Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn

up Insomniac was that that late night it was a show at Comedy Central but it was clips of him and other comedians right no that

was that was that was Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn yeah it was just a travel program where you could go to different cities and get drunk he was like Anthony Bourdain but like a comic just walking around making fun of people instead

So you'd seen him before.

Yeah,

... be, like, not what they thought a West Coast comic was gonna be like, 'cause I wrote jokes.

You mean on Tough Crowd?

Well, yeah, on Tough Crowd.

Yeah.

And play- doing that kinda thing really helped me with those guys-

But that same break would brand him in a way that doesn't play well in Hollywood.

Nick was given a regular gig on the new show Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.

The Comedy Central show was a roundtable format, discussing the day's news with a comedic perspective.

Welcome to Tough Crowd, and I use the term crowd loosely.

You were not elected.

During Stewart's early years, Comedy Central still broadcasted programs with right-leaning comics, including Colin Quinn's Tough Crowd.

The goal of this show is to get people to talk on TV the way they talk in the privacy of their own homes, without regard to their physical safety, their careers, or their call windshields.

Major comedians made guest appearances on the show, from Sarah Silverman, Dennis Leary, Kevin Hart, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Louis C.K., Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan.

You name the comic, and he or she likely made an appearance on Tough Crowd.

The Comedy Central show was a roundtable format discussing the day's news from a comedic perspective.

It aired weekdays right after The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and tackled race, politics, and any number of hot-button issues that landed on the front page of the newspapers.

Ted Kennedy spoke.

I don't think they were ever...

You know, the first episodes of the Colin Quinn show, which became Tough Crowd, we taped on the SNL stage.

And Lorne Michaels, we had to go through like that.

Did he

of its time.

Yeah.

Don't you think? Tough crowd

was.

Open it, you dumb cunts!

It'll be like Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn,

you know? Or like the old-time Bill Maher.

Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen.

Yeah.

We met very briefly there, and then we met again when I worked on a show called Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn on Comedy Central.

Before that, I had worked on the first season of Chappelle's Show.

So I was working in, like I said, the, the casting talent space, and after that, I worked at MTV.

When I worked on, [laughs] sh- um, when I worked on, uh, Tough Crowd.

Uh-huh.

Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn.

So I don't know if you know who Colin Quinn is.