Colin Quinn Remembers Tough Crowd

And I remember being on the show and then I remember leaving going, Jesus, Bill calls me a douchebag. I probably shouldn't do that. I feel like a lot of people left the show saying something like that about something. That was the show! That show would not be possible today. No. I mean, it really was like a podcast in a lot of ways. Yeah, yeah. It really was. It was. It was a fucking great show though. Thanks. It was a great show. Thanks. It really was. And you were the perfect host for it too because you were loose enough and light enough with everything that you can kind of keep the glue together. Yeah. I mean, I took as much abuse as anybody on that. Oh, yeah. But it was a rare moment where, like in perfect name too. Tough crowd was a perfect name for it. Has there ever been a talk about bringing that back? Oh, God, yeah. Everybody talks about it. But I'm like, where? You know what I mean? What about as a podcast? People say that. Why not? I mean, because first of all, I resented at the time that I was like, nah, they didn't want to, you know what I mean? Like, who knows what I'm presenting? I'm fighting against something that's not even part of the podcast world. Right. But then I was just like, I don't know, then I'm going to, you know what I mean? Getting everybody together and people's careers would fall left and right if we did it. Oh, yeah. I mean, anybody on there, would they be able to really even speak honestly today? Kind of. Kind of. You got to have a career that's pretty locked in already, or you got to be on the come up where you got nothing to lose. It's the guys that are on a television show that are fucked. Yeah. Like, the guys who get a TV show or you're really worried about losing it. Right. Those guys can't, they can't do a show like that. But back then you could. Oh, back then we did, but. There it is. Colin Quinn, Tough Crowd. There it is. Look at that. That is at Patrice O'Neill. Patrice! Oh my, oh, he was the star of that fucking show. Well, Norton was great on that show. DePaula was great on that show. Everybody was great in that. Gerardo, there's Gerardo. Gerardo. I remember when Gerardo and Leary went at it. That was one of the great moments of that show. Ten years till Gerardo's dead two days ago. Oh. Yeah, him and Leary, that was a good one. And Lenny Clark was there. It was just a great setup. Like the way you had it, it was just a great setup. Patrice literally, it was basically his show. As you can see from that footage, I was a guest. He was the host. Look at Jimmy back in the chubby days. I know, he really looks like a fat fool. But um... This is a great fucking show, man. Yeah. How many episodes did you guys wind up doing? Uh, 200 I think. Wow. 220 or something. I have no... Can we get you to do it as a podcast? I don't know. Because you could get guys like me, guys like Established Comics would do it and it would be wild. You could still do it. It could still be done as a podcast. Because you have a guy like Joey Diaz on, he doesn't give a fuck. You can have those guys and they will talk freely. And people would love it. Oh my god, they would love it. Yeah, it might be. I don't know. I mean over the years obviously people have brought it up to me and I was like, no, because they could never be free today. Do you own the name? No, but I got a better one. The original name, which everybody talked me off of, which is the expression. Really more than a tough crowd. Tough Room. Ooh. And I think I do own the name. Yeah. Anyway. Either way, Tough Room is better. Yeah. Tough Room is a podcast. Tough Room. Why not? I don't know. Maybe. Look, how many guys in New York would do it? A lot. Yes. Easy. Yeah. Norton would do it for sure. 100%. Well, he wouldn't be invited on, but you're right. You brought up the one name for someone that's not welcome on the show. There's plenty of comics that would do it. I know. I know. Episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience are now free on Spotify. That's right. They're free from September 1st to December 1st. They're going to be available everywhere, but after December 1st, they will only be available on Spotify, but they will be free. That includes the video. The video will also be there. It'll also be free. That's all we're asking. Just go download Spotify. Much love. Bye-bye. Mmm.