Interview · moment 5 of 26
Writing Full Shows vs. Crowd Work, and Colin's Heart Attack
from Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343 · #343
3 min
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They discuss how Colin still writes and rewrites entire theatrical shows rather than doing crowd work like most modern comics, and Colin mentions surviving a heart attack and feeling 'good, not great.'
- Tim notes that most comics now do crowd work instead of writing full shows, asking audiences where they're from or personal details.
- Colin explains his show incorporates small talk by making the audience interact with him in conversation rather than answering direct questions.
- Tim jokes that he's a dying man at 25, referencing that writing full shows is a dying art.
- Colin would prefer to direct and write rather than just perform stand-up, citing a pitch meeting where he could hear himself talking too much.
- A woman with blue hair on a movie pitch made Colin realize immediately the meeting wouldn't go well.
- Colin suspected the pitch failed because the studio executives weren't interested, despite the idea being about a subtle, great Irish family story.
- The Irish family movie pitch happened three years ago, when there wasn't much appetite for that kind of story.
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