By Briyah Paley

Colin Quinn, former star of Saturday Night Live, performed at Blackman Auditorium Saturday night as a part of the Homecoming Weekend’s celebration.

Since leaving Saturday Night Live after five seasons, including a run as the Weekend Update anchor, Quinn has been busy writing stand-up routines and creating a second television show which he will star in.

Quinn, 43, lives alone in Manhattan with his dog. He doesn’t have a girlfriend at the moment, and of rumors that he is gay, he insists he is not.

“All I said [on the Howard Stern Show] was that I had a gay streak when I was 13. People made a big deal out of it,” he said.

Quinn grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Stony Brook University in Long Island for a year and a half.

“It really wasn’t for me. I don’t know where I thought I was, but I wasn’t at college. And the movie ‘Animal House’ had just come out,” he said.

He began waiting tables and bartending to make ends meet, although being raised in the city made it easier to stay there.

“I was always a real cut-up, and everyone said, ‘You should be a comedian.’ I knew I should do it, but I was scared, so then finally I just did it. At the clubs, I started doing the open mikes,” Quinn said.

So why did he leave SNL? Quinn attributes it to “murky circumstances, like college.”

“I wouldn’t say I had to leave, but it was time to go,” Quinn said.

He was the news anchor on the show during the Clinton scandal, and when asked if it was fun to poke fun at the President, he said, “It was a lot easier to do news then, than any other time.”

Last year, Quinn was given the opportunity, by NBC, to create his own TV show. In March, The Colin Quinn Show premiered, but was canceled after just three episodes. With his signature sarcasm, he says it was a “smashing success.” He is now launching a new version of the show on Comedy Central in December.

“We’re rehearsing it now. It’s going to be done live on tape,” he said. “It worked so well the first time, why not bring them back.”

Quinn also has a part in the new Jerry Seinfeld documentary, “Comedian.”

“I know Jerry, and he said to come by [the New York club] The Comedy Cellar. I could have been in more, but I said, ‘Hey, man, quit having those cameras around when I’m talking.’ I could have been a goddamn big part in that. But you should see it, just to see the amount of weight I’ve lost since then,” he said.

Quinn says he chose to come to Northeastern because the movie “8 mile’ was sold out. His act was mostly about people’s behavior and what bothers him. He also gave men advice on what women want to hear.

“I get material out of the little things that bug me a lot. The little things in life,” he said.