Dennis Miller

[SledDriver]

I saw an ad for a new Dennis Miller stand-up special on HBO, and I was just curious as to the general feeling/opinion of him is here at DU.

I remember his last stand-up special, post 9/11, where he lauded * as (paraphrased) "someone who has brought integrity back to the office of the President...". He also had that show on CNBC where he tortured a chimpanzee for an hour.

What are the DU thoughts on him? Is it worth the time to watch, even for the entertainment value?

[hatrack]

1. Wow, is he still alive?

nt

[Beelzebud]

2. I won't be watching. He is a sell-out neo-con hack.

This man went from having Bill Hicks on his HBO show, to discussing what "Rush" said on the radio while he was driving to the CNBC studio.

Fuck Dennis Miller. He's the Ron Silver of stand-up comedy.

[truebrit71]

3. Haven't paid attention to anything that whore has said in years...

...unfunny and redundant...

[donheld]

4. general feeling/opinion

:puke:

[spuddonna]

5. I used to love Dennis but I have no idea why he became a shill...

It's sad... I'd give him another chance but I can't afford HBO so I guess I won't see him anytime soon...

[ProfessorGAC]

19. He Got Fearful And Needed To Hide Behind Mommy's Skirt

He says 9/11 scared him so much it changed him as he feared for his kids. So, he admits he is a coward and an idiot. A coward to be that afraid and an idiot to think Bush would be the one to protect him.
The Professor

[FreedomAngel82]

48. Yep

Oh hold me daddy!!

[SoCalDem]

6. DM is just another fickle attention whore.

His 15 minutes were up years ago, and although I feel for him and his need to support his family somehow, he's never been that talented or funny. He must lay awake nights wondering how he can make a buck and whose ass he can kiss this time around:)

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

28. "Bordello of Blood" Tanked...

His stint on "Monday Night Football" Tanked.

He needed a gig where they'd applaud no matter what.

[zbdent]

34. Smart guy, but just not that funny

especially when he goes way over the heads of his intended audience.

Making jokes along the lines of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky (sp?) to the beer-and-brats crowd of MNF . . .

I don't recall the year, but I realized how unfunny he was when I saw him in the Front Row Theatre in Cleveland. For those who live in Cleveland, they know how long ago that had to be. It's been closed for a long time.

Rita Rudner opened for him. Now, she was funny!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

73. I thought he was funny...

His HBO special ("Black & White") was pretty good. At the time, Miller was equally willing to skewer both liberals and conservatives, and I respected him for that. It was when he decided that he was, essentially, going to become a propagandist for the conservatives that I lost respect for him.

If he changes his stripes, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Until then, however, he's just a shill.

[zbdent]

77. This was well before I really started paying attention to the media

attacks of Dems/Libs.

But he just thought his stuff was far funnier than it was. He was the only one laughing, at the end of many of his jokes/points.

This was while he still was on Weekend Update, or just shortly after he left . . . and he just was not funny.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

75. Yeah the pseudo "highbrow" jokes on Monday Night Football struck a

rather discordant note, did they not?

1) The dude was just trying too hard, and NOT succeeding

2) He obviously was not a football fan, a guy who knew anything about football, and his comments reflected it. Quite possibly the WORST MNF announcer EVER.

[pointblank]

39. I disagree

I always thought his 80's - early 90's stand-up was pretty funny.

It is a sad turn of events for him.

For awhile after 9/11 I just thought he was extremely traumatized by the whole situation, but I figured he would have come around by now.

What a shame.

[SoCalDem]

45. DM always looked like he was trying too hard..

I prefer different comedy, I guess..

I always liked George Carlin, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Robin Williams..

[pointblank]

46. I enjoy them too

I don't know, maybe Miller wasn't that funny...I will have to go back and watch again.

I just remember enjoying his dryness.

Oh well.

[raysr]

7. POS

[bunkerbuster1]

9. Is that what Dennis' new show is called?

well, it's truth in labeling at least.

[Chimichurri]

8. he's a pompous ass

who laughs at his own jokes.

[Catamount]

13. And apparantly has to pay his audiences to watch him!

[Beelzebud]

16. I heard that during his CNBC show they offered tourists free tickets

because no one was coming to the show. So tourists that were seeing the CNBC studio were asked if they wanted to watch a live show being filmed.

[kskiska]

55. All TV shows are free

but on Dennis' show the audience was paid $15 on top of that.

[stoneisland]

23. You'll be surprised to learn...

But out here in Los Angeles, you can actually make money being in the audience for various shows. Not to take Miller's side, but being paid some nominal fee is not unusual.

[Catamount]

71. Thanks for the info....and welcome to DU...stoneisland

[SidDithers]

10. I think you'll find that feelings run pretty strongly against him...

:evilgrin:

Sid

[libnnc]

11. he'll say anything for a fat check

whore. bought and paid for.

(no offense to sex workers)

[Ron Green]

12. I never liked him even when he was "funny."

He's always been a smarmy, self-referential know-it all, without one redeeming scrap of humility.

:puke:

[EstimatedProphet]

35. Absolutely

I couldn't stand him on SNL. He always came off as if he thinks he's SO much hipper than everyone, even the audience.

[Buns_of_Fire]

72. Speaking on behalf of us smarmy, self-referential know-it-alls...

...I resemble that remark. ;-)

That said, I'd be morbidly curious to see the HBO show -- just to see if his recent paddling(s) by the viewing audience did any good. Alas, no HBO. Oh, heckydurn. (But I'm sure some kind and stout-hearted soul on DU will give us a report.)

[Avalux]

14. He's a Bush-loving hawk; salivated over invading Iraq.

And aside from that - he's not funny anymore. :thumbsdown:

[ewagner]

21. If I'm not mistaken

he went on the "Campaign Trail" with Bush* in 04....

that pretty much sums it up :puke:

[asjr]

15. There is absolutely no entertainment

value in watching DM. I suppose politics can sway one's opinion and it did mine.

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. SLIMEBALL piece of shit.

That's what I think of him and his screwed up politics. I hope his career takes a huge dive straight into the TOILET.

[BlueEyedSon]

18. Scum.

[quisp]

20. Dennis who? n/t

[Crankie Avalon]

22. Never thought he was funny...

..except for the mullet he wore without a trace of irony throughout his time on SNL. The sight of THAT was always good for a chuckle.

[Skittles]

24. he is disgusting

I'll admit I liked him a long time ago, before he became a salivating bush whore

[seeminer21]

25. I think he's funny

I don't automatically HATE everyone I disagree with. I can get past that and enjoy at least SOME of his humor.

[Brotherjohn]

26. I heard his psychotic, racist ramblings about 9-11 and thought...

... Jeez, who must he have lost in the WTC to have made him so vengeful and irrational?

I mean, some of his stuff makes Ann Coulter jealous!

[stanwyck]

27. Join me.

in not watching. Whatever else is on will be better. On any channel. Pick one. And that will be better.

[Strawman]

29. That ad was on the back cover of The Nation, of all places

Wondering what the tactic is there. Is he trying to get back in the liberal fold or does he think that we'll watch just to rip on him? Maybe that's how he's selling himself to HBO, ala Howard Stern in Private Parts "oh the people who hate Dennis will watch even longer" which is bullshit.

Either way, I won't be watching. He's not funny anymore and he's not interesting. He's just boring and pathetic.

[stoneisland]

30. Dennis Miller Jokes:

"As for what many are calling racial profiling in the aftermath of September 11th, well, get ready to be pissed off, you ACLU-F***ing-Morons, we're dealing with a massive threat and limited manpower, so, you want them to check everybody out equally? Sure, fine okay, but let's at least compromise and put the Swedish dwarf a little further down the list than the Iraqi explosives expert carrying a Belgian passport with more eraser marks on it than Kid Rock's trig final."

And, of course:

The Annotated Dennis Miller Archive from MNF. http://espn.go.com/abcsports/mnf/s/annotatedmiller/archive.html

[Initech]

43. Family Guy summed up his comedy in 3 seconds:

Dennis Miller: I don't want to go on a rant, here, but America's foreign policy makes about as much sense as Beowulf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first battle of Antietam. I mean when a neo-conservative defenestrates it's like Raskolnikov filibuster deoxymonohydroxinate...


Peter Griffin: What the hell does rant mean?

[robbedvoter]

54. family Guy though makes as if he criticizes W - when in fact he kisses a*

[peace frog]

31. Have no interest in DM or his new act

nor am I likely to develop an interest in the forseeable future. No loss whatsoever.

[Jara sang]

32. Dennis who?

[Old Smokey]

33. Miller is a horse's ass

[Dervill Crow]

36. His appearance in it ruined "Joe Dirt" for me. n/t

[tmooses]

37. Not funny on MNF, not funny on MSNBC, not funny as neocon

shill.

[Initech]

38. Unfunny piece of shit right wing hack.

In fact, the only thing Dennis Miller ever said that was even slightly funny was his remark on Jerry Falwell - "Falwell says that homosexuality and abortion are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, so maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds, fat ass!"

[cyberpj]

40. He spouted PROBUSHISMS until things got bad, now says he's libertarian. nt

[npincus]

41. I haven't seen him since he buried his head up B*sh's rectum

[SOS]

42. A man without an audience

Liberals can't stand him and right-wingers can't understand him.
Which leaves him with a 0.1 cable rating.
He's finished.

[lpbk2713]

44. Miller is a no-talent punk.

He's one of those individuals who rose to the public awareness without any logical reason why. He has no talent as a comedian, he knows very little about football (even though ABC/Disney gave him a job as a commentator), and his political views are off the wall.

That chimp he had on his show was there to lend a bit of erudite sophistication to the proceedings. Sort of a counterbalance to Miller.

[FreedomAngel82]

47. That comment along makes me barf

Did he forget who allowed 9/11 to happen? :mad:

[spanone]

49. Dennis Who??? Talk about irrelevence.

A man who shit on his own audience. He has NO entertainment value.

When you have a political talk show and you start off by telling your listeners that you are giving the President a pass, you end up where Dennis is, back in comedy stores.

[JPZenger]

50. I Remember Him... He Used to be Funny

I have a bunch of his stand up comedy tapes from 10 years ago, which are still funny. Unfortunately, I haven't laughed at anything he has said since then.

[Vinnie From Indy]

51. Dennis "One Trick Pony" Miller?

That guy is still working? Root canal is funnier than his idiotic ramblings.

[TheFarseer]

52. I thought his HBO show was funny

maybe I just didn't think he was funny on MSNBC(?) because I can't laugh with someone I totally disagree with, or maybe it was a bad format for him, or maybe he's just lost his edge. It's also hard to be funny when you are going along with the establishment. I'd like to see his new special, but I have a hard time believing it will be very good.

[arbusto_baboso]

53. Miller commits the worst sin for a comic: He ain't funny!

Not only that, but he's overly impressed with his own intelligence (which is virtually non-existent, since he's fallen for the Bush-Cheney "All fear, all the time" tactic).

He believes his florid vocabulary proves how smart he is, when it's clear that most of the time he understands neither the words nor the tortured metaphors he employs.

In short, Dennis Miller is fuckwitted sellout hack. It's appropriate that he did the ads for NetZero because that's what he is : a net ZERO!

[Vinnie From Indy]

56. LOL ! Net Zero!

Perfect!

[NoPasaran]

57. His fifteen minutes were up several hours ago

:puke:Dennis Miller:puke:

[Johonny]

58. He was funny

He had a great act. His year 2000 act he did for HBO was funny stuff. He clearly at one time had very good writers and people around him. Why he ever thought his pro-conservative psuedo-intelligent quips would work is beyond me. Clearly he lost the people that use to write for him. He'd still be better than Joe Theisman on Monday night.

[oasis]

59. "Asses of Evil" :Judith Miller, Zell Miller, Dennis Miller. (eom)

[Bridget Burke]

60. I was never a fan.

And his recent political moves are pathetic.

[VOX]

61. Not funny. And "right-wing comic" is a contradiction in terms...

Good comedy comes from someone outside the mainstream, a sort of misfit who gives views, opinions, commentary etc., as an ordinary Joe.

That Miller's lips have been superglued to the collective ass of the * administration hardly makes him an outsider.

I wish he would just go away. :grr:

[mb7588a]

62. he stumped for Bush in '04.

that bumps him off of my list of "dipshits" to my list of "scum of the Earth"

[OneBlueSky]

63. I couldn't stand him when he was a liberal . . . n/t

.

[seabeyond]

64. i use to like the guy,.... i shake my head sadly. now, cant stand

his ugly mug

[Swamp Rat]

65. Dennis who?

:D

[wicket]

66. He campaigned for Bush

I won't watch his crap ever again after it became apparent the only reason he was ever funny was he surrounded himself with good writers. His show on CNBC was unwatchable.

[ronnykmarshall]

67. I try not to think about him.

[oc2002]

68. He is a chill for Bush and a old used up hack that was not even worth ..

..of having another show on FOX.

[second edition]

69. Don't care for his commedy or opinions any longer! n/t

[lonestarnot]

70. Repugnent piece of repuke crap!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

74. The "general feeling" about Dennis Miller here on DU, as you can see

from the replies, is that he is a loathsome, no-talent, sell-out shrub asskissing ho.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

76. he's probably next on CNN's hire list

at the rate they're going

dennis miller has managed to failr on four different networks in less than 10 years. stick a fork in him.