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.

Tough Crowd did well in the ratings and gained a loyal following ; however, Quinn was forced to battle network executives over content issues.

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.

* Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn-regular panelist

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

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By the late fifties, he regularly appeared on television: as Sean Connery's trainer in boxing drama Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1957 ), with Charlie Drake in the sitcom Drake's Progress ( BBC, 1957 ) and a title role in Three ' Tough ' Guys ( ITV, 1957 ), in which he played a bungling criminal.

Tommy: Tough shit, dude, you knew you might get arrested when you chose to come with me.

After the Union victory in the Battle of Atlanta, a Confederate army under the command of Gen. John Bell Hood briefly sparred with a vastly outmanned garrison during the 1864 Battle of Decatur, when Decatur was referred to as A Tough Nut To Crack.

Two months later it was reported that the Tough Nut mine was working a vein of silver ore across that assayed at $ 170 per ton, with some ore assaying at $ 22, 000 a ton.

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While his demeanor is typically mild and polite, Giles is not above using raw violence to solve a problem, such as physically threatening Principal Snyder into readmitting Buffy to school after her expulsion (" Dead Man's Party "), pummeling Angelus senseless with a flaming baseball bat and burning down his hideout upon discovering that he had killed Jenny Calendar (" Passion "), manhandling Spike while ordering him to get over his feelings for Buffy (" I Was Made to Love You "), forcing Glory's minion Slook to talk by inflicting a painful-sounding injury offscreen (" Tough Love "), severely beating up Ethan Rayne for information (" Halloween "), and suffocating a critically injured Ben with his bare hands to keep Glory from awakening in his body.

The following May, they followed up Hangin ' Tough with Step by Step, which featured slightly more than half of the songs co-written and produced by the members themselves.

Others who played with Dorsey were drummers Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Dave Tough saxophonist Tommy Reed, and singers Frank Sinatra, Jack Leonard, Edythe Wright, Jo Stafford with The Pied Pipers, Dick Haymes

Also, Viv Albertine wrote " So Tough " for this band, with the song eventually appearing on The Slits ' debut album Cut.

In his book Black Like Who ?, Rinaldo Walcott includes two essays (" A Tough Geography ": Towards a Poetics of Black Space ( s ) in Canada and " No Language is Neutral ": The Politics of Performativity in M. Nourbese Philip's and Dionne Brand's Poetry ) that deal with Dionne Brand's poetry and take up the overarching themes of her work.

Pittsburgh's Iron City Houserockers, kicked off the decade with immense critical acclaim for their first three albums ( Love's So Tough, Have a Good Time But Get Out Alive and Blood On The Bricks ).

In December 2010 she reunited with Higby when he directed her Tough Love special for Comedy Central that aired in the spring of 2011.

Thus, Liberal Democracy voted on 16 May 1998 to become a separate party, with Madelin launching the ' Ten Tough Choices ' programme advocating transforming the political debate in France.

The first game in the series is fully titled, which roughly translates to " Hot Blood Tough Guy Kunio ", with Nekketsu being the name of Kunio's high school.

Their first two albums, Foxbase Alpha and So Tough feature sounds chiefly associated with house music, such as standard TR-909 drum patterns and Italo house piano riffs mixed with original sounds, notable by the use of found dialogue, sampled from 1960s British realist cinema.

Giraldo was best known for his appearances on Comedy Central's televised roast specials, and for his work on that network's television shows Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, and the programming block Stand-Up Nation, the last of which he hosted.

He was a regular panelist on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.

Robert Kelly often appears on The Opie and Anthony Show on Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio, and has also appeared on Last Call with Carson Daly, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, and Premium Blend.

* Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn ( 2004 )

He was an occasional contributor to Colin Quinn ’ s late-night TV show on Comedy Central, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.

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.