Great bit from Colin Quinn's Red State, Blue State special on Netflix.
“It’s been really fun watching comedy become woke. Bloggers tell me all the time ‘don’t you know you’re supposed to evolve with your audience’. And that’s true. That’s exactly why I got into comedy, so I could march in lockstep with society’s contemporary conventions. I wanted to conform to the status quo. They said Colin ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ I said ‘I don’t care as long as I get to reinforce mainstream opinion’. They were like ‘you sound like you’d be a good comedian.’”
An interviewer asked Quinn: “Many fellow comedians revere you, do you ever give them advice?”
The only advice I could ever give is if you’re not writing new stuff a lot, you’re going to stagnate. It’s almost like the opposite of musicians. Musicians, with a few exceptions, the first couple of albums are their best, and then they just kind of can’t really capture that magic. With stand-up, you can’t rest. Nobody’s gonna say “play your hits!” you know, very rarely. So you have to keep writing. The more you do it, it gets easier that you know what direction to focus on when you’re writing. But you have to keep working at the same pace your whole career. There’s no coasting in stand-up.
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