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Colin Quinn | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

October 07, 2022 / 59:38

This episode features comedian Colin Quinn discussing his experiences in comedy, SNL, and his friendship with Dana Carvey. Key topics include their time at SNL, the challenges of writing sketches, and their thoughts on various comedians.

Colin Quinn shares anecdotes about his early career, including his time on SNL and the pressures of being a writer. He recalls his first sketch with Chevy Chase and the challenges he faced during auditions.

David Spade and Dana Carvey reflect on their experiences in comedy, discussing their admiration for Colin's work and the dynamics of being a comedian. They touch on the importance of authenticity in comedy and the evolution of their careers.

The conversation also covers the impact of audience reactions on sketches and the challenges of getting material on air. Colin emphasizes the need for comedians to adapt and find their unique voice.

Throughout the episode, the trio shares laughs and insights about their journeys in comedy, highlighting the camaraderie and respect they have for one another.

TLDR

Colin Quinn discusses his comedy career and experiences at SNL with Dana Carvey and David Spade.

Episode

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I'm here to talk about Colin Quinn one of my old good buddies Dana Carvey you might not know him he's always in
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the shot with me he's on the show with me but um he's not feeling well today and I said
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you know what just lay low it's not his heart because he did have hard things
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he's not feeling great I said you know what just I'll just handle this because
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I'm such a stage hog it's embarrassing it's just so honestly just stay home
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but Colin who I saw at The Brooklyn Diner last time I was in New York you know that's the famous book of that he
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goes with precious Seinfeld but then I got to go with him and he said it was underwhelming whatever that means uh
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by the way I was watching the VMAs last weekend the VMAs are on the MTV it's a lot of
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code Video Music Awards MTV stands for used to be Music Television you can use it
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um no but there the funny thing was aside from me not knowing literally one person I don't know was JLo not there
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why was she not at something we have a JLo not sighting what a [ __ ] burnt no I like JLo
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um but the funny thing was on the carpet Addison Ray's mom Addison Ray who I did
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when I hosted Jimmy Kimmel she was on with me and Adam Ray's mom is this really pretty nice woman we sat next to
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it the fights anyway she's there with young gravy who again I don't know
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that's my fault because I have [ __ ] to do um but he's a singer rap or whatever but
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he's a big good looking guy but then we realized they called each other to go on
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a date because he likes cougars and then I thought this reminds me of you know machine gun scarecrow Machine Gun Kelly
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and Megan Fox good looking mouth wrapper with blonde hair likes to do press they're doing press
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anyway just a thought sorry Colin um but that and uh but back to Colin great friend of mine legit
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always see him when I'm in New York and uh you'll hear from one little piece of
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tidbit trivia came up with the title grown-ups wow boom take that Meghan Markle and your
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dumb podcast oh there I said it fighting words Online Fight jack up ratings okay uh that's it
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Dana's not here he would say the same thing we both love Colin he was there when I was there he did update for a
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while I think right after Norm uh he'll tell you about that and then listen to
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mostly what I say when I try to talk over here he is Colin Quinn [Music] you will punch Colin I like more of your
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tweets it's so embarrassing compliment hits wall disintegrates yes Colin I would like to goof around all
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day but let's we have to get down to business we have a specific orders uh yeah no I just want to stop by saying
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even though we're not on camera do you think David was bothering Heather going
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should I wear a collared shirt with a sweater she goes no not with that being a kid's World okay she said everything
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works on you I go good she's reading a cue card I gave her if you took a bat to
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David's hair it would be solid no it's it's wispy it's still from the uh well I
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won't say when this aired but I was in I was in a certain worldwide Award Show
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recently oh really so you were looking for trouble Colin one last question [Laughter]
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I'll start it I'll start it off since you guys so the first time I uh went to
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SNL I wrote these sketches and I brought them in Sandler got me in to meet with Jim Downey
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and he showed me the sketch I wrote these sketches and one of them was a sketch what it was basically I'm still
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very proud of it even though it got rejected by every host and I was one of those catches I kept showing up with you
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know people were like stop it was this it was basically Roman Emperor so it was like uh uh sanctimonious it was like
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well I don't know and then uh obsequious yo you're right every time my Lord and
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then Tim Meadows played thesaurus who goes that means this so anyway I I brought that in and down he goes yeah
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this you know the people are gonna this is too you know and just handed it back to me
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here's the thing about Downey is as intelligent as as brilliant as he was if
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you showed up with something that he thought was smart and precious of a word yeah yeah precious was the worst thing
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you'd be called you just throw it back at you and by the way I also gave it to Chris
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Walken who snapped at me Chris Morgan said he goes I go hey that sketch he goes I saw it and I was like wow oh boy
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what accent is sorry what is that New York what what that's Chris walk and he's from Queens Queen he always said I
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know that okay the first time I met Chris walking was at some hotel and I go hey my family used to go to walk-ins
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Bakery which was his family bakery legendary Bakery and queens my family traveled only from Brooklyn that's how
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good the bakery was German because German German bakery and he goes yeah that was a long time ago and just turns
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his head away from me God damn I've had it with him meanwhile when I'm with him I can't shut
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him up David this was great that was great everything you do is great I'm like oh
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come on Chris John Lovitz is uh the the truth Terror Show Business he went up to
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him and goes Chris come on be honest are you kind of making up your accent are you
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[Music] he just starts laughing very good job I told you Colin he asked me once he goes
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you have a work with an actor uh dog and I go yeah um and he goes you have a worker then act a cat
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they tell you the story and I've told it before and I go an actor cat he goes
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they don't do anything they just they're like a regular cat they you they don't
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move and then if you like push them they jump but any cat will do that and I go yeah
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I guess and then he waits then he goes you have a work with an active Mouse and uh I go no and he goes I he did on
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mousetrap this movie so it checks out and he goes dead good you tell him to go up and and take a beat and go to the
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left and they do this mat see that's when you really do agree with John Lovitz like he must be acting a
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little bit were you there were you there why would you say that I know why would
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you tell me that story and it's not just my bitterness about about the bakery
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it's a little bit it seems like actors are pretty subtle in the 70s and then
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later on they sort of get bored and then they just extenuate their self like Pacino yeah no they're screaming and
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just you know I only do Val Duval managed to keep it oh keep it under keep it real you know I have to give Colin a
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compliment he's uh always highly respected this is for the people that are listening highly respected popular
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one of the smartest uh also writes these one-hour shows that I wouldn't even
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understand just watching them and then he also does all the research makes jokes out of anything I can't if you
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gave me a subject my ACT is about like a thousand different things but if you had
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said oh right an hour about one thing I'd be like give me 500 years and he does it and he does it again and he
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takes something that probably doesn't sound funny on the surface like the Constitution or something and he goes I
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think there's an hour there and it makes it really good well that's so Google does half of it
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but thank you you're you've done seven stage shows but we're gonna get to the
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part we'll get to that now but I like tough crowd that was uh wind was tough
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crowd before after it was it was before it was in the early 80s because a lot of
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shows get compared to tough times no I'm lying it was in the 2000s I thought you
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were 90s I thought it was interesting if this is true Colin you start stand up they said in 84 you're on remote control
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three years later nobody gets a TV show in three years how great did your stand-up get to get that I mean in three
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years well it's funny you say that because my stand-up Was Not only was it behind but it was always like a
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comedians comedian even in New York so I would do these gigs it was really the one time I had like that heat where you
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look like I'd go to a college in the Midwest and it'd be 2 000 people and the
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first time I did I go who are they here for is there a show here they owe you and I go oh no oh wow and like half my
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Act was half my Act was about like specific streets in Brooklyn and you know it was kind of a rough go but but
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they didn't care as long as I stayed and signed autographs and did pictures afterwards nobody cared yeah so I'd hang
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out like two hours after I do like 45 minutes to my laughter yeah he does after halfway through his act I
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saw him in these uh 17 year old kids are cheering and then he goes and now I'm
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going to read from my Roman Empire sketch yeah so now I'd like to read The Works of James Joyce please listen but
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they were just excited so you're saying they see you on that show everyone's
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freaking out I'm in Arizona watching it going this guy's super cool he's funny
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to get a show that's cool like that on MTV they weren't always hits or it would
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always work and it's a music show I mean it's a music station but you've got Kara
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Kari the beautiful guy gorgeous Kenny and by the way before I did any of that my biggest celebrity gig and I was paid
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very well and was treated very nicely was opening for Dana in Wilmington Delaware well yeah yes
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he was totally nice paid better than anybody that ever paid and was just a cool guy nice guy before and after jeez
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that's nice David was one of my Dandy openers he was yeah oh yeah Arizona uh no uh New England New England tour
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the summer sheds where it was like 100 degrees and humidity it was it was those are tough you ever play those outdoor
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sheds in August Dana did we share a car I think I drove us around I think you had a rental car yeah yeah
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and that was fun that was fun for me because Colin it makes fun of me but it was true he goes dude 20 minutes I'd
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walk up there with shorts and flip-flops and drink a Heineken and go what else is
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going on over the stool and he's kind of whispering what's up I'm dancing hey in
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that special gotta do it got a few David Goes this is going worse than the Challenger hell yeah I go Dana
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um my closer is about the Challenger exploding last week so just you're gonna
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go up right after that and he's like oh I don't know maybe and I go NASA need
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another Seven astronauts and he goes you know what I wouldn't even put that in
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there I would probably some girl screams David Goes who's that baby Jessica I remember Willington though with you
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because you were a great comic I remember about it 15 minutes and I just said to the sound guys there any way we
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can kind of uh can you have you given him the light that was my first move hasn't gone on yet could we get him all
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I mean I just like because the waves of laughter were vibrating and I was like can we just is there any way we can get
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him off politely oh how long did you I really love that yeah like 20 20. [ __ ] it's fun I love it when they honest so
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after remote control is it three years between that and SNL and what do you do during those three years it's well it
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was fun it was more like five years and I'm just doing stand up and really I
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mean it was going pretty badly you know there's something about being back in
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coach after you in first class maybe it's very humbling and very good it's
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very good for you but um but then what happened was I was I wasn't I was drifting around doing stand up and I had
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a couple of uh things going on but nothing really and then Fred Wolfe yeah hey no one's coming out to see people I
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wanted to see you I really think you should be on the show it's ridiculous and you know Fred when Fred says puts
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his mind to something it's happening yeah and so we had this big audition in
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LA and I'll never forget it was during the South the the the long desert nice
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when stand up was finished so they had to bring in audiences for free so this is a improv they'd bring in all these
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kids from like from a summer camp 15 year old kids 200 kids from a summer camp in the
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middle of their Camp so it's like a summit I think I remember these crowds yeah wow and I bombed so badly
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so badly and I was so fat that uh Aaron Aaron told me afterwards she goes I told
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Lauren he goes I thought this guy was did look like this she was I think his face is in there somewhere
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I don't remember being that that's so funny [Music] he's in this song that's such a great
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thing to say David Lauren really likes you she used to go David Lauren really likes you I'm like why am I not in the
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show I don't know I think he really likes you Aaron was very like a positive fun Force
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running around that place and then she was great and then and then uh Lord hired me as a writer because Fritz goes
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no you hear the writing do you hear the jokes a little one and then when I got there long ago yes you kept a couple of
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people's careers alive for a few more weeks with that performance basically saying how badly I bombed and um and
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then hired me as a writer and the only one I knew that really was David and Norm you know did you uh was Marcy there
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or Shoemaker or any writers there Marcy and Shoemaker were all that but I didn't
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know that yeah yeah so you come on as a writer and I was probably it was at 95 maybe yeah 95 was you and huge Fink it
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was your last year all right my last year I think yeah and that's when you started Hollywood minute yeah I think
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I'd done Hollywood man a few times and then I was I had my own five minutes right that's what I mean Lauren said if
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you stay a year I think Farley and Santa left there was too much of a shake-up to
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have everybody go at once yeah so you and Norm stayed yeah huh wanted to do is play football in the
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Halls oh yeah we also had that Magic Johnson basketball hoop we had fake Sports in the hall that was the only
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thing we did all day and Norm would storm down the hall and those you've dressed like crisscross
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like this young rapper they're like these giant he was dressing and called can I jeans I'd just be like like
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storming down the hall just starting trouble I know where he wasn't going the
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bathroom because he had that in their office [Music] we found so many ways to not write Colin
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because we would shoot hoops in that little tiny uh Nerf hoop and then we'd throw the football and it was anything
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to go we got to start writing and I would always want to write while I was fresh in the middle of the day but it
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was so frowned upon I was the same way I would write on Sunday and Monday it was I always
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thought that was so fake that everybody's like we have to stay up all night Tuesday it's like no we don't you
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could ride on Monday and Sunday and you could come in at 12 in the afternoon on Tuesday I know you really look down like
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a nerd if you were writing like what are you doing Spade I go what was this thing
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from the old days when people did Coke which I understand that was organic but by the time we were there it's like why
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why are we staying up all night yeah it's fake the the all-nighters with no Coke was just a bad idea because I I get
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why they used to do it but now I'm like we don't have Coke and we do have the
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day off so let's we could fix this I feel like you just reiterated what I said yeah literally exactly right and
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you know while I was waiting for Dana um I just was trying to by the way Colin has another real big credit Wi-Fi issue
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Colin you know what his big credit is what movie did Colin think of the name of do you know this answer Colin
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I know it of course I don't know it I'll give you a hint it was called it was
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called lake house for a long time oh I would be uh black sheep or Tommy Boy no no okay it was Corona
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Godfather you thought it was grown-ups we couldn't think of anything why would
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you change the subject in the middle of SNL I know we're going back to it I just
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had to make sure I said that because you told me that I have to say that at some
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point okay so um you're on SNL and you're a writer and uh you're a really
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good writer so it's different um being uh I think you were very comfortable in that position right oh I
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was too comfortable yeah I was uh I remember the first time my first sketch was a Chevy Chase was the first host and
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my first sketch was first and it was called the blame game and it was a racial game show with a white guy
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and a black guy Tim and Chevy and it was called the blame game where everybody just blames each other for what's going
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on right you know and then we get to our we get to rehearsal and one goes where's the buzzing sounds for
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the because there's no buzzing sounds for the buzzers buzzers so I go I didn't
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think like that was the important part of the sketch he looked at me oh boy oh this guy's an idiot so they got buzzers
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but then the buzzer during the game Chevy just starts pressing the buzzer how to [ __ ] it up well I don't know if
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he meant it it's hard to tell it's almost like a kid with a butt yeah oh and it kept screwing up and it turned
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into that yeah yeah I don't think he was trying to stop sure you turned into the buzzer sketch and it
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lost all the smartness yeah that's awesome uh who knows I know God who knows but but it was good to get it
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you know like early on I didn't realize how important it is to get sketches on
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you know what I mean I was so cocky like when my sketches wouldn't get on I was
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like what's that problem you know like everybody at SNL you go in there everybody's like my stuff should be you
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know I always got a little bit of an attitude I feel I feel that everybody who makes it out of their life has a
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little bit of an answer I'm so damaged uh it's a combo of things I I blame I
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blame my dad leaving me second and then I put yes or no so but I did get a lot of fun off it I'm
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not saying negative but uh I I actually wasn't prepared to write like you had to
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write there I was a rookie and it takes so long you were ahead of me in that department but it was fun you were you
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were always pretty cool to me about sketches yeah I don't know if you remember this you would after read
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through come up and give me a compliment if you liked it and those are not always
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easy to come by in a in a semi-competitive situation and so I always appreciate it because you're such
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a smart writer and then I thought maybe you were just doing that to do it to make me feel better you know to make me
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feel like it was good you're just saying it and then one time you came up to me
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after read through and you go hey that thing and I'm ready for my compliment
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and you go yeah you can't do that and I go oh I think he said we're gonna do it
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and you go yeah but you can't you can't why it was hacky yeah it was hacky you go it's it comedically you
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just can't you can't do it and I go oh and then I was like oh you are thinking
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it through every week and you are giving me actual compliments and now is a time
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where your honesty is uh appreciated unwanted yeah unwanted appreciated and but I I got scared because I go oh no by
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the way disappointing you is horrible you were just telling me Oh yeah because all of us kind of look up to Colin and
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go oh I hope Colin thinks it's funny and then when you didn't you weren't mean
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about it you were just like basically save yourself and save your reputation and you don't need this and I'm like uh
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I didn't understand I go but it'll get on you're like I'm not kidding to you
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yeah I mean that's the whole thing about my my arrogance when people ignore my
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advice I go what like right like I never think to myself like hey you know what they have to do what they have to do I'm
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always like I just told you what to do all right it's awesome it's a kind of delusional
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grandiosity that I'm capable of where do you you where do you fall in like because I'd heard this from other people
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about you being especially generous in a sincere way if someone's but you know
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Smiggle told me about his cartoon and you you would come up to him and really tell critique it and tell him how
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much you loved it and if you know so what where do you put yourself on the competitive spectrum of comedians like
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sharp elbows and that kind of thing or do you feel like you have a different Irish attitude or something because you
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seem so centered in a way to me yes as a person well I mean I want to do well I mean I want to be successful but I mean
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but uh yeah I don't feel I never felt I feel like comedians are really the only
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ones that really understand each other so it's like I always love comedians because I feel like somehow there's
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something in the comedian's frequency that we like even when they're not even
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if you take the hackiest comedian in the world if you're sitting somewhere with
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them it's like a different conversation than with anybody else not not that we're better or worse it's just they're
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on my wavelengths and I just yeah you're right they're all we have you know I
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couldn't agree more if you're in New York at a party or something and there's
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no comedian there and you're talking to businessmen and CEOs and then a comedian
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comes in instantly both kind of even actors or right anybody there's something in them that's different than
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comedians comedians have this this like uh Dead part of us that is really funny and makes us who we are where we're just
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like oh like you don't you don't have to have that enthusiastic or you know that
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Earnest thing that a lot of people even actors have where they're like it's just
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another layer we like oh God that's brutal but it's like how we feel I I
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can't even articulate it but it's like ever you know it when you see it you
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know it's the elephant in the room they usually identify it and then you have a
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co-conspirator whether it's about someone's dress or the guy is soiled as
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tuxedo whatever it is and they just go right at it yeah I went to a uh when you go to any party in Los Angeles where
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there's celebrity types you you always sort of find a comedian and then another
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one finds you and then you're on a corner and then sometimes other people like to come over thinking that'll be
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the fun group yeah and then they also like what do you guys think about blank you know
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what's going on right now and then you get to you get to blab around but yeah
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it is always fun because you feel some sort of comfort or yeah the classic yeah somebody who comes up and goes I don't
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know if you know a civilian quote unquote I don't know if you could use this but I always thought this was funny
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you know one of those guys and you're like oh no oh no yeah I don't know if you could use
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this it's like I know we can't we know um we'll tell you right now they should show about my job you should
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hear about my job because there might be something there yeah so what okay so you did Joe Blow
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remember Joe Blow on updates yeah so you're a construction worker of the name
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that was my happiest things was that Joe Blow and then uh and the lion those are
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my favorites yeah I saw that yeah when I did those two things those and I I at that moment I think it was the first
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Millennial Diablo where I was like I just lived my dream now I can die because being on SNL live so it's NE it
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could never be taken at that time especially Yes To This Day live that still means so much and then to do those
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things that I really important to me I was like that was it I could have died right then and you got to write it and
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you and that there's something about writing it and you go you do a TV show you do a movie and a year later it comes
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out and you go oh they cut out that part yeah oh it didn't get picked up it never
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got aired well the news change yeah yeah it's right there it's how you wrote it
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it how you want it out there you actually present it and then you walk off and your phone can ring and go I
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just saw it and I'm in Milwaukee and you go oh it's out okay so what I thought of
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is out and stupid Norm right before I go on here yeah to the court I'm in a lion costume the
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first time ever and I'm nervous because it's an allen just you know I wrote this
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thing totally getting it on you look down you know nobody really women you know some people maybe remember me from MTV
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but it's been a few years you know and then I'm sitting there in a flying
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costume and then no one goes to the crowd is that Colin Quinn he's dressed in a lion suit yeah
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but he's you know he's not a lion right he's not a lion he just sort of in an
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alliance sure you know what I mean uh don't be frightened he's not actually a
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lion knowing like no one like Norm no I mean how do you I I you followed Norm and
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Norm was one of your favorite comedians and yeah how is that was that for you it
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was very ugly and when I look back now I feel like I sabotaged what I was doing too because I
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was so afraid of being like you know hey like no I'm screwed up I'm gonna be the
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good guy and so I kind of went out of my way to be villainous I feel like it just
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sabotaged my time at that spot because SNL for me is such a demarcation between the great times I had there which was
00:26:45
before that and then the dream gig was just to be an update why I was miserable lawn was miserable it was just not it
00:26:55
was a it was a bad thing it was a bad time what to speak to that was it because the hangover of Norm being fired
00:27:03
is that what came it's because you know I'm getting fired and then suddenly I
00:27:06
found myself a position where oh so I'm gonna be like the goody two shoes I had
00:27:11
never done that in my life I felt like I went out of my way to sabotage every episode that I could
00:27:18
until I formed until that became my thing on and it was not a good thing but it was it was how it went so I kind of I
00:27:26
feel like I destructed starting I'd get off on that foot you know with the norm thing and then I just
00:27:33
I just could I would never I would never try to be like uh engaging I would barely smile and I mean I was kind of
00:27:40
like that in stand-up to begin with I guess but I took it to another level and I really feel like that's what I did but
00:27:46
I didn't realize that till like seven years ago you know and how have you grown into your face by then yes I
00:27:53
sometimes I add sometimes I hadn't my weight's been up and down a lot your
00:27:56
face during that update time Aaron was always over in 8h right near you just where their arms crossed kind of staring
00:28:03
and pointing to your face but I heard that was a rumor sorry if you think the podcast that made sense but it has to be
00:28:11
a bit of an uphill battle no matter who you're following you know it was like
00:28:14
Dennis there's Neil and there's you uh so you gotta go okay I'm the new guy
00:28:19
there might be mad because Norm gets a little more legendary status because he got fired or whatever so like he's like
00:28:25
right and then it's like oh what do you got and you weren't like super sketch
00:28:30
guy at that point so it wasn't like bringing Fallon up or something no but it was it was more than like I said it
00:28:36
was also me just saw like sabotaging it because I was like I'll show you on that
00:28:41
you know what I mean I was not it was just a it was a weird vibe it just it was a weird fit and when I look back I
00:28:48
know why now but at the time I didn't I was just like I don't know what's going
00:28:51
on on what specifically would you say to your younger self then about that moment
00:28:56
you know I would say if you're going to do it yeah try to charm Channel but don't just be
00:29:04
like going on like yeah you know what I mean yeah but I mean I would say that to
00:29:09
myself in comedy in general I feel like you know I always had this weird thing about comedy was like you shouldn't be
00:29:16
trying to cheat and you know smile and win them over and you know what I mean like do you your material so I always
00:29:22
had like a uh an attitude that didn't incorporate that which was then I wasn't even enjoying it
00:29:29
so it's like what are you doing if you're not gonna bring your personality
00:29:34
too you might as well just hand out books here are my jokes everybody read them and I'll sit on stage and after an
00:29:39
hour time is up and we'll just leave but it's true it's like it is show business
00:29:43
and you have it they go like Sandler can't he knew what he's doing right away
00:29:48
yes well no not right away I knew about the first time he started yeah it took him about a year and a half and the
00:29:55
first year and a half he was up there like a young boy you know and then he came back he went on the road for a year
00:30:00
and a half and he came back and you're like oh he was he had all his Charisma
00:30:04
was there suddenly but yeah confident I mean Charisma yeah same thing but also because I mean you don't want to overdo
00:30:11
it because how many people do you know that were just I worked with a lot of 80s really hacky people that were just
00:30:19
all fake and it is we always enter this when they go up there and they'd start
00:30:25
laughing and the crowd would start laughing and they'd be just it was all this Sound and Fury signifying nothing
00:30:30
so I was like you're like wait a minute that's not stand up this is and so then
00:30:35
you over correct the other way and just go I'm not gonna move I'm not gonna I'll
00:30:41
just and so there's you know what I mean [Music] can I just interject for a second that I
00:30:50
think you found the title of maybe your next book what sounded weird signifying nothing
00:30:55
that is an incredible phrase if you just just think of that well it shakes me it
00:30:59
shakes me oh it's Shakespeare oh oh Bill Shakespeare okay I love it oh I'm not
00:31:05
literally red so what was what was funnier than Phil Hartman going uh then oh no then Chris Farley going looks like
00:31:13
we got ourselves a bill Shakespeare when Dave David goes I really was thinking to become a writer hey look at
00:31:22
this guy and he goes well actually we try to encourage his writing yeah Chris Wally's face his Folly's face was
00:31:34
so depressed with that and then he Flex his glasses up and down hey I can't see
00:31:41
too good yeah he was always a little Shakespeare I don't know how to write totally denies him he goes actually we
00:31:52
try to encourage him and his face was so depressed and mad I like when he turns on he goes you know
00:32:00
Dad I wish you'd shut your big yeah I like at the beginning of that sketch they'd think of different reasons to
00:32:08
make him gacked out so they go we hired a motivational speaker he's been down in
00:32:13
the basement eating coffee beans for three hours like why just to explain why he's gonna bust out
00:32:20
of the door I know but that was the problem speaking of the show here's what
00:32:25
the problem in my opinion there's two big problems with SNL one is structural
00:32:30
things which obviously it's the most genius structure of all time right it's
00:32:35
still the most genius structure a live show where every Sarah Silverman once described that go what do you think of
00:32:40
the show last night she goes it's like it always is it's a casino even if the
00:32:45
first that sketch you watched didn't work you're like you know what the next
00:32:48
one's coming up and I was like yeah and but the two things that I thought were
00:32:53
big mistakes was one when they would they would have the the right rewrite session where suddenly everyone's
00:33:02
throwing in these funny lines that ruin the like the whatever the magic that sketch had that that writer wrote so
00:33:11
you'd have all these lines and then it just killed the sketch those jokes are better than what was
00:33:22
originally in the sketch but they ruined the Alchemy or whatever oh yeah and then
00:33:27
the other thing was which I'm sure you guys much more than me must have dealt with the frustration
00:33:32
especially Dana which is dress rehearsal some of the best things who care the dress crowd's not laughing
00:33:41
that doesn't mean it's not the greatest sketch and it's a different animal
00:33:46
so cutting things based on an audience response between dress and air I felt like that was crazy because how many
00:33:53
great sketches you see I know you can't cut that it's gonna work but just
00:33:57
because that dress audience didn't work that Dana you must have like five characters that you had that you were
00:34:05
like no no no just let it go to air you know uh yeah and then eventually you know I I had so much status there and
00:34:12
had a lot of great collaborators that I would try to not peek at dress I wanted the air show my brain and we all had
00:34:19
that in it update too beat the system you want your live show to be the the voice in your head going this is the
00:34:26
best I've done it this week and that took me a while to learn I you know I peaked at read through a few times just
00:34:32
trying to get it on the show that's crazy and never got back there um but yeah I get that yeah I can see
00:34:39
that you know when De Niro one of the big things was on was Joe Pesci was on with the Brewers She's So yeah so they
00:34:47
asked me to fill in what I was going to do yeah as De Niro said De Niro shows up
00:34:52
and a dress rehearsal it was the most magic thing because we didn't really I hadn't seen them yet we
00:34:59
heard they were coming and it was this and that air was good but dress rehearsal was just terrible thing you're
00:35:06
always even De Niro had a different energy to him you know well then you're discovering it still a little bit
00:35:10
because you're so beaten down after the read through with Thursday Friday and
00:35:14
then Saturday walkthroughs by the time you get to an audience you really think the thing sucks so that's the first time
00:35:21
you're getting laughs since read through since Wednesday and so it's hard to get
00:35:25
back to that on the air show that discovery of like well I'm killing this is great you know well Shoemake used to
00:35:31
always talk about you and he said Dana even if he didn't have the guy's voice
00:35:36
down completely he always had something about him that he discovered that was so
00:35:43
funny that made it that took it to another level you know what I mean he said you will always do that now did you
00:35:49
do that like I don't know how impression is really did you do that consciously or
00:35:55
did you just did you watch tapes or did you or yeah like how many times how long
00:36:00
do you have to watch somebody how many times do you have to watch Ross Perot before you go ah that
00:36:06
um he was pretty immediate but if if you if anyone cared to look at the first one
00:36:11
I wasn't as committed I wasn't extending the rhythms and then as you watch
00:36:15
someone these sub rhythms keep coming out you know can it finish one time can I finish one time I don't know if that
00:36:21
was in the first one like a press conference right you're not listening that frustrated kind of thing I just
00:36:27
yesterday and I'm not really I'm not like James Austin Johnson but I I thought I heard a new Trump Rhythm that
00:36:34
I that I hadn't heard before which is like it's not a great Trump but the
00:36:38
Rhythm you'll hear at the end where he Fades away he's like and gas is going up
00:36:43
five dollars a gallon seven dollars ten dollars a gallon how high can you count how high can you that's that's the one I
00:36:52
hadn't heard it yeah 15 times as colors again how high can you count it's just yeah and he looks
00:36:59
away sometimes yeah so he turns aside yes excuse me excuse me and but no one's
00:37:08
interrupting him my angle was that he would just take a word and repeat it for three minutes and make it work we're
00:37:13
gonna win like everybody we're gonna be winning we're going to win excuse me
00:37:17
we're going to win so much you're going to be tired of winning you're going to
00:37:19
win we're going to win we're winning too much winning people are saying please
00:37:24
enough with the winning so that Trump was an amazing people saying things to him yeah people
00:37:30
are saying people are saying many people are saying yeah many people don't like I
00:37:35
like when he says many people don't like this person a lot of people have come to
00:37:38
me just to make someone look like an [ __ ] but yeah that's he's a loser a
00:37:45
lot of people are whispering to me many people listen many people excuse me many
00:37:49
people are saying like he's not very well liked you know you were nice now you're not so nice okay so he's uh uh
00:37:57
you know a one-off uh someone asked Rudy Giuliani before he went a little cookie
00:38:02
what who do you what do you how do you how do you define Donald Trump and he said he's unclassifiable
00:38:10
like like a rare insects there's never been another one like him so what do you um I don't know where to
00:38:19
go there's so many things I ask I have a question go ahead no I was gonna say when you do
00:38:26
update were you working with was it a Downy or was it her Sergeant or who was kind of running it with you no no it was
00:38:32
we had different people but it was Carlock Robin Carl Robert Carlock yeah oh wow yeah
00:38:39
yeah and was Tina on yet no Tina was all no she wasn't on the show but she was
00:38:43
the head writer oh [ __ ] and when um we had my ears on and that I mean I think he did he did did he say he offered you
00:38:52
what was it what part Scotty Scott yeah but that's right that's was that rumor
00:38:58
no he literally Sarah's open again Colby she goes Mike Myers is looking for you
00:39:04
like all right yeah he calls me up and he and he goes hey I'm doing this movie
00:39:08
it's whatever it was uh it's about he describes Austin Powers he's this guy
00:39:13
from the 60s and I go that's great man I'm I ain't nothing I literally
00:39:18
he goes so I'll fly out you do this part you know I saw you on Gary shanling
00:39:22
playing riptorn's son so just do whatever you did then is great just do that in the morning wow nice and
00:39:29
I go yeah I'm working on my own movie though and he goes oh you're shooting
00:39:32
something I go no I'm just rewriting and he goes all right well this will take a
00:39:36
few days it's not a big deal I go nah I'm busy and he literally goes what like he goes
00:39:44
what's going on like he didn't understand what's happening he goes I go
00:39:46
you know plus the show is happening goes yeah but it's a week off I'll talk to
00:39:50
Lauren don't worry about that I go nah I'm just thank you and he goes [ __ ]
00:39:54
funny so stupid and then he goes um look I go it sounds great good luck with your
00:40:00
movie I go it sounds like the kind of movie I said you can even get like a bird back rack type music he goes no we
00:40:06
have Burt Bacharach doing the actual background music this is a big production and for whatever combination
00:40:14
of stupidity on my part I still you know I just kept turning it down I mean I was all he did was say
00:40:22
look I love you and carry Shandling this is the part do your thing and that's it
00:40:26
and I turned it down and he goes well he goes I can't beg you to do it he goes
00:40:30
you know I'm often and whatever idiotic thing and I've turned out a lot of
00:40:36
things into business but I never regretted them you know but that one I regret because it was great it's I have
00:40:42
heard you've turned down stuff and I go it's great but you know in your own mind
00:40:45
if it's not for you whatever reason yeah you move on well what is your reason so
00:40:51
in most cases I was right most I defend it all that one case I was wrong I was stupid because he made it for me he said
00:41:00
just do what you did yeah it's this walk of walk in the park sometimes you already did it
00:41:06
I think for all of us you know if you're lucky enough to get on TV or be in show
00:41:11
business and you have things coming at you and later on you I would always say to
00:41:15
myself I did not know what time it was I didn't I was in something that I had no
00:41:22
context for so you know and how could you know that awesome powers would be a Trilogy and a global smash when you turn
00:41:30
I couldn't know that but it sounded fun yeah yeah and he's funny it was like him yeah it's great I don't
00:41:38
know what my problem was yeah but Dana I agree and I'm chiming in even though
00:41:42
people say I talk too much but uh my wife is all over that she's yes you're
00:41:47
great when what you're saying about that Dana I like to use words like frequency and
00:41:54
Alchemy when I talk uh because I just stole them from Colin I'm going to use
00:41:58
them all the time but uh full of Sound and Fury signifying nothing and I I can't I wouldn't be able to get away
00:42:04
with that one but they would buy Alchemy from me maybe but uh when I Dana you're
00:42:10
saying you're getting sort of a Vortex and I wasn't in like a super Fame Vortex
00:42:13
like when you were on SNL but when I did SNL and in the summer we did uh Tommy Boy and then we come back to SNL and
00:42:22
they go what do you guys want to do this summer what movie there's this one black sheep that Fred
00:42:27
you know has and we're like oh yeah okay and then we do that hey and then you're
00:42:31
good hey you're not so good okay all right no you're really good you're not
00:42:34
so good okay Dana I'm gonna talk about you in a second I just want to tell something to David but I have a big
00:42:37
compliment for you at the end that was really good no I swear to God that was really good but you're not so good okay
00:42:42
we're doing Fred Wolf uh so then uh uh and then the next summer I think there
00:42:48
was uh do you want to do a gap Girls movie or something but the point was I didn't realize how hard it is to get a
00:42:55
movie and how it just that's a that's a that's a thing you're caught up in where
00:43:00
things are getting kind of thrown at you and then I was like nah maybe and then like a summer later I'm like I think I
00:43:06
wanted this movie and then like oh that ship kind of sailed and I'm like well
00:43:08
what about this they're like nah and then I thought holy [ __ ] is it hard to
00:43:12
get a movie and they're like yeah dumb [ __ ] if it makes you and then feel better I turned down Wayne's World one I
00:43:19
thought right before we did it a couple weeks before I go I don't know I I don't
00:43:23
think so uh that'll be all right I love it yeah just like you know maybe I yeah you know yeah of course and well
00:43:32
it's also everything you do is a gamble that could hurt you you you almost rarely think about the upside you go if
00:43:38
this [ __ ] up I look I'm in a bigger hole Yeah but that's what you think but
00:43:42
we won't it doesn't mean any the more you do it the people that do everything
00:43:45
is Teflon you know what I mean yeah right yeah the last time anybody got screwed was Billy Squier doing his video
00:43:53
for uh you know and Shane was told me that when he goes you remember him telling me yeah this
00:43:59
Billy's quiet video from 19. I was like what he goes on it destroyed him because he did oh he was laying on his
00:44:04
silk sheets it messed up his credibility yeah at least why it was amazing yeah he's [ __ ] I did some video and it was
00:44:12
like a on some silk seats doing like a pretty boy video and he didn't lose me
00:44:17
for good I took a little I'm sorry I'm back familiarize myself I'm representing
00:44:22
this other part of the audience Billy's choir what was his song Lonely is the
00:44:26
night oh okay Stroke Me stroke me yeah I was trying to clean it up I was trying to PG in for the
00:44:36
audience oh okay and that's because I think Sandler used that in uh Billy Madison I think he did I have a thing
00:44:42
that every time Adam's name is mentioned I just do it to myself thought about oh
00:44:46
every time Sandler's mentioned on the podcast I just do that I've already done
00:44:50
it twice yeah Show Business the only guy who seemed to have Show Business Wire first the people who are like I always
00:44:57
see Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno happen to be the most successful metrically in many ways they both were so pragmatic
00:45:07
about it and Leno was always oh you never stopped his whole thing was don't stop right guys stop don't ever stop and
00:45:14
it was very very logical advice you know Colin what you were saying about people
00:45:18
that do a lot of stuff I sometimes do a lot of stuff but also it's because out
00:45:23
of some of its fear and some of it's uh if I'm getting a script for a movie we
00:45:29
did this one father of the year I don't even have to say individual movies but they're never handing me the
00:45:34
number one movie out there that's the funniest one written because there's a
00:45:38
hierarchy of who's getting that so sure if I get a script and they're willing to
00:45:42
do it I mean they're co-writing it or I'm trying to help punch up or they're
00:45:46
saying this one's a little bit of a mess there's a reason it's not made right now
00:45:49
but there's something there right and if you want to put into the work put the
00:45:53
work in and try to help it or do whatever or you think you can bring something to it and those are more
00:45:57
opportunities where you go I can't sit back and say I'm going to get the best
00:46:01
of the best of everything or you won't do anything so I I think what you're
00:46:06
saying has made me think yeah you keep you try stuff to go I if I get to take a swing that might help me because I can
00:46:13
get in there and do my best so anything to talk show anything just get in front of people where someone goes oh because
00:46:18
it's constantly on an audition so if you hit one that wasn't supposed to be a hit
00:46:23
people go okay maybe we'll give them another one you know that kind of thing
00:46:26
it's got to stay out there but what you also said even talk show movie whatever
00:46:30
when they let you write on it I feel like all of us comedians are like oh let me get it let me get a swing at this uh
00:46:38
script too yeah like that's how I feel every everything I've ever read I'm
00:46:42
always like that's good I could have made it better I'm a reading and Colin
00:46:46
Dana had uh the Colin had a few scripts and I'd say oh can I read that one and
00:46:51
uh the compliment is really I don't know why they're not making them other than
00:46:56
it was almost too smart it was very funny and very smart and I think smart in our world you know sometimes you
00:47:05
don't want to be the smartest one in the room what room are you in it's that
00:47:09
thing of like you know it's going over people's heads and you it's like a
00:47:12
really big audience out there just do what you want I mean the Beatles were smart and dumb do you know what I'm
00:47:18
saying they had a good beat and then you have Strawberry Fields it's that whole thing of like um so
00:47:25
Colin [Laughter] so smart [Music] if you see Dana if you see any of his uh one-man shows yes I watched all the time
00:47:46
I've seen all of them I believe oh thanks they're just they're they're
00:47:50
really fun to watch what I was just going to ask I don't know if you were David it's like the research part of it
00:47:55
because you're how how steeped are you in the history of when you the research
00:48:01
part before you make the comedy part how well it's so easy like I said yeah yeah
00:48:06
because of Google it's not like the old days but the only one there's a lot of
00:48:10
research the woman was alive research was the Constitutional one because yeah I had to read these books to understand
00:48:15
what everybody's thinking about it at that time so I read these horribly boring books because in the old days
00:48:21
they wrote books you had nothing to watch on TV so you had to read the book so they could write it as intricately as
00:48:27
they wanted yeah I'm reading these books going oh my God this language is you
00:48:31
know from another it's just a it's another animal and uh but that's it but mostly now with Google
00:48:37
any facts I want I just Google them but you know it is then you're on a you suddenly you're on like a uh you're just
00:48:44
lost in a rabbit hole and I'm like why was I here originally again because hours and hours yeah well on the
00:48:51
premiere night of grown-ups I think number one uh we were we came we're all in New York and doing press and we all
00:48:58
came to see your show right was that which which show was that that was that was long story short long story short
00:49:04
how long that's how long ago that was that was 12 years ago you guys were there gross uh anyway we walk out of
00:49:11
there in a day is going why are we all in comedy it's all like so thought out
00:49:15
and put together and I'm like yeah even the Constitution one I'm like do you
00:49:18
think he had to read the Constitution because I would never and then it's only
00:49:23
four pages I couldn't do it yeah it's really really four pages of constitution
00:49:27
yeah what's the one-man show for you versus stand up for you personally as a
00:49:33
performer I mean the same thing I I I I feel like it's the same exact thing to
00:49:38
me it is because I had clubs when I work it out I work it out at the club so I mean it's the same thing you
00:49:46
know if it's not getting lamps there I'm not gonna put it in the show you know
00:49:49
because back in the day if a comedian was was too dry or whatever people might say oh it's a one-man show you know
00:49:55
because it's not they're showing for the oath of the comic that will get six
00:49:58
laughs a minute or something by the way I know yours are extremely funny that's
00:50:04
different by the way what's better than Fred armis since one man Chicago yes yeah Fred Armstrong It's a patch
00:50:14
yes comedian and he did his comedian guy on update do you remember that the guy the ACT yeah and then the accent guy who
00:50:21
goes around the room with the accents where are you from well that's amazing
00:50:24
yeah remember we did the stand-up guys I got Army jacket he's like look oh yeah
00:50:29
yeah New York Times okay my father okay he just wouldn't interrupt himself so
00:50:37
beautifully I asked him how would you do that because that's like a mental technique you know and he goes yeah just
00:50:43
do it he's yeah Colin lastly were you a roast guy did you do roasts yeah well
00:50:49
the Howard Stern Rose to you know the Audi rose the Gary roast oh my God those are my favorite things [ __ ] yeah they're
00:50:56
not they're not doing this you've done a joke that you thought you had to kind of
00:51:00
check it with people to see if it had crossed the line in a roast from funny to cool or you just what's wonderful no
00:51:08
but I feel like they're all you know I mean yeah they're all going to be
00:51:11
they're pretty they'll have to be they all have to be Godless to a certain
00:51:14
extent but nothing now comedians like the young comedians do these ropes put on YouTube yeah so much
00:51:22
more brutal oh yeah anybody we thought we were like I thought I was like whoa that's hardcore these they don't give a
00:51:31
damn it's really funny to watch so whatever we did was like light compared to what it goes on now it roasts you
00:51:36
know I think what happened is like Amy Schumer sort of got known from Rose and maybe Whitney and there's people that
00:51:42
blew up so they go here's my one chance if you're the worst is if you're getting
00:51:46
roasted and they go oh we're gonna have a couple of your friends in quotes and
00:51:50
then eight new comics and you go so there's no fun between you two it's just
00:51:55
an assassination yeah no and they they get famous from it well what I hate is once again my little critiques of
00:52:02
everything is that there's writers at Rose I hate that I hate it like when we did roast you
00:52:10
wrote your own jokes that was the whole Pride like these are all for me and yeah
00:52:14
once I want somebody to go to their friend hey I'm making fun you know I'm
00:52:17
sure people took jokes from other people but it was you and now it's writers and
00:52:21
the jokes are good but like you said they're brutal nobody cares it's not you
00:52:25
up there saying it you wrote it and tell us the other person is desperate for jokes she got these celebrities making
00:52:31
some obscure you know jokes about somebody's you know first wife dying or whatever yeah they don't know what they
00:52:37
say you know I mean right right they're up there going hey which one's being
00:52:41
roasted Chevy okay hey you [ __ ] [ __ ] and you're like my friends can say that to me but I
00:52:47
don't know who you are yeah and that's why people get mad if no one's getting
00:52:51
beat up at a roast I don't know how this thing happened with Will Smith I mean
00:52:54
Rose are brutal all right well I guess we should let Colin go come on by the way
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um you I I moved so if you want to stay here next time uh it got a spot for you you moved yeah got a mansion no
00:53:08
beautiful what you knew what's your new address I almost made you say it in the
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air it was so close pattern Ram in 10 minutes well I I will I will keep liking all
00:53:24
your stuff on Twitter even though I get mad at myself I keep liking too many in a row and I go this is no I appreciate
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it appreciate it and I can't wait to see you when you come stay here and uh see
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you in heaven thanks Colin Quinn nobody like him okay guys thank you so much but
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I I heard you knew opening and I don't like it you go live from the podcast it's Dana and David why do we never
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think of that I was saying that oh really all right we'll stop that there it is
00:53:54
open oh by the way let me tell you one more SNL thing sure uh Dennis mcnicholas was right oh he's still he's working on
00:54:01
the show but we were sitting there one day and I'm listening to Nick Drake because you know in the late 90s it was
00:54:06
like ooh Nick Drake so yes I'm one of those [ __ ] but but this song comes on called Saturday Sun by Nick Drake and
00:54:14
Dennis mcnicholas goes to me that's the Saturday Night Live at the end of the show that's the song
00:54:22
and then we went down we went down and asked um you know she was in charge of Hal
00:54:28
wellner no not how but she yeah she was in charge of the piano I'm sorry Cheryl and we go Cheryl
00:54:38
could that but be possible that they took a Nick Drake song and she goes Howard when Howard Shore was in charge
00:54:45
of the music shows yeah Howard definitely would have done that so that Dennis mcnicholas discovered not that
00:54:51
anyone asked but the mystery of that last song at least everyone has that answer now Colin um
00:54:58
I'm not gonna leave I took his shots we don't have a corny ending we have a good
00:55:04
solid ending you don't have a corny and except what I just said no except here's
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how we end the show now bye-bye this is what he does yeah that's my story and I'm sticking to it
00:55:29
all right oh that's a great one that was a good one yeah yeah that's a great one
00:55:33
thanks all right buddy thanks thanks guys Colin love you hope to see you I love you good to see you bye-bye
00:55:39
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00:56:00
your podcast is better than cats the plague the movie I hope the animal I doubt it cats are great
00:56:13
I will listen to it again and again anyway I like when they start with a compliment that's smart that gets me in
00:56:19
imagine if you well there's a comedic Heaven you're standing before it's
00:56:22
hilarious gates in order to be admitted you must submit one piece from your body
00:56:28
of work and be judged what would you submit oh Dana's not here I don't know if I can answer for Dana
00:56:39
I'll answer for me I like the people that go I can't speak for him but then I do
00:56:46
I don't mind speaking for people what would I pick a lot of people would say
00:56:53
Dave pick Tommy Boy but Tommy Boy is mostly far like it's not really me I mean it's mostly it's a hit because of
00:57:02
uh I liked just shoot me and Rules of Engagement the sitcoms I did but those are other people too
00:57:10
that's based on other people doing great you know and they make me funnier so
00:57:14
that's kind of a cheat Emperor's New Groove is um I mean I like it I'm in it a lot voice
00:57:27
I'm handing in Voice work to get it oh my God desperate but you know coosco and easement that's
00:57:36
they're so funny though [ __ ] and so the total of that makes that movie funny and the animation is so
00:57:42
great animation helps every joke [ __ ] um maybe my stand-up specials I love them
00:57:49
and it's just me I mean I love Joe Dirt Joe dirt's mostly at least I'm driving it and co-wrote it
00:57:56
so it's a good representation but if if they don't get it in heaven and they really don't get it because
00:58:02
some people don't like it this is tough glad Dana doesn't get to chirp and I get
00:58:09
to just take all this time and just stare off into space ah it's so glorious but I would have to
00:58:17
go with but what if it's R-rated because it's Heaven I can't hand it anything already
00:58:22
then I'm screwed it's been very R-rated lately someone even commented it was a
00:58:27
little blue during your Mike Myers interview I go I don't give a care okay um
00:58:35
special one of my specials I think Dana has a lot to give in so I would say that or some one of my
00:58:42
appearances on Ellen out of my 30. now some of those talk shows were fun funny there's just different things
00:58:52
some of the stuff I wrote I thought was funny I don't know I'm just not kidding
00:58:56
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Episode Highlights

  • Colin's Absence
    Colin Quinn isn't feeling well, leaving the host to handle the show alone.
    “Just stay home, Colin!”
    @ 00m 13s
    October 07, 2022
  • JLo Not Sighting
    The host wonders why JLo wasn't at the VMAs, leading to a humorous moment.
    “We have a JLo not sighting!”
    @ 01m 02s
    October 07, 2022
  • Colin's Trivia
    A fun tidbit reveals Colin Quinn came up with the title 'Grown-Ups.'
    “Boom take that Meghan Markle!”
    @ 02m 20s
    October 07, 2022
  • Sketch Rejection
    Colin shares a story about a rejected sketch that he was proud of.
    “I was one of those catches.”
    @ 04m 16s
    October 07, 2022
  • Stand-Up Struggles
    Colin reflects on his early stand-up career and the challenges he faced.
    “My stand-up was always like a comedian's comedian.”
    @ 08m 54s
    October 07, 2022
  • The Weight of Expectations
    Disappointing others can feel unbearable, especially when you look up to them.
    “Disappointing you is horrible.”
    @ 20m 30s
    October 07, 2022
  • The Comedian's Frequency
    There's a unique connection among comedians that transcends ordinary conversation.
    “It’s like a different conversation.”
    @ 22m 02s
    October 07, 2022
  • Living the Dream
    Achieving a lifelong dream can feel like the pinnacle of success.
    “I could have died right then.”
    @ 24m 52s
    October 07, 2022
  • The Struggle of Authenticity
    Balancing authenticity and performance is a challenge in show business.
    “It’s true, it’s show business.”
    @ 29m 42s
    October 07, 2022
  • Regret Over a Missed Opportunity
    Reflecting on turning down a significant role that could have been great.
    “I regret it because it was great.”
    @ 40m 39s
    October 07, 2022
  • The Gamble of Show Business
    Discussing the risks involved in making choices in the entertainment industry.
    “Everything you do is a gamble.”
    @ 43m 32s
    October 07, 2022
  • The Nature of Performance
    Exploring how comedians are always auditioning for their next opportunity.
    “You’re constantly on an audition.”
    @ 46m 18s
    October 07, 2022

Episode Quotes

  • I go good she's reading a cue card.
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  • Disappointing you is horrible.
    Colin Quinn | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
  • I could have died right then.
    Colin Quinn | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
  • It’s true, it’s show business.
    Colin Quinn | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
  • Everything you do is a gamble.
    Colin Quinn | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
  • That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
    Colin Quinn | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Key Moments

  • Colin's Absence00:13
  • Colin's Trivia02:16
  • Stand-Up Struggles08:54
  • Fear of Disappointment20:26
  • Comedian's Connection21:51
  • Dream Fulfilled24:52
  • Show Business Gamble43:32
  • Constant Auditioning46:18

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