Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn was a comedic talk show on Comedy Central which attempted to be a more vulgar or working-class version of a previous Comedy Central production, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. Like Politically Incorrect, the show featured roundtable discussions, inviting various guests of many views, mixing mostly comics entertainers expressing themselves with journalists and political figures. Quinn's regular guests consisted mainly of Comedy Central affiliated comedians from the Comedy Cellar in New York City. It aired weeknights at 11:30 p.m. ET, immediately following The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The show was similar in content to The Colin Quinn Show, Quinn's previous TV show.
In 2002, Tough Crowd debuted on Comedy Central with an eight-episode test series which ran Mondays through Thursdays from December 9 to December 19. The show was picked up in January 2003, and the regular series began its 21-week run on 2003-03-10. The show was placed on an "indefinite hiatus" in October 2004, with what was presumably its final episode airing on 2004-11-04.
The show featured Colin Quinn and four other comedian guests discussing current events and issues. The emphasis was on politics, current events and social issues. The show opened with a monologue by Quinn; after the opening credits. Near the end there was usually a sketch of some sort, followed by each of the four guests doing a brief monologue on a particular topic that was discussed earlier in the episode.
Colin Quinn (born June 6, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American comedian, best known for his five years in the cast of Saturday Night Live.
It's the way people really talk off-camera, only the camera is on. Chill-out late nights with Colin Quinn and a quartet of comics as they brutally beat-down today's hottest topics. It's hilarious honesty on the half-shell, raw and ready to serve. Written by zonk3r
Played Robert DeNiro to Jim Breuer's Joe Pesci on "The Joe Pesci Show" on Saturday Night Live. In that same skit, the real DeNiro and Pesci showed up.
(10 January 1998-2000) Weekend Update anchor on "Saturday Night Live" (1975).
According to an interview in The Onion and Maxim, he turned down an offer to be Scotty Evil in Austin Powers.
