Colin Quinn Is ‘Actually Glad’ He Got COVID
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The Daily Beast
4.5 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | After more than three decades of performing stand-up in comedy clubs, this week's guest recently found out what it's like to tell jokes for cars. |
| 0:09.7 | This is the end of society. This is the end of the world. You're going to be living in those cars for the next 25 years. |
| 0:17.1 | And started in March, don't touch your eyes, don't rub your face. |
| 0:23.9 | You have to wash your hands constantly. |
| 0:25.8 | Who's at the CDC? |
| 0:27.5 | Everybody's mother? |
| 0:30.7 | You know, folks, not everything's edgy. |
| 0:32.7 | Sometimes a guy like me in his later years, he likes to hit it like a joke |
| 0:38.1 | that joke wanted to work on Merv Griffin |
| 0:40.1 | if they had coronavirus back then |
| 0:42.1 | I'm not denying it wasn't the |
| 0:43.8 | wildest joke you ever heard |
| 0:45.7 | but you know I like to open soft |
| 0:47.2 | and work my way up |
| 0:48.2 | I um |
| 0:49.2 | thank you |
| 0:51.2 | thank you I Thank you. |
| 1:01.7 | This is the Last Laugh. |
| 1:03.9 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, |
| 1:07.0 | and I am so excited to be joined on this episode by the Ultimate Comics comic, Colin Quinn. |
| 1:10.9 | As we mentioned at the top of the interview, I was actually supposed to talk to Colin |
| 1:14.8 | last fall around the release of his latest HBO Max special, Colin Quinn and Friends, |
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