Colin Quinn Is ‘Actually Glad’ He Got COVID

The Last Laugh

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Colin Quinn got COVID-19 for the jokes. Well, not exactly. But as the stand-up comedian and star of HBOMax’s ‘Colin Quinn & Friends: A Parking Lot Comedy Show’ explains in this episode, he’s already developing new material about the experience. “And guess what? If I find out other comedians are doing a corona routine, I want to make sure they had it,” he jokes. “I don’t want any medical appropriation!” During this hilarious conversation, Quinn goes deep on his long comedy career, including why he turned down a chance to perform on the ‘Tonight Show,’ how his friend Jerry Seinfeld ended up directing his one-man shows and why he ended up “sabotaging” himself on ‘Saturday Night Live.’

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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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