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Colin Quinn

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Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.


— Colin Quinn


#career #i #interesting #live #most

That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky.


— Colin Quinn


#beauty #being #comedian #job #lucky

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.


— Colin Quinn


#make #many #mistake #more #people

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.


— Colin Quinn


#comics #like #live #more #only

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.


— Colin Quinn


#comedy #days #early #get #those

Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.


— Colin Quinn


#dangerous #gets #hands #masquerading #mind

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.


— Colin Quinn


#get #laughs #trying #understanding #you

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.


— Colin Quinn


#funny #gotta #just #just be #laugh

You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.


— Colin Quinn


#broadway #like #make #maybe #money






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Early years
Quinn was born in Brooklyn the son of teachers and was raised in the Park Slope section of the borough. At the end of each Weekend Update segment he would use the catchphrase "That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Saturday Night Live
In 1995 Quinn was hired by Saturday Night Live as a writer and featured player until 1997–1998 season when he became a full cast member.

Colin Edward Quinn (born June 6 1959) is an American stand-up comedian and writer best known for his five years in the cast of Saturday Night Live as the sidekick/announcer of MTV's late 1980s gameshow Remote Control and as host of Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn on Comedy Central from 2002–2004.

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