John Stamos and the late comedy legend Don Rickles had a very “odd” friendship, according to the Fuller House star.

“Don Rickles and I met kind of randomly, sitting next to each other at a Greek restaurant about 20 years ago,” John wrote for The Hollywood Reporter. “It was interesting to be around him during that time. No one was really knocking at his door that much back then. Then the documentary Mr. Warmth came out, and people said, ‘Oh, he’s still alive? He’s the funniest man ever!’ It was nice to be by his side and see all the accolades roll in from the young comics and actors. He’d call me and say, ‘Johnny Depp called me today!’”

John continued: “I’ve always gravitated to these type of father figures. It started with Jack Klugman, who was a mentor and second father to me. We had an odd relationship but we spent a good amount of time together. The first 10 years of our friendship we talked on the phone a lot, like two schoolgirls. He never got the concept of me not being there to answer the phone. If I didn’t call him back in 30 seconds, he’d call again. When people were around he’d rib me a lot. But when it was just the two of us, no not really. He loved going out to dinner and the dinners kept him alive in the last 10 or 15 years. Barbara [Don’s wife] was great. She’d say, ‘Why are you bringing so-and-so?’ Meaning some old showbiz crony. She’d say, ‘Yeah … let’s look toward the future. Who are your younger friends?’ She liked that energy around Don, which I thought was pretty cool.”

He share a funny story about when Don wasn’t very happy with him:

“He’d always get pissed at me because for his birthday I’d send him one rose for every year,” John remembered. “Last year I sent him 90 roses. You’d think that he’d think that’s pretty special but he got pretty pissed off at me. ‘What am I going to do with all these flowers? I have to call a gardener?!’ Maybe he wanted to save me from sending him 91 roses.”

On Don’s mischievousness:

“There was a mischievous 7 year old about him,” John said. “He was getting away with stuff. Barbara didn’t want him to eat cookies. “John give me a cookie.” “John, don’t give him the cookie — he has diabetes.” And I’d sneak him a cookie under the table and he’d get so excited. Like a little kid. It was so wonderful to see that. Then Barbara would yell at me and I’d give him the check and we’d go home.”

Read the rest at The Hollywood Reporter.