Colin Quinn, professional moron

[tahnan]

Wisdom from Colin Quinn tonight's "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn":

• The "forty acres and a mule" promise was made by Lincoln. (Not remotely true; the promise was made by Sherman. Al Sharpton claimed that "Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give forty acres and a mule"; so the misinformation was all Colin's.)


• Speakers at the convention kept talking about the economy and never mentioned 9/11. (I'd ask if he was watching the same convention that I was watching, but I doubt he was watching.)

I watch this show because (a) it's occasionally amusing, especially when the comedians rip on each other, and (b) it's on between the 1:00 am rerun of the Daily Show and the 2:00 am showing of Family Guy, so it keeps me occupied. But man, Colin's an idiot.

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but Colin was out-idioted by Ellen Cleghorne, who insisted that the 40 acres and a mule promise was in the Constitution, specifically the 16th amendment (http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxvi.html).

But I agree it's occasionally amusing (in fact pretty often because of their idiocy). Greg Giraldo's pretty smart, though. I wish they would show more of the fake press conference at the end with Ken Ober, but maybe that's just my Remote Control nostalgia.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Oh, indeed, that idiocy wasn't lost on me, either.

And it's true, there are occasional bits of intelligence--the quote at the end of my Ann Coulter rant came from the show.

[leighjen.livejournal.com]

You could go to bed.... :-P