# Collin quin can't tell a monologue to save his life. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540 "2003-07-24T03:42:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/21 "2003-07-25T05:03:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BlackLabel1 \* > \*\*I’ve always kinda thought he was funny, but the thing I like about tough crowd is the other comics. Dennis Leary was on the other night and I think he’s the funniest person alive. No Cure For Cancer is the best comedy CD I own. \*\* I haven’t seen too much of his comedy, but I am definitely going to watch his roast on Comedy Central. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/22 "2003-07-25T05:07:20Z")
Ditto, though I’m not a big Leary fan. Roasts leave me in stitches even when the roastee - or even the roasters - aren’t people I’m really into. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/23 "2003-07-25T05:17:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by photopat \* > \*\*I just wonder why this thread? Isn’t it pretty much common knowledge the guy sucks? 😃 \*\* Yeah, but I just had to post this thread because I had to get it off my chest. Watching him be so bad, so often, I… ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/24 "2003-07-25T05:19:51Z")
Getting back to who I’m posting about for a minute, Collin Quin was on MTV once, right? How was he on there? Did he suck as bad as he does now, or has he gotten worse? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/25 "2003-07-25T05:35:07Z")
Quinn co-hosted a game show called Remote Control. I recall really liking him at the time, but that was years and years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Quack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e99b99/32.png) [@Quack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quack)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/26 "2003-07-25T06:37:42Z")
I’m coming out and saying it: I think Collin Quinn is funny. I’ve liked him as a comedian for years and I like Tough Crowd. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/27 "2003-07-25T14:56:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Joel \* > \*\*Getting back to who I’m posting about for a minute, Collin Quin was on MTV once, right? How was he on there? Did he suck as bad as he does now, or has he gotten worse? \*\* Colin Quinn was 3rd banana on an MTV quiz show called “Remote Control.” The host was Ken Ober, who would occasionally let Colin make a sarcastic remark or two about the contestants. The one genuinely funny bit he did on the show was “Sing Along With Colin.” Colin would sing some pop song (as badly as you’d expect!), then stop… and a contestant would have to sing the next line. That show also gave Adam Sandler (The Stud Boy, the Trivial Delinquent, et al) his fiorst big break in show biz. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/28 "2003-07-25T18:57:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Joel \* > \*\*Yeah, but I just had to post this thread because I had to get it off my chest. Watching him be so bad, so often, I… \*\* Yeah, I know. I was just kidding. It’s not often somebody is just awful at what he/she does, but still manages to get jobs on TV. Unless her name is Anna Nicole of course. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/29 "2003-07-25T19:31:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*God help me, but I’m endlessly entertained by Colin Quinn. No, he’s not funny, or talented, or even much fun to watch, but I can’t help pulling for him. It’s like the Special Olympics. \*\* OK, _that_ is _so_ much funnier than anything Colin Quinn has ever said . . . ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/30 "2003-07-25T19:56:30Z")
Thank God Quinn wasn’t smart enough to join up with Tracy Morgan. Between the two of them, they’d be able to combine their forces and shroud the planet in Shadows of Unfunny for eternity. They’d be unstoppable. Leary, Seinfeld, Lewis Black, Jon Stewart? They’d lay their lifeless at the feet of the MorganQuinn moster, casualties of the Funny War- empty shells of The Way It Used To Be. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/31 "2003-07-25T20:02:43Z")
Hrm… will I get pitted if I nitpick my _own_ dumbass typo? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/32 "2003-07-25T20:25:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Troy McClure SF \* > **casualties of the Funny War** Which will be fought with banana cream pies, rubber chickens and slapsticks . . . ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/33 "2003-07-25T21:22:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*OK, _that_ is _so_ much funnier than anything Colin Quinn has ever said . . . \*\* Talk about damning with faint praise. That’s like saying “This is the hottest thing I’ve ever felt” while holding an ice cube. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/34 "2003-07-25T21:37:47Z")
_Saturday Night Live_ in general has become the den of the forces of Unfunny. I can’t believe the show has continued for so long while sucking so hard. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/35 "2003-07-25T22:28:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by photopat \* > \*\*Yeah, I know. I was just kidding. It’s not often somebody is just awful at what he/she does, but still manages to get jobs on TV. > > Unless her name is Anna Nicole of course. \*\* Hehehe, or unless your last name is Osbourn 😃 ---
**Author:** ![freewill39](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d2c977/32.png) [@freewill39](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freewill39)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/36 "2003-07-30T06:27:41Z")
“Saturday Night Live in general has become the den of the forces of Unfunny. I can’t believe the show has continued for so long while sucking so hard.” * * * THANK YOU!! Jesus, can anybody explain how we went from an era in which Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Adam Sandler, Jan Hooks, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Norm McDonald, etc, ruled the show, to the current pathetic cast and writing situation? In the aforementioned period, the show was hilarious, well written, had fantastic chemistry among the people…and now they have a group of people who are one note over the toppers who seem like they are trying too hard, replacing ability with zeal. Darrel Hammond is the only half decent one on that show that I can think of at the moment, and Chris Catan has some good skits and characterizations. The others have their moments on occasion, but over all are pretty piss poor. I can’t understand it: this is a legendary show with picks of the greatest up and coming comic talent in existance…couldn’t they find anyone better? Have the pickins become that slim? Sorry for the rant, but ya opened the Pandora’s Box. This has astounded me for ages. (-: ``` - Freewill39. "If I had a time machine, I doubt I'd use it ethically" ``` ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/37 "2003-07-30T06:49:30Z")
> [@](#): > > THANK YOU!! Jesus, can anybody explain how we went from an era in which Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Adam Sandler, Jan Hooks, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Norm McDonald, etc, ruled the show, to the current pathetic cast and writing situation? Well, for one thing, all of those people are gone (although I’ve never been a Sandler fan - but I guess you are if you listed him twice ;)). I hate Kattan too. I’m just sayin that because I enjoy it. I hate him hate him hate him. 🙂 Nobody stays on the show for very long these days; they spin off their characters into a movie as fast as possible. Then, 10 times out of 10, the movie tanks and some other loser has to be hired. Repeat _ad nauseam_ and you have at least part of the problem. (In my opinion, the fact that just about ALL the sketches are recurring characters has really hurt the show. Predictability - since nearly all recurring characters are one-dimensional - is the enemy of comedy, and this show in particular. Even worse, the characters aren’t funny.) > [@](#): > > I can’t understand it: this is a legendary show with picks of the greatest up and coming comic talent in existance…couldn’t they find anyone better? Have the pickins become that slim? Evidently, they think these people ARE funny. Which is even scarier. I was watching a rerun from this past season with my parents (before anyone asks, there was nothing else on). My mom seemed even more annoyed at the crappiness than me. “We used to _stay home_ on Saturday nights!” she said. Just to watch this show. And now it’s got kind of a black hole of comedy thing going on. It actually made me sad. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/38 "2003-07-31T01:52:01Z")
Tracy Morgan is apparently shopping around a pilot for a sitcom where he is a father, how original. I figured he’d go to movies rather than sitcoms. Somehow I see him having a post-SNL TV career similar to Kevin Nealon, Dana Carvey, Tim Meadows, or Victoria Jackson. Crash and burn. But I’ve always hated him anyway, so I can’t be impartial. How Jim Breuer keeps getting work amazes me. Joe Pesci, Goat Boy, and pot jokes - wow what a depth of material to draw on. Chris Kattan left SNL at the same time as Tracy Morgan, let’s see how his career turns out. He’s already headed for Rob Schneider territory with stuff like _Corky Romano_. But Colin Quinn, who I liked when I first saw him on _Remote Control_ before I found out that what he did there was all he was capable of, has been carried by so many other people for so long just because of the “comic’s comic” thing. Leary and that group must have “riders” in most of their contracts demanding Quinn get work or a development deal. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/39 "2003-07-31T02:47:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by freewill39 \* > \*\*…can anybody explain how we went from an era in which Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Adam Sandler, Jan Hooks, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Norm McDonald, etc, ruled the show, to the current pathetic cast and writing situation? \*\* Even that era was at least one notch below the Golden Era of SNL, during the reign of John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, et. al. I blame the writers rather than the actors, though. I’ve long held a casual theory that the show’s quality fluctuates with the quality and type of drugs the writers and cast are using, but that’s a controversial position and one I haven’t really researched fully. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540/40 "2003-08-02T05:05:04Z")
What can I say? I know better, but I’ve become addicted to watching “Tough Crowd.” Yes, I know Colin Quinn isn’t funny, talented, articulate, and all that. But he seems so likeable. The kind of guy you might want to go have drinks with, or watch the game with. Not that I drink or watch sports, but it might be kind of fun to do so with him. He’s got that sweet puppy dog appeal. Although apparently his show would have no future if not for Kobe’s little shenanigans. God, that guy’s got to be praying that the media gets access to the trial and any documents. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collin-quin-cant-tell-a-monologue-to-save-his-life/190540.md?page=3)