captain / PC Voice (voices)	2 episodes
1996	World's Funniest Videos	Himself/host	Direct-to-video
1996	Pinky and the Brain	Tom Hanks (voice)	Episode: "Brain's Song"
1997	Extreme Ghostbusters	Peter Venkman (voice)	Episode: "Back in the Saddle: Part 1 & 2"
1999	The Thirteenth Year	Whit Griffin	TV movie
2002	The Zeta Project	Delivery Bot (voice)	Episode: "Resume Mission"
2002	Dexter's Laboratory	Coach (voice)	Episode: "Oh, Brother/Another Dad Cartoon/Bar Exam"
2003	The Even Stevens Movie	Lance LeBow	TV movie
2003	America's Most Talented Kid	Himself/host
2003	Teen Titans	Tramm / Captain (voice)	Episode: "Deep Six"
2003–2004	The Surreal Life	Himself	20 episodes
2004	Felix the Cat Saves Christmas	Felix the Cat (voice)	TV movie
2005–2019	Robot Chicken	Scooby-Doo, Fred Flintstone, Popeye, Bluto, Barney Rubble (voices)	8 episodes
2006	Skating With Celebrities	Himself	3 episodes
2006	Farce of the Penguins	There's No Snow Penguin	Direct-to-DVD; voice role
2006	Plactic Man in Puddle Trouble	Archie (voice)	TV short film
2007	Shredderman Rules!	Dad	TV movie
2007	The GradeSchool Game	Himself/host
2007	The Family Holiday	Donald "Doc" Holiday	Direct-to-DVD
2009	Bob & Doug	Bob McKenzie (voice)	4 episodes
2011–2015	China, IL	Ronald Reagan / various other voices	4 episodes
2013	How I Met Your Mother	Himself	Episode: "P.S. I Love You"
2015	Grandfathered	Therapy Patient	Episode: "My Amal"
2016–2020	Fuller House	Joey Gladstone	Recurring role; also directed 5 episodes
2016	Dream Corp, LLC	Himself	Episode: "Pilot"
2017–2018	Voltron: Legendary Defender	Bi Boh Bi (voice)	2 episodes
2017–2018	Mighty Magiswords	Murray Williams (voice)	3 episodes
2019	Dollface	Himself	Episode: "Guy's Girl"
2020	Worst Cooks in America	Himself	Contestant - Celebrity Edition 6

References

1. "Dave Coulier". TVGuide.com. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
2. Britt, Ryan (July 15, 2016). "The New 'Ghostbusters' Can't Ruin Your Deranged Childhood". Retrieved February 28, 2019.
3. Prudom, Laura (October 26, 2016). "The Muppets are returning to TV, but they'll look a little different". Mashable. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
4. Pollak, Kevin; Coulier, Dave (January 10, 2010). "Kevin Pollak Chat Show" (Interview). Interviewed by Kevin Pollak.
5. http://www.ndpma.org/drupal/files/Coulier%20Q&A%20with%20Borri.pdf Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
6. Anderson, Cheryl (October 7, 2009). "Coulier on ABC's Full House". pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Archived from the original on July 24, 2012. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
7. "TELUS, news, headlines, stories, breaking, entertainment, music, movies". Beta.mytelus.com. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
8. Friedlander, Whitney (May 7, 2015). "'Full House' Reboot: Dave Coulier Joins 'Fuller House' on Netflix". Variety. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
9. Chiu, Melody (July 10, 2014). "Inside Dave Coulier and Melissa Bring's Montana Wedding". People.
10. "Alanis Morissette marries rapper boyfriend". CBC News. June 7, 2010.
11. Billups, Andrea; Nahas, Aili (June 11, 2014). "Full House's Dave Coulier Is Engaged to Melissa Bring". People. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
12. Blumm, K.C.; Dyball, Rennie (July 2, 2014). "Dave Coulier of Full House Is Married!". People. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
13. "AOPA Summit - 10 Questions for Dave Coulier".
14. "Uncle Joey is a pilot". Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
15. "Q&A: Detroit celebrity and Red Wings' fan, Dave Coulier '77 (NDHS)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 14, 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
16. "Tumblr Today, the Tate Tomorrow". www.austinchronicle.com.
17. "The Same Picture of Dave Coulier Every Day: Ironic joke, or something more?". June 16, 2018.
18. "Meet the man who posts the same photo of Dave Coulier online every day". The Daily Dot. May 27, 2015.
19. "Why Are People Obsessed with This 71-Year-Old Italian Man's Picture?". Vocativ. January 30, 2015.
20. Bessi, Alessandro; Zollo, Fabiana; Del Vicario, Michela; Scala, Antonio; Petroni, Fabio; Gonçalves, Bruno; Quattrociocchi, Walter (February 2, 2015). "Everyday the Same Picture: Popularity and Content Diversity". arXiv:1501.07201. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
21. "My Favorite New Chart Tumblr".
22. "Why are some people posting the same picture every day?". BBC News. February 12, 2015.
23. Club, The A. V. "The 100 best, worst, and weirdest things we saw on the internet in the 2010s". AUX.
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External links

• Dave Coulier on IMDb
• cleanguys.TV