Colin Quinn's "Weekend Update" on "Saturday Night Live" - something we hadn't done since Dennis Miller made his disastrous career choice and tried a syndicated talk show. Quinn is not relentlessly hip and brittle. He's not even smooth. But he's funny and game and willing to take as many comedy lumps as he hands out. His "saves" are as funny as his jokes, which bounce off many walls. Last weekend, he took oblique shots at President Clinton ("In some kind of Freudian self-cleansing he announced he was going to have his dog Buddy neutered. ... The dog was heard to say, "Don't ever call me Buddy again'"), the droll idea that a judge might be biased against tobacco ("What is an anti-tobacco remark? Hey, I don't mind individual cigarettes, but when they get together and become a pack, then they're trouble"), and fashion foibles (the inventor of the leisure suit had died "after a long battle with bad taste"). When he signs off each week with "that's my story and I'm sticking to it," we hope he's right.
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