Are my suspicions correct, or did someone else actually watch this trainwreck? It was the most incoherent show Comedy Central has run in a while, and Colin’s rant about GE, NBC, and Lorne Michaels just seemed bitter. Anyone care to guess how much longer this one has before the plug gets pulled?
-brianjedi
Does he not realize that he stopped being amusing after Remote Control was cancelled?
I think someone in a CC conference room said “Gosh, wasn’t it great when we had “Politically Incorrect” on the schedule? I sure wish we had something like that again…”
And then things started to go horribly, horribly wrong.
That was my initial thought exactly. “It’s another Politically Incorrect.” Wonderful.
Colin Quinn.
Worst Weekend Update ever.
The only funny Lorne Michaels joke I’ve ever seen is when Norm MacDonald hosted Saturday Night Live.
“A year ago I was fired from here for not being funny enough. Now I’m hosting. I haven’t gotten any funnier…”
Nah, that award has to go to Kevin Nealon. He single handedly murdered hundreds of great lines with horrible timing and inexplicable mid-punchline pauses.
The only funny thing I remember involving Colin Quinn was a line on SNL…it went something like…
“I see they now have the guy from Remote Control’s father in the cast”
HAHAHA
If anyone can remember the exact quote and who said it, I would be impressed.
And Kevin Nealon, as awful as he was, was nowhere near as cruddy as Colin Quinn.
Colin Quinn was the second-worst host of Weekend Update. The award for worst host goes to the tag-team of Jimmy Fallon and Tina Fey. They absolutely suck. They’re like two kids putting on a very bad “pageant” in the backyard. Unfortunately, they’re not in their backyardÑthey’re on national televison. I get embarrassed for them.
Nope, Colin is the worst. I agree that Jimmy and Tina are worse at the actual update portions, but they were not so conceited as to try to have a spot-light half serious “rant” at the beginning of each update on their political views.
What an ass.
Nealon and Quinn both had terrible delivery, but Quinn was obviously a funny guy, Nealon, not so much.
Fallon also has pretty awful delivery, but he’s redeemed by both his enthusiasm and his partner.
–Cliffy
Kevin Nealon anchoring and Tim Meadows as Ike Turner…that was some funny shit.
Colin Quinn was the worst. I thought Nealon was okay in a sort of Chevy Chase light vein. I think Tina and Jimmy do a great job. I think Tina is one of the best writers on the show too.
Does somebody owe Quinn a huge debt? Did he save somebody’s life, so now he gets a show every year no matter how un-funny he is?
Colin Quinn was terrible.
By far the best ever IMHO (even over Chevy) was Norm MacDonald.
My thoughts exactly. Funny he ain’t.
Denis Leary was on Conan O’Brien’s show the other night and did a little bit of trash talking at Quinn’s expense. Anyone know what may have brought that about? Seemes like there was something specific that set him off.
Yesterday, probably to promote the premiere of Colin’s new show, they re-ran his appearance from last week on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Colin seemed (pick one or more) bitter, drunk, angry and bitter. It was pretty funny though. They talked about the old comedy club days, when Colin used to be the de facto boss at some club, and he’d let young comedians like Jon and Denis Leary go on when he felt like giving them the nod.
Colin ranted a bit about Lorne Michaels, and did a long, unfunny bit about how he was jealous of Leary and Stewart’s closeness, and angry at Denis Leary for saying “I can’t picture you on safari.” Yep, that’s it. “I can’t picture you on safari” was supposed to be a big insult that Colin was upset about. I got the impression they were fake-feuding to drum up publicity for each other.
Quinn was unfocused, sipping his water (?) every 5 seconds, and rambling - I think Lorne Michaels was mentioned too. The funniest moment was when Jon asked “You do know that these cameras are on, right?”
His new show sounded badly planned and chaotic, which is what it sounds like from the reponse here. I think I’ll watch it to get a sense of the trainwreck before it gets yanked in a few weeks.
God bring back Chevy Chase for weekend update
He could use the work and he was perfect
Hell those great phone calls alone would get me tuning in again again
“No, you don’t actually blow on it. That’s just an expression. Listen, I’ve gotta do the news. See you later. Love you.”
“So what are you doing? Oh clipping your nails? Bet they are nice and sharp…Uh I got to go”
[ talking into the telephone ] "What are you wearing right now? No bathrobe? "[ notices the audience, hangs up telephone ]
[ talking into the telephone ] "No… I love it when you make noise. Remember when… "[ notices the audience, hangs up telephone ] Good evening, I’m Chevy Chase, and you’re not!
Continuing the SNL/WU hijack…
Best Weekend Update anchor: Dennis Miller
Worst: Norm MacDonald
My wife and I watched the beginning of Colin Quinn’s new show (hey, it followed Jon Stewart). A couple of minutes into it, when that dude made the crack about “the scent of fried chicken,” I started getting fidgety in bed. My wife said, “I give this another minute and a half.” And I said, “I’m already done. I’m going to do laundry. You do what you want.”
An abrasive, chaotic mess. At least Bill Maher managed to keep a general sense of thematic organization on his show, and occasionally did something really cool (the remote he did from that one prison was valuable television).
I give Colin’s show a week and a half before Comedy Central pulls the plug. They killed Chris Wylde after three weeks, and that was better than this.
Poor Colin Quinn. He should’ve applied and waited for an opening on the FDNY where he obviously belongs.