Dennis Miller To Host New Primetime Talk Show For CNBC

[TheWebHead]

CNBC and NBC Studios have signed an exclusive, multi-year deal with Emmy Award-winning comedian Dennis Miller to host an hour-long primetime program debuting in January 2004. The announcement was made today by Pamela Thomas-Graham, President and CEO of CNBC.

Said Miller: “With all that’s going on in the world today, it’s nice to have a nightly platform to air my opinions. I’m happy to be back in the NBC family.”

“Dennis’ blazing wit and razor sharp insights have made him one of the most provocative and noted voices of our time. We are thrilled that he has chosen CNBC as his new primetime home,” said Thomas-Graham. “Our audience demands smart and sharp programming, and Dennis’s new show will more than deliver on those expectations.”

“Having Dennis Miller return to the NBC family is one of the most exciting things to happen to us in years,” said Jeff Zucker, President, NBC Entertainment (who also oversees NBC Studios). “His wit, uncanny takes on life and fearlessness have made him a popular figure -- and this is the next logical step in his brilliant career.”

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I guess that means those Friday Faux News commentaries are over now.

[Cush]

1. I smell a ratings bomb

or does CNBC actaully get higher ratings than MSNBC?

[Paul Hood]

5. I think your sense of smell

is right on the money. He'll probably get the same .2 or .3 rating that all the other NBC cable shows get in primetime. Not that it will matter as long as he is towing the right line.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Can Y'all realize what a NICE country the USA would be

. . . if y'all had people like Bill Cosby and Dennis Miller running it??

. . Heck, the love flowing out of the rest of the world would be unbearable

. seems the present Admin likes hate

Just My Humble Canuk Opinion

[DeathvadeR]

43. Dude are you knockin Cosby????

Cause them is fighting words.

[RadioFlyer]

45. Zackly

Bill Cosby has been my favorite since 5th grade (back in the 60s). He's a good man. And damn funny.

"THUB THUB!" Chicken heart!

[pruner]

3. the next logical step in his brilliant career?

the two most recent steps having been losing his show on HBO & getting booted from ABC Monday night football.

it's hard to tell who's more desperate at this point… Miller or CNBC.

[LeighAnn]

14. This should put a stop to the Senate rumors

or whatever it was people were boosting him up to run for in '04.

[dolstein]

4. There ought to be a law against this

Miller has been mentioned as a potential challenger to Barbara Boxer. Giving Miller a TV show amounts to a huge in-kind contribution to his campaign. If Miller declares, he should have to pay CNBC back the value of all the free airtime he has received.

[baby_bear]

7. Good point, dolstein

But is there any such regulation or law? I really don't know.

s_m

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

27. No law.

It would only be a problem after Miller declared as a candidate. We had the same problem here with a County Commissioner candidate who was doing a radio talk show. Kept on the doing the show for weeks after he declared; but of course, since he was a Republican, nobody did a damned thing about it.

[Tuttle]

32. Didn't Reagun repeal the Fairness Doctrine?

I'm pretty sure that Reagun was against fairness and ended fairness, as we know it, during his term of office: this allows the drug-addled Limbaugh to rail on for three hours a day, five days a week, explaining how great Bush is and how evil Clinton is - and he gets paid millions for all this free political advertising.

Pretty good deal if you're a fascist!

Tut-tut

[xxqqqzme]

10. well, I guess that makes sense.

After this fails, he'll have 2 try the government trough cuz corporate TV will B finished w/ him.

[RadioFlyer]

12. Miller Won't Run

Rumor is that Tony Strickland will challenge Boxer.

[baby_bear]

15. Strickland is SUCH a lightweight

It would be incredible to see him try to debate Boxer.

s_m

[SoCalDem]

20. Perfect timing... He can use his show to trash her ..every day

just like KABC had Bill Simon as a guest host for THREE HOURS at a time several days a week.. All they did for those 3 hours was take calls and trash Davis for hours on end..

I called the California Dem office, and they just kind of whimpered.."what-are-ya-gonna-do"?

This nonsense HAS to be stopped somehow.. Think about it.. we are not allowed to mount an effective protest because of "1st amendment" zones.. We are not allowed to get our message out at all, unless we pay through the nose for regular ads... the whole of the media is predominantly rightwinger and is on 24/7... When our guys PAY to run ads, as soon as the ad is over, the "host & guest & callers" just spend the rest of the "show" demeaning and yukking it up at the commercial they just aired..

We get little or no decent , balanced coverage, and the radical right has a 24/7 free microphone, any time they want..

[screembloodymurder]

26. You're right

We need to protest the free speech zones at every opportunity. If they put enough of us in jail, people might realize just how much "free" speech really costs.

[tlb]

33. Like Clark's stint as a commentator was a contribution ?

You may be on to something.

[Khephra]

50. Errrr...ummmmm....

Clark?

(Errr ummmm...I didn't see post 33 before I responded.)

[otohara]

6. He Will Open His Mouth, Out Will Come

a racist remark, and he will be fired. Because he won't be able to control his hateful spew like Limbaugh, or Savage.

[VolcanoJen]

22. Good prediction, otohara.

History is on our side. We should start a pool as to how long it will take...

:-)

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. ??? What's all the Hoopla against Miller ???

... Feckadee - gotta be better than that Cowboy y'all got ?

[RadioFlyer]

13. Miller

has made me laugh for years. Not every joke/line works, but he has always taken risks and not gone for the lowest common denominator. And yeah, some of it makes me just shake my head ... and I *get* obscure stuff!

I don't think he'll be in politics any time soon, talk of recruiting him notwithstanding.

[GalleryGod]

18. Where the HELL Have you been?

This DICK-Head only Emcee'd & Did Stand-up routine for a STRING of Closed door,hermetically sealed, $2,000 a head fundraisers for Bush/Cheyney '04 last Summer!:nuke:

That's What!:puke:

[0007]

28. Another junior whore that applauds this dickhead miller

is one too many, 'eh?

[RadioFlyer]

42. Hey

>>Treat people with respect. Don't be rude or bigoted. Discuss the message, not the messenger.<<

You still wanna call me a junior whore?

[RadioFlyer]

41. Well, I wasn't in...

the hermetically sealed fundraisers!

[RadioFlyer]

44. Even if

he did fundraisers, I still don't think he's gonna run. Not in the next five years. I could be wrong, but that's my impression.

[VolcanoJen]

9. So, it's safe to assume nobody at NBC read the Vanity Fair article.

Vanity Fair did a long-overdue hatchet job on MSNBC and their attempts to be ever-more Foxesque, exposing the ratings poison the network now represents...

[raysr]

11. Miller

Just like AAAnuld, when you can't get a job doing anything else, get under the covers with the Repugs!

[Democat]

16. Liberal Hollywood types should "shut up and sing"!

Except the ones who agree with everything Bush says!

[roguevalley]

17. This puff piece suffers a surfeit of adjectives.

Fearless? Razor-sharp? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! Dennis
Miller will be the next Savage weiner. Six months
and he's history.

[truthisfreedom]

19. i don't think he can maintain "funny" on a regular basis.

he's one of those comics that needs a lot of absence between viewings. and he is shaky and has tiny hands. he projects a kind of "hidden sickness" insecurity.

[SideshowScott]

21. Miller is as funny as waiting for the doctor to return with your results!

In another words:Not even a little bit..His new found right wing matras he calls jokes are just hate filled rants beacuse his career went south and he is trying to get on the right wing hatemonger gravytrain to nowhere.

[Voltaire99]

23. Listen closely, NBC "family"

My family is one whose demographic you're paying Miller to win over. But we won't be watching.

Our cable subscription allows us to get international news channels which we have done precisely so that we won't have to watch any of your garbage, or that of Fox or CNN, either.

We're voting with our remote control. Ciao, corporate assholes!

[screembloodymurder]

24. Worst comic wit

SNL ever had.

[quispquake]

25. Arianna Huffington had it right...

On Bill Maher's "Real Time" show, she (right to Miller's face) described him as Bush's "Sammy" as in Sammy Davis Junior...first time I've seen this asshole completely speechless (the audience & Maher were laughing their asses off)...

[DrBB]

29. Damning by faint praise

His wit, uncanny takes on life and fearlessness have made him a popular figure -- and this is the next logical step in his brilliant career.

"Popular figure"? That's all you got? "Logical step"? In the land of hype--that invented hype, not to put too fine a point on it--this is what we come up with?

Perhaps Zucker's enthusiasm was curbed somewhat by the knowledge that Miller's brilliant career has included such other logical steps as "sports commentator"--member that one?--and numerous other forgettable attempts to make a dent in the public consciousness. Including didn't he already have a talk show once?

[teryang]

30. Great now we are guaranteed daily posts re:

Gee, did you hear what Dennis Miller said today?

It will be right under, "Did you see tweety tonight?"

Give yourself a break from television propaganda.

[dusty64]

31. P.U!

To think outta the cable news networks this one used to be fairly watchable. Whats with this crap, giving every extreme rightwing shitbag their very own show? I thought celebrities were supposed to keep their mouths shut and their insignificant opinions to themselves. Is anyone actually going to watch this sewage or is it an attempt to shore him up for his Senate bid so they can install him in power.

[mikeytherat]

34. Guess his stint at Faux Newz is already up?

Jeez, this guy must think his resume is more impressive if it's weighed by the pound!

America's love affair with Dennis Miller to begin any day now...really! We mean it this time! You will love him this time! We swear!

And, yes, I remember him from the 80s when he was sometimes actually funny.

mikey_the_rat

[edzontar]

35. TWIN MILLERS OF EVIL!!!!!!!

Zell and Dennis.

Happy Halloween!!!

[UTUSN]

38. Beat Me to It----This Takes Him Off of Faux, No?

Doing Andy ROONEY spots on multiple Faux shows might have gotten him more exposure with a wingnut base audience than this CNBC thing. --------MULTI-years, arrrgh.

[CWebster]

36. That's it

Lately I've gotten into the habit of tuning in Tweety due to his hosting the candidates, but he is just too offensively stupid. Last night I heard him drop a contemptuous remark about environmentalists, he wasn't even thinking, it was just automatic and it got me to wondering where this mindset came from.

When I was growing up, ecology and the mission to protect and preserve the earth was a victory of hope over greed. Now people could give a shit and resent anyone suggesting their SUV obsession is irresponsible.

It has all been twisted around, and corporations have coopted green terminology while successfully demonizing environmentalists as the enemy---or for that matter, anyone who speaks up for and defends the interests of the citizens as a despised liberal.

It has been a very successful sustained marketing campaign and now idiots, like Tweety, automatically respond and people listening just accept it unconsciously: environmentalists stand in the way of progress. This makes it all so much more difficult to expose the agenda of the Right when the very forces who challenge it are disdained by those who don't even realize they are setting it up to fail. So Tweety will rant about Enron or neocons, but he will never make the underlying connection that his attitudes are responsible for empowering that corruption.

It has been a subtle campaign to derail the once noble objectives of the 60's and now Democrats are perceived as weak. Not only because of the successful campaign to portray them as weak and ineffective (note the recent repeated uniform criticism of the Democratic field as being "weak" in comparison to Bush), but also due to the internal identity crisis of the Democrats, unable to promote themselves effectively because they allowed the victimization to progress without countermeasures. Democrats feel they have to play according to Republican definitions of national security and foreign policy even though the Republicans have made a mess of it all. This, I think is why the Democrats can't fight back effectively, because they doubt their own message. And this is why Dean has been so effective--his confidence.

People sense the confidence of their leaders--witness the non-stop disaster of Bush, but at the same time the effort into portraying the Democrats as "weak". This is how the Republicans win--not on their own record, but by constantly sending out these little sound bites and suggestions that pundits like Tweety's pick up with his casual comment about environmentalists. The Democratic strategy since Clinton has been to distance themselves from what the Republicans target. And so, we are where we are, and buried somewhere on the LBN thread is a story about a group of Democrats bursting in on the Republicans trying to slice up a medicaid bill --but there it is buried.

Tweety may be stupid, but Miller is mean and sneering and they are both dangerous because they are bullies. Republicans are strong because they are bullies, Democrats have to do more than resist the bullies, they have to be strong, and being strong is Dean's greatest asset - so let's not rip him down for it.

[bushisanidiot]

37. Is He Going To Spend The Whole Hour Making Out With His AWOL Doll?

idiot.

[FunBobbyMucha]

39. Well, hold on with the complete re-write...

...I have no qualms with the present dislike of DenDen, but I take issue with the characterization of him being a complete tool for all time. I remember thinking he was brilliant on SNL, and he gave some blisteringly funny barbs directed at Bush the Elder and Rawhide. I used to find his HBO show intermittently brilliant, back when he was a centrist, or a pramatist, as he characterized himself at the time (mid-90's). I now feel completely betrayed by his about-face, and like the rest of you feel it's all about jumping that gravy train, but IMHO he 'was' a funny funny man, once upon a time. Now he can eat shit, though.

[Cat Atomic]

40. If you've got the "right" message, it's easy to get your own show, I guess

[lovedems]

46. I remeber all the hoopla when George Stephanpolous got his show

and how the thugs threw a fit because he would be promoting a liberal bias! I hope Dennis Miller fails at this like he has everything else he has touched! Brilliant career my ass! Failed career is more like it.

[caledesi]

47. Seriously, what happened to Dennis Miller? He used to be funny! nt

[okieinpain]

48. hmmmm!!! lets see about .03 I would think. of course it could

go higher if he has a lot of liberals on.

[Submariner]

49. I wonder if his former friends treat him as radioactive now?

I hope so.

Will they appear on his next lame attempt at a show. David Spade? Norm McDonald?

[Khephra]

51. Miller used to be funny

and then he got married and had kids. Now I'm not knocking people who get married and have kids, but there's an old joke about how people are usually liberal until they have daughters...in Miller's case this ended up being true. Examine his life history and work and you will notice that almost the exact moment that he has kids he starts turning into a entertainment whore, willing to appear in any ad or movie just to make a buck.

I'm not sure that Miller has even gone RW, but I do know that he tends to follow the money these days.

[NewJerseyDem]

52. Is Capital Report gone?

I think that is a pretty good show. I guess this crap will replace it. It is unfortunate that the media just consists of right wing political "commentary" and no more good news shows, particularly shows on politics. All that is left is Inside Politics which is expanding to one hour on Monday!!!