Crap TV Flashbacks: Tough Crowd w/ Colin Quinn
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When this show first came on Comedy Central I thought it was an infomercial selling promotional pencils, or something. It just looked so bad. I thought Danny Bonaduce was going to come on and start selling hair care products, or some 80′s TV Show jingles.
What the hell was this show anyways? Colin Quinn was on Saturday Night Live at one point. I think he was on a bunch of bad MTV shows when it was still a music station. Like that game show Remote Control I believe.
In 2002, Tough Crowd debuted on Comedy Central with an eight-episode test series which ran Mondays through Thursdays from December 9 to December 19. The show was picked up in January 2003, and the regular series began its 21-week run on March 10, 2003. The show was placed on an “indefinite hiatus” in October 2004, with what was presumably its final episode airing the Thursday following Election Day in 2004.
Not sure who watched this show that it stayed on that long. Comedy Central is usually pretty good to people though and let them have a chance. At least they used to be when they let shows that completely sucked run forever.
Let’s give the show some credit though. They had some pretty big comedians on it like…George Carlin…It did have some pretty funny stuff, but a lot of times it just felt like you were watching a train wreck. They did bring up a lot of controversial issues though that many places didn’t at the time. It was refreshing. Just wasn’t funny most of the time.
This is the BEST of Tough Crowd. Plenty of other vids will show up after from the show. It has its moments, but not enough.
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When this show first time came on comedy Central I thought it was an advertisement selling or something. It just looked so terrible. My consideration that Danny Bonaduce was going to come on start selling hair care products.
I don’t remember this show.