Politics aside, a lot of it just isn't funny
Quinoa1984
I used to be a big Dennis Miller fan. His rants (later made to books) as well as his overall TV show on HBO was often smart and funny. He knew how to take good…
I used to be a big Dennis Miller fan. His rants (later made to books) as well as his overall TV show on HBO was often smart and funny. He knew how to take good pot shots at all the angles. Then after 9/11, he started his decline (his latest show on TV is awful). Once his TV show on HBO ended, this special came. I was interested to see what he had to say, and I *tried* to not put a political bias in my way of liking it or not. But the problem is that, aside from the material verging into just aimless pontification and even talking points from the right-wing, it's just not up to par with his past stand-up stuff. Sometimes a funny line will come up when talking about celebrities (the Willem Dafoe joke was my favorite). However with the political jokes, he doesn't seem to even get as big laughs, per say, from the audience as he gets applause for his lines. It's also of note that the special was taped right before Bush plunged the US into Iraq, and from here you can clearly tell his alliances. It's somewhat of a drag seeing how he's so drastically changed in nine or ten years from his special in 93 (he used to be not necessarily liberal or conservative, somewhere in the middle, not so here), but I didn't want to care about his bias while watching it. Meanwhile, it seemed as though the audience itself had a bias. What I cared about was if the jokes worked, the ironies, and it just didn't do it for me. I'd rank it as my least favorite special of his, despite a few laugh-out-loud jabs. C-
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Looking back 3 years later
airmania
*** contains slight spoilers *** I've always been a big fan of Dennis Miller. His ongoing and rather verbose rants were not only funny but very intelligent…
*** contains slight spoilers *** I've always been a big fan of Dennis Miller. His ongoing and rather verbose rants were not only funny but very intelligent responses to world events.
However, after first viewing The Raw Feed in 2003, I could not finish watching the whole thing. Miller pretty much hit most of the ultra-conservative views in a "common Joe" point of view, like the review stated. Yes, my political views lean more to the left than they do to the right, and yes Miller had of lot to say about each topic, but I was appalled.
Miller sounded like a self-absorbed stereotypical American who was p'd off at everything that criticized America. He sounded angry, scared and racist. I understand that most views in Hollywood is Left-leaning and Miller must have made The Raw Feed in retaliation to all the Left-wing media, but wow. 2003, the beginning of the war, 2 years after 9/11, just wow.
Ever since I couldn't look at a program with him in it. Miller completely turned me off. It could just be my biased views, but when I see such a brilliant comedian making comments that are wrong in my opinion, it makes him look stupid in my eyes.
Anyhow, regardless of my views, 3 years later everything Miller praised in favor of (ie President Bush, WMD in Iraq, global warming, fear of Muslims, etc..) must be biting him in the butt today.
I understand Miller had his own views and I loved his rants before. However, the whole Ultra-Conservative blowout rant didn't work in the long scheme of things. Miller's political show didn't last very long because of the rants.
You really have to view this man's opinions in 2003, and hopefully he'll make another comedy show so we can compare his thoughts. A very interesting post 9/11 commentary from the right side of the Hollywood.
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Leftist beta snowflakes dislike reality checks, like Dennis delivers. Mommy I need a new safespace! Haha