What ever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paper boy, evening TV?

Well, one of the biggest evening TV stars of the early 1990's, Dave Coulier, best known for his role as Joey Gladstone on the family sitcom Full House, is coming to Penn State.

He will be performing his stand-up comedy act Saturday in HUB Alumni Hall, starting at 10 p.m.

LateNight-Penn State has one "big" comedy show at the HUB-Robeson Center each semester. Greg Behrendt and Dave Anthony performed there last year, and comedians such as Colin Quinn, Jim Breuer and Dean Edwards have been showcased in the past.

Though the name Dave Coulier will likely always be synonymous with Joey Gladstone, Coulier is not a one-trick pony. The character of Gladstone alone was capable of several different characters and is a microcosm of Coulier's ability. He has lent his voice acting skills to a number of television shows, including Muppet Babies, The Jetsons and Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo. He has also appeared on reality shows The Surreal Life and Skating with Celebrities, as well as hosted shows like I Can't Believe I Wore That and Animal Kidding, where he can currently be seen.

Coulier won't be the only act of the evening. Steve Caouette will emcee the event and Rebecca Corry will also perform. The show is expected to last between 90 minutes and two hours.

Steve Caouette is not a newcomer to the college scene nor to Penn State in particular, having performed at numerous campuses across the country. The last time he was at Penn State, he headlined a show in the HUB and filled the auditorium. Caouette said Penn State was one of his favorite places to perform.

"Penn State is one of the better schools," he said. "It's high energy."

Caouette, who began performing comedy while enrolled at the University of Maine, said he feels at home at an East Coast State school and that he loves playing for big, diverse crowds.

"Also, there's a prison right next to Penn State, so I can always go see my old friends after the show," he said.

Caouette also said he liked playing college shows more than comedy clubs did, because it guarantees the crowd will be within a general age range.

"You have a good idea of what you're getting age-wise," he said. "At a comedy club, you could get the cast of Desperate Housewives or the cast of Golden Girls. You don't know."

Rebecca Corry, the show's only female act, said she shares the sentiment for college crowds.

"The college audiences are cool and respectful and a lot of fun," she said. "I'm expecting a lot of crazy bastards."

Corry, who has guest starred in numerous television shows and appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend as well as Last Comic Standing, described her act as "physical, observant and personal, with a few segues and some kicking."

"I'm very physical," she said. "There's no other woman doing what I'm doing, that I know of. I don't know why I kick or where it comes from, but it's sort of my trademark, and it's hilarious."

Scott Talarico, founder and president of Neon Entertainment--Caouette and Corry's talent agency--which books more than 1,200 college shows every year, said the show will appeal to a lot of personalities, due to the fact that none of the show's acts could be pigeonholed.

"With Rebecca [Corry], you don't get a lot of female issues," he said. "It's edgy; not what you'd expect. With Steve [Caouette], you get a lot of different personalities -- lots of sound effects and impressions. Dave Coulier isn't really his character from Full House, but there are similarities. It's a fun-loving, good-time style."

Corry said it was difficult to compare her to another comedian.

"I think, if you put Carrot Top next to me, you couldn't tell us apart," she said. "Except I'm not a man, I don't like props, I don't have red hair and we look nothing alike."

Caouette felt he had a unique act that was above being typified as well.

"I have tried my best to hone in on and touch base on everything," he said. "Storyteller, impressionist, a ton of improv; I mix them all equally."

Though neither plans to give it up anytime soon, both Caouette and Corry said being a stand-up comedian can be extremely taxing and there is little glamour to make up for it.

"You're in front of a thousand people one minute, and then alone in a hotel room the next," Corry said.

Caouette has performed across the venue spectrum, from big-time comedy clubs and campuses down to some of the less-than-glamorous locations, having even performed at an assisted living retirement community and a bachelor party for seven people.

"There's a reason this bachelor only had six friends," he said, and added that there isn't a comedian in the world who doesn't have any stories about the unpleasant side of comedy. Caouette said sometimes he feels like he's married to his career, but it's a marriage he enjoys.

"It sucks on home life and on relationships," he said. "I'll say to a girl before I go back on the road again, 'I know we've been dating for six months, but I've been married to my career for 10 years.' I think it's why I talk about ex-girlfriends so much in my act."

Corry also said being on the road so often can be demanding, but most of her anxiety comes from all the time she spends on airplanes traveling from show to show.

"I don't know if you know this," she said, "but in our lifetime, planes were used as bombs to attack our country. So it's a little scary being on planes all the time. Also, people not using the middle arm rests is really annoying."

Both comedians agreed that there was a payoff.

"I love the artistic expression,"
Corry said. "I've done film, television, stage shows; what you get from stand-up comedy, you can't get from anything else."

Caouette had similar reasons for his love for comedy.

"It's so rewarding," he said. "You work an hour a day, travel all over and meet all kinds of people. And you get to bring out people's best emotion: laughter."

During his freshman orientation, the University of Maine showed Caouette's incoming class a hypnotist.

"I thought to myself, 'Oh wow, I bet he gets paid pretty good,'" he said, thinking to himself that it might be cool to do that himself someday.

Now, Caouette returns to his alma mater every year to perform at the annual freshman orientation, the same way the hypnotist did during his.

"I've seen my name on a billboard in Las Vegas," he said, "but nothing compares to going back every year to do that."