Dennis Miller Is To Comedy What Joe Is To Plumbing

[lame54]

The guy is a professional cynic and he missed out on the Bush years

A gold mine of comedy and he didn't see it

He is an incompetent in his chosen profession

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

1. It's the Emperor's New Comedy.

We laugh because he uses big/uncommon words and don't want to be thought of as stupid.

[Bake]

9. Most of us aren't laughing.

And haven't been for years.

Bake

[wildbilln864]

2. and he damned sure....

doesn't deserve any attention at all. Fuck Dennis Miller. He's bush licking scum as far as I'm concerned! :grr:

[YOY]

3. I think he saw an "untapped audience" in so called "conservatives".

Thing is, the rank and file of rural/suburban "conservatives" are more up to...er...down to the speed of "Blue Collar Comedy". Fart jokes and borderline racism is more their cup of tea over obscure pop culture, philosophical, artistic, and historical references.

Poorly played Mr. Miller. I actually can get your jokes...but the fomula gets stale after a while.

Well educated folks do tend to be a tad..."liberal" or "well informed and capable of making rational decisions" as I prefer to see myself.

[Greyhound]

4. He was funny for five minutes 25 years ago and has been riding it ever since.

Did he even write his rants?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. Exactly!

He was a novelty act, much like Tiny Tim or William Hung. Not really all that talented, but, for a short while, interesting.

I never understood why he went so far right except that he was probably a victim of his own opportunism. He had been on SNL, he had a fairly good audience, I thought, and he could have been really funny with the past eight years.

Instead, he cast his lot with the mean-mouthed SOBs, which only suggests to me that that's where his heart was all the time. He affected the "world-weary intellectual" pose, but, in fact, he was nothing but one of those rabid rightwingnuts who are jealous of those who are different from, and, presumably, happier than he is or ever was. No wonder he was such a dismal failure as a football commentator; his "observations" were so strained, I nearly got a hernia trying to listen to him.

In the end, he just wasn't all that smart or talented. And it showed.

Now, like Bill Cristol and former pResident Chimpy Fucknuts, he should just slink away and disappear. But, odds are he'll curl up in Rush's lap, suck something if he can't find his thumb, and continue his impotent bleating.

[Ian David]

5. That's right, Cha-Chee. n/t

[yellowcanine]

6. He's a political whore. What else is new?

[dbonds]

8. He only had one gimmick to start with...

He made analogies to some very obscure references. Sometimes these were funny just because the references were so out there, but even from the start he missed more than he hit. In the nineties he wasn't quite so dogmatic, but he still had some conservative politics. Since bush he has gone way to the right. He isn't all bad though, he does support gay marriage.

[11 Bravo]

10. I actually feel sorry for Miller. I think 9/11 completely de-balled him.

He is so scared shitless of "terraists" that he sees them around every corner and doubtless under his own bed. This abject cowardice has caused him to abandon any principle he may have ever held, and he will sacrifice ANYTHING to maintain the illusion of security.

[Beer Snob-50]

11. i enjoy his humor

yes he is a right wing apoligist (and that is unsettling) but i do love his humor.

[Buzz Clik]

12. Did you happen to catch Miller's opening salvo with his angry anti-Clinton rant?

This was a pre-9/11 "Bill Clinton was an embarrassment" bitchfest in which he pounded breathlessly on Clinton and announced his devotion to Bush. You could hear the echoes in empty college venues from coast to coast.

[Aristus]

13. I remember his rant about how liberals needed to stand up to the right wing. Where did that guy go?

I dumped him for good not long after September 11th. I put up with his screeds against Bill Clinton because every comedian had something to say about Bill and Hill. His POV at one time seemed to be that of a lefty intellectual fighting the religious right. That disappeared after B*sh got appointed by the SC. I got rid of all his books, all his audiobooks, and stopped visiting his website. He's a lame joke now.

[Shiver]

14. He was funny on SNL in the late eighties

I loved his stint as Weekend Update anchor.

Edit to add that Kevin Nealon was still funnier.

[lies and propaganda]

15. "Dane Cook is the Creed of Comedy"

I read that on a blog a million years ago and I always love to use it for perfect situations.. this is SO dead on too.. I liked MIller so much... so long ago!

[bkcc]

16. I disagree with your analogy...

...if for no other reason than Miller actually WAS a comedian at one point, while Joe was not a plumber as far as I know.

[CRK7376]

17. I didn't like

him on SNL years ago and like him even less now.

[rrneck]

18. He made his career about being

the smartest guy in the room then he did something really stupid when he put his message behind the righ wing.

[rurallib]

19. I think Miller took a calculated risk to become the humorist of the right

I think Miller took a chance that he could be Waaaaay out in front by going the opposite way of every one else.
I often wonder if anyone in the right wing echo chamber honestly believes what they mouth. I truly do not believe Limpy does. Considering his past I really doubt that Miller does either. For Rush, it provided a paycheck when he was down and out. For Miller, I think he was looking for a niche. Neither could ever back out, so they must play the fool forever now.
Hannity and some of the others are that fucking stupid.

[Still Sensible]

20. I think you are right

He was edgy and anti-establishment... then after 9-11, he saw that opportunity and went cuckoo.