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Acutely,A Parking Lot Comedy Showshowcases Quinns love for comedians and bombing.
On VulturesGood Onepodcast, Quinn discusses the special, why he values bombing, comedy nerds, and more.
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Thats all I wanted it to be, because I used to smoke when I started.
Everybody always said outdoor shows suck because the energy is not there.
And now everybodys had to adapt.
So we had to do it outdoors.
Comedians in general are so used to doing weird shows.
So you end up doing hundreds of just awkward shows: daytime, outdoors.
So they adapt immediately, as you could see.
On Comedy Nerds
I love them because they listen more.
Anybody that listens to comedy, I love it.
I dont think they see it as cool.
If they do, they should stop right now.
Comedy is not cool.
I hate when its cool.
It ruins comedy to me.
Its for people that want to be cool.
Then you fall apart and go, Oh yeah, I forgot.
Thats the essence of comedy in some way.
You dont get no respect either.
Thats whats so funny about him.
None of us get respect.
Thats why hes funny.
So Im saying that theres that social media added into contemporary convention versus a live crowd.
It changes every minute.
So the fact that people say Thats punching down no, no.
Comedy is play fighting.
So you are telling me punching down is bad, but its not punching.
You cant put it in the same category as, you know, a KKK speech.
Im not dismissing cultural influence.
Im just saying dont oversell it either.
On Bombing
I do think it is authentic.
Comedy is this naked art.
We have these real moments.
But when youre bombing, it gets even more naked and more real.
Its so funny because when I bomb, I see the comedians are laughing.
Theyre not laughing because they are happy their friends [bombing].
Some of them, maybe.
It realigns the whole energy not in a good way.
But it realigns the whole energy, like,Okay, listen.
Now what are we going to do?Even you dont know.
And the crowd doesnt know.
And it was still lights out.
Theres always a million reasons that make sense.
Even some of the rationalizations, sometimes theyre true.
The thing that drives me crazy is comedians that go I never bomb.
Or they wont admit when they didnt do well.
I understand theyre just trying to protect themselves in some way, but I love the inherent failure.
Theres always that line.
Every joke, its getting a laugh because its releasing the tension of possible bombing.
I used to fancy myself to be like this kind of Irish intellectual stream-of-consciousness guy when I started.
The audience despised it.
Because theres a practical side to it, too.
If you dont pause in places where you want laughs, how are people supposed to laugh?
Theres no place for them to laugh.
And theyre thinking,He must not want us to laugh.
We have to keep listening.So that was my early avant-garde, mid-80s vibe.
Then, in the 90s, I started trying to do …
So I did this thing and it didnt do well.
I do fucking jokes.
And I was like,This piece of shit.And I told him that the other day.
