Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn was a comedic talk show which aired on Comedy Central from 2002 to 2004.

On December 9, 2002, Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn debuted on Comedy Central with an eight-episode test series, which ran Mondays through Thursdays, until December 19, 2002.

These exchanges were the inspiration for Tough Crowd.

DiPaolo, Norton and other Tough Crowd alums now make semi-regular appearances on Fox News ' Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld, which is a similarly-themed comedic panel show, albeit with a predominantly conservative angle.

On September 26, 2003, Comedy Central aired an hour long Tough Crowd themed stand-up comedy special called " Tough Crowd Stands Up " hosted by Quinn and featuring stand-up sets from the show's seven regulars: DiPaolo, Giraldo, Gold, Norton, O ' Neal, Robinson, and Vos.

The network claimed this was only because they already had scripted / talk programming that addressed these issues, referring to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Chappelle's Show, and warned that some of the views expressed on Tough Crowd did not appeal to the demographics at which Comedy Central's current business model was aimed.

She is a lesbian, shared a relationship with her former partner, Sharon, for almost 20 years, and has two children ( Henry, 1996, and Ben, 2001 ), facts she frequently referenced in her comments on the show Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.

Colin Edward Quinn ( born June 6, 1959 ) is an American stand-up comedian and writer best known for his five years in the cast of Saturday Night Live, as the sidekick / announcer of MTV's late 1980s gameshow Remote Control and as host of Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn on Comedy Central from 2002 – 2004.

" He was not thrilled about his run on the show, declaring on an episode of Tough Crowd, " I don't miss it.

Quinn became host of Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn on Comedy Central in December 2002.

However, Tough Crowd never managed to keep the majority of its lead-in audience.

Although it was renewed through the 2005 television season, Tough Crowd was placed on indefinite hiatus in October 2004, with its " final " episode airing on November 4, 2004.

Recently Quinn has discussed what he refers to as thousands of pages of " manifestos " that he's written since his departure from Tough Crowd, but never elaborated on the contents.

In 2003, Attell began appearing semi-regularly on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.

Winstead has appeared on various shows on CNN and MSNBC as well as a panelist on shows such as Politically Incorrect, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and the public-access television cable TV / PBS program Mental Engineering ( where she was notably featured in an episode that aired following Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002 ).

He was on Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn on a recurring basis.

For two years, Norton was a regular on Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, and he was selected to be among the final twenty contestants for the second season of Last Comic Standing, but had to back out due to contractual obligations.

He appeared often on Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and is friends with many other New York comedians, including Jim Norton, Colin Quinn, Patrice O ' Neal, and Dave Mordal.

He was also a regular guest on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and hosted the short-lived American version of the British game show Never Mind the Buzzcocks on VH1.

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He was a regular on the short lived Comedy Central show Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.

Tough ... if you were a French Canadian in Montreal in the early 1940s, you did not automatically believe that this was a just war ... we tended to think of this war as a settling of scores among the superpowers.

Taking the name Weeping Tile from the pipes that are placed around the foundations of homes to draw groundwater away from the building, she did the show as a duo with Joe Chithalen on bass, and later added other musicians, Gord Tough on guitar and Chris Smirnios on drums, to round out the lineup.

When Tough Enough 4 wrapped production, DeMott did not make a return to Velocity.

She did, however, co-host The WWE Experience and act as a trainer on WWE Tough Enough.

She also served as a trainer on the third season of Tough Enough and did broadcasting duties at WWE events.

The ultimate fate of Tough Six is unknown, whether she was captured and executed or remained in the fleet until New Caprica, as she is not seen in The Plan following her exit from Cavil's bedroom and did not appear in regular episodes.

The girls did not release their debut album or " Club Kung Fu " in these countries, instead opting for a new track called " Tough Enough ".

Although he is credited as the director of the 1995 film One Tough Bastard ( a. k. a. One Man's Justice ), he was actually fired halfway through the filming and did not complete it.

Since 1999, the Professional Bull Riders ( PBR ) has hosted a Built Ford Tough Series ( originally Bud Light Cup ) event at the Idaho Center in what has been a major stop of the tour ( although they did not visit the Idaho Center in 2011 ).

After Warner Brothers released the remaining Dead End Kids from their contracts in 1939, producer Sam Katzman at Monogram acted quickly and hired several of them, including Jordan and the Gorcey brothers, as well as Chester and some of the other Little Tough Guys to star in a new series using the name " The East Side Kids.

Draper campaigned heavily on a diverse range of issues, including increases to aged pensions, veterans, increases for Medicare rebates for doctors, investing in our Schools Program, the Tough on Drugs Program as well as grants for sporting groups and community organisations.

These included " Holy Water ", " Boys Cry Tough ", " Walk Through Fire ", and " If You Needed Somebody ", all of which charted fairly well.

Other entertainment events occasionally held in the Forum include concerts, NBA exhibition games, USF basketball and NCAA Tournament games, tennis, professional wrestling, boxing, figure skating, and rodeos ( as well as stand-alone bull riding events ; the Forum has hosted an event by the PBR's premier tour, the Bud Light Cup ( renamed Built Ford Tough Series in 2003 ), annually since 1998.

team in February 2001 after Jerry " The King " Lawler quit the company, after calling his first PPV on No Way Out with Jim Ross, as well as becoming one of the trainers for the joint WWF / MTV produced reality series Tough Enough.

The game has a cartoon-like look to it, and was designed to reflect the style of campy 1960's spy films, such as the James Bond Movies, Austin Powers and Get Smart, as well as Westerns, such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die.

Although they are most remembered for the Death Wish sequels and Chuck Norris action pictures such as The Delta Force and Invasion U. S. A., and even the vigilante thriller Exterminator 2 ( the sequel to 1980 ’ s The Exterminator ), Cannon ’ s output was actually far more varied, with musical and comedy films like Breakin ’, Breakin ’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, The Last American Virgin, and the U. S. release of The Apple ; period romance pictures like Lady Chatterley's Lover ( 1981 ), Bolero, and Mata Hari ( 1985 ); science fiction and fantasy films like Hercules, Lifeforce and The Barbarians ; as well as serious pictures like John Cassavetes ’ Love Streams, Zeffirelli ’ s Otello ( a film version of the Verdi opera ), Norman Mailer ’ s Tough Guys Don ’ t Dance, Andrei Konchalovsky ’ s Runaway Train, and Shy People ; and action / adventure films such as the 3-D Treasure of the Four Crowns, King Solomon ’ s Mines, Cobra and American Ninja.

After the game, Haddix received many letters of congratulations and support, as well as one from a Texas A & M fraternity which read, in its entirety on university stationery, " Dear Harvey, Tough shit.

However, Tommy ( credited as his birth name, Tommy Erdelyi ) stayed to produce Road to Ruin, as well as a brief comeback for 1984's Too Tough to Die.

Hill has recorded albums with Marnie Stern, Tough Guy Fantasy / Arctic Boys, Flössin, Crime in Choir, Nervous Cop ( with drummer Greg Saunier of Deerhoof and harpist Joanna Newsom ), Damsel ( with guitarist Nels Cline ), Friend / Enemy ( with Tim Kinsella, Sam Zurick, Todd Mattei, Jim Becker, Graeme Gibson, Caryn Culp, Emma Grace Lansangan, Nick Marci, Chris Powell, Azita Youssefi ), Zach Hill and the Holy Smokes ( whose first release was accompanied by a 138-page book written and illustrated by Hill ), as well as playing drums for Chino Moreno's band Team Sleep, The Ladies, Kenseth Thibideau and Marty Anderson's band Howard Hello and Jeordie White and Chris Goss's band Goon Moon.

The album included " Tough Enough " and " Don't Go Too Fast ", as well as numerous other tracks, such as " When The Indians Cry " and " Liar ".

Its successors, Alright Guy ( 2001 ) and See If I Care ( 2003 ), were all certified platinum as well, while 2005's Tough All Over and 2007's Greatest Hits were both certified gold.

He worked as a contributor and satirist for MSNBC and has appeared on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, The Tonight Show, Larry King's Weekend, and Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder, The American Comedy Awards, as well as his own HBO comedy special.