John Stamos says Dean Martins blunt one-word…
John Stamos wished advice from the King of Cool — and received an reply he never forgot.
The “Full House” alum received his big break on tv as Blackie Parrish on “General Hospital” from 1982 to 1984. But by the end of his run, Stamos was decided to depart the cleaning soap opera world behind and show he was succesful of a lot more.
“When I was leaving ‘General Hospital,’ Gloria Monty, who was the producer, she didn’t want me to go, and I wanted to be funny,” the actor recalled in an archival clip from Joseph Sibilia’s “Friars Club Podcast,” which was not too long ago re-broadcast on “Nostalgia Tonight with Joe Sibilia.”
“I wanted to be on a sitcom, like a Garry Marshall show,” said Stamos, now 62. “And she took me out to [famed restaurant] Le Dome here in Hollywood to try to convince me to stay on the show.”
Stamos described himself as “a very innocent kid” who “loved” the collection but was keen to show off his comedic chops.
“She was like, ‘Well, why do you want to leave my show, dear?’” Stamos recalled. “And I said, ‘Well, Gloria, I want to be funny.’ She’s like, ‘You want to be funny.’”
John Stamos, 62, sought profession advice from “King of Cool” Dean Martin at Le Dome restaurant in Hollywood. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
During their dialog, Monty noticed Dean Martin eating alone. She introduced Stamos over and launched him to Martin.
“She said, ‘Mr. Martin, this is the star of my show, ‘General Hospital.’ And he wants to leave the show. He wants to be funny. Now, will you tell him about loyalty and about sticking where you’re at?’” said Stamos.
“He was pretty old by this time, and he was sitting by himself,” said Stamos. “That was a trick of his. He would have a table set for two, but nobody was coming [for] the other [seat]. He just liked to be alone.”
“She said, ‘Tell him not to leave, Mr. Martin.’ And he looked at me, and he said, ‘Run.’”
Stamos ended up transferring on to the CBS sitcom “Dreams” in 1984. Then, from 1986 to 1987, he starred in the NBC sitcom “You Again?” before touchdown on “Full House” later that yr. He performed Jesse Katsopolis in the collection until 1995 and then reprised the function on “Fuller House” from 2016 to 2020.
Martin, recognized for eating alone, suggested Stamos to “Run” from the cleaning soap opera, as confirmed by his daughter. Getty Images
Back in 2019, Martin’s daughter, Deana Martin, told Fox News Digital that in his later years, her father most popular having fun with his own company while out in Hollywood.
“He would go out to dinner every night, and he had two restaurants,” Deana recalled at the time. “He would go to La Familia every night, but on Sunday nights he would go to The Hamburger Hamlet. He would always sit at the same table and in the same chair. He didn’t really want people to be with him. He didn’t want to have a lot of people around him. But wherever he went, everybody wanted to talk to him.”
“My husband and I would call him and say, ‘Dad, do you want us to come have dinner with you tonight?’” she said. “And he’d say, ‘Well, sure, just no chit-chat.’ He’d say, ‘I don’t mind the chit, it’s the chat.’ He just wanted it to be quiet, but he was perfectly happy being alone at a restaurant, sitting at his table.”
Martin died on Christmas Day 1995. He was 78.
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