Yes, he dated Canadian rock star Alanis Morissette, and no, he doesn’t think her song You Oughta Know was written about him.
“And even if I knew I would never admit it, I’d be a fool to admit it, because the guy in that song doesn’t sound like a very nice guy,” Coulier told BayToday.ca.
Coulier, who will be bringing his stand-up routine to the Capitol Centre Jan. 31, said he met Morissette at the 1992 NHL All-Star game in Montreal, where she was performing the national anthem and he was playing in a celebrity hockey game. The relationship lasted a little over a year.
“She was writing a great deal of music and we were dating in Los Angeles and Ottawa and Toronto,” Coulier said.
“It was very difficult to date on a bi-coastal and bi-country basis, so we ended up splitting apart, and I was sort of the catalyst for that, and then the record comes out and people start telling me I must be the guy. But we’ve remained friends and there are no hard feelings.”
People already laughing Coulier, a Detroit native, became part of the American sit-com landscape as Uncle Joey, in Full House, which ran from 1987 to 1995.
He also co-hosted America’s Funniest People. Now he spends much of the year on the road performing comedy.
"It’s a clean show, which I’d rate PG 13 to 16, but it’s definitely not an episode of Full House,” Coulier said.
At the same time his long association with that program hasn’t exactly hurt him, Coulier said.
“People are already laughing before I step on the stage because they watched the show for years and their kids have seen it too since it’s gone into syndication, and that enhances everything.”
Loves stupid humour This will be his first time performing in North Bay, Coulier said, although he’s pretty sure he’s been to the city before as a kid, playing in “a ton” of different hockey tournaments throughout Ontario.
While he makes people laugh for a living, Coulier said he loves to laugh too.
“I love really stupid humour like people falling down, people hitting themselves in the head, just dumb physical humour,” Coulier said, adding he’s a huge fan of perhaps the most physical comedic star of all time, Charlie Chaplin.
Stand-up remains bread and butter Coulier has branched out in children’s entertainment, creating a music CD entitled Weaver Beaver and Friends.
But stand-up remains his bread and butter.
While making his way up the ranks Coulier played clubs with such well-known comedians as Dennis Miller, Gary Shandling, and Jerry Seinfeld.
“I used to say on my resume ‘Opened for Robin Williams or opened for George Carlin’ and now people are saying on their resumes, ‘Opened for Dave Coulier.’ So I guess I’ve arrived. ____________________________________________________________ PHOTO Dave Coulier (l) with John Stamos (c) and Bob Saget, in a publicity photo from Full House. Coulier will be at the Capitol Centre Jan. 31. Photo courtesy Warner Bros.
