No disrespect to the guy-he’s trying and makes a hell
of a lot more $ than me. But I dont think he’s funny.
NO ONE I know thinks he’s funny. I was just on an SNL website where everyone was complaining about him. EVERYONE.
Any fans out there? I’m curious. Speak up!
I remember seeing him do the MC honors on an MTV game show called “Remote Control” back around 1987. Wasn’t funny then, either. At least his career lasted longer than the host’s, whoever that was.
Colin Quinn is the least funny man to have ever lived. His sense of timing is so horrible, he’s almost painful to watch. He’s done one humorous thing in his life, and it was that “Going Back to Brooklyn” song.
I would rather have burning ice picks shoved into my eyes ripping my eyeballs out shish kebab style which are then served to me as an appetizer while hot acid is poured in to my ears than suffer through the rat droppings Colin Quinn calls comedy.
I believe he must have had pictures of Lorne Greene felching a goat in order to get that gig on SNL.
Um…Lorne Michaels. Lorne Greene was that old dog-food commercial guy.
I suspect you mean Lorne Michaels, unless Colin Quinn was angling for a part on Battlestar Gallactica.
I know, it’s hard to tell us Canadians apart, especially when we pick the same first name… 
What, and Lorne Michaels liked them so much he gave Colin a job?
I don’t think he’s funny.
But then, I have no idea who you are talking about.
I have to agree with Olentzero…I didn’t think he was funny even way back when he was on Remote Control.
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I’ve seen him do some stand up that was pretty funny on Comedy Central. Can’t say I’m that impressed with what he’s been doing lately.
I think you’re missing the bigger picture though. To complain that he isn’t funny on SNL is like nitpicking a poor line of dialogue from Battlefield Earth. He’s a small part of a much larger problem.
SNL’s not funny. In fact, it’s less than not funny. It’s downright painful.
I think Lorne Michaels must have quite the blackmail photo collection himself to keep that show on the air.
Nope. Not at all. I liked Norm McDonald. Everytime he did that Frank Stallone thing I cracked up. He was also much better and recovering from an ineffective joke.
Dang inability to use the English language… :mad:
“better at” not “better and”
I really wish they would enable editing of posts on this forum.
I’m seen him be funny but not on SNL.
Then again, there was that one time he was doing Robert De Niro to Jim Breuer’s Joe Pesci and the real Pesci and De Niro came on stage.
De Niro turns to Colin and says “Who are you supposed to be”?
Colin says “Colin Quinn. Remote Control?”
That was the only time he made me laugh on SNL.
Now, now…you have to admit that the new Weekend Update with Tina Fey (yowza!) and Jimmy Fallon (one of the most talented SNLers in recent memory) is pretty funny.
Yeah, SNL is better now than it has been in a long time.
Colin Quinn’s unfunniness is rivalled ONLY by Mr Kevin Nealon.
Gotta admit, I haven’t really sat down to watch SNL from begining to finish in a long time. I can usually get a sketch or two in before I start just getting annoyed. It’s right about when the gag reflex kicks in that I turn off the TV.
I think I pretty much stopped watch right around the advent of the Cheerleader bits and the whole Molly Shannon - Superstar thing.
But in referal to the OP, I have no real strong opinion on Mr Quinn. I don’t give his performances much thought. Not especially funny, not especially grating. Just kinda there.
The little, hyper, cheerleader woman, however, makes me want to kick out the TV tube.:mad:
Colin is obviously Lorne’s revenge on Norm Macdonald. Norm claimed that Lorne fired him and said he just wasn’t funny. So they replaced him with the least humorous person on earth. Watching Colin Quinn is like reading Nancy comics in the newspaper, you know the guy who wrote it thinks it’s funny but nobody else does, and nobody can figure out why it’s still in circulation.
But Norm got his revenge. Didn’t you see his monologue when he guest starred? He explained how he got fired because he wasn’t funny, and now they want him back as a guest star, and he isn’t any funnier now than he was then, so it must be that he’s only funny in comparison to the show, which really sucks. True words were never spoken.
Nope, there just isn’t any reason to watch SNL any more. The running characters are all insanely stupid, and the writers always blow their main premise in the first few seconds of the sketch, whereupon the humor dwindles away until the sketch dies a pointless death. At least the original SNL crew knew to deliver the punchline at the END of the sketch.