Dennis Miller has a show on CNBC now. It's much more of a political show, and much less entertainment.
There's good and bad sides to this. The good side is that Miller is still the master of the obscure reference, and can be scary funny. Oh, and he has a chimpanzee. The first night of the show, he had a big red button on his desk that when pushed played a recording of Howard Dean's primal scream. The chimp climbed up on the desk and pressed it over and over again. Watching Miller deal with this and try to get through the segment was hysterical.
The biggest plus is that Miller has a whole hour, and he lets his guests speak. He doesn't cut them off, and he lets them make their whole argument. I find that it's much more satisfying than any other political talk show or interview show. Larry King looks like a lightweight in comparison. I always come away smarter.
The downside is that it's clear that Miller is a raging conservative. He's much harder on liberals than on conservatives. But he's trying... he has an occasional segment that are recorded rants by well known people; the first week it was all conservatives, many of whom truly were ranting and were light on reasonable discourse, but tonight he had Robert Reich, who was short and to the point. I didn't entirely agree with Reich, but it's nice to see that Miller really is trying to give equal time. Now if he would just dump David Horowitz...
All in all, worth watching. Especially on Tivo, when you can skip ahead.
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