--- title: Colin Quinn description: In Trainwreck, the new Judd Apatow--directed comedy starring Amy Schumer, Quinn plays Schumer's father as a foulmouthed, bigoted philanderer with multiple sclerosis. canonical: https://time.com/3960506/colin-quinn/ author: Isaac Guzman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-16T10:11:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:18:12.782Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Colin Quinn og:description: In Trainwreck, the new Judd Apatow--directed comedy starring Amy Schumer, Quinn plays Schumer's father as a foulmouthed, bigoted philanderer with multiple sclerosis. og:url: https://time.com/3960506/colin-quinn/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Colin Quinn twitter:description: In Trainwreck, the new Judd Apatow--directed comedy starring Amy Schumer, Quinn plays Schumer's father as a foulmouthed, bigoted philanderer with multiple sclerosis. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Colin Quinn by [Isaac Guzman](https://time.com/author/isaac-guzman/) ## Isaac Guzman Jul 16, 2015 10:11 AM UTC by [Isaac Guzman](https://time.com/author/isaac-guzman/) ## Isaac Guzman Jul 16, 2015 10:11 AM UTC **So is Amy Schumer’s dad really as outrageous as the way you play him? In the movie, he teaches his young daughters to chant, “Monogamy isn’t realistic.”** Her father was this wild guy when \[she and her sister\] were growing up. A nice guy but, like, a playboy–a wild boy. But he also got MS in his early 40s. So he got a real Zen attitude because of this thing that hit him out of nowhere. He’s pretty open about his life. He doesn’t try to sugarcoat things. **On** **_Inside Amy Schumer_** **, the comedy is pretty cutting. How do you think it translated into a rom-com?** There’s an undertone of something in the movie–I don’t know if it’s a bleakness–there’s an undertone of brutality, of comic brutality. Judd captured that. **You’re doing another history-based one-man show with Jerry Seinfeld directing New York Story, which looks at the city starting with the Dutch. Why does the past appeal to you as a comedian?** Two reasons. One is, everything is history if it’s a day old. And two, because I was so bad at science and math when I was growing up that I was left with no choice. It would be like talking to a third-grader if you asked me any mathematical thing. **How do you keep up your pace of as many as 10 Twitter posts a day?** It’s a sickness, like an addiction. I have all these regulars who follow me, and they’re trying to outdo each other with creative ways to tell me they hate my guts and wish I would get hit by a truck or die in a fire. You find out that all these other people are pretty funny but not as funny as they think sometimes. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3960506/colin-quinn/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3960506/colin-quinn/"},"headline":"Colin Quinn","datePublished":"2015-07-16T10:11:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:18:12.782Z","description":"In Trainwreck, the new Judd Apatow--directed comedy starring Amy Schumer, Quinn plays Schumer's father as a foulmouthed, bigoted philanderer with multiple sclerosis.","url":"https://time.com/3960506/colin-quinn/","keywords":["movies","Interview","Amy Schumer","Trainwreck"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Isaac Guzman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/isaac-guzman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3960506/colin-quinn/","name":"Colin Quinn"}}]}] ```