Did anyone see that insane re-pig Dennis Miller on Leno last night?

[bacchant]

Bashed Kerry, Clinton, Dean, Kucinich... blew Bush...

But the most disgusting thing of all was his call for all these "unnecessary" commissions and investigations to stop. Yeah, you're quite the American, Dennis.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Give up on him. He has gone over to the dark side.

[TrustingDog]

21. Miller is repulsive

in every sense. His caustic mean-ness, his sneering ugly disheveled fuckface (invest in a razor already - or are you hiding the fact you don't have a bloody chin?), his disregard for simple good manners (notice how when he has an even slightly left leaning guest on his 'panel of head nodding jackals' he starts raging and ranting and losing control when challenged on Anything?). He should get it on with Coulter and breed little weasel litters.

[terrya]

23. His "interview" with Eric Alterman is a perfect example of your point.

Did you see that? Miller acted like a pouty little baby. Alterman had enough of it and all but walked off the set.

[TrustingDog]

27. didn't see it...

I don't watch Miller regularly, but can easily imagine how it all played out.
He's such a despicable sell-out. He really disgusts me, physically too. I feel like having a shower after hearing that slug slime coiling out of his headslit.

[Hoping4Change]

44. I saw that. Miller is pathetic. He's a Jon Stewart wananbe.

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. Welcome to DU

[TrustingDog]

38. Thanks

I like it here.
This is like my personal ugly duckling story. :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

39. It's a good place to hang out. Not to dis

the many other liberal message boards around. (And yes, there are a few. *g*) But I like the fast pace of DU. (Must be that Murikan microwave mentality kicking in. *l*)

[TrustingDog]

48. and...

there's some pretty interesting heavyweight people that look in on here...
bev harris for one.
one of my heroines.

On another board I was bringing up Votescam threads for a couple years before Bev did her thing and broke the media silence (what, a year ago? - July I believe). Of course being called tinfoily conspiracy nutjob all the while with only opposition wordage being 'They wouldn't DO that, in GOP we trust'...

[Poiuyt]

35. And to think that I used to like him

Now he's just pathetic. He thinks he's still funny, but he's just sad.

[terrya]

2. Dennis Miller is a tiny, little insignificant man.

I've decided that non-entities like him are not worth my time. He's just a dust mote on the big television screen of life. :-)

[Lestat]

3. The shit in my toilet is worth more than Dennis Miller.

[AlCzervik]

4. Didn't watch

I hate Leno. I'm curious was to what the audience response was to his comments though.

[tjwash]

12. Leno's an f-in jerk too.

He couldn't run fast enough to be the first one in line to kiss Ah-Nohlds ass the entire time he was running for governer.

[AlCzervik]

22. I don't know if this is widely known or not

but during the recall campaign Leno had Spanish subtitles on during his show, you couldn't get rid of them, i know i called The cable co. as i thought something was wrong with the box. Leno's show was the only one that had them, after the recall they went away. I think thats "Illustrious of something."

[MontecitoDem]

34. Dennis Miller is being groomed for a possible Senate run in CA

after Boxer beats Jones this time around.

Keep your eye on him!

[AlCzervik]

49. I've read that he has decided

that he has no interest in running even after Boxer trounces Jones. Judging by Miller's rating it would sure lead one to thin that he's popular in his own mind only.

[camby]

5. No great loss.

He was always an asshole. Nobody thinks he's as funny as he himself does. What a jerk.

[Jabbery]

6. He'll be on TBN soon

When your carrer is washed up, become a "born again Christian." Ever watch it? MC Hammer's on there. Kirk Cameron from that dumb 80's sitcom is on there. Efraim Zimbelist, Jr is on there for Christ's sake. Carol Lawrence. Gavin Mcleod from the damned Love Boat. All the burnouts are on there. Dennis will be poppin' up there soon, once CNBC gives him the boot everyone else has.

[Skittles]

43. and all of them are a bigger pain in the ass the second time around

nt

[Alpharetta]

7. Leno tends to the conservative

That's his market. He'll invite way more Fox and rightwing entertainers than he will leftwing.

[Alpharetta]

18. CNBC - Leno

CNBC is still a part of the GE NBC network family.

I imagine Leno goes with the flow when his bosses request a CNBC host (Miller) be given a guest slot.

[SOS]

45. CNBC + Miller = Ratings Failure

Dennis Miller's show has a 0.1 rating.
That's zero point one.
The lowest possible rating.

[Cheswick2.0]

8. I intentionally missed the show because he was going to be on

He needs to get a real job, right wing shill is being done by many many people who got there before him. How many ignorant blow hards will there be before the market is saturated? I think whatever number there was before Miller decided that schtick might revive his hopeless career. He just missed the boat and he doesn't know yet that he missed it.

Hello Dennis, when the country swings back to the left, we don't want you back. Air America won't be calling. We won't be watching your HBO specials. Go pump gas, gasbag.

[Dogmudgeon]

9. Such a shame!

His unrequited love for born-again Victoria Jackson on SNL led him to a political epiphany in imitation of The Gipper. She married her old boyfriend anyway.

Love makes us do crazy things.

--bkl

[progdonkey]

Too busy watching Michael Moore on Letterman

Last night was a picture-perfect example of why I watch Letterman instead of Leno (besides the fact that Leno gives "hackney humor" a new meaning).

[Deja Q]

10. What a crackpot. Those investigations are warranted. We STILL don't know

anything about 9/11 except the LIHOP aspect.

How about those secret ENERGY meetings that happened before 9/11, as just one example? If they had been fuel for the fire we're burning in...

[joefree1]

11. Nope, I was watching Michael Moore on Letterman

I haven't watched Leno in years. He's a republican shill.

Dennis Miller is just boring.

[Eric J in MN]

14. Qutie a contrast.. It is partiotic to try to learn the truth about govt

Michael Moore partiotically trying to get at the truth.

Dennis Miller unpatriotically trying to shut out the truth by closing down investigations.

[playahata1]

13. Is Leno the ONLY forum, besides his own, that will have that has-been?

With so many parallels to the Nazi regime that are being manifest here and now, I can imagine the number of entertainers/artists who either wholeheartedly supported -- or were forced to at least pay lip service to -- the Third Reich. (The Reifenstahl woman immediately comes to mind.) Dennis Miller can be likened to such people.

[slor]

15. Dare I ask...

how did crowd respond?

[bacchant]

24. I was channel surfing and missed the beginning, but

even with the applause prompters the applause seemed spotty at best. A lot of his "jokes" fell flat and were greeted with silence. When people did clap, I'd estimate it was 1/4 to 1/3 the audience. During the next guest's time he made reference to an apparent heckling from the audience, which I either missed or was edited out for broadcast. Such an extreme loser.

[kentuck]

16. Dennis Miller is a self-promoter -- just like Chris Matthews...

He goes whichever direction he thinks the wind is blowing to keep himself visible and employed on our airwaves...Unfortunately, he is having a little trouble with his directions at this time...

[bacchant]

29. You'd think he'd dial it back a bit, chastened by the lack of WMD...

But he's going for broke, rabid dog style.

[terrya]

BTW: Does "Dennis Miller" still pay people to be in the audience?

That never ceases to make me laugh. :-)

[Rex]

17. Miller is now lower than Rush and Hannity

Fucking turncoat.

[blueknight]

20. dm is nothing....

more then a publicity whore. i used to like him, but he will say or do anything for money. he has no convictions. when bush loses( which he will) i hope everyone in hollywood blackballs that turncoat fucking,chimp sucking, miller

[rumguy]

19. Miller's show is dead last

No one watches it...

[jasmeel]

25. I think it's interesting that Miller was on at the same time as

Moore, it just demonstrates the feud between those two guys as well as the real differences! I, of course, watched Moore but would also be interested to see how the audience responded (I hope it was boos but I know better).

[chaumont58]

26. I caught a few seconds of his CNBC show recently, and....

he announced that we would all be driving Russians cars but for Ronnie Raygun. Where does he get his history? Comic books?

[GingerSnaps]

28. His friend Dana Carvey is trying to get in on the deal

I watched Dana on Letterman and he kept his skit going on Clinton, Gore and Kerry and he did a short segment on Bush.

He was trying to milk his old comedy routine for laughs.

I turned the channel and accidentally landed on Miller and i felt like puking.

They both suck and any movie that they are in sucks as well.

[Khephra]

32. Dana turned whore when he started hanging out with Bush Sr.

Look back at his old SNL Bush skits. None of them were really nasty towards Bush, they were more like Bush just acting a bit over-the-top. He got more jokes by talking funny as Bush than doing any actual political satire.

[TrustingDog]

42. What is it about humourlessness and Repugs?

Caught a bit of that Dana interview too. What the hell has happened to him, or was he never funny?
He sounded like a witless dullard.

[Hoping4Change]

46. Great point.

welcome to d underground. :hi:

[TrustingDog]

47. thanks for the welcome.

but seriously.
am I just seeing/hearing things by my own skewness?

Take some 'lib' like comedic commentators like Bill Maher and Carvelle (from crossfire), Moore, just for examples. They have a hell of a wit about them and make their points so exquisitely and seem to have a great time using their gifts.

And then you have Miller and Coulter and Rush, who just leak with sarcasm and disgruntledness and flat out unbridled misdirected hatred.

[Hoping4Change]

51. I don't think it's skewed thinking at all.

Repukes are those who value conformity, personal restraint, conservative community values, extreme religiosity etc. These values are antithetical to humour. The vast majority of repukes take everything literally and that limits humour. And repukes do not value irony which is the life blood of humour (I read a very interesting article about that).

Therefore what they have available is sarcasm and vicious put-downs, humour associated with many adolescents.

[RebelOne]

31. I can't believe you had the stomach to watch him.

Hope you didn't get sick afterward.

[Khephra]

33. My feelings for Miller changed as soon as he got his HBO show

and he started it off by making fun of his callers who were asking serious questions.

[TrustingDog]

40. ditto.

There once was a time where I appreciated his wit even though I rarely agreed with him. But now his mask is off and a venomous forktongued snakehead sits on his silk tie knot.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

36. I've stopped watching Leno ever since becoming..

..interested in politics.

The fact that he's sympathetic to the right-wing, while Letterman is clearly a patriotic American who leans Democrat, makes the choice obvious to me.

Dennis Miller's name isn't worth mentioning. He's a straight-up freeper type, it's almost disgusting. He seems as though he's being paid by the RNC, its that bad.

[The Blue Knight]

37. Been watching more TV than I usually do this last week

Because my computer was going whacky.

Anyway, I've watched some Dennis Miller the last 3 nights...and I just don't find him funny in the least bit. And, if a joke is funny...I'll laugh. (Like when John Stewart makes fun of Kerry)...but Dennis Miller isn't funny at alll...even when he's not talking politics.

I hope CNBC cans his ass soon.

[testing123]

41. Dennis Miller is washed up

He could clean monkey cages out at the zoo for a living instead of talking shit he would be cleaning shit.

[donhakman]

50. He is not as evil as you think

As an opportunist with no opportunities coming his way, he held a wet finger in the wind and decided he could make a living off of the kill or be killed crowd.

Sad thing is ... he's just not very good at it.