One of the best television fun facts of all time is that the late-80s/early-90s sitcom Full House was originally supposed to be a show about three single stand-up comedians cohabitating, called House of Comics. Besides having a name that sounds like an eastern European adaptation of an American sitcom, House of Comics, had it been green-lit as it was, would’ve robbed us of Donna Jo, Michelle, and Stephanie Tanner. OK, we all could’ve lived without Michelle—the blog Full House Reviewed is an excellent chronicle of her awfulness—but we grew up with Stephanie, from the time she was just a tiny Honey Bee to the time she was an awkward teen trying cigs with that bad bitch Gia. In 2016, actress Jodie Sweetin returns as Stephanie Tanner on the Full House spinoff Fuller House (aka House of Comics II) along with Candace Cameron as DJ and Andrea Barber as Kimmy fucking Gibbler. Suffice it to say, 2016 can’t get here quickly enough—in the meantime Sweetin will be at Wizard World Comic Con in Chicago this weekend fending off sweaty 35-year-olds who’ve had a crush on her since she was 14. Last week, the mother of two talked with us about Fuller House, that unauthorized Lifetime movie, and becoming an urban legend. Gwynedd Stuart: I hear you’re on set—how’s it going?
I read on the Internet that the show revolves around DJ’s family after DJ loses her husband . . .
Not quite, not quite. But equally as exciting and world traveling.
Another thing coming up is this Unauthorized Full House Story on Lifetime . . .
Probably not, I’m actually gonna be doing the comic con [in Chicago] that weekend, so I won’t be around.
My fave is when the Tanner family hosts the telethon and you do the dance to “Love Shack.”
