Biography
Colin Quinn is an comedian, actor, and writer from the United States well-known for his role presenting Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live. Alongside Colin Quinn, he was the host of Comedy Central’s late-night panel program Tough Crowd. Quinn has also acted in movies such as Grown Ups, Trainwreck, and A Night at the Roxbury. He is regarded as the classic “comic’s comic” and a comedian from New York.
How old is Colin Quinn? – Age
Born Colin Edward Quinn, the cast member and writer of Saturday Night Live is 65 years old as of 6 June 2024. He was born in 1959 in New York, New York, United States.
Quinn Family – Education
Quinn grew up in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn, New York City. His parents were teachers. His ancestry is Irish. About 1920, Quinn’s paternal grandparents moved to Belfast. He did not complete his studies at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, Long Island. He had multiple negative alcohol-related experiences, including blackouts and arrests, before quitting in the early 1980s.
Is Quinn married? – Husband
Quinn wed producer Jen Sochko of Late Night with Seth Meyers on June 8, 2019.
Quinn Illness
Quinn suffered a heart attack in New York on February 14, 2018. A few days later, he posted on Twitter to say that while he was doing well, “you would see a funeral like Al Capone!” if he passed away.
Quinn Net Worth
Quinn has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Saturday Night Live
Quinn joined Saturday Night Live (SNL) in 1995 as a writer and featured performer. In the 1997–1998 season, Quinn was added to the main cast. With recurrent roles and segments like “Joe Blow,” “Colin Quinn Explains The New York Times,” “Lenny the Lion,” and “Weekend Update,” he made a name for himself on the show.
After Norm Macdonald was let go, Quinn took over as host of “Weekend Update” in January 1998. He remained the show’s anchor until his exit from Saturday Night Live in 2000. He offered commentary on several widely reported media circuses, such as the Microsoft antitrust trial and the Clinton-Lewinsky affair.
Quinn declined a chance to play Scott Evil in fellow cast member Mike Myers’ Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery during his time on Saturday Night Live. Seth Green played the part in the end, and Quinn has termed it the only one he regrets turning down.
Stand – Up
In the spring of 2002, Quinn served as the host of NBC’s brief The Colin Quinn Show. The program was a live-to-tape blend of stand-up and sketch comedy. It received largely favorable reviews from critics, but after three episodes, it was canceled.
More success followed for Quinn with his second program, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, which aired on Comedy Central throughout the week from 2002 to 2004. Quinn served as the show’s host while a panel of four comedians discussed current social and political problems. Over 200 episodes of the program were produced.
The animated series Shorties Watchin’ Shorties also featured his stand-up. Quinn performed stand-up for the troops on a 2005 USO tour of American military installations throughout the globe. He served as the “unofficial co-host” of the Nick DiPaolo show, which aired Monday through Friday from noon to three on the now-defunct 92.3 Free FM in New York City. Originally, Quinn and DiPaolo were scheduled to co-host the program on WJFK-FM, but the station chose not to air the show. Up to the conclusion of The Opie & Anthony Show’s tenure in 2014, Quinn also frequently appeared on the program. In Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2, Quinn portrayed Dickie Bailey, the boyhood adversary of Adam Sandler’s Lenny Feder. In addition, he played Hermie in an ongoing role on the HBO series Girls.
In February 2015, Quinn debuted as both writer and actor in the web series Cop Show produced by L/Studio. Quinn plays a conceited, satirical version of himself in the series, starring in a crime drama set in New York City. Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Attell, Chris Rock, Steve Buscemi, Jim Gaffigan, Michael Che, Tom Papa, Jim Norton, Pat Cooper, Irina Shayk, and Amy Schumer are just a few of the celebrities who have appeared as guests on the show. Quinn played the father of Amy Schumer’s character in Trainwreck, her feature film debut. He received high marks for his performance from critics.
One-man
In 1998, Quinn debuted on Broadway in a one-man production co-written with Lou DiMaggio called Colin Quinn: An Irish Wake. The 1976 wake scene of the show, in which Quinn played friends and relatives, was a reflection of Quinn’s childhood in the Irish-American neighborhood of Brooklyn. My Two Cents, Quinn’s second one-man show, debuted in 2009 and explores the economic collapse of the American empire.
Under Jerry Seinfeld’s direction, Quinn debuted his third one-man show, Colin Quinn Long Story Short, on Broadway in 2010. The program offered satirical perspectives on the development and fall of numerous global empires while covering world history from the prehistoric era to the present. Quinn taped an HBO special version of the show, which aired on April 9, 2011. 1 Milhao de Anos em 1 Hora is the title of a Brazilian version of the show that stars comedian Bruno Motta (“1 Million Years in 1 Hour”). Quinn debuted Unconstitutional, a one-man historical drama on the US Constitution, its drafting, and its influence on the national psyche, in 2013.
In July and August of 2015, Quinn performed as the lead in The New York Story, his fifth one-man show, at the Cherry Lane Theatre. The experiences detailed in his book The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America served as the inspiration for the television program. It explores his upbringing in Brooklyn’s ethnically diverse Park Slope neighborhood and how it has evolved into its current state over time. The director of Long Story Short, Seinfeld, made a comeback. Red State Blue State, Quinn’s sixth one-man show, made its Minetta Lane Theatre debut in early 2019. The program examined American politics now from both extremes of the major political divide.
Quinn Movies and TV Shows
Quinn has been into film and tv shows including;
Movies
♦ 2020 – Hubie Halloween
♦ 2019 – Drunk Parents
♦ 2017 – Sandy Wexler
♦ 2016 – Booted
♦ 2015 – Trainwreck
♦ 2013 – Grown Ups 2
♦ 2012 – That’s My Boy
♦ 2010 – Grown Ups
♦ 2009 – Paper Boys
♦ 2008 – Harold
♦ 2006 – Home
♦ 2003 – Crooked Lines
♦ 1998 – A Night at the Roxbury
♦ 1993 – Who’s the Man?
♦ 1988 – Crocodile Dundee II
TV Shows
♦ 2019 – Crashing
♦ 2015–2016 – The Jim Gaffigan Show
♦ 2015 – The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore
♦ 2014–2015 – Inside Amy Schumer
♦ 2014 – The Awesomes
♦ 2013–2017 – Girls
♦ 2011 – Cheat
♦ 2011 – The Green Room with Paul Provenza
♦ 2008 – What About Sal?
♦ 2004 – Ring My Bell
♦ 2003 – Windy City Heat
♦ 2002–2004 – Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn
♦ 2002 – The Colin Quinn Show