Tonight's Daily Show is a repeat of the June 10th episode with Colin Quinn. The panelists on The Nightly Show are Chris D'Elia, Hadiyah Robinson, Mike Yard, and Rory Albanese.
Colin Quinn is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer. On television he is best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, Remote Control, and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. Since 2010, he has also become known for writing and appearing in two one-man shows that offer a comedic take on history: Long Story Short and Unconstitutional. He is on tonight to promote his latest book The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America
Colin Quinn has noticed a trend during his decades on the road-that Americans' increasing political correctness and sensitivity have forced us to tiptoe around the subjects of race and ethnicity altogether. Colin wants to know: What are we all so afraid of? Every ethnic group has differences, everyone brings something different to the table, and this diversity should be celebrated, not denied. So why has acknowledging these cultural differences become so taboo?You would think this would fit in with what Jerry Seinfeld recently said:In THE COLORING BOOK, Colin, a native New Yorker, tackles this issue head-on while taking us on a trip through the insane melting pot of 1970s Brooklyn, the many, many dive bars of 1980s Manhattan, the comedy scene of the 1990s, and post-9/11 America. He mixes his incredibly candid and hilarious personal experiences with no-holds-barred observations to definitively decide, at least in his own mind, which stereotypes are funny, which stereotypes are based on truths, which have become totally distorted over time, and which are actually offensive to each group, and why.
As it pokes holes in the tapestry of fear that has overtaken discussions about race, THE COLORING BOOK serves as an antidote to our paralysis when it comes to laughing at ourselves . . . and others.
Like Chris Rock and Larry the Cable Guy, Jerry Seinfeld avoids doing shows on college campuses. And while talking with ESPN’s Colin Cowherd on Thursday, the comedian revealed why: College kids today are too politically correct.However, while on Fox & Friends Quinn did not agree with Seinfeld:“I hear that all the time,” Seinfeld said on The Herd with Colin Cowherd. “I don’t play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, ‘Don’t go near colleges. They’re so PC.’”
Seinfeld says teens and college-aged kids don’t understand what it means to throw around certain politically-correct terms. “They just want to use these words: ‘That’s racist;’‘That’s sexist;’‘That’s prejudice,’” he said. “They don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.”
Quinn disputed Seinfeld’s theory that this “creepy PC thing” is a new phenomenon, telling co-host Brian Kilmeade that “it’s been out there since the ’90s.” He added that the same thing happens at comedy clubs, when a comedian says a particular “buzzword” and the audience loudly inhales.This could be a very interesting topic of conversation and I hope that they discuss it, however most interviews with comedians on the Daily Show quickly go off the rails.There have always been “a million different [buzzwords] depending on where you are,” he said.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck tried to compel Quinn to admit that the problem of political correctness is getting worse, but he wouldn’t take the bait. “Do you feel that you’re being more and more restricted in your art, your profession, and what you do, and your freedom?”
“No,” he replied. “The whole point of being a comedian is that you’re not supposed to — we don’t listen to the crowd. We need the crowd, but what’s more insulting than someone who panders to the crowd? That’s the worst thing you can be in comedy, somebody who comes out and says, ‘Hey! I want to make everybody happy!’ That’s not our job. Our job is to make people unhappy.”
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— The Nightly Show (@nightlyshow) August 20, 2015Chris D'Eliais a Los Angeles-based stand-up comedian, actor, writer and rapper. He played Alex Miller on the NBC sitcom Whitney and currently the role of Danny Burton on the sitcom Undateable, also on NBC.
Hadiyah Robinsonhits the comedy stage like a bolt of lightning striking audiences down with high energy and powerful punchlines. Her ever expanding routine and improv skills give her performance an air of spontaneity. Her television appearances include AXS TV’s Gotham Comedy Live, The Mo’Nique Show and the upcoming season of BET’s Comic View. She’s been featured in O Magazine & Time Out NY also mentioned in Stagetime Magazine & The Huffington Post.Hadiyah can be seen every Friday as one of the stars of Centric’s hit relationship series “According to Him or Her.”
Mike Yards a contributor for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. Yard was previously the winner of Comedy Central's Get Up, Stand Up comedy competition.
Rory Albaneseis an American comedian, comedy writer and television producer. A Long Island, New York native, he was an executive producer and writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which he joined in 1999 and was with until October 2013. He is now Executive Producer of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.
The Nightly show will be taking a few weeks off returning Tuesday September 8th with @ Midnight preceding it @ 11. The Daily Show With Trevor Noah will begin September 28th. Hope to see you again on the 8th.
A few photos from about a month ago. Enjoy!
