dennis miller is kicking ass on jon stewart. just a riot

[seabeyond]

no kidding. my mouth is about hanging open here. i am so dreadin seeing miller. thinking man, why. hubby says josh lots of repugs on stewart of late. (AND THEY HAD AN EXCELLENT SKIT ON HARVARD, BUSTING UP) anyway. miller is talking the pope. is a catholic, says i go into confession and say you first. he sits up to talk about gays and the catholic church and he says, hey, i know everyone thinks i am a right winger because i support bush on this war but i am a libertarian all the way. and then went into some talk on leaving the gays alone and catholics have to do something about that.

well, i dont like bush, and i dont like millers support of bush, i use to like miller, but tonight, i did enjoy miller

am i a traitor

[jrthin]

1. I didn't find

him one bit amusing.

[bookman]

19. I'm with you.

Not funny at all. Just retreads of old bits.

I was disappointed that Jon didn't question him, but Miller hardly shut up.

[bmbmd]

2. Yeah- a real laugh riot.

Just sadly misinformed about the war in Iraq and global warming.
Always was, always will be a jerk.

[Guaranteed]

3. I hate Miller.

But he was hilarious tonight.

That environmental rant was awesome.

The man is good.

[Atman]

16. Yeah, who the hell wants to go to Alaska anyway?

I do, for one. I'm so tired of these self-centered, smug assholes thinking that because their idea of the great outdoors is a free-form pool in the islands, that no one else cares about it. Fuck you, Miller. I'm so sorry anyone found anything he had to say tonight funny.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

4. he probably senses the impending backlash. Too late.

He'll go down in history as an idiot who didn't know when to leave the stage

[havocmom]

6. Get the feeling he is checking the wind?

Windsock Miller blows along to get along.

[wisteria]

18. That thought crossed my mind too. n/t

[deadparrot]

5. I've never liked the guy

before OR after he went nuts.

Tonight, he just seemed really loud, as if increased volume would somehow make what he was saying funnier. And they were really obvious jokes, too--no real creativity, IMO. I don't know, I like subtle humor. The man doesn't appeal to me.

[feelthebreeze]

12. Misinformed and arrogant...

His humor evaded me tonight. His act as if he is in the know, as if cynicism is a acceptable guise for lack of wisdom. Oh isn't it funny... no one knows anything and it is all just a pile of crap. As Shakespeare has said "The fool knoweth he is a wise man, but the wise man doth know he is a fool."
His humour reeks of ...listen to me, I really know what the right answer is. Just give up and shake your knowing head at these fools.
I have no appreciation for lack of empathy or insight and I am quickly losing patience with those who portend they are in the know when it is is just simple misguided apathy that leads them in their outcrys.

[Kipepeo]

21. He thinks the joke is in delivering it as if he's smarter than everyone

and hoping they'll laugh for fear of being seen as not "getting it."

[high density]

32. Yeah, I didn't find it funny either

Ignorance and arrogance just aren't funny, IMO.

[Borgnine]

7. He's got talent in his delivery, I'll give him that.

I won't give him anything else though.

[rooboy]

8. Is Dennis Miller branching out into comedy now?? n/t

[bdot]

9. Maybe you had a different episode than we had.

I haven't found Miller funny since SNL and tonight was no different. He didn't say anything funny yet again and Stewart was kissing Miller butt constantly.

[SlowDownFast]

49. What?? Stewart wasn't kissing Miller's ass!

Stewart was trying very hard (as evidenced by his forceful laughter at every one of Miller's lame punchlines) to LOOK amused. But he really looked bored and annoyed. Especially since he couldn't get word in edgewise.

Stewart's miles above Miller and both knew it. Miller acted nervous and even half-jokingly revealed his true envy at Stewart's success. Tried to backpeddle his Bush-brownnosing and make excuses ("Uh, I'm really just a liberatarian across the board...").

Testing the wind, yes.

Miller can go fuck himself.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

10. Naw, you're just easily amused

by a backtracking swine who's desperate to get a really good network gig and demonstrated that he's willing to blow anyone who might consider him.

I worked up a sweat just watching him trying so hard.

He's a dreadful bore.

[Swamp Rat]

23. LOL!

First, he sucked up to Stewart, then he went to his safe topic and stayed there. Notice how he went from bashing the pope to bashing gays, albeit subtly, making jokes at the expense of gay people? haha x(

A right wing boot-licker with a thesaurus - that's all he is.

[UdoKier]

11. Libertarian: Right-winger who wants his pot and porn to be legal

They all want to screw the poor, they're all the same.

[sweetheart]

38. Hmmm... wide brush there

I'm a small "l" libertarian, and porn IS legal... and indeed the war
on drugs is a war against the poor, minorities and the disenfranchised.

libertarian people are not for wars, corporate doles, corporate
congresses and all that stuff. Theres something to it, a sort of
conservatism that is quite decent next to the worst abuses of the
repuke regimes... just because dennis miller has diahorrea of the
mouth... we needn't use such a wide brush.

[UdoKier]

41. What I'm describing is not the dictionary definition of liberatrian.

However, it is the type of person I have met and known OVER and OVER again. Couldn't give a damn about helping their fellow man, but they don't ant the government butting into people's personal lives. I don't have a problem with the second part, but the first part is a major problem for me.

Miller and Bill Maher are good examples of this mindset, but it does seem pretty common among male comedians.

[Cats Against Frist]

46. You can be a libertarian and still want to help and encourage

others to help your "fellow humans," you just don't want a large, impersonal, corrupt and wasteful bureaucracy to do it. Particularly if the ladder that you've built up in statism can be stolen by right-wing asshat loonies to climb their way to fascist heaven.

The weird thing about being a libertarian is that you have to tolerate other libertarians that you don't like. Weird, eh? Hayek and Mises, the best and most level-headed of the right-leaning libertarians knew it. Unfortunately, today, "libertarian," as you said -- means winger who wants to smoke pot. No tolerance for the liberals or the libertines, no matter how much they don't like them/us.

They want to beat us bloody with a cross and make us join in their statist, authoritarian "libertarianism."

***edited to say -- one half of them want to beat us bloody with a cross -- the other half want us to be neo-liberal market worshipers and aspire to be human capital.

[Cats Against Frist]

44. Thank you, I agree.

[Atman]

13. You misspelled K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Miller sucked ass. Libertarian -- someone too embarrassed to admit he's a republican.

[Indiana_Dem]

14. I had always thought he was intellligent and good with words until

I heard him speak about the war and how he defended the right wingers so much before the elections. It would've been different if he would've been that way all along and knew where he was coming from. It's like, all of a sudden he just jumped into the mainstream media and was given his own show on cnbc just for speaking out for the war and to ridicule anyone against Bush's policies or campaign. I can no longer respect him no matter how much he tries to make me laugh. I can't. If that's his true self then I don't like him. he should've kept those views to himself. To come out right before the elections like he did is unforgiveable. He knew what he was doing and he knew it was his chance for some extended popularity and money when he was fading out of the limelight. Sold out!

[Hissyspit]

15. He's an ass. I'll never forget him trashing war journalists on the...

Tonight Show at the beginning of the war (Iraq or Afghanistan, can't remember) sitting safe in Hollywood with Jay Leno. How many journalists have died in Iraq? He said the reporters were just there to gather anecdotes to tell at cocktail parties - while HE was sitting there safe in California among the entertainment on the Tonight Show. The audience applauded and cheered wildly. It was disgusting.

Total asshole. He can go to hell for all I care - whether he is funny or not.

[countmyvote4real]

17. Not.

He’s kicking up support for his CNBC show that must be in danger of being cancelled. Otherwise, I can’t imagine why he would appear on TDS.

He’s a comedy whore. He went after a slice of the market that he thought was in favor and instead he got sliced. You can’t pretend to be passionate. Even worse, you can’t pretend to be funny. To attempt both as Miller has done, you will only end up as a shallow, transparent prick.

Not funny.

[Bigmack]

20. Damn PBS.....

... I laughed more than I thought I would at that asshole. The stuff about Alaska wasn't funny, but I thought he was funny in spots.

Then, I went to PBS' Scientific American Frontiers. Global warming and the Atlantic Thermohaline pump. Bad shit.

Miller didn't seem funny at all anymore.

Jon really doesn't make up the comedy on his show... he just lets the politicians write the show. All TDS really does is show it to us.

Guys like Miller just use clever phrases to rant about stuff with no basis in fact.

[tallahasseedem]

22. Miller has never been funny...

and the confession joke, heard it a hundred times. He is as much of a Libertarian as Tom Delay.

[Lone Pawn]

24. Not true. He was *awesome* before he went political.

[Randi_Listener]

25. Dennis Miller = Has-been, unfunny douchebag

Learn a fucking lesson.

[K-W]

26. Nothing wrong with agreeing with people when they are right.

Even if they are wrong on most issues and lie about being liberatarians.

No libertarian wants a giant expensive war machine in the middle east trying to build a nation.

[BuyingThyme]

27. Dennis Miller is not a Libertarian.

I once heard him on a radio show where he was asked about how he voted in the past. He said he was a registered independent.

When asked about not being able to participate in primaries, Miller was caught off guard and stumbled. It not only became perfectly clear that he had no idea what a primary was, but that he had never voted in his life. I suspect this still holds true.

[mattclearing]

28. You know the Republicans are hurting when the token celebrities drop them.

Miller's lukewarm support is a sign of weakness.

It's clear that even he doesn't want to be associated with this disaster.

When even total sycophants like Miller bail on the Republican Party, you know they are in trouble.

[oasis]

29. Miller called former president Jimmy Carter "a little creep" on his CNBC

yuk-it-up show. Fuck Dennis Miller, he is nothing but a bought and paid for prick.

[tyedyeto]

30. Just got home from work ...........

don't even want to contemplate what Miller said on TDS.

What he has to say is so irrelevant to what I believe in as a lifelong liberal.

edit: typo

[Pushed To The Left]

31. I enjoyed it too!

I think Miller could swing back over to our side. Unfortunately, many libertarians supported Bush this time around, which I think is absolutely insane! I think the actions of the hardcore religious right recently would turn off most true libertarians. The right wing might be in the process of hanging themselves!

[Algomas]

33. I have always disliked him...

It was no surprise to me that he flipped his persona from hip-lib to traitor. I thought he was a phony, smug, arrogant asshole when he was at the top of his game. He now represents the quintessential ugly American. He and the Chuckler in Chief are two of a kind. They have no soul left to sell. I hope and pray the tipping point is near and that a great awakening will begin. These cockroaches will scurry for a dark place when that day arrives.

[Fescue4u]

34. I thought he was hilarious

Personally, I don't look to comedians for their political leadership.

If they make me laugh then they've done their job.

[bdot]

35. I'm the same way.

and I would have laughed too if he had said something funny or that made sense.

[ronzo]

36. The guy really fucked up when he steered his shtick to the right.

He's entitled to his opinion of course, but if he thought he could float his obscure reference humor on the right, he was wrong. I won't take him back. Opportunistic prick.

[misanthrope]

37. I hate to admit this...

...considering what a whore he seems to be, but I have to give him his "props" on one observation. In an exquisite balance between irony, reality and humor, Dennis Miller once said, "Why hate someone based solely on the color of their skin when if you took the time to get to know them you could find much more tangible reasons to loathe them as a human being?"

Now THAT is a priceless observation. I guess blind pigs really do find acorns every now and again.

[sundancekid]

48. brilliant reminder: and, yes, some of us took the time, and we loathe him

[Hissyspit]

50. That's not very original of him, really; Mencken-like...

Just a variation on the oft-done misanthropic "I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally."

[fleabert]

39. judging from his rant on the environment, he's not only an asshole,

he's stupid too.

smug stupid asshole. (that can memorize a thesaurus like a mofo)

[drbtg1]

40. The whole thing was sad

Jon Stewart was Ed McMahon on his worst day. And as for Miller, his comment about him being viewed as right-wing but he's "really a libertarian" (the usual excuse) signaled we've arrived at the O.J. Simpson Center for Image Rehab.

I guess I look for comedians to be equal opportunity. If you bash Clinton and Bush, that's fine, as long as the material is good. But to bash one at the exclusion of the other in your jokes smacks of ignorance.

Seeing that TDS made me really appreciate Johnny Carson's talent. No one would have known he was a liberal (as Peter Lassally stated on Franken's show) which made him able to tell jokes for both sides.

I used to really like Miller. Thought he was much better than Chevy Chase at Weekend Update and I still have his Off-White Album. Nowadays, he just damaged goods. Good thing he sat up straight last night in order to hide the fork in his back.

[bullwinkle428]

42. I made the mistake of leaving Jay Leno's

show on for few minutes, no more than a couple of months ago (was probably too lazy to change the channel, but anyway), and Miller was "dropping by" for a visit. Leno mentioned that Michael Moore was appearing the next night, and Miller of course completely tore into Moore...lower than whale-crap, worse than Osama, yadda yadda yadda, and I just felt ashamed of myself for ever liking the guy to begin with. Bartcop giving Miller the red-ass always makes my day!

[applegrove]

43. Did you enjoy the part where he talked about the environment and

left out the exponential math thing that environmental degradation follows? Did you like it when the made fun of Alaska as a place no American would visit so who cares?

[Fescue4u]

53. Yea, it was funny

It was a comedy schtick not a PHD dissertation.

Somehow I doubt that it would be funny if he broke out a slide run and discussed logrithyms.

This comedy routine has as much to do with national policy as what I ate for breakfast this morning.

[goodboy]

45. I love how he's trying to save face! Here's a shovel miller, let's see if

make it to china by the end of the segment.


oh yeah...TRAITOR! :PP:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:

[0007]

47. I'll catch the 6:00 o'clock rerun in about twenty minutes, then I'll let

you know!

I doubt seriously that Dennis Miller will change my mind about what I think of him!

[Hippo_Tron]

51. My problem with Miller is that he SHOULD know better

The chess and checkers player analogy is right on except that you want the chess player when you're fighting a complicated enemy. You can't just take reckless actions with no thought and expect to defeat terrorism because they don't really give a shit how strong you are.

He's right, foreign policy is the most important issue. The trouble is that he's way on the wrong side of it.

[Must_B_Free]

52. The only funny thing

was seeing a whore flee from the flaming wreckage