--- title: Fuller House: John Stamos Reads Mean Reviews description: While many fans were overjoyed when Fuller House hit Netflix a week ago today, some critics weren't very taken with the reboot. canonical: https://time.com/4247683/john-stamos-fuller-house-reviews-late-night-with-seth-meyers/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-04T15:54:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:44.060Z og:title: Watch John Stamos Read Hilariously Awful Fuller House Reviews og:description: "Fuller House is like a porn parody without the porn" og:url: https://time.com/4247683/john-stamos-fuller-house-reviews-late-night-with-seth-meyers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch John Stamos Read Hilariously Awful Fuller House Reviews twitter:description: "Fuller House is like a porn parody without the porn" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch John Stamos Read Hilariously Awful _Fuller House_ Reviews With Seth Meyers > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 4, 2016 3:54 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 4, 2016 3:54 PM UTC While many fans were overjoyed by the return of the Tanner family when [_Fuller House_](http://time.com/4246438/full-house-nights-colbert/)hit Netflix a week ago Friday, some critics weren’t very taken with the reboot of the ’90s sitcom. So when John Stamos made an appearance on Thursday’s episode of _Late Night with Seth Meyers_, the host decided to take full advantage of these hilariously harsh criticisms by reading a few of them aloud to poor [Uncle Jesse](http://time.com/4227193/fuller-house-cast-comforts-donald-trump/). **Read More:** [Review: _Fuller House’_s Forced Nostalgia Is Bad News For TV](http://time.com/4235830/fuller-house-review/) One of the more brutal jabs comes from the [_Washington Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/you-already-know-fuller-house-is-bad-but-are-you-adult-enough-to-resist-it/2016/02/24/b2116982-d994-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d%5Fstory.html)_._ “There’s a point where nostalgia becomes more like necrophilia,” Meyers reads. “And _Fuller House_ immediately crosses that line.” However, it’s Stamos who has the last laugh; the show has already been [renewed for a second season](http://time.com/4244489/fuller-house-renewed/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4247683/john-stamos-fuller-house-reviews-late-night-with-seth-meyers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4247683/john-stamos-fuller-house-reviews-late-night-with-seth-meyers/"},"headline":"Watch John Stamos Read Hilariously Awful Fuller House Reviews With Seth Meyers","datePublished":"2016-03-04T15:54:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:44.060Z","description":"\"Fuller House is like a porn parody without the porn\"","url":"https://time.com/4247683/john-stamos-fuller-house-reviews-late-night-with-seth-meyers/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Seth Meyers","Late Night with Seth Meyers","TV","Late Night Television","fuller house"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4247683/john-stamos-fuller-house-reviews-late-night-with-seth-meyers/","name":"Watch John Stamos Read Hilariously Awful Fuller House Reviews With Seth Meyers"}}]}] ```