Mickey Kaus is kind to The Dennis Miller Show in its passing. (Unlike Evan Smith, who's obviously just a jerk.)
As a rule, I don't like going on political TV shows, but The Dennis Miller Show was the big exception.
The show was always populated with a stream of interesting people. During my appearances on the show other guests included Martin Landau, Stan Lee, and Ray Bradbury--you don't meet people like that on The O'Reilly Factor. And the production staff was full of the type of people you and I would want to be friends with, as opposed to the carnivorous stick-insect producers booking the "serious" political shows. (Note to all TV people: You should scoop Miller's staff up ASAP. They're the best.)
And then there's Dennis. He was a gracious and funny host and, unlike most heads, he actually knows things. A good guy and a great interviewer.
So tonight we raise our glasses to The Dennis Miller Show. May everyone involved in that wonderful project go on to better things.
P.S.: If I was an MSNBC executive, I would reconstitute The Dennis Miller Show and run it in the 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. slot giving you a prime time lineup of Hardball, Tucker Carlson's new show, and Miller. That's a great slate of programming.
Watch out, politicos, Murph is comin' back, with time on his hands...
ReplyDeleteLook for some Republican mischief-making to ensue...
(For the uninitiated, Republican political consultant extraordinaire, Mike Murphy, has been distracted from day-to-day political wrangling by a job jotting jokes for Miller's show.)
I'm one of the red state morons who watched his show regularly. Watched his show on HBO too.
ReplyDeleteI got the impression that the audiences in his yes-NB-yes show seemed to be always made up of mostly Lefty types who were not laughing or applauding on purpose. Except for his political leanings I didn't see a change between the humor of his shows. It was a bad time slot though, I think a 10pm show would have been better.