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So Dennis Miller has a new show, which shouldn't surprise anyone; the scraggly bearded one tends to sample the dial these days like Lasorda at a wedding buffet. But you'll be happy to note that this time he's found a classy home: Versus! Nestled between Ultimate Cage Fighting and Pheasant Hunting, get ready for Sports Unfiltered with Dennis Miller, which will aim to be kind of a Daily Show for sports, only without all that annoying laughter. From Variety:
The one-hour show will focus on the latest developments from the wide world of sports. Skein is slated to air Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET starting Nov. 6. Miller skein promises to be a signature series for Versus (formerly Outdoor Life Network), which is now available in 74 million homes and airs a heavy dose of live sporting events, such as NHL and college football games. Show reps another expansion beyond reality skeins for Smith's A. Smith & Co., which also produces the new Fox skein "Kitchen Nightmares."
Despite being somewhat behind in my Hollywood lingo ("skein?"), I have to say that I'm eagerly awaiting the show's debut and will assuredly be watching; perhaps even in person. Like those grizzled diehards you see in the stands at Busch or Shea with their faded game jerseys, worn caps and radio headphones, I never miss a Miller opener. I've seen them all: From his first Saturday Night Live through the syndicated talk show on CBS, to the weekly HBO show, Monday Night Football, the CNBC talk show, the syndicated conservative radio talk show (which Miss Marple couldn't find if you spotted her the first three call letters) and even the gala premeire of the movie Joe Dirt.
I was even there for Dennis' debut at golf, covering the American Century Celebrity Golf Championships at Lake Tahoe in 2004. After a blistering last place finish, his celebrity golf career ended in similar fashion to most of the above; with cancellation. Hey, like Hollywood, Tahoe is a tough town.
If I seem a little harsh on Miller, I guess it's because I feel that he's in a sense betrayed us. He shoehorned his way into our consciousness in the 1980s as the iconoclast, the outsider, the wry pseudo-intellectual who trusted nobody, himself included. But the business has gradually beaten him down until all that's left is that old guy who lives behind you and refuses to return all the balls that have gone over his fence. A real low was his stint in the MNF booth; a job to which he was obviously ill-suited (some of those old football similes, as waves in space, are just now confusing other planets). Will this latest foray into sports be any different?
Segs will include Miller's rant, a "Weekend Update"-style review of the week's headlines and interviews with newsmakers. "I'll call 'em as I see 'em, and hopefully, I'll see 'em better than the home plate ump in the San Diego Padres-Colorado Rockies tiebreaker game," Miller said.
Oh God. Well, the bottom line is that this had better not interfere with Babe Winkelman's Outdoor Secrets. Here me, Miller?
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Ver-sus?
Clearly the "Comedian" label is a photoshop
The downward spiral of Dennis Miller's career continues. Next stop, reading the Amber Alerts on the Emergency Broadcasting System.
I'll call 'em as I see 'em, and hopefully, I'll see 'em better than the home plate ump in the San Diego Padres-Colorado Rockies tiebreaker game"
That's the best impersonation of a terrible Dennis Miller joke ever!
"Only one person in a million would find that funny."
"Yes. We call that the Dennis Miller ratio."
I met him after one of his shows in Vegas several years ago. Nice guy. Little-known fact: Miller is a big UCSB women's basketball fan.
MNF was nothing compared to the low he subjects himself to every week on the Factor as O'Wrongly's personal lackey and cabana boy.
How does Bill's asshole taste, Miller?
What the fuck is a skein?
Oh God. Well, the bottom line is that this had better not interfere with Babe Winkelman's Outdoor Secrets. Here me, Miller?
Babe would kick the living tar out of Dennis Miller...or perhaps just show him wear the bass are biting.
Here me, there me, everywhere a me-me.
Who needs Miller when you've already got Kige?
Okay...read the whole post next time, GM.
"Segs will include Miller's rant, a "Weekend Update"-style review of the week's headlines and interviews with newsmakers. "I'll call 'em as I see 'em, and hopefully, I'll see 'em better than the home plate ump in the San Diego Padres-Colorado Rockies tiebreaker game,"
Good to know Dennis Miller is constantly exploring new and exciting ground in his comedic repertoire. Rants and fake news?! How edgy!!
What the hell does "rant" mean?
My head hurts.
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*where
/fuck
@Port City Gangsta: No, it is real, I think. Fox News is "fair and balanced," afterall!
I really enjoyed his HBO show. I'd like to think he retired after the show went off the air and this current version of him is some sort of sick joke.
What in the wide world of sports is going on around here?
Can we just get Miller and Olberman once and for all ? Guys that talk about politics and sports ? No thanks.
A "Daily Show" for sports? So, he's going to take quotes out of context while making goofy faces, and a sycophantic audience will laugh at it? Can't wait.
Two weeks ago I was in a newly bought, but used, conversion van. The occupants were noticing that the alignment was flawed so that when you braked while moving fast, the van lurched sideways slightly. The driver said "Yeah, something broke and now it moves to the right." After a pause someone else added, "Like Dennis Miller."
This has about as big of a chance of success as the Milton and Strong Strawberry Farm.
@Upstate Underdog: *get rid of
Miller's just bitter because Bill Maher beat him on his own turf, simply by omitting all the egg-headed Sylvia Plath references.
Now he's just another right-wing blowhard trying his hand at sports commentary. And we all saw how well that worked for Rush Limbaugh, right?
I'm still stuck on "Kitchen Nightmares." What the fuck is "Kitchen Nightmares?"
the scraggly bearded one tends to sample the dial these days like Errol Flynn at the Cafe Gala.
/Millerized
@Chief Wahoo: Actually, you'll probably love his show.
@Lady Andrea: When you wake up and find a nude Charlie Weis fixing you breakfast.
@Chief Wahoo: no way, the guy from Ohio doesn't like the Daily Show?
@Weed Against Speed: +1000
Dennis: make sure they don't pay you in stock.
/Shatner
Gary Bettman can only dream of garnering this much attention for being a total asswipe from his Versus overlords.
@Lady Andrea: watch the original, BBCA version... much better than the Americanized Fox version.
Gordon Ramsay fixes up failing restaurants with some tough love and a lil' moxie! and lots of cursing.
Saw Miller and David Spade do standup six or seven years ago. If I knew then what I know now, I'd have murdered them both.
Boy, Versus looks like Pete Gray at a straw-grabbing contest.
@supermike4ever: I think he's still upset over "You jackin' it?"
@Rob Iracane:
By chance, did Carlos Mencia open for them?
@Threat Level: Midnight: Nice family guy reference, that was going to be my comment
@The Gentleman Masher:
A "skein" is a TV series; unless it is a daily then it is called a "strip", unless it is a Dennis Miller show, in which case it is called "shit"
Dennis Miller is currently less funny than Norm Crosby.
Why do I have the feeling that Mr. Weintraub is a HUGE fan of Dennis Miller?
That means less hunting and fishing on tv. Fuck.
When Miller was a young comedian still living in Pittsburgh, my high school Latin teacher was a neighbor of his. Said teacher claims he caught Denny jackin' it in the corridor of their apartment building.
/tangential jackin' it story
I haven't seen a career fall off so fast since Dizzy Goldman, Fuzzy Rothstein, and the rest of the lemmings were shuffled off to Far Below by Walt Disney's jackbooted thugs.
(Little known fact: lemmings have always controlled Hollywood. It explains Mac and Me, yesno, my li'l chickadee? Hell, all those hours I put into the Lemmings game on my Amiga practically made me the Lloyd George of my parents' house.)
/out-miller miller any day of the week and twice on self-righteous day
"I love how they have these 2-for-1 specials at K-Mart. Hey folks, two of SHIT is SHIT. Okay? If they really wanted to fuck you, they'd give you three of these things."
/remembering when Miller was funny
hahaha hilarious! [youtube.com]
yeah! the gays caused that jihad in new jersey!
A Daily Show for sports?
Sounds more like Jim Rome is Burning with obscure Brit Lit.
I don't mean to go on a rant here, but Dennis Miller hasn't been funny in 15 years.
/rant
@Big Daddy Drew: I have no problems with condoms. In fact, I wear two in my everyday life so when it's time for sex, I take one off and I feel like wild man. It's like swinging the weighted bat in the on-deck circle.
let me get this straight.....
the same people who watch mma fights and hunting shows are going to flock to see dennis miller too? if they think his newly-found political leanings are going to attract conservative sports fans to his show they're crazier than king george III
Alabama! You talk about Darwin's waiting room. There are guys in Alabama who are their own fathers.
Miller's The Off-White Album is still one of my all-time favorite comedy pieces. Of course, it was recorded in 1988.
And I am one of the 300 Americans who actually enjoyed Miller on Monday Night Football.
And yes, I have paid to see Dennis live post-9/11.
And I still can't get behind this.