CHAPTER 25

Vic Henley: Quinn was just the funniest guy in the world. And I always remember that if you bombed or it didn’t go well, Quinn was always there to say the right thing. He was always there to … ‘These people are fucking stupid. Don’t pay any attention. That was not you. That’s them. They’re fucking stupid. That goddam … That Copernicus reference.’ That’s Colin. The hardest thing in comedy Andrew, the only thing that you cannot teach in comedy, is to not give a fuck. They can’t teach that. You just have to innately not give a fuck. Otherwise you will be a nervous wreck based on every laugh or not laugh that the audience gives or takes away from you.