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COLIN QUINN LONG STORY SHORT UPDATE
The journeyman comic (once a middling anchor of Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live and host of his own show, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, A few comics, like Jackie Mason and Rob Becker ( Defending the Caveman), have had some success with it, but in general the stand-up comedian's art which depends on intimacy, informality and at least the illusion of spontaneity does not make an easy transition to the Broadway stage.
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Yet of today’s technology-ridden, politically correct landscape, nothing rubs him the wrong way like the biannual extravaganza that is Fashion Week: “I get so mad over that stupid tent.Chang W. I was trying to get that in the show, but I never did - people remembering your order, and how good that makes you feel when you’re not just a faceless person. And it was those personalities.”įor example, “the Indian newsstand guys - once they recognize you, they’ll remember your order. The stand-up veteran says that his onstage persona, who bemoans the “new” New York, really longs for the more personal city that, sure, “was bad and crime-ridden and it wasn’t a great place, but there was something about it. Our styles work very well together because he’s in it for the love of the game.” Are we here to work?’ … He’s a hard-ass guy, and he doesn’t like to f- around and waste time. He’d just make one comment about it, and then something like, ‘I don’t discuss that. Though Seinfeld and Quinn are longtime friends who also collaborated on Long Story Short, which had a hit Broadway run in 2010, Quinn realized, “The funny thing about Jerry is, as close as I feel to him, we never, ever discussed that incident about him being in the paper and stuff.
Jerry Seinfeld: Political Correctness Will Destroy Comedy So in his new one-man show Colin Quinn: A New York Story, in which he thoroughly traces traits of the distinct New York City personality - the condescending, slightly irritated, quick-speaking, back-talking being that’s somehow beloved and fading fast around the five boroughs - to the various ethnic groups that immigrated there over time, he proudly attributes the city’s unquestionable sarcasm to the Irish. But if that’s all you have, that’s already been done to death.” “On the one hand, you can’t ignore the drinking aspect or pretend it’s not a legitimate thing that goes on. “I’ll use Irish as the example, because it’s mine,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. For Colin Quinn, the most difficult thing about making race-related jokes isn’t trying to avoid offending people, but repeating the same, simmered-down punch lines.
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