This isn’t your dad’s cop show. On the evening of February 25th, Colin Quinn at The Creative Coalition hosted the premiere and party of Cop Show at Carolines on Broadway in New York. I come from an NYPD family; we hate cop shows. Whether they are for drama or comedy, they have a tendency to insult officer intellect and spew a lot of flat computer hacker/forensic jargon that confused audiences since the NCIS concept isn't very grounded in reality in the first place. However, I rant. I even asked Colin as much. “How do you sell a cop show to a cop?” Unlike NCIS: MIami and Brooklyn 99, “You tell him its not like an actual cop show," says Colin. “I'm not pretending to be a cop, I'm playing one.” This is a police procedural satire. The comedy is all found in the disconnect between celebrity actors and law enforcement. Colin is spot on as he plays himself playing a detective who would've been fired in a second for kicking a corpse at a crime scene. Much like Lisa Kudrow’s the Comeback, we follow Colin BTS-style in a self-serving narrative as he struggles with the question “What would a real cop do?” He visibly makes Jerry Seinfeld groan at his show’s production value as he tries to combine interrogating a perp with product placement for his sponsor, Dish Soap.
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