Joe Rogan Experience #1547 - Colin Quinn

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drum music) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:02

      (drum music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) Colin Quinn, I had to move to Texas to get you on this podcast. I tried forever to get you in LA. You said, "No chance."

   3. CQColin Quinn0:19

      Not true.

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      Oh, okay. I- every time we see each other, we just- yeah. (laughs)

   5. CQColin Quinn0:23

      I was always like, "Ah, I'll get out there one of these days," but I- I'm glad I waited this long. It's kind of- I can savor. I can appreciate it.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:29

      Ah, I'm savoring it right now.

   7. CQColin Quinn0:30

      If I was on one of the first podcasts, I'd be like, "Yeah, I was on Joe's and I was on this one." This is like, you know, you're getting, you're getting the respect you deserve now.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:38

      I see. Um, what- what is it like in the lockdown for you? You still living in New York?

   9. CQColin Quinn0:43

      Yeah, I live in New York.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:44

       Is it weird?

   11. CQColin Quinn0:45

       Yeah, I mean, it's- I was telling everybody, it's, uh, you know, it's- it's very... It's not like- people are like, "Oh, it's like New York in the '70s." No, the '70s was a whole different vibe and- but now, it's all boarded up stores. The store on my corner, like the corner bodega, basically, just closed and it was, uh, you know, it was around for a long time and, you know, it's- it's depressing. Like you're on the subway, there's only a few people on and it still smells. It smells as bad. They've been cleaning it every day and it still stinks. It doesn't even smell better. That's how ingrained it is. And, um... You know, the- the pigeons are homeless 'cause ANTIFA took down all the statues, so they have no place to live.

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:27

       (laughs)

   13. CQColin Quinn1:27

       And, um... Yeah, it's- it's a very, it's a very, uh, weird place.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:31

       You can't say, like people that say it's like the '70s, like no, the '70s it was like, it was the '50s and the '60s and the '70s, like, it didn't change much. It was seedy and weird.

   15. CQColin Quinn1:41

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:41

       But it was always like that. This is a-

   17. CQColin Quinn1:43

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:43

       ... drastic change from six months ago. You can't say it's like the '70s, because it's not. It's like, uh, something has deteriorated. There's a collapse.

   19. CQColin Quinn1:52

       Right.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:52

       And then there's all this weirdness that comes along with that.

   21. CQColin Quinn1:55

       Well, the '70s was kind of a collapse, but it was a different type. So like in the '70s, all the stores at night would be locked up, but they were open during the day.

   22. JRJoe Rogan2:03

       Mm.

   23. CQColin Quinn2:04

       So at night, if anybody was out after 9:00 at night, that was on them. But I mean, but it was not like now where it's just 20- you're walking down deserted streets, there's nobody out, you know what I mean? It's just-

   24. JRJoe Rogan2:13

       Have you always lived in New York?

   25. CQColin Quinn2:13

       ... depressing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan2:14

       So w- so it was sketchy in the '70s?

   27. CQColin Quinn2:18

       Oh my God, yeah. I mean, I did a whole, I did a whole show about it basically, but I mean, it was basically like, in part, one of the jokes from my old New York story was that, and it wasn't a joke, it was if you walked down your block, 'cause there's no cell phone, so if you walked down the block from the train after 9:00 at night, people would lean out the window and be like genuinely surprised, like "Good for you. You made it home," if you stayed out after 9:00.

   28. JRJoe Rogan2:40

       (laughs)

   29. CQColin Quinn2:41

       Like Times Square, people would go to Broadway shows, by 11:00 it was deserted except for criminals, because people would leave a Broadway show, they wouldn't go out for a drink or dinner, they would get in their car and get out immediately.

   30. JRJoe Rogan2:55

       And Giuliani is the one who cleaned all that shit up?
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Oh, one of those.…

   1. CQColin Quinn15:00

      flinch. Don't hit back."

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:01

      Oh, one of those.

   3. CQColin Quinn15:02

      I don't know.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:02

      Yeah, there's a lot of that going on.

   5. CQColin Quinn15:04

      (laughs)

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:04

      Yeah, I've seen that before. No, I'm sure. Actually, I do think he, he did have a boxing match. He's a little too handsome for my taste.

   7. CQColin Quinn15:10

      Yeah, I don't like it either.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:11

      Beautiful man. And he, he did blackface at least 30 or 40 times.

   9. CQColin Quinn15:14

      That's right.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:14

       Didn't he?

   11. CQColin Quinn15:15

       In Canada, it's different.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:16

       (laughs) I think v- he played, like, Indian people or something. It wasn't necessarily-

   13. CQColin Quinn15:19

       Oh, that's what it was. Right, right, right, right.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:21

       ... black. He was, like, brownish.

   15. CQColin Quinn15:23

       Yes, it's Indigenous face up there.

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:25

       Yeah.

   17. CQColin Quinn15:25

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan15:25

       It is kinda funny. Like, white face-

   19. CQColin Quinn15:26

       It's First Nations face.

   20. JRJoe Rogan15:27

       White faces, like, no problem at all.

   21. CQColin Quinn15:29

       Right.

   22. JRJoe Rogan15:29

       Good luck.

   23. CQColin Quinn15:30

       Yeah. (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan15:30

       You know? Like, you could be white-faced. No one cares.

   25. CQColin Quinn15:33

       Oh, yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan15:33

       Can, can you play a redhead if you're not a redhead? Is there any shame in that?

   27. CQColin Quinn15:37

       Well, would you want to is the first question, but second of all, nah. It's too-

   28. JRJoe Rogan15:40

       If someone had to do-

   29. CQColin Quinn15:41

       Um...

   30. JRJoe Rogan15:41

       ... like, the Andrew Santino story.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Sure. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

   2. CQColin Quinn30:00

      Sure.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      Yeah, Bert's doing a lot of these drive-in shows.

   4. CQColin Quinn30:02

      I know, I know he is. Of course.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:04

      Yeah.

   6. CQColin Quinn30:04

      I go, "How, w- what was the show like?" He goes, "It was great. There were 700 cars."

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:08

      (laughs)

   8. CQColin Quinn30:08

      I'm like, "700 cars." No-

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:11

      That- That's a lot of cars.

   10. CQColin Quinn30:13

       Yeah. I just, I just did it for HBO Max, I did, like, a comedy outdoor special with a bunch of comedians from New York and-... 30 cars and it was, it went back far. How did he get seven-

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:27

       He's doing giant places.

   12. CQColin Quinn30:28

       This was 30 cars.

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:29

       Yeah.

   14. CQColin Quinn30:29

       And it was way back.

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:31

       Yeah.

   16. CQColin Quinn30:31

       This must be, like... I mean, I can't imagine how far back it must go.

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       It goes far and they all light their lights and honk their horns and shit.

   18. CQColin Quinn30:39

       That's right. That's what they were doing.

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:40

       Yeah, it's like, "Uh..."

   20. CQColin Quinn30:40

       Oh, my God, 700 that-

   21. JRJoe Rogan30:42

       Yeah.

   22. CQColin Quinn30:42

       ... yeah, I'd like to, now I'd like to see that.

   23. JRJoe Rogan30:44

       Yeah. But Bert's hammered too, right? So he's like-

   24. CQColin Quinn30:46

       Right.

   25. JRJoe Rogan30:46

       ... barely aware of what's happening when the lights are flashing-

   26. CQColin Quinn30:49

       (laughs)

   27. JRJoe Rogan30:49

       ... and people are honking. (laughs) He's having a great time. Yeah, there you got video of it. Look, this is, by the way, this is... I'm 99% sure so I'm just gonna say this, I think this is all his idea. Look how big this is. It's huge.

   28. CQColin Quinn31:02

       Wow. Wow.

   29. JRJoe Rogan31:03

       There he is in Philly. And he did it all across the country, t- takes his shirt off every show because it's important.

   30. CQColin Quinn31:09

       Oh, my God, yeah.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   (laughs) Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      would start Twitter threads about you.

   2. CQColin Quinn45:01

      (laughs) Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:02

      "Expose him."

   4. CQColin Quinn45:04

      But Andy Hinton, him and Ron Scheck once did ass-... Uh, T. Sean Shannon, you know him.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:08

      Mm-hmm.

   6. CQColin Quinn45:08

      He was there too. And he told me this story about Ron Scheck and Andy Hinton were tripping one time. And, you know, Ron Scheck was, you know, Ron ... He just, was like kind of breaking up and he goes ... There was ... And then Andy Hinton goes, "Ron, you're gonna make it," when they first started. He goes, "I know."

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:24

      (laughs)

   8. CQColin Quinn45:25

      And he goes... He was waiting for him to say it back to him, you know?

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:28

      (laughs)

   10. CQColin Quinn45:28

       'Cause two comedians who knew, so you say it back to each other, right?

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:31

       Sure.

   12. CQColin Quinn45:32

       And he goes ... And then finally Andy Hinton couldn't take it no more, he goes, "I'm gonna make it too, Ron." He goes, " (laughs) Sure you are, Andy. Sure you are."

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:41

       (laughs) They had a great open mic night back at that Laff Stop. That was one thing about the Laff... Did you work that place in Houston?

   14. CQColin Quinn45:48

       Yeah, at the Laff Stop? Yeah, yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:49

       Yeah, it was a great club. But they had... The bar area was an open mic night-

   16. CQColin Quinn45:54

       Right.

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:54

       ... and then they had the main showroom area. And I remember I came in to do the show there. I did two shows, and from the moment I got on stage, they had the open mic going, and then when I was... By the time I was off stage, the open mic was still going. So the open mic would go to, like, two o'clock in the morning. They had guys still going up. Like, it was a real comedy community there. They really-

   18. CQColin Quinn46:14

       Absolutely.

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:14

       ... worked on their craft.

   20. CQColin Quinn46:15

       Oh my-

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:15

       They didn't tolerate any hacks.

   22. CQColin Quinn46:17

       No.

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:17

       No bullshit there.

   24. CQColin Quinn46:18

       They were a serious thing, you know?

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:20

       It was a great place.

   26. CQColin Quinn46:21

       It was a great, great scene, you know?

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:22

       That crazy Mark Babbitt ran it.

   28. CQColin Quinn46:24

       Right.

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:24

       That, that crazy fuck.

   30. CQColin Quinn46:25

       Yes.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:03:29

   Yeah, guys would do…

   1. CQColin Quinn1:00:00

      a reason, you know?

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      Yeah, guys would do routines in the morning.

   3. CQColin Quinn1:00:03

      Yes.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:03

      Yeah.

   5. CQColin Quinn1:00:03

      And it worked.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:04

      Yeah. That, it got people to come out to the club and then they would hear the same jokes-

   7. CQColin Quinn1:00:07

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:08

      ... at the club.

   9. CQColin Quinn1:00:09

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:09

       That was the other thing too, is that nobody wrote new material back then.

   11. CQColin Quinn1:00:12

       Nobody... I know so many guys that were so funny and they'd write maybe 40 and that was it.

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:00:21

       That's it. Forever.

   13. CQColin Quinn1:00:22

       And they were f- and they were as funny as anybody.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:00:23

       Yeah.

   15. CQColin Quinn1:00:23

       Forever.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:00:24

       Forever.

   17. CQColin Quinn1:00:24

       And then you fade away.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:00:26

       Yeah.

   19. CQColin Quinn1:00:26

       But I mean, uh, yeah. And they had fun... It was, it wasn't that the material was dated, it was just once you stop writing that stuff, something about you becomes dated in some weird way.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:00:36

       Yeah. Well, their act would get so polished.

   21. CQColin Quinn1:00:39

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:00:39

       It would be like a samurai sword, they would hammer it down to just a perfect sharpness and they would... The t- like Don Gavin, his fucking timing was so precise.

   23. CQColin Quinn1:00:49

       So funny.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:00:49

       Bing ba bang, ba bang.

   25. CQColin Quinn1:00:51

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:00:51

       And you'd be crying, he was so confident-

   27. CQColin Quinn1:00:53

       Crying.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:00:53

       ... and loose.

   29. CQColin Quinn1:00:53

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:00:54

       But-... they never left. They never-

Episode duration: 2:31:33