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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStephanie Miller Is Rallying Millions Against Trump.
...Miller does what she does seamlessly blends a mélange of fart jokes, bleeped-out profanities, morning zoo slide whistles, harp tinkles, parody songs skewering Trump (Bob Dylan's "Tangerine Man" repurposed as a Trump diss) and Ginsu-sharp wit into what may be the smartest, sharpest, funniest, fiercest progressive political comedy soufflé on the planet.
Miller does not boast the name recognition of, say, a Samantha Bee or John Oliver or, ahem, Bill Maher. Her shows are unlikely to generate the kind of water-cooler chat borne of, say, Melissa McCarthy rampaging through a press gaggle on a weaponized lectern or Alec Baldwin as Trump blowharding "believe me" in a Saturday Night Live cold open. She doesn't break bombshells the way Rachel Maddow does, or make Trump lose his shit over a particularly blue zinger à la Stephen Colbert.
Miller is perhaps the underground's answer to those celebrities if someone belonging to the underground can host Hollywood A-listers for dinner and reach millions of households (and cars) across the country. In the last six months, she has emerged as one of the nation's most influential radio personalities, conservative or liberal (and yes, that includes Rush Limbaugh), certainly the most consequential to be operating without mainstream fame.
"I listen to Steve Colbert every night, and I love what he's doing," says Lily Tomlin, the comedic icon and Miller's mentor, who currently stars in the Netflix dramedy Grace and Frankie. "But there's something about Stephanie's show, the fact that it's longer format and they can talk in a different way, like a conversation. I just see it as having compassion and being a true person and being a true human being and being able to relate to everything in a more sensitive, human way. I just wish we had so much more."
http://www.laweekly.com/news/the-stephanie-miller-show-is-rallying-millions-of-listeners-against-trump-8347794
Ilsa
(61,721 posts)She has Rep. Jackie Shectner (sp) on regularly, and Carol Burnett's daughter Jodie Hamilton, and comediennes "Frangela" are on Fridays. The show is usually a hoot.
OnDoutside
(19,990 posts)Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)rurallib
(62,495 posts)she was one of the people that did much of the grunt work putting the ACA together.
Her insights on the ACA and health care are incredible.
She also has Charlie Pierce, Bob Tomasky and John Fugelsang on regularly.
It is a hoot!
louis-t
(23,321 posts)I don't have Dish anymore.
Cary
(11,746 posts)louis-t
(23,321 posts)Stupid computer.
wryter2000
(46,150 posts)They carry the Albuquerque station
DAMANgoldberg
(1,278 posts)880 The Revolution from Asheville NC.
freespeech.org 9 to 12 est
rurallib
(62,495 posts)freespeech is about the only left wing TV there is.
And I donate to them.
diane in sf
(3,920 posts)OnDoutside
(19,990 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)I love Randi too, but sometimes ya' gotta laugh or you'll have to start taking Prozax and Xanax.
bresue
(1,007 posts)dsc
(52,178 posts)DemoTex
(25,412 posts)Goldwaters running mate, Rep. Bill Miller, spoke at Notre Dame during the 1964 campaign.
At a press conference afterwards, a reporter asked Miller why Goldwater was so extreme.
Miller asked the reporter, Are you married?
Yes.
Would your wife rather you be moderately faithful to her, or extremely faithful?
End of press conference.
LisaM
(27,868 posts)for the Nuremberg trials, and a 12-year veteran of Congress. If there were any Republicans of his ilk in Congress right now, it would be a better place.
burrowowl
(17,658 posts)zentrum
(9,866 posts)....when she shared the airwaves with Al Franken, Jean Garafalo, Sam Seder on Air America. And I think that's where Rachel Maddow got her start too. Wow
c588415
(285 posts)I listen to her show, Joe Madison's show channel 126 , and Pete Dominic's show channel 124. All shows aired on Sirus XM Radio
broadcaster90210
(333 posts)nt
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)Love her show!
LiberalLovinLug
(14,180 posts)I think MSM news networks are afraid of her. When I have seen her on as a guest, which is very rare, she literally destroys any RW guest with her quick sardonic humor. She has deserved her own TV show now for a long time. But I don't think any of the corporate media wants her on TV. She is just too good, too funny, and too efficient in her job exposing the naked hypocrisy of Republicans, and she makes them look like the fools they are. Doesn't jive with the MSM false equivalency MO.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Bettie
(16,152 posts)Especially on Fridays...love Frangela and John Fugelsang usually calls in too.
cilla4progress
(24,815 posts)FSTV. Now tune in from time to time. Really like her. Silly and smart.
Saw her live in Seattle with some of her crew...including Fugelsang. Who I LOVE!