Dennis Miller
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Dennis Miller (November 3, 1953) is a 5-time Emmy winning American stand-up comedian, political commentator, actor, sports commentator, and television and radio personality. He is known for his ability to improvise critical assessments laced with pop culture references. He rose to fame as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in 1985, and subsequently hosted a string of his own talk shows on HBO, CNBC and in syndication. He currently hosts a daily, three-hour, self-titled talk radio program, nationally syndicated by Westwood One.
In recent years, Miller has become known for his political opinions, emphasizing a hawkish stance on U.S. military action and supporting Republican presidential candidates. He is a regular political commentator on Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor in a segment called “Miller Time”, and formerly on the network’s Hannity & Colmes in a segment called “Real Free Speech.”
Miller is known for his laid-back style (for example, calling people “Babe” or referring to them as “cats”) and acerbic, brooding sense of humor. His specialty is the “rant” — a stream-of-consciousness diatribe monologue in which he rails against whatever happens to be bothering him at the moment. Such rants typically begin with “Now, I don’t want to get off on a rant here, but…” and end with “…of course, that’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.”
Miller’s monologues and standup routines often feature elaborate similes and metaphors involving allusions to obscure people, places, and things. Miller has alluded to his own reputation for obscurity by titling one of his television specials Citizen Arcane. On his passion for language, he has remarked: “I’ve always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the adjective and the flitting evanescence of the adverb, all kept safe and orderly by those reliable little policemen, punctuation marks. Wow! Think I got my ass kicked in high school?”
While Miller’s humor is often cerebral and abstract, it can at times be extremely blunt and mechanical. In 2003, he remarked on the Tonight Show, “I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum.”
He was voted number 21 on Comedy Central’s list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.
In January 2007, Miller signed a deal with Westwood One to launch a three-hour talk radio program. The program debuted on March 26, 2007, and is now live from 10am to 1pm Eastern Time, with re-feeds from 1pm to 4pm Eastern Time and 4pm to 7pm Eastern Time. The show’s website provides a live stream of the broadcast. The site also makes archives of all shows available in MP3 format. The live feed is free, but a subscription to the Dennis Miller Zone (DMZ) is required in order to access archived broadcasts. The show airs on 250+ stations, many of which (especially in the major markets) are owned by Salem Communications, airing on tape delay on some of those stations between 6-9 pm ET and 9 pm-12 am ET. Salem stations also air a “best of” Miller show on Saturdays. His on-air sidekick is “Salman” (David S. Weiss), who also wrote for Dennis Miller Live. His producer “Christian” previously appeared on-camera as dozens of different characters during the “Daily Rorschach” segment on his CNBC television show.
Miller engages in serious discussions of American culture, current events, politics, and their place in the global context. The show is infused with Miller’s trademark sarcasm, which is often characterized by obscure pop culture references. For example, each hour of the show opens up with an arcane reference. The first hour’s opening phrase is a combination of dialogue from the film Thank You for Smoking and a U.S. space program slogan coined by Alan Shepard: “What’s up Hiroshi? Let’s light this candle!” Miller’s other opening phrases for his second and third hours respectively are “Come to me my babies, let me quell your pain”, (Powers Boothe as Jim Jones in Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones[29]) and “ABC — Always be closing if you want the knife set” (from Glengarry Glen Ross).
Most shows feature three guests (one per hour), mostly from the world of politics and entertainment, as well as calls from listeners. Guests include fellow comedians and SNL alumni (such as Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz), pundits and authors such as Ann Coulter, Aaron Klein and Mark Steyn (while the show’s guest list leans right of center, there are several liberals who have appeared on the show, such as Dennis Kucinich and Alan Dershowitz), Presidential candidates, several sports commentators, and some “regulars”, Howard Fineman of Newsweek, singer Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits, Nikki Finke, and Representative David Dreier, a Republican congressman from California, among many others. A segment on Fridays is set aside for “Dennis Ex Machina“, his term for a segment without a guest, where he allows phone calls on any topic.
According to Talkers Magazine estimates, as of fall 2008, Miller’s show has an estimated 2,000,000 listeners, on par with The Thom Hartmann Show, Imus in the Morning and Mancow’s Morning Madhouse. Miller and Westwood One renewed their agreement in September 2009, for an undisclosed multiple number of years.-Wiki
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