Colin Quinn

Colin Quinn is one of those comedians whose voice feels inseparable from his city. Brooklyn-bred and Stony Brook-educated, he climbed from MTV's Remote Control to anchoring Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live, and his rapid-fire, working-class New York wit has only sharpened with age. What I admire most is his range as a writer and stage performer; his solo shows treat comedy as genuine cultural commentary. There is an unpolished honesty to him that resists the slickness of modern television. To me he is a true neighborhood storyteller, the kind of sardonic chronicler every generation needs.

Name (English)

Colin Quinn

Name (Japanese)

コリン・クイン

Reading

こりん・くいん

Born

June 6, 1959 (age 67)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Boar

Origin

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / screenwriter / film actor

High school

John Dewey High School

University

Stony Brook University

• Official sitehttps://www.colinquinn.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Quinn
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2982646

Tags

• New York
• actor
• television actor
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-18

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.