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Colin Quinn [1959-0] American

Rank: 101
Comedian, Stand-up comedian

Colin Edward Quinn is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. On television, he is best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, where he anchored Weekend Update, on MTV's 1980s game show Remote Control, where he served as the announcer/sidekick, and as host of Comedy Central's late-night panel show Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.

Funny, Humor, Business

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You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.	Business, Funny	101
Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.		102
Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.	Funny	103
I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.		104
You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.		105
Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves.		106
The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.		107
Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.	Humor	108
I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.		109
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.		110
I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.		111
I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.		112
I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.		113
My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.		114
He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.		115
It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything.		116
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.		117
Everybody's funny in different ways.		118
I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.		119
My name has zero value.		120
When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.		121
The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.		122
People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.		123
I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.		124
I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.		125
You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.		126
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.		201
If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.		202
I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.		203
I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.		204
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.		205
So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.		206
I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.		207
I was a class clown.		208
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.		209
I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.		210
I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America.		211
Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.		212
I always wanted to write as much as perform.		213
I like guy stuff.		214
Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.		215
With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.		216
For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.	Humor	217
A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My standup isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen.		218
I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.		219
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.		220
I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.		221

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