Colin Quinn & Jim Norton
episodePreviously titled “Colin Quinin & Jim Norton” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 3, 2026
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How does the episode open and what lighthearted banter sets the tone?
I'm turning off my phone. Good man.
This guy's done a pod before. This guy's a pro. All right. Should we start? Let's do it.
It's kind of a funny story.
Hey, we're here. We might be drunk. We're back. I'm sweaty. It's hot as balls. But we got some funny guys here. Colin Quinn.
Woo!
Remind him. Adolf. Kevin Brennan.
This is your problem.
You never prepare for the podcast.
I know.
This is the problem. I don't prepare. If you and Norton have a fart off, I'm walking out.
Oh, you fart too? Yes. Yes. How did you not know? You've never farted on me.
He farted on you. We'd be sitting on ONA for years, and then suddenly one person would just go... What? Oh, mother. And we'd all be like, and the room would just be cursing. Oh, you have the silent smelly ones.
I like to cup them in my hand and gently open the gift.
He would just smile. It was a great smile. And just watching all of us realize, mother fucker.
See, I'm more of a loud farter.
But they say that's healthier. Oh, great. The loud and no smell is good.
Either way, it's lowbrow, but we don't want to see it here on the podcast.
Right, Sam? No, I like it.
Sam, stop trying to be a regular guy.
You know,
The term is goy.
We look down on that.
All right, well, what's shaking, boys?
What's happening? Lowbrow could be fun. It was so hot that I sat in traffic an extra block just to enjoy the air conditioning and the cab. Woo! That's funny.
Good banter.
I just wanted to open with that.
It's a good opening, but it's too local. Nobody else cares. Too local.
When I first started in comedy, I only had like subway, like real New York material. And my first road gig, I never told you this one, was a road gig. And I was opening for somebody in North Carolina, Nags Head. Great club. And I bombed every show, but we were staying at the owner's house. And I thought this was normal, because this was my first gig. This is a passive aggressive on their part. The owner and his wife, and me and the headliner, sitting on couches every afternoon, and they would go over all the comment cards.
Oh, my God.
What a nightmare. And we would sit there and read 150 comment cards. And I thought, this is how we do our business. But every one of them was like, the middle act was terrible. He's not funny. I mean, nobody curses North Carolina in the 80s. Sure, sure. He's terrible. You should get rid of him. He isn't that one joke. Whoa. And I was bombing every night. It wasn't like I could be like that person. Everybody, the headline was good. This guy's, and I just sit there every day and I was like, this is tough. But I thought it was like, this is what they do. I think that's what they should do.
I think that's great. Why should you be deluded into thinking you were doing well?
But he knows he bombed. I knew I bought them.
That's YouTube comments, but in the 90s.
Yes, exactly. And we'd sit there and read them all afternoon. Luckily, I smoked those. I'd be sitting there smoking going, this is a rough business.
I used to have that at Crackers in Indianapolis. I would read the comment cards because they would just show you. Liz at the cellar will just forward me when I get a shitty comment.
No.
She sent me one the other day. It was like, four stars, great show, Sam Morrell sucks. And that was the whole email.
Well, even if you kill, you'll get a bad comic comment. So it doesn't really mean anything.
They won't like what you talk about.
What were brutal early road gigs and strip club sets like for comedians?
It's always something. I liked everything but that religion joke, whatever, whatever.
Yeah, I get a lot of, like, that I'm doing TED Talks now comments.
Ooh.
Hey, you didn't say that's not true.
That's crazy. That's a target.
It hurts when they cut to the bone, you know, when they're really nailing it. They should have kept that to themselves. Oh, well.
Yeah, comic cards.
You ever do Club Casbah in Jersey? in Wildwood you'd stay above the club oh no yeah it was like one of those it was like one of the first like condos but it was he just built it out of plywood above the club right and that club is a story that Tony Woods was staying upstairs and still late for a set right right that's the famous story of him and Aruba yeah Aruba Ray's like hey they just gave Natterman the light he goes alright I'll get in the shower oh man
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
How does the episode open and what lighthearted banter sets the tone?
0:06–3:31
2
What were brutal early road gigs and strip club sets like for comedians?
3:31–5:19
3
How did Comedy Cellar and other NYC clubs shape comedians' careers in the 90s?
5:19–7:19
4
What memorable celebrity and club stories (Woody Allen, Pat Cooper, Pips) do they share?
7:19–46:58
5
Who were the rough early club crowds and what violent heckler stories do they share?
46:58–56:19
6
What are the infamous DePaolo and DiPaolo heckler moments and how did comics respond?
56:19–1:25:18
7
How did Tough Crowd and the NBC/Comedy Central debates shape comedians like Patrice and the show’s content?
1:25:18–1:33:08
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