Dennis Miller on the Daily Show..I used to like him....

[jhrobbins]

but he has turned into a jerk.

[htuttle]

1. Yeah, he's playing "Inside Comedy" right now...

...to get Jon on his side, I'd imagine.

[bobbie]

2. I'm glad you put this in general discussion and not breaking news

'Cause he's been a jerk for a long time.

[QuestionAll...]

28. vile piece of jerky.

I used to admire his wit cuz he was kinda sharp and nasty. last I saw of him on his DM show made me barf. like ipecac barf.
poisoned? just run a tape of DM.

[BlooInBloo]

39. lol! g1

[ComerPerro]

3. He showed his true colors after 9/11

back in the 90s, everyone figured he was just a satirist and a comedian, because he made fun of politicians (especially Dems and Clinton) and trashed them regularly.

But, Bush got in power, and after 9/11 Miller declared that Bush would get a free pass.


When you trash a political party when they are in power, you are a satarist.

When you trash a political party when they are out of power while praising the party in power, you are just a pathetic court jester.

[oasis]

42. "I like the cut of his jib": Miller on GW Bush.

:puke:

[ComerPerro]

44. aka: "My career is in freefall, I need to kiss major Conservative ass"

[Mojambo]

4. I was a fan

I actually started turning off him a bit before he went rightwing, but I LOVED his earlier stuff.

He's not an untalented guy, IMO. I know a lot of people would disagree with me on that.

[jhrobbins]

7. No, he is talented and mores the pity

[Liberal Veteran]

29. I can't agree he is talented....he was talented

But he left that behind. His career has mirrored his loss of talent. What he had didn't translate to being a right wing shill. The average right winger didn't get all the obscure references humor before he crossed over to begin with. In order to successful as a right wing shill, you have to talk in very easy to understand bitesize chunks. Or put more simply, Miller's brand of humor appears to be just pompous windbaggery, which let's face it, was his whole schtick all along.

[graywarrior]

5. Had to turn if off.

[Liberal Veteran]

6. There was always a thin line between his humor and being an asshole

To bad for him he crossed it a few years ago and the funny didn't go with him.

[Gabi Hayes]

19. the reason he started to get less funny BEFORE 911, which he did, IMO,

is easy: he lost his best writers.

that's all it was.

very simple

I used to like him, too. taped a TON of his HBO shows, and noted that he became less and less funny about two years before they booted him. I also noted the change in his writing staff. seemed pretty obvious to me.

did you see him try to compare Bush with Lincoln and Truman. JS wasn't having any, so he tried to bail by saying that he's never seen a president as HATED as those two during their terms of office as Bush!

guess he was asleep during Clinton, and his knowledge of history gapped up between Lincoln and Truman (like during, say, FDR????)

what a pathetic aholio he's become...laughing HARD HARDER and HARDEST at his very unfunny stuff, trying to make Stewart play along

[uncle ray]

45. where are those writers now?

[tkmorris]

8. Dennis Miller is a tool

And believe me, I usually don't use that colloquialism. It just FITS him somehow.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

25. He is, LITERALLY, a tool of the RWers. And not a very USEFUL one, either.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. He jumped the shark

after 9/11.

[More Than A Feeling]

10. When Miller was talking about making our enemies afraid of us

He looked pretty scared himself. Hugo Chavez opens his mouth, and Dennis Miller shits himself. Real big and tough of you, Dennis. I'm sure the insurgents are cowering at the thought of listening to you ramble, and that's not even sarcasm.

[zulchzulu]

11. Is Dennis a "Libertarian" now that he's too embarrassed to be Chimp pimp?

What a disgraceful has-been...

[Up2Late]

34. Most Republicans who finally wake up to the fact that most of...

...their Republican leaders, who they had been bragging about in good times, when they suddenly realize that what they have mouthing off about for years has all been a lie, they start calling themselves Libertarians.

It's a major cop-out.

[zulchzulu]

36. Ashamed Repugs = Pro-Patriot Act, Anti-Choice Libertarians

Talk about a mind meld...

[Rockstone]

12. Great skewering

I know you wake up in the middle of the night and say "I bet on the wrong horse"!

BWAAAA

[Sydnie]

13. That was painful

Colbert had better be worth waiting for tonight to make up for that mess. :puke:

I used to like Miller too. Now, not so much.

[karlrschneider]

14. Uh, yeah...like for 5 years now.

:eyes:

[rhiannon55]

15. "I'd have to do Hannity...cause I know he wouldn't like it!"

I don't like Dennis Miller either, but that was damn funny!

[never_get_over_it]

16. A few months ago I was asked to participate in a survey

on a TV comedy pilot - it played at a particular time on a particular cable station and right after they called me and asked me a shit load of questions about it - well Dennis was one of the characters - EVERY question they asked me about him I rated him a BIG FAT 0 and told them every chance I got that I think he stinks - very satisfying as I have thought Dennis Miller to be a world class shit head for A LONG TIME

[Democrat 4 Ever]

17. Hell, he isn't even funny. Thinks attacking other people is funny -

yep, he's a rethuglican. His whole spiel is making fun of fat people. Now he is backing away from repugs - he is a "Libertarian." What people who have drank the Kool Aid, make an ass of himself but can't admit he was totally, completely, horribly wrong. Miller hasn't been funny in years.

He is trying out his "new" material (all of it sounds rehearsed rather than just a conversation between Jon and a guest) and it is stupid. No, really, beyond stupid. Think Tiny Tim in his later years pathetic.

His career is in the toilet. Backed the wrong horse and now plays the fool. How nice of Jon to throw him a bone.

[a kennedy]

18. and I thought he sucked on Monday night football too.

:evilgrin: (I know this doesn't go on a political site, sorry)

[Cha]

26. Oh, you can put that on

our political site! :evilgrin:

[a kennedy]

33. Thanks

:pals:

[AtomicKitten]

20. after he failed on MSNBC, he tried playing the Libertarian card

and schmooze the left again, but this guy went wicked crazy a few years back

[Gold Metal Flake]

21. So nice that Jon would fix his destitute old friend up with some leftovers

Jon called him on that Lincoln & Truman bullshit. Totally fucked up Millers bullshit excuse gambit. Miller, Jon is your friend but he's not your monkey.

[manic expression]

22. 'Jerk' is an understatement

I think "delusional idiot with his head up his ass" works well, but that's me.

[Up2Late]

23. The "Seat of Heat question was great! (spoiler)

Q: If you HAD TO, Hannity or Colms?

He didn't understand the question at first, but his answer below.
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Hannity, because I know he wouldn't like it! :rofl:

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

40. Thanks - couldn't bring myself to watch

Tried but couldn't.

It's a snappy retort, but it ain't true. Cuz Dennis is a bottom. Got an old album of his somewhere around the house...couldn't sell it at a garage sale OR on eBay...where he describes crawling across the bedroom carpet to kneel at his wife's feet with what I'll describe as a vibrating personal appliance inserted in a very personal body cavity, and you know from the way he says it, it's not a joke.

[OwnedByFerrets]

24. He loves to laugh at his own jokes

I found NONE of them funny. Just another monkeyboy apologist.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

30. SOMEONE has to laugh at them.

Don't they? :shrug:

[BurtWorm]

27. I never liked him.

He's never made me laugh. He has always been all style as a comedian, no substance.

[TlalocW]

31. I think he did well on SNL and on one HBO special

that I still have on tape called, "Dennis Miller: Black and White," but that was when he skewered everyone or at least tried to give equal time to both sides. There's no one who can make obtuse references like he can, but intelligence-wise and in terms of thinking deeply about issues, he probably looks like he's moving in slow-mo to Jon.

TlalocW

[4nic8em]

32. Never was

worth a damn as a football commentator either...he's a vile, vile, chunk of RW spew.

[MrSlayer]

35. I thought he was funny tonight.

Until he got to the political stuff. Although the falcon line about Chavez was good. He knows he backed the wrong horse as Stewart said but he can't go back on it now. At the end of the day the right wing crowd is lucrative for him and we won't take him back if he switched again. He's stuck.

[Stu DeBeouf]

37. Miller

Be it the beer or the "comedian"...it's still; flat, yellow, tasteless, and ultimately nausiating. Either one will give you the shitz the next day...

[spag68]

38. Miller

I'm from Pgh. and I am ashamed to admit that he is too. Most Pgh. people are more tolerant and good hard working people. I don't know what happened with this creep.

[Swamp Rat]

41. Dennis Miller who?

:D

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

43. He's never gotten over the MNF swiftboating of him

The same right wingers who claim the media is liberal all the time whined and bitched about him, not knowing his politics, but assuming he was liberal, and claiming ABC was trying to bring politics into the broadcast booth. He was gone after one year. Since then, he's taken to pandering to those same assholes by being an asshole himself. He's a coward.

[Crunchy Frog]

46. I liked the "Seat of Heat" segment.

Forcing him to choose which one of Hannity and Colmes he would "do". The expression on his face when he realized what the question was really asking was priceless. :rofl:

He's an asshole, and a talentless hack. I thought Jon handled him well.

[LaPera]

47. Long ago!

[WernhamHogg]

48. I never liked him.

In his years on SNL, the only time I really remember laughing was when Dana Carvey sat next to him at the Update anchor desk; Carvey was dressed like Miller and was wearing a black wig and did a pretty funny impression of Miller. I thought that people like Norm MacDonald and Jane Curtin and a few others did a much better job as the "anchor" of Weekend Update.

I heard some of his "standup" a few years ago on the radio and he was just going on and on and on about how the election of Georgie has allowed him to "honor and respect the office of the President again" :puke: All I kept thinking about was how pissed I would be if I had paid to see someone do standup and instead had to listen to the rw talking points that he was spewing. On The Daily Show it seemed that Miller was afraid to stop talking out of fear that no one (except for himself) would be laughing at what he had to say.

[Mad_Dem_X]

49. "I'm on America's side"

I saw the rerun of this last night. He was comparing * to Lincoln and Truman, and saying "I support the troops" and "I'm on America's side," like those of us who don't agree w/the war are against America. Typical Repuke talking points. :puke:

[BoneDaddy]

50. Dennis Miller

sold out his values because he saw that the country was shifting to the right. The guy is nothing but a whore, and that is an affront to whores everywhere.