Colin Quinn
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Colin Edward Quinn (born June 6, 1959) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer.
On television, he is best known for his appearance on Saturday Night Live, where he hosted Weekend Update on MTV's 1980s game show Remote Control, where he appeared as the announcer/sidekick, and as host of Comedy Central's late-night panel show Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.
His film work includes Dooey in A Night at the Roxbury, Dickey Bailey in the Grown Ups films, as well as playing Amy Schumer's father in the film Trainwreck.
Jerry Seinfeld and Dave Attell, two comedians, cite him as the quintessential New York comedian. Quinn has also been known for his comedic one-man shows that showcase his unique perspectives on life and rising in New York City.
As of 2019, he has written and appeared in six shows: Irish Wake, My Two Cents, Long Story Short, The New York Times, and Red State Blue State, two of which he worked with Seinfeld as producer.
Long Story Short was broadcast as an HBO special on April 9, 2011, and Unconstitutional and The New York Story were released as Netflix specials.
Early life
Quinn was born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, where he was raised, the son of teachers. He is of Irish descent. Quinn's paternal grandparents came from Belfast around 1920. He attended Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, Long Island, but did not graduate. After many bad experiences with alcohol, including blackouts and arrests, he stopped drinking in the early 1980s.
Personal life
Quinn said he had been practicing Transcendental Meditation for five years when he spoke to Judd Apatow in 2015.
Quinn sustained a heart attack in New York on February 14, 2018. On Twitter several days later, he said he was doing well, but if he died, "you would have a funeral like Al Capone."
Quinn married Late Night with Seth Meyers producer Jen Sochko on June 8, 2019.
Career
In 1984, Quinn began doing stand-up comedy. He first rose to fame in 1987 as the sidekick announcer of MTV's game show Remote Control, which lasted five seasons. In 1989, he hosted Caroline's Comedy Hour, co-produced and appeared in the comedic short/music video "Going Back to Brooklyn" (a parody of LL Cool J's "Going Back to Cali") with Ben Stiller. He wrote for In Living Color and co-wrote and produced the film Celtic Pride, which starred Damon Wayans and Dan Aykroyd.
Quinn appeared on Saturday Night Live (SNL) in 1995 and became a full cast member during the 1997-1998 season. He established himself on the show, with recurring characters and segments such as "Lenny the Lion," "Joe Blow," "Colin Quinn," and "Weekend Update."
After Norm Macdonald was fired, Quinn began hosting "Weekend Update" in January 1998 and anchored the program until his departure from SNL in 2000. He spoke out about a number of highly publicized media circuses, including the Clinton–Lewinsky affair and the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit.
Quinn turned down an offer for the role of Scott Evil in fellow cast member Mike Myers' film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Quinn has credited the role, which was ultimately played by Seth Green, as the only project he regretted turning down.
Quinn hosted the short-lived The Colin Quinn Show on NBC in the spring of 2002 after leaving SNL. In a live-to-tape format, sketch comedy and stand-up were combined. Despite mostly positive critiques from critics, it was eventually cancelled after three episodes.
Quinn's new film, Tough Crowd, starring Colin Quinn, ran on weekdays on Comedy Central from 2002 to 2004. Quinn as the show's host, a panel of four comedians debating current social and political topics of the day. The show lasted for more than 200 episodes.
In the animated film Shorties Watchin' Shorties, his stand-up was also used.
Quinn appeared in a USO tour of American military bases around the world in 2005, doing stand-up to entertain the troops.
He was the "unofficial co-host" on the Nick DiPaolo show on the now defunct 92.3 Free FM in New York City, airing Monday-to-three from noon to three. On WJFK-FM, Quinn and DiPaolo had been originally supposed to host the show together, but the station decided not to air the program together, but the station did not show up the program. Quinn appeared on The Opie & Anthony Show from 1994 to 2015.
In Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2, Quinn played Dickie Bailey, the childhood rival to Lenny Feder (Adam Sandler's role). He appeared on HBO's Girls as Hermie.
Quinn wrote and appeared in the L/Studio web series Cop Show, which premiered in February 2015. Quinn plays himself in a New York City-based crime drama. Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Attell, Chris Rock, Steve Buscemi, Jim Gaffigan, Michael Che, Tom Papa, Jim Norton, Pat Cooper, Irina Shayk, and Amy Schumer appeared on the show's guest stars.
In Amy Schumer's debut film, Trainwreck, Quinn played the father of her character. He had been lauded for his work.
Colin Quinn: An Irish Wake, co-written with Lou DiMaggio, was Quinn's first Broadway appearance in 1998. Quinn's upbringing in the Irish-American community of Brooklyn was reflected in the show; it was held in 1976, with Quinn depicting family members and acquaintances who attended the event.
Quinn appeared in My Two Cents, his second one-man show, which chronicles the American empire's economic decline in 2009.
Colin Quinn's Long Story Short on Broadway, directed by Jerry Seinfeld, premiered in 2010. The exhibition explored world history from ancient times to the present, with satirical accounts of the rise and fall of various world empires. Quinn appeared on HBO on April 9, 2011, a special version of the program. A Brazilian version of the show starring comedian Bruno Motta is titled 1 Milhao de Anos em 1 Hora ("1 Million Years in a Hour").
Quinn unconstitutional, which covers the United States Constitution's founding and its effect on the American psyche, was the subject of another one-man exhibition in 2013.
In July and August 2015 at the Cherry Lane Theatre, Quinn appeared in his fifth one-man show, The New York Story. The exhibition was based on his experiences chronicled in his book, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America. It delves into his growing up in Brooklyn's ethnically diverse Park Slope neighborhood and how it has changed over the years into its new state. Seinfeld, the producer of Long Story Short, has returned as director.
Quinn opened Red State Blue State, Quinn's sixth one-man performance at the Minetta Lane Theatre in early 2019. On both directions of the primary political spectrum, the show explored contemporary politics in the United States.
Quinn wrote Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States in 2020, and he produced the HBO Max comedy special Colin Quinn & Friends: A Parking Lot Comedian.
Quinn's account on Twitter has gained attention because he often posts vacuous claims, often in the form of inspirational statements or boasts of his celebrity, which are designed to compel his readers.