Name: Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343' from The Tim Dillon Show on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-23. Transcript available.

Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343

ladies and gentlemen welcome to the tim dillon show a legendary comedian colin
quinn joins us
uh you have a new show which we're gonna give everybody the link in the uh
youtube episode
they should go grab tickets to it uh you do a new hour like almost every year
which is insane
and always very good thanks yeah this one's good and we were just talking about
the uh yeah how
even that show itself i'm gonna start shifting away it's already starting to
get on my nerves
i can always tell when it's time to move on material wise my throat starts to
really get sore
your throat rejects the material yes and then you gotta just film it and get it
move on yeah
i feel the same way my throat rejects all the material i do because i yell it a
lot of it so
that's the other problem yeah by the end of a tour like i remember in milwaukee
the good people milwaukee
who are now punishing me they're not buying tickets to the paps theater because
i canceled
a night at the improv and rescheduled it for a weeknight because i had no voice
the people of
milwaukee have a long memory they're being unreasonable because i didn't have a
voice and
i called my agent who's for the 400 pounds the fattest agent in america and he
goes we'll just get a
steroid shot and i go yeah but if i if i project through i could still get polyps
on my throat sure so
these agents don't care they just go just get shot up with steroids right right
the show must go on
well what you should be doing is stop remember i told you about the guy gary
ramsey you but here's
the thing you gave me this advice about yeah you're basically like change your
whole life this is so
hard tell people what you told me to do to go to gary ramsey
no you did but call it it's so complicated the whole process no it's not it's
the opposite of
complicated can you explain it and let's see if it's not it's the what it is it's
basically it's
called al it's basically alexander technique what it is is instead of misusing
your throat where you
get polyps and you get hoarse and you can't speak a lot you're speaking through
your lungs in the back
you're speaking through your stomach your diaphragm basically so every time you're
about to lose your
voice you're relaxing your tongue you relax i could show it to you in five
minutes right now but going
i'm living proof i used to lose my voice all the time and ever since i went to
gary which is almost
20 years i could do like three shows i never lose my voice i even want my voice
and my voice is a raspy
voice that you would lose immediately as you know people have spent many years
saying why aren't you and
tim dylan doing father-son comedies i know because now i look older that's what
i mean that's one of the
reasons now now i look that's his brother comedy no it's not the father but you
were explaining to me
and then this guy sent me an email and he seems like a real good dude and i
think i might have
spoke to him on the gary i think i spoke to the guy but it's like a whole
breathing technique i mean
i'm looking for like a lozenge so simple it's simpler than how would i do it
how do i simpler than a shot
you'd go see him for an hour he'd explain to you oh here's where you're gripping
and you're like oh i didn't
realize i was like every time i yell you could still yell but every time i yell
i'm yelling through
my throat instead of through this is an abby this is a a theater that you can
use yeah oh so it's it's
just little things like for example babies breathe when you watch a baby
breathe that's how we're supposed
to breathe so they exhale and their stomach goes out we exhale i mean we inhale
they inhale their
stomach is out right we inhale pull our stomach in so it's all this tightening
that goes on it's really
you know it's i'm gonna sit down with them but it's an hour it's an hour
consultation yeah it's not really
a consultation it's it's more like uh you know it's instructional it's yeah it's
just it's interesting
he's really an interesting and now you don't lose your voice at all i did three
shows when i was doing
broadway i had three shows on saturday three only me an hour and 20 minutes on
like 800 seats three
for an hour and 20 minutes each show i was exhausted at the end of the day my
throat was fine never on
voice rest you know they go oh you do shows you have to be on voice rest on the
off days i was never on
voice rest my whole and i used to lose my voice from seller sets in front of
100 people wow so this is
well worth it to try to figure out that it's the greatest he's the greatest is
the new show you have
now which is called small talk yeah you used to you always do like big themes
it was like sure political
the country's divided sure new york the history of new york all these big
themes this one is this more
like the minutiae of the way people relate to each other no it's the big theme
okay i apologize no no
it is small talk it is about the minutiae of the way people relate to each
other but it's uh it's a
big but it's a bit but it's big it's big in the sense of how the language and
how everybody speaks today
um like they're being watched and pretending they're not under surveillance
when they know they
are at all times by each other right everybody's just everybody's worried about
uh government surveillance
and that's only a part of surveillance apparently right so nobody hates free
speech more than we do
yeah everybody's a rat yes it's a culture of rats yes it is i grew up in a town
that was a little
mafia town in long island we know i i know that town island park was a mafia
town he's always a
little mafia town and goodfellas was about henry hill who lived in island park
and they all
sopranos was about a guy who lived in island they all lived in all those mob
guys moved from
ozone park to island park yeah they all went to this little south shore town
yep but everybody
italians like a nice boat that i love it was about culture they love to be they
love to be around the
boats yeah that's the thing and the water yeah they like to come out like flip-flops
in those days they
would wear the brown socks with the right you know with their slippers and yeah
and then just stand there
and just smoke a cigar with a miserable look on their face and look out over
the water yeah and that was
the the sign that they had made they had moved from the city and that's right
and but it that
was a town where it was like there was just this idea that you you you minded
your business yeah yeah
not in like any like we weren't like in the mob clearly but you still just
there was a value to like
mining but even with your opinions about other people were kind of private
right gossip we get your ass
kicked yeah or you just wouldn't you wouldn't open your mouth about something
you didn't know about
really because you didn't know who was listening that's right but now that's
all over like those mob
guys they rat on everybody no one kills them and they get like reality shows
well i tell you yeah i have
a thing in my show about how they have podcasts they all have podcasts right
there's all the mafia has
it's horrible i mean a good podcast though are they really you ever listen to
any of those i feel like
they get old after episode three clips yeah right i mean after a while it's
like we get it yeah but
that whole so your show is like basically looking at this thing that's happened
where everybody is kind of
ready to pounce on everybody else yeah well no yeah it's more yeah it's a lot
of it's a lot to do with
small talk and and the lack of small talk and what it means in the big picture
what small talk meant
for communication which eventually leads to podcasts and you know it's
communication that's what it's
about but it's about small talk yes everything you do is always it's it's
always worth it because
you're one of those comics who like you actually write and you write the whole
show is yeah written
and rewrite all you don't have to do that now like most people now are just
kind of doing crowd work
i don't know if you know that but they ask people where they're from or right
how long they've been
the person next to them right you choose to write a whole show about a topic
why do you commit yourself
to that doesn't that feel like a dying art well this show has a little bit of
crowd work because i talk to
people in small talk right like i give examples and i ask people i make them be
in my conversation
okay so it's not really asking them questions gosh it's more like me making
them interact with me in
a small yeah scenario so but um it is a dying art but you know what i'm a dying
man i mean what am i
you're all done what am i 25 i mean you know it's fine yeah i know yeah but you're
good you had the heart
attack but you're back you lost a heart attack everything's great yeah
everything's i wouldn't say
everything's great but i would say everything's uh it's just good it's good
yeah it's a solid but
in the grand scheme as i was telling frank before the show yeah um i was saying
in an ideal world
stand up i'd rather do like the thing we were working on like i'd rather direct
i'd rather write
and direct than just at a certain point you hear your voice and i'm like am i
still talking we were
pitching a movie and then one of the women on the pitch had like blue hair and
i went this might not go
well you i i knew from the beginning there was something weird going on there
they no here's
why i knew it was a problem because the people on the pitch i could tell they
were like hey they
dragged a couple of interns and go we want you to sit there and listen to this
pitch right and they're
like oh okay and they're just sitting there like we we don't belong here we don't
know what's going on
we're not we're not the gatekeepers no it didn't feel like coffee they're they
one of them holding
a tray of coffee that they're supposed to give to them right and then they're
like okay and then we
did the pitch i was like no they just didn't seem super interested because it's
subtle it's irish
it's a great idea we had a great idea for a movie and they didn't they weren't
into it
it was about an irish family and when did we pitch that two years ago maybe two
and a half two years
ago it could have been three years for all i know three years ago there was not
a huge appetite for
a story about an irish family as shocking as it seems today we went into netflix
and we went we have a
story about an irish family and they looked at us like we said we wanted to do
like something we wanted
to do like a teen comedy about the charlottesville march like they were like
they were like this is
not fit yeah yeah and it's crazy because you know it's it was really you could
you could see where it
was gonna go it was gonna be really interesting i think maybe it's gonna be
funny things are changing
though maybe this you know who knows in the future something might that would
be great i mean it's still
the same you're still the same character we're still the same and we're gonna
have tim dylan because
this is why gary ramsey came in handy yeah tim was gonna be the lead singer in
a bar band
also so you're gonna get to hear that tim dylan singing i mean would that not
have been fun it's
funny already yeah funny already and netflix in their infinite wisdom said no
yeah but um yeah everybody's
just you know we were crazy to try to do it that way but here's what let me ask
you this yeah in in the
ideal world since you seem to have more of a business acumen than i ever will i
don't but
well well like you did you had a you had a real job for a minute in finance
well real the fbi would
characterize it as um a uh an issue but yeah yeah yeah i mean it's not yeah i
mean well everybody's
a monday morning quarterback including the feds who do you think they you don't
think they got mortgages
but i mean many of the companies i work for were raided good point they were
they people did come
in and want files again country of rats
it's like yeah yeah but it's not i just love the idea of like you