Dennis Miller was booted from SNL ?

[pinkpops]

Besides not being funny, what was his problem?

[blondeatlast]

1. Where did this come from?

[Fenris]

2. Um...did he act do any skits besides crapping up the fake news?

I don't remember him.

Maybe they fired him because he refused to trim his mullet.

[pinkpops]

3. I think he did the fake news show that tina and jimmy do now

[HFishbine]

4. Miller

orginated Weekend Update and he was fantastic. That is what makes his fall all the more tragic.

[Whitacre D_WI]

5. Um...

Chevy Chase was the first Weekend Update anchor. Miller didn't originate crap (unless you count the booty-shaking Statue of Liberty in the WU intro).

[HFishbine]

13. You're right

That's right. It was Chevy (d'oh!). Miller still did it best.

[ikojo]

22. Oh NO Miller did NOT do the best on Weekend Update

What about Jane, you ignorant slut! and the host of insults that followed...to a middle school student (which I was at the time) it was a GOLDMINE of insults!

Oh yes!

[Bunny]

7. Um, I seem to remember a Weekend Update

with Chevy Chase, so doubtful that little Denny started it.

[blondeatlast]

9. Oh, kids, no, no, no . . .

Weekend Update was on from the very beginning, back when Chevy Chase was funny.

You kids and your poor education in history!

[Bonobo]

11. Did you really just say that?

Check yer facts. SNL started in '75 I think. Dennis would have been about 19, probably.

[MrPrax]

14. "I'm Chevy Chase, and your not!"

Chevy Chase even had a tag line when he was the original anchor...made drug jokes and hassled Gerald Ford and announce that 'Franco was still dead'

Then Curtin/Ackroyd did it for awhile (like the format they are doing on SNL with Fey/Fallon)...but WU has always been a part of the show.
Kevin Nelon did it, Neil McDonald did it and for a couple of years Dennis Miller did it...

Lots when you think about it...

[Scurrilous]

16. Weekend Update Anchors:

A trip down memory lane....

-Colin Quinn(1998-2000)

-Norm McDonald(1994-1997)

-Kevin Nealon(1991-1994)

-Dennis Miller(1985-1991)

-Christopher Guest (1984-85)

-Brad Hall (1982-84)

-Christine Ebersole (1982)

-Mary Gross (1981-82)

-Brian Doyle-Murray (1981-82)

-Charles Rocket (1980-81)

and Gail Matthius (1981)

-Bill Murray (1978-80)

and Jane Curtin

-Dan Aykroyd (1977-78)

and Jane Curtin (1976-80)

-Chevy Chase (1975-1976)

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. maybe he went out like Artie Lang on MAD tv

too much coke.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

8. Which one was Artie Lang?

[THUNDER HANDS]

10. the fat, Italian guy

He's now on the Howard Stern show.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

12. Yeah. I don't remember him.

I guess I just remember Will Sasso.
Duckie

[stanwyck]

15. Who's worse, Dennis Miller or Colin Quinn?

I mean, both are excrutiating to watch. Miller is all giggles and smugness. Quinn is as inept as Bush. he stumbles and fumbles and can't tell a joke. Didn't Quinn have a WU stint? Maybe there's a curse on WU. Chevy hasn't been doing so hot lately. I hope Tina and Jimmy don't get the curse. I think Norm and Kevin may have a touch, though.

[St. Jarvitude]

23. Kevin and Norm are two of the best

The only other time I've seen Kevin Nealon in a non-movie role was a standup on Comedy Central, and he was great! Fantastic writing for WU, great use of puns, and fantastic coordiantion with the "screen."

Norm's humor was great too, and it's awful to see SNL reruns and listen to the lack of laughter from the audience. Usually he'd have to follow up a GOOD joke with a bad joke about himself to get the audience to laugh at all.

Tina and Jimmy are pretty good - the first duo since Chevy and Jane.

[Paragon]

17. I never heard that Miller was "fired" from SNL

He very well may have left, as the performers do when they want to move on to other projects. As I recall, he left the show because he was offered a late night talk show which died almost as fast as Chevy Chase's did.

You may be thinking of Norm MacDonald, who WAS fired by the head of programming at NBC for "not being funny".

[Fenris]

18. I thought Norm did the best "Update"

His humor was so dry, though, that it went right over the audience's head. I, however, find almost all of his lines hilarious. I suppose he was much too deadpan for the thick SNL audience.

[Paragon]

19. He can be funny, but putting him at Weekend Update was a mistake

Norm's funny, but he's not necessarily literate - which is probably necessary even when you're doing "fake news". I actually liked Colin Quinn when he did it - his delivery was not great, but the writing was almost always sharp.

[Fenris]

20. What do you mean by literate?

Because if you do a comparison between Norm and Quinn, Norm at least could get his lines out without screwing up. Watch "Tough Crowd" and see how well Quinn can read and speak.

Maybe you meant literal, in which case, I totally agree. Norm's jokes were terribly abstract.

[Lurker Number001976]

21. Most people seem to either

love Norm a lot, or hate him. I've always been a huge fan of the deadpan style of comedy. I didn't care much for his ABC sitcom though, but loved the one he had one FOX last fall. It's a shame they didn't give it a real chance.

[fudge stripe cookays]

24. Or Charles Rocket...

during that season no one remembers (the writers were completely cowed by a despot manager who took over for Lorne Michaels).

He became famous for actually saying the F word on national TV! And no one's heard from him since...

[EstimatedProphet]

25. Almost no one has heard from him...

He was in "Earth Girls are Easy". Funny movie, with CR as a doctor engaged to Geena Davis who treats her like an object...at least, until the aliens land in her swimming pool...

[Philostopher]

26. He did the video for Tom Petty's

"You're So Bad." He was the song narrator's 'sister's ex-husband.' Ain't seen him in anything since then, though, you're right he kinda' disappeared. Might try running him on IMDB.com, if you're really interested. He probably gets bit parts on TV shows.

You're also right that was a sucky season for SNL. That was the year I quit watching every weekend, which I'd done since about halfway through the first season (I was about 12 years old, and I watched it anyway because my parents didn't stay up late enough to watch it, so they had no idea). I've never gotten back on the bandwagon -- it just seems to suck less and more, but never really be as good overall as it was the first few years.

[lpbk2713]

27. He would never shave or bathe or comb his hair.

He was just a slob in general.

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