Hate to burst your bubble, but he wasn’t funny then, either.
Colin Quinn is anti-funny: he annihilates the surrounding humor.
I heart Jimmy & Tina, though.
i saw the pre-show rant. unfunny de mucho…
it is so bad, that i’m looking for it to be on for a long time. (cf. arsenio)
YOU SPEAK LIES!!!
LIIIIIIEEEEESSSSSS!!!
Nah, Dennis Miller was the best, definitely. Colin was the worst. Norm wasn’t that bad. Not as good as some of the others, but not bad.
Norm got REALLY annoying and tired and boring when he kept harping on OJ Simpon and his relationship with Brandon Tarticoff (SP?) and his incessant need to insert the phrase crack whore at least 3 times in every Weekend Update segment and his ending every Update segment with some unfunny comment about Frank Stallone.
You guys who think Colin Quinn was the worst have obviously never seen Charles Rocket do the job. That is, before he was kicked off the show for saying the big F word during update.
Weekend Update anchors, in order of best to worst:
- Dennis Miller
- Norm MacDonald
- Chevy Chase
- Tina Fey/Jimmy Fallon
- Bill Murray/Jane Curtin
- Dan Ayckroyd/Jane Curtin
- Colin Quinn
- Kevin Nealon
- Brian Doyle-Murray
- Christopher Guest
- Brad Hall
- Mary Gross
- Charles Rocket
- Gail Matthias
- Christine Ebersol
Now that I’ve listed them all, I’ve decided that Colin Quinn wasn’t that bad. God, the early 80’s of that show sucked. Especially the Dick Ebersol years, before Lorne Michaels came back in from the wilderness.
Well, I’ll give you that. I’ve never even heard of Charles Rocket. When was he on?
He was a cast member during the ill-fated 1980-81 season. IIRC, he said the “f-word” on the air and got the boot. He would then go on the plague such shows as Moonlighting (David’s brother) and Max Headroom (head of Network 66).
Colin Quinn was in Comedian, the documentary about Jerry Seinfield coming back to being a stand-up. He kept saying things that made all the other comics squirt milk through their noses. I guess you had to be there.
Weirdly, I was going to start a Rate the Weekend Update Anchors thread after reading the great oral history of the show Live from New York, but then I realized that the book pretty much skipped over the anchors for the lost five years that Rocket et al. were on.
So here’s the rest:
- Dennis Miller
How in the world did that happen?
Anyway, here’s the list, minus those I don’t care about:
- Dennis Miller
- Chevy Chase
- Tina Fey/Jimmy Fallon
- Jane Curtin w/ Dan Ayckroyd
- Jane Curtin w/Bill Murray
- Colin Quinn
- Kevin Nealon
- Norm MacDonald
For reasons unknown to anyone in the universe, I’m watching this festering boil of a show again. I think it’s because I really like Janeane Garofalo. On that note, she looks so uncomfortable there. And Colin is scaring the hell out of some kid. I’m guessing this thing doesn’t make it out of the week. Even Colin is admitting the show sucks.
They cancelled “Battlebots” and gave us this? I’ll take the robots any day, even if I have to put up with Carmen Electra.
Oh, by the way, Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd were the best on Weekend Update.
-brianjedi
Oh my god is this show horrible. Please replace it with something better, maybe Blossom - that was funnier, no?
BTWIMHO the absolute GREATEST person ever on Weekend Update (not just anchors) is easily Gilda Radner.
Mr. Richard Fedder of Fort Lee, New Jersey wrote in to tell me that.
What’s that?
Oh.
Never mind.
Jesus god, this show stinks so much I feel like I ought to be watching it in a well-ventilated area.
Chris Wylde will always have a special place in my heart because he said the funniest word I’ve heard in my life: assgasms.
Assgasms!
Did Quinn try to do this show last year? It sucked then, it sucks even worse now. Poor Jeanine Garofolo for showing up. It’s Politically Incorrect without the politics or feigned intelligence.
He has this in common with Norm MacDonald, Pauly Shore, Chris Tucker and Martin Lawrence.
You take that back! Chris Tucker is hilarious.
I watched the opening 5 minutes or so of last night’s debacle, and my God, all I could think was, “Get out, Janeane! Get out while you can!”
There’s something terribly painful about watching people trot out mean-spirited “jokes” that you know they spent weeks preparing, and acting like their one-liners just occured to them. “Coyotes with AIDS”? Wtf?
I saw a bit as well, “PI” was my reaction. BTW, I’m waiting for Jimmy to call Tina an ignorant slut. (she writes it, so I doubt it’ll happen).
The only person I pitied more than Janeane was that little girl Colin was grilling.
I miss Bill Maher. And I love Janeane Garofalo.