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Dennis Miller Bombs Again

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(From Family Guy):

Dennis Miller: I don't wanna go on a RANT here but America's foreign policy makes about as much sense as Beowulf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first Battle of Antietam. I mean when a neo-conservative defenstrates it's like Raskalnikov filibuster dioxymonohydrostinate.
Peter Griffin: What the hell does RANT mean?
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Dennis. Watch the Daily Show. Understand why Stephen Colbert is everything you should aspire to be. Understand why he's 100 times funnier than you were at your height, and he's just the SECOND BANANA on the Daily Show.
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Hell Yes! Colbert's roast of Chevy Chase at the Friar's Club Roast was better than anything Miller's ever done.

Did anyone see the "Simple Life" sketch about Dean in Iowa on the Daily Show? "Dr. Dean... He laid a TURD!"
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Jon Stewart got Dean to actually read lines that made fun of himself for a comedy bit on the Daily Show!
 
Especially when most of comics are devout liberals who mercilessly bash Republicans and conservatives and only occasionally take tepid swipes at Dems.
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Where were you during the Clinton years?

(I know this quote was at the beginning of the thread, but I just got here.)

Have a nice day,
Kelly :)
 
VicDaring said:

and he's willing to stand blindly behind whoever offers him assurance that he's safe from the bad men. Whether the steps taken are the logically corrrect steps or the morally right steps is irrelevant, as long as they pat him on the head and tell him it's okay.

Kinda sad, really.
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You've just described every gun contol advocate.
 
Tony said:


You've just described every gun contol advocate.
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Yes, Tony, we are all aware of how much you care for your gun. When you're not shooting it you are playing with it or polishing it or letting a friend hold it (sometimes pointing it where it shouldn't be pointed). But really, do you have to turn every thread into another chapter of "Tony and His Gun: A Love Story"?
 
Tricky said:

Yes, Tony, we are all aware of how much you care for your gun. When you're not shooting it you are playing with it or polishing it or letting a friend hold it (sometimes pointing it where it shouldn't be pointed). But really, do you have to turn every thread into another chapter of "Tony and His Gun: A Love Story"?
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The title is wrong, it should read. "Tony and Freedom: A Match Made in Hell". ;)


But please continue to indulge in your diluted and erroneous opinion.
 
Pardon me, Tony, but your agenda is showing. Unless you want to shoot Dennis Miller, what the hell do guns have to do with anything? When you hijack a thread like this, it's like you're saying, "Here - please push one of my most sensitive buttons."

So here goes: Guns should be outlawed, and the second amendment repealed. The time this amendment was written in was a different time, and the second amendment is hugely outdated and archaic, thus no longer necessary.
 
Actually, Tony has previously said that he doesn't own a firearm. The "gun" I was referring to isn't covered by the Second Amendment.
 
Back on track please.
To summarize:
Dennis Miller is a sell out who isn't funny.
Allegedly liberal comics make fun of liberals.
There are few, if any, conservative comics.
 
subgenius said:
Back on track please.
To summarize:
Dennis Miller is a sell out who isn't funny.
Allegedly liberal comics make fun of liberals.
There are few, if any, conservative comics.
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What, doesn't Rush Limbaugh count?

Maybe he's not all that funny, but he's certainly comical.
 
If Ann Coulter wasn't relatively hot, no one would have ever heard of her. She probably has a ghostwriter - the literary equivalent of Britney Spears.
 
Dorian Gray said:
If Ann Coulter wasn't relatively hot, no one would have ever heard of her. She probably has a ghostwriter - the literary equivalent of Britney Spears.
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Ewww! Relative to what? Rush Limbaugh? Phyllis Diller? Helen Thomas?
 
subgenius said:
Two week hiatus, you know what that means.

"February 27, 2004 -- DENNIS Miller is taking a two- week hiatus from his new CNBC talk show - which is being remade while he's gone. "
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/19121.htm

I have a suggestion. Have the same show but with someone who's funny.
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That show has a lot of problems. I am sorry but the "Dennis Miller does the headlines thing" is sooooo late 80s SNL. Not only that, he just can't carry a serious news show for an hour.

I tried watching the show, but it was just painful. Miller actually shows promise and his strength may be more in the interview than elsewhere.
 
I'm really disappointed in this show. I expected to like it and I don't.

Listening to the studio hands laughing at his jokes is just painful. If you're going to do something that essentially a live, straight comedy bit you've got to have a studio audience. They're getting a live audience after they re-tool so maybe that will help. And having his comedy bit at the start of the show like they do now instead of in the middle like they did before is good too.

But still, that is only a small part of the show and there is a lot of other time to fill. His varisty panel discussion...it's not working and I can't put my finger on why. Instead of a discussion it feel like he's doing three interviews at once. And also there is never time to get into anything...each of the three guests hardly gets any time to talk...they need to either lengthen it or reduce the panel to two guests. And they need to somehow turn it into more of a real discussion. I think that the fact that the guests are literally shoulder to shoulder messes things up. I hope they change that too.

Also, Dennis has a conservative bent (at least on security issues) and that's fine, but the way he refuses to poke even the slightest good natured fun at GWB is disconcerting. Poke fun at everyone and do it with your particular slant, but don't just leave some players completely untouched. And at the same time he's constantly digging at Dennis Kucinich. Okay, so Kucinich is kinda odd and it can be effective comedy to pick out one oddball and make as much fun of him as you can, but poking all kinds of fun at the least powerful Presidential candidate while simultaneously poking no fun at all at the most powerful one just comes off as creepy.

I hope things are better after the retooling. I generally like Dennis Miller and my only other TV talk options at 9 ET are Larry "Woo Woo" King, Deborah "I'm hot s***" Norville and Hannity & Colmes (aka, the biggest egomaniac in the world and the other guy that kisses his butt while pretending to oppose him). So a decent show by Dennis Miller at 9 ET could be useful but so far he's not even close to geting it done.

BTW, in an E-Skeptic Michael Shermer said he'd be on Dennis Millers' show Tues and Wed and it turns out he was just on Tues. I wonder what was up with that.
 
Hilarious to see people bitching about a comedian who supports, God forbid... Republicans. Especially when most of comics are devout liberals who mercilessly bash Republicans and conservatives and only occasionally take tepid swipes at Dems.

...as proven by the TOTAL LACK of Bill Clinton and Al Gore jokes... it's a conspiracy, I tell ya'.
 
Skeptic said:
...as proven by the TOTAL LACK of Bill Clinton and Al Gore jokes... it's a conspiracy, I tell ya'.
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Totally. Remember when M. Lewinsky performed oral sex W.J. Clinton and Leno never mentioned it?

And Al Gore inventing the internet* never had any play on Letterman.

It's like the whole Viagra thing. You'd think that's a comedy goldmine, but no one made any jokes about it.**

*yes, I'm aware he didn't say that
**and yes, I realize Skeptic and I are agreeing
 
Dorian Gray said:
If Ann Coulter wasn't relatively hot, no one would have ever heard of her.
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Ann hot? She's the only one among the slew of blond, female, right-wing pundits for whom a certain part of my anatomy, a part over which I have no intellectual control, has no response.

varwoche
 
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