Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn

Production
Comedy/Talk show
Created by	Colin Quinn
Starring	Colin Quinn Nick DiPaolo Greg Giraldo Jim Norton Patrice Oneal Keith Robinson Rich Vos
Country of origin	USA
No. of episodes	Approximately 250
Executive producer(s)	Colin Quinn Liz Stanton Ken Ober
Running time	Approximately 21 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Comedy Central
Original run	(Test) 2002-12-09 – 2002-12-19 (Regular) 2003-03-10–2004-11-04

Description

Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn was a comedic talk show on Comedy Central. The show featured roundtable discussions, inviting various guests of many views, mixing mostly comics/entertainers expressing themselves with journalists and political figures. Quinn`s regular guests consisted mainly of Comedy Central affiliated comedians from the Comedy Cellar in New York City. It aired weeknights at 11:30 p.m. ET, immediately following The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The show was similar in content to The Colin Quinn Show, Quinn`s previous TV show. 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 2004.1 The show featured Colin Quinn and four other comedian guests discussing current events and issues. The emphasis was on politics, current events and social issues. The show opened with a monologue by Quinn; after the opening crs. Near the end there was usually a sketch of some sort, followed by each of the four guests doing a brief monologue on a particular topic that was discussed earlier in the episode.