Colin Quinn - cool or fool?

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My blood is up tonight. Who wants some? You? You?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:13 (twenty years ago) link

Heh, I didn't see that you'd started a whole new thread. I'll repeat what I said in the "Colins" thread:

"No, Kenan you're right about Colin Quinn. I've never found him funny, although I know him mostly through "Weekend Update" on SNL, and he's said that that gig didn't suit his talents very well."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 September 2003 04:03 (twenty years ago) link

i like his show. they actually make an effort to seriously discuss the issues for 20, maybe 30 seconds before going back to ripping on each other.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 15 September 2003 04:48 (twenty years ago) link

and he's said that that gig didn't suit his talents very well.

I would like to know what exactly he imagines his talents to be.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 15 September 2003 04:53 (twenty years ago) link

Oh! And the worst thing: when he rants on his show about jobs he lost or was turned down for, like it's this great injustice. Real classy, there, big guy.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 15 September 2003 04:55 (twenty years ago) link

his shtick seems to be not really wanting to expend enough energy to have a shtick.

bill maher always sucked.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 15 September 2003 05:06 (twenty years ago) link

Based on the "Comedian" documentary and other evidence, he's successful solely because he works all the fucking time, not because he's, you know, funny in any way at all. His peak on SNL was when he did the Joe Blow character as a lion who had just been released from jail. That was pretty funny. But otherwise, he's useless.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 15 September 2003 12:09 (twenty years ago) link

Based on the "Comedian" documentary and other evidence, he's successful solely because he works all the fucking time, not because he's, you know, funny in any way at all.

This was what I thought as well. He's probably succeeded because he's hardworking and is friends with the right people, and not because he's funny in any way.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 15 September 2003 12:54 (twenty years ago) link

If loving Colin Quinn is wrong, I don't want to be right.

oh shush, you just want to sit on his lap!

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 15 September 2003 13:27 (twenty years ago) link

Colin is slightly less funny than projectile vomiting, but he's very endearing.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 15 September 2003 13:52 (twenty years ago) link

phil, well, duh.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:07 (twenty years ago) link

I think he can be funny, but he's got to work on his delivery. He steps all over his own punchlines. He needs to calm down or sober up or something.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:23 (twenty years ago) link

His name is Colin Quinn and you're asking him to sober up? *hides*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:39 (twenty years ago) link

OTM Alex. I think he's a funny guy. The problem is, he has the worst delivery of any "successful" comedian I can think of. I mean, Janeane Garafalo has no delivery to speak of, but at least she doesn't sabotage her own humor by blurting it out incomprehensibly. I would say he has bad timing too, but you would have to have evidence of timing to determine it good or bad.

Doesn't he have a manager who could say something? He seems to be pals with a lot of stand ups--shouldn't they stage an intervention or something.

― Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:55 (twenty years ago) link

comedy intervention = great idea for a bad film

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link

would it be more "drop squad" or "holy smoke"?

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 15 September 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

Think "Operation Dumbo Drop"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 15 September 2003 15:22 (twenty years ago) link

i thought the mess-ups were the point (kinda like "hey here's a joke...ah whatever nevermind")

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 15 September 2003 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

fool acting cool acting fool. "my thing is that I suck and don't give a shit but I'm a great guy really grin grin" no thank you (even if I buy it a little)

the utter unfunniness of everyone else on his show doesn't help...plus they're mosly pigs.

funny conservatives c/d s/d??

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Monday, 15 September 2003 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

Dennis Miller?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 15 September 2003 21:54 (twenty years ago) link

Dennis Miller stopped being funny way before he revealed he was a conservative.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 15 September 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link

Dennis Miller always struck me as a lefty whose only "righty" notion was that he is very much "pro-Cop"

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:29 (twenty years ago) link

I get sucked into that show, and I know Quinn is the main reason. As host, his habit of inviting gay comedians and homophobes onto the same show is smart. He gets blacks on and people who will tell black jokes. I don't particularly agree with his worldview, but I like the way he expresses it and lets other people answer it--I mean, he's less controlling than Maher or John McLaughlan (sp?)...

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

his worldview seems to be "anything for a joke". it's like the cheapskate SNL version of political commentary, where every idea is reduced to fart jokes and etc. there's no backbone.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link

Well he has a political point of view beneath that.

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 02:01 (twenty years ago) link

Right, and it's even more idiotic than we would have guessed had he not said anything about it.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 03:47 (twenty years ago) link

"What's with these people who think they're so smart? Here's what I think, 'cause I'm smarter than all those people who think they're so smart..."

An all too common argument. And always always a stupid one.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 03:50 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, wait... all of ILX (including me) to thread!

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 04:05 (twenty years ago) link

What I mean is, Colin Quinn on his new show argues with popular or cultural elitist opinion simply because it is popular or elitist, and for no other reason. Which is fine, as far as sparking debate goes. The trouble is, he's an idiot, and with very few exceptions, all of his guests are idiots. Their experience of life and politics isn't just expressed through comedy, it is comedy. That's all they know how to do -- make jokes. The theoretical debates on the show are sometimes hilarious, though usually unintentionally, but more often horrifying in their lack of depth and knowledge. And I watch and imagine people out in the audience nodding and agreeing because they think that's what they're supposed to do, and I worry that anyone can say anything nowadays if they wrap it up in a pretty or funny or indignant enough package, and then I go curl into a fetal position in the corner and suck my thumb, having been robbed of any faith in the world or its population. And I blame Colin Quinn for making me feel like this, and I not only hate him, I fear him a little. Him and all his comedian friends.

You know how people get their news from late night talk shows more and more often nowadays? Well, Conan and Leno and Letterman are beacons of journalistic integrity compared to Colin Quinn.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 04:13 (twenty years ago) link

I think he "airs" a lot of shit that people are actually saying and laughing at "out there" (laughing = shaky consensus established between comedian and audience). He's big enough, at the very least, to invite people on his show that he knows will rip him a new one, who will bond with his audience against him. In a way, "anything for a laugh" is the great equalizer. But you're right, it's generally a dumbed-down version of that NPR show whose name I can't remember...

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 06:00 (twenty years ago) link

i still trust the Daily Show more than any other nightly newscast.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 06:19 (twenty years ago) link

the daily show slips into that "anything for a joke" humor sometimes, but more often there is a definite political point of view, an agenda even, behind the humor.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 10:35 (twenty years ago) link

I think Colin Quinn has done the world a great service by exposing how socially evil Ben Stein really is. (DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE GENIAL BRANIAC FROM "Win Ben Stein's Money"; HE WILL EAT YOUR BABIES)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 11:40 (twenty years ago) link

he was a nixon speechwriter for cryin' out loud!

(maybe everybody already knows that)

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 12:25 (twenty years ago) link

I knew that, but he came across as so genial and nice on his own show that I figured either he wasn't as evil as I had previously imagined or he had mellowed somewhat since those days.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 12:57 (twenty years ago) link

He totally reminds me of every rich Republican I've ever gotten drunk with...

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:29 (twenty years ago) link

eight years pass...

his twitter account is really the pinnacle of his comedic career, isn't it?

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link

it is, and maybe I haven't paid him enough attention lately, but it's a totally different style of humor than what he's known for

― That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Monday, 30 April 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link

really it was an inevitability that the pinnacle of his career wouldn't involve him speaking

― some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link

^^^

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 April 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link

Twitter ideally suited for someone who can't form sentences

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 April 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link

he can WRITE sentences, he just can't read them off a teleprompter and recite them

― some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

trolling so hard right now

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link

easily one of the best instances of "I'm not racist, but..." ever

― frogbs, Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link

https://twitter.com/#!/iamcolinquinn/status/203233057770188800
https://twitter.com/#!/iamcolinquinn/status/203233290012991488
https://twitter.com/#!/iamcolinquinn/status/203233539662163968

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link

loved the "this is our country" ref too

― frogbs, Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link

this guy should be shot out of a cannon into a brick wall

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link

I get what he's doing. I'm just not sure a) he's doing it effectively enough to be successful or b) that it's in any way necessary or advisable. Maybe wait until, like, 2212, when we can all look back at the silly racial strife from centuries past and have a good laugh about it together?

― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link

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