Dennis Miller's 4th attempt at a show already flopping?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Dennis Miller's New Radio Show: Underwhelming Station Lineup?
According to talkingradio.blogspot.com: "After a failed TV talk show and equally unsuccessful attempt to be a color commentator on Monday Night Football, Dennis Miller, will try to resurrect his faltering career, once again, on Monday with a syndicated talk radio show that will reportedly debut on 80 stations.

We say 'reportedly,' because Westwood One, which is syndicating Miller’s talk show, has only identified 11 of the stations that will be carrying the show." More of this post.
http://radio.about.com/b/a/257979.htm

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Great lineup for first show. Fellow washed-up SNLer Carvey, and a lovefest with seriel adulter/cousin-marrier Rudy, and nutjob Horowitz to shreik out the first day's procedings

Guests on his first show include: Republican Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, comedian Dana Carvey, and conservative writer David Horowitz.

Miller's website is running a series of promotional slogans about the show including:
"When he talks, it really smarts"
"I rant, therefore I am." - The King of Rants
"Part Libertarian, Part Objectivist, Part Conservative."
http://radio.about.com/b/a/257978.htm

[WI_DEM]

1. One day he'll get a game show on Fox (like Howie Mandell, though his is on NBC)

and probably shave his head.

[Richard Steele]

2. ""Part Libertarian, Part Objectivist, Part Conservative."...and none of it worth listening to.

Miller's CAREER should sue him for defamation of character.

[Czolgosz]

3. Miller sucks so bad that I don't even think I can get up the energy to boycott his lame new talk

radio show's sponsors.

[liberalnurse]

4. Who and the hell

is Dennis Miller?:shrug:




Okay............:sarcasm:

[Donnachaidh]

5. he's got to be desperate -- dragging on SNL members

whoa Denny -- maybe it's time to re-think that showbiz career? Didn't you invest your money wisely? :sarcasm:

[C_U_L8R]

6. Dennis who??

oh y'mean that guy who washed up in the eighties after a brief stint on weekend update.

hey whatever happened to Joe Piscopo ? he wasn't very funny either.

[pretzel4gore]

22. i loved the Whiners!

:rofl:

[edbermac]

7. Dennis, give Lorne Michaels a call about your old job on SNL.

It's your only hope.

[Sir Jeffrey]

8. Dennis Miller is PROOF...

that if right wing financiers want you to "catapult the propaganda", you are guaranteed to have a job that allows you to do so.

[melody]

18. Long as you don't mind losing your soul and all your integrity at the same time n/t

[Sir Jeffrey]

21. I'm sure he's making bank though...

I've been told there is a lot more money on the other side.

[MistressOverdone]

9. How did Dana Carvey get

into that line up?

Miller's show are bad because humor and anger don't go well together.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

13. Carvey's a rightwinger

Always has been. Caught a minute of his prerformance on Leno recently. He was recycling old routines from his HBO special verbatim for Dennis. Still doing Perot, Carson and Bush Sr. bits. Despite the fact that all emn have been retired from public life (and one is dead) for over a decade.
The man seriously needs some new material. He's becoming the Rich Little of his generation (and that's not a goofd thing)

[MistressOverdone]

15. I had no idea he was a Republican

I thought he had dropped out of the limelight because of his heart.

But he sure was funny...the Church Lady, Wayne's World. I liked him on SNL.

[Johonny]

20. I'm pretty sure he did drop out because of his heart

I thought he was funny back then too. Never heard his political views before... I doubt you'll hear them on Millers show either. My guess Danna is on for a few jokes to kill time. Really who want's to listen to Dennis Miller in any format these days?

[melody]

17. Carvey doesn't have new material because most of the people he ripped off are dead

or out of the business.

[MistressOverdone]

25. You mean most of the folks he impersonated?

Or are you saying his material for the Church Lady, Wayne, etc., were stolen from another comedian? I have never heard that.

[melody]

36. No, I mean he filched stuff off other comics

A lot of comics do. It's not well-known by the public, but it is well-known among comics and
those who know them. It's one of the reasons Robin Williams (when he did stand-up) was disliked.
He used to rip-off other comics' routines.

Carlos Mencia does it also. Dana Carvey did this, too.

[MistressOverdone]

42. Well, that just isn't right.

[stanwyck]

29. Saw him on Mahr's show a while back

and he was an anachronism. It was sad. He wasn't knowledgeable or witty. He did some mildly funny stuff on SNL and that was all he had in the arsenal.

[vireo]

40. What evidence is there of that?

His short lived series featured some pretty solid liberal support (Colbert and Smigel among others).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115148/fullcredits#writers

[ecstatic]

10. caught a few seconds of his show many moons ago

He wasn't even funny in a *look at the idiot repug* way... I don't understand how he got on television to begin with. Then again, sometimes it's just about who you know, not what you can do. :shrug:

[cboy4]

11. When will he recognize he is a failure and just stop already?

I still loathe him for almost ruining MNF.

[Faygo Kid]

12. Theismann is out at MNF, but Miller still the all-time worst there.

They have had good ones (Dierdorf, Karras) as MNF color commentators, but the worst was that smug piece of tripe, Dennis Miller. They almost hired Limbaugh; he is about the only one who could have knocked Miller off his perch as worst all time.

[wtmusic]

14. No one wants to listen to a pissy self-righteous hasbeen?

What have we come to?

[Lurking Dem]

16. I didn't even know he was trying again.

Kind if the entertainment equivalent of "are you in yet?"

[proud patriot]

19. too bad , so sad

:sarcasm:

[dysfunctional press]

23. i hope dennis made good investments with the money he made when he was funny...

actually- no, i don't.

i want him begging for a job doing dinner theatre in nebraska.

[pretzel4gore]

24. friggin bullyboy

to think this bastard mocked President Gore and Clinton....

[stanwyck]

26. By the way, how's Faux News' "Daily Show" ripoff

doing in the ratings? I haven't heard much since the initial gushing from the rightwing hate-radio talkers. The snippets I caught online were dreadful. Even the Kool-Aid kids at Free Republic were complaining.

[mwb970]

34. They seem to have rerun the 2(?) episodes a number of times each.

To compare this pathetic attempt at humor with The Daily Show like the rightwing gushers have done is, well, pathetic. This is the show they should put the emetic and wretchedly unfunny Miller on. He's a perfect fit!

[gratuitous]

27. Will they give him a new monkey and another paid audience?

Damn, but it was funny watching the floundering going on to save his talk show. First they gave him a monkey sidekick, then they had to run ads in industry papers begging people to show up for the tapings, and promising payment.

Dennis Miller: Poster Boy for Conservative Welfare.

[madokie]

28. He sucks,

that is all

[npincus]

30. was he ever funny?

I can't remember.

[mwb970]

35. Well, here's a typical (?) performance.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ymXKn6qZoCs

This clip is 5:42 in length. I watched the whole thing without cracking a smile. Was it even supposed to be funny? The audience laughs sometimes. If you make it to almost the end, you will hear surprisingly sincere praise and respect for Kerry's Vietnam service: "That is, to me, a far more inspirational thing than George Bush will ever do, including being the President of the United States." (The audience applauds.)

Not as bad as I expected, but not funny either.

[The Count]

38. Better writers, very old times...Once them gone, clueless twisting in the wind

[devilgrrl]

31. Richard Jeni's dead and this talentless piece of vomit still walks the earth...

:mad:

[Norquist Nemesis]

32. I'll be turning off tonight's TDS interview

Never thought Dennis Miller's "talent" was worth a smile, let alone a laugh.

[devilgrrl]

33. I was going to ask when the last time Jon Stewart had him on...

I'll watch but if Stewart kisses his ass and laughs at his racist jokes, then I'll be pissed.

[The Count]

37. he is the bush of the entertainment industry - keeps failing, keeps getting shots

They talk about liberal Hollywood, but any other "celebrity" with half the number of flops this guy had would be pushed to the curve a long time now...

[blondeatlast]

39. This thread is probably the most interest he can hope for. He's got "enablers"

in the Republican Noise Machine but eventually even they will tire of backing such a loser.

I mean, everyone laughs at their own jokes--but most get a clue when they see no one else is. Not so with DM.

[Hubert Flottz]

41. "Part Libertarian, Part Objectivist, Part Conservative."

= unfunny, obnoxious, @$$hole.