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Colin Quinn was born in 1959 and was raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He started his 12 year career as a stand-up comic in 1985, in such Manhattan clubs as "Caroline's," and "The Comic Strip." He was noted as being one of the stand out comics of the eighties. In 1987 ,he started a three year stint as the Co-Host of MTV's popular game show "Remote Control." At the end of that show's run he hosted his own MTV show, "Colin Quinn's Manly World," a sports/comedy show. While also at MTV he wrote and starred in the comedy short "Going Back to Brooklyn" with Ben Stiller (Oct 1989), and also starred in the comedy/variety show 2Hip4TV (1988) on another network. In the early 90's he took on the hosting duties for "Caroline's Comedy Hour," a weekly show on the A&E network that showcased up and coming as well as popular stand-up comics.
In addition to his television work, Colin has also appeared in movies, including Who's the Man?, Married to the Mob, The Roxbury Guys and most recently, Comedian. He has also written several screenplays, one of which-Celtic Pride- made it to the big screen. The movie starred Dan Ackroyd and Daniel Stern as obsessive Boston Celtic fans who kidnap the opposing teams best player (Damon Wayans) in order to procure the Celtics chance at the championship. Colin was also Associate Producer on the project.
On 30, September 1995 Colin was hired as a writer and feature player on NBC's sketch/comedy show, "Saturday Night Live." September 1997 he became a full-time cast member, showing up on Weekend Update as 'Lenny the Lion' and 'Joe Blow.' He also established the recurring characters 'The Thank you Guy' and himself in the skit 'Colin Quinn Explains the NY Times.' On 10 January, 1998 he debuted as the new Weekend Update anchor, succeeding Norm MacDonald. He will continue his anchor role as he begins his fifth season with the show in September.
Colin Quinn's most recent work was on Comedy Central called "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn". An "in-your-face" discussion forum held with other stand-up comedians. TCCG ran for 3 seasons before ending without reason as most shows do. A personal fan of TCCG I was sad to see it go. | 