Dennis Millers rating are shrinking...shrinking...shrinking.

[xray s]

If you are a Miller fan you better catch him fast before he disappears.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-0402110236feb11,1,2314107.story

Even at CNBC, Dennis Miller has a monkey on his back

By Steve Johnson
Tribune television critic
Published February 11, 2004

On his new and flailing CNBC talk show, Dennis Miller has, to these guests' faces, lauded California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's accent as "infectious" and opined that former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has personal parts the size of Macy's parade balloons.

He's also granted co-host status to a chimpanzee, whose wanderings through Miller's darkened studio are often very amusing but also a sign of a show that doesn't know whether it wants to deflate standard television or join it.

Or maybe, by then, it'll be Phase 1 all over again. Miller's disconcertingly flaccid attempts to meld jokes on the news, serious political commentary, conservative hero worship and the chimp were greeted by a huge-by-CNBC-standards initial audience of 746,000 viewers, but they seem to be plummeting. Week one averaged 540,000 viewers for the first airings of new shows; week two pulled in less than half, just 261,000.

And it's no wonder, because a once-iconoclastic, hyperskeptical comic who seems to have moved into bowing before swaggering conservatives is nobody's idea of entertaining, no matter how hard the crew that is Miller's only in-studio audience chuckles. You can't spend a career deflating absurdity, and then conduct the kind of fawning interview with Schwarzenegger that Miller did on his first CNBC show, Jan. 26. Viewers' discomfort was mirrored in the face of the man who, Miller seemed to forget, was a bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-governor.

[DrWeird]

1. Let's see, there was his network show talk show...

the HBO show, the NFL, and now the news channel show.

The guy has about as much business hosting a show as Magic Johnson.

When he gets cancelled I'll send him an e-mail telling him.

[Another Bill C.]

2. His biggest problem

is that Conservatives don't have a sense of humor. He hitched his wagon to the wrong critter.

[waterman]

16. Perfect!!!! Great take on it. Yay!!!

[Solomon]

22. LOL. Damn Bill. You got me bad man.

I'm laughing good. :evilgrin:

[Kinkistyle]

37. racist jokes

repugs usually laugh at the racist jokes - but u can't show that on national TV

[tom_paine]

3. Good, he deserves to wind up sleeping on a steam grate

(yes, I wish him ill)

For betraying Free America and his own humanity by licking the boots...not under duress but happily, joyously, with abandon...of Imperial Tyrannical scum who hate their Newest Whore all much as they hate our freedom.

I know it's probably too much to hope for, but how I would love to walk past a filthy Miller in a cardboard box one day.

[pscot]

11. Nah. He'll catch on as an Amway salesman.

N/T

[onebigbadwulf]

4. I don't know what idiot said...

"hey even though every news show on television is with a conservative bias... and republican approval rating is going down like the titanic... LET'S ADD ANOTHER RIGHT WING NUT"

[Sagan]

5. Miller has long forgotten one of the first rules of comedy...

Comedy and satire is supposed to be aimed at the powerful. Comedy in support of the rich and powerful is never funny.

This is the case regardless of who is in power. When Clinton was in power, jokes about him were funny. To make jokes about the powerless who oppose * is lacking any comical content.

[NNN0LHI]

6. Never thought about that. You are right. Thanks n/t

[roscoeroscoe]

20. absolutely right.

case closed, book 'em dano.
a comedian who suckes up to power is a pathetic loser. i miss the old dennis miller, no doubt. i guess he winds up in the p.j. o'rourke column. sad to see wasted talent.

[kurtyboy]

31. Jeebus, that's right. Court Jesters are supposed to

QUESTION power, not suck up to it. That's the whole reason they exist--to help the Queen or King remember that they are vulnerable.

DM is useless in this regard.

AND NOT VERY FUNNY!

[spooky3]

42. Good comedians are incredibly insightful about people

pointing out things that the rest of us don't recognize and showing us the humor in them.

Anyone who thinks the Thugs are admirable leaders obviously lacks the same insight that is necessary for comedy.

[Robin Hood]

33. At this point he has become a court jester.

a tiresome fool with no real entertainment value.

[kysrsoze]

7. His career reads like a Shakespeare comedy

TRAGIC! HAAAAAAA! Screw him.

[utopian]

8. What the hell happened to Miller?

I used to laugh at his jokes. I remember Al Gore being interviewed on Miller's old talk show many years ago. He asked Gore "who rolls the tightest joint, you or Tipper?" I about died, and Gore seemed pretty amused. Now he he's an apologist for thieving, lying, hypocritical, bigoted, fear mongers. I hope he was paid awfully well for his soul.

[ThoughtCriminal]

Comedians, like journalists

should "Comfort the afflicted and afflict to comforatble".

It is interesting that both the left and the right view the other side as "Humorless". They don't understand why we don't like jokes that mock minorities and the poor. We don't understand why they don't appreciate our jokes about Bush and Cheney.

[mark0rama]

9. Love the last line of the review!

"If they can succeed in making Dennis Miller no longer funny, does that mean the terrorists have won?"

I know there's a running debate here on DU as to whether Miller was ever funny (I think he was), but that closing sentence is just perfect.

[spanone]

10. His comedy of irony doesn't play in the repub world

they just don't get it. The man with nowhere to turn.

[Kinkistyle]

38. extensive cultural references are anathemic to repugs

As we all know, repugs are not cultured.

[KamaAina]

12. Hmmm... Dennis Miller... shrinking...

...Dennis Miller shrinking...

Naw, not even gonna go there.

:evilgrin:

[boobooday]

13. Where is this popsicle stand where Dennis Miller sold his soul?

He has become a joke. Our airwaves are saturated with these right-wing idiots, and they have to go down, because not only are they wrong, they're not even interesting.

And, their opinion doesn't represent the majority, no matter how hard they try to pretend, and the ratings prove it.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

Jeanette

[NoPasaran]

14. Two words, Dennis

Public Access

Word is they can't cancel you there.

[Cat Atomic]

15. This just in: Dennis Miller lashes his rowboat to the Titanic.

"This ship is going places!", says Miller.

[Zhade]

36. Ow, I hurt myself laughing at that one!

:D

Also: fuck Dennis Miller. Hypocritical hack!

[Arugula Latte]

17. Miller, the next Joe Piscopo

nt

[styersc]

18. When sides were decided in the "Culture War"-

I'm glad that they got Miller. I'll take Garofolo any day: bright, articulate, educated (and a stone cold fox).

[waterman]

19. Dennis Miller is a classic case of a fairly intellectual person being

totally suckered and brainwashed by the events surrounding him. When he ( and so many other 'smart people') wake up to see what they were supporting, we'll almost be embarrassed to watch as the reality sets in. Then he'll be groveling in guilt, despair and regret. And we'll probably just flip 'em off and say, "You've been Punked", fuckhead.

[kcwayne]

25. Dennis used to be hip, sarcastic, and full of literay references

to the happening issues of the day.

That technique does not register with an audience who's
idea of foreplay is either

"Wake up, Bitch"

or

"Forgive me Jesus, for I am about to sin".

[Sandpiper]

21. Dennis Miller's style of humor

Goes right over the head of your average republican voting Nascar dad. This show is doomed to fail.

[Solomon]

23. What Miller doesn't get is that he's just the kind of asshole that

the people he's sucking up to love to hate.

[Rowdyboy]

24. What delightfully good news! Thanks!

[stanwyck]

26. He's a cheap date who picked the wrong escort

His timing is a bit off. He turned wingnut and rode the crest. But now he's on the downward side of the wave...about to be beached. There will be other casualties. The airwaves are saturated with conservative talkers. And the public isn't as enamored with them as they were after 9-11. I haven't even seen the heinous Ann Coulter lately. Thank God. Time for these liars and pandering hatemongers to be marginalized.

[mac2]

29. He was on with a chimp tonight

Miller was on with a chimp tonight. Don't you think this was a equal mind for him? He is so hateful...and those little hands, big head..ugh.

There was a group of "more mature women..with warts on their faces and too much make-up" the other night (CNBC). Boy they were nasty and so boring.

Who is picking these ugly talk show people? They are going to the same Neo Con agency? The Heritage Foundation? Picked by Carl Rove and VP lady Cheney? They should stay out of show business.

[skrunch]

27. I don't wanna get off on a rant here but...

...what the fuck was the deal with Geo W. and his Magical Hypnotizing Bullhorn? Was that another fine product from the Halliburton Toy Shop? It turned formerly semi-assholes like Tweety Matthews and Miller into complete Bush jock-sniffing lickspittles in less time than Angie Lansbury took to flip over the Queen of Diamonds.

And I'm no Dionne Warwick, let alone LaToya Jackson, but my prediction...next stop on the Denny Miller Career De-Escalator...

...spokesman for Just For Men beard dye.

Course that's just my opinion...I could be wrong.

[aldian159]

39. Wow,

Great Manchurian Candidate allusion. Very cool.

[The Zanti Regent]

28. Is so sad when a chimp upstages Mr Has Been.

I'm waiting for Dennis to wind up with a once a month shot on the Home Shopping Network...

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[Tom Kitten]

32. I hate to say this but...

Given his track record of cancellation after cancellation, perhaps this miserable failure just tried to pull his career back up using the bootstraps of another miserable failure?

I don't see how the guy can survive doing his schtick unless he puts a sack over his head..."The Unknown Conservative Comic"?
Of course he'd have to change his voice, too...

[minkyboodle]

34. To quote Nelson

HA - HA!!!!!
Scott

[proud patriot]

35. I believe took bets on how long his new show would last

:D

[xxqqqzme]

40. 261,000

that's nationwide...right??? That is barely a city in the midwest. How in the hell is steroid boy's accent infectious. Jeebus, I can barely understand him.

Miller will B the featured act @ all squatter reunions and any rethug state ot county party conventions, blue haired ladies club...that circuit.

[GOPBasher]

41. Now this guy is a miserable failure.

Lately, everything he touches turns to shit. He had much more success in his career when he was a liberal. I agree with another poster who pointed out that Right Wingers simply don't have a sense of humor. So, who the hell is his audience?

[Must_B_Free]

43. He must be giving Mclean Stevenson a run for his money

for "biggest flop on television".

[Killarney]

44. It makes me happy to see him fail.

:evilgrin:

[bleedingheart]

45. Its all about the money!

He thought the conservative schtick would get him more cash but in the end it is killing his career....ah to laugh.

[Buns_of_Fire]

46. What he needs, is to team up with...

THE SAVAGE WEINER!