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How My Intellectual Crush Hath Fallen

Apr 5, 2008
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I've never made any secret about my love of Dennis Miller. Sure, I've been saddened by his precipitous turn to the Dark Side after 9/11, but every once in awhile he would return to being that insanely smart, obscure reference machine that I know and love. I even watched his late, unlamented Foxnews show.

Still, even I have standards. I was flipping around this evening, and found that Mr. Neocon is now hosting a gameshow. Yes, a game show. Surely the lowest form of hosting duties (short of a beauty pageant, maybe..) Amnesia isn't even a particularly good game show.

Oh Dennis, were times really that tough? I hear Bush is sending us all $600. Shouldn't that make you feel better?

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  1. Ken  •  Apr 5, 2008 @8:19 am

    I've got to agree with you. I enjoy his obscure references and generally enjoyed his work — particularly the rants — prior to 9/11. Part of the fun was his quasi-libertarian take that spared neither side. His nerfed give-the-administration-a-pass approach comes off as grim and determined, and grim and determined is generally not funny. Plus his various efforts at cross-marketing and self-promotion, like the NFL travesty, are not attractive.

    Game shows sound about right for him at this stage.

    Hollywood squares is still on, right?

  2. Patrick  •  Apr 5, 2008 @8:30 am

    I'm still dismayed that he lost to Sinbad on his Star Search debut. The young Dennis Miller was everything every wise-cracking nerd could ever hope to be, apart from the tiny hands. His act was hot.

    He's been dead to me for several years now.

  3. Grandy  •  Apr 7, 2008 @11:06 am

    I miss him too.