# If an 8pm address starts at 8:15, the country is dooooomed **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 10, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506 "2009-09-10T02:10:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/21 "2009-09-10T20:31:42Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > It’s especially painful when O’Reilly tries to join in with his own witless attempts at banter, clearly under the deluded impression that he and Miller are “riffing” off each other and creating great television. “Bill, what are they drinking in that Oval Office anyway? I’ll bet it’s Ovaltine!” “That’s gold, Dennis! Gold!” ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/22 "2009-09-10T21:52:41Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Conservatives just don’t know how to be funny. It seems to me that what’s most often absent from their attempts at it is the realization that satire has to be based on some kind of truth. Satire, no—but damn if they haven’t perfected the pratfall. A “family values” warrior caught on tape exalting his multiple mistresses is some funny shit. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/23 "2009-09-10T22:32:51Z")
> [@buttonjockey308](#): > > To be fair, many of the dems are as funny as hot sawdust _cough_al gore\*. > I am though beginning to worry about your seemingly voracious consumption of righty TV though. It rots your brain dontcha know. Al Gore doesn’t try to be funny. Dennis Miller does. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/24 "2009-09-10T23:31:59Z")
Dennis Miller is not, in heart, a Republican. He just turned into a pussy after 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/25 "2009-09-10T23:37:08Z")
Sometimes I wonder if Miller is kind of faking it and feels locked into the conservative thing now because it’s the only fan base he’s got left. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/26 "2009-09-11T01:28:09Z")
Nah, Dennis Miller knows where his paycheck comes from, I really don’t think it’s much more than that. Just remember, a large part of his stand-up routine a decade ago was making fun of fundamentalist Christians and otherwise right-wing whackos. In fact, I seem to remember his routine having a liberal bent. ---
**Author:** ![Jerseyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Jerseyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerseyman)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/27 "2009-09-11T01:29:38Z")
Nix -just a test because I was blocked earlier ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/28 "2009-09-11T01:30:27Z")
I really think that like Joe Lieberman, 9/11 turned Dennis Miller into a nutcase. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/29 "2009-09-11T11:14:35Z")
Dennis Miller fell off my radar years ago; I had no idea he had become a Fox News talking head. That’s just sad. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/30 "2009-09-11T12:41:43Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Five more days until the Daily Show comes back and I regain that small 30-minute island of sanity. Sigh. Bear in mind, though, that Steward will never go after Miller or any other stand-up comic. ---
**Author:** ![Sinaijon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Sinaijon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaijon)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/31 "2009-09-11T13:13:58Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > The first words out of his god damn fucktrap were, “If the government’s idea of a 6pm address starts at 6:15, I don’t see how they think they can get involved in healthcare.” The only thing that’s unfunnier than Dennis Miller is a freaking 3 page post complaining about one of his offhand one liners. Here’s an idea! Why don’t you go write a 20 page dissertation why David Letterman’s #7 on his Top 10 list last night wasn’t funny. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/32 "2009-09-11T14:08:04Z")
How do you write a 3 page post? Reply to your self 150 times? ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/33 "2009-09-11T17:53:07Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I dont mind Denis Miller’s style of humor. In fact, I rather enjoy it. In another fact, I pretty much rip it off whenever I can. It’s the substance of his targets that irritates me. He used to go after everybody mercilessly. He would savage Bill Clinton two punchlines away from ripping GHW Bush a new one. > > My biggest problem with him lately, after listening to his radio show occasionally, is that he’s gone total Christian Fundamentalist. Almost every interview he conducts, he’s got to give props to the interviewee’s Christian faith. He was interviewing some stand-up comedian last week and I thought, good, let’s hear some light-hearted comic-to-comic banter. The whole thing was all about how the guy used to be an alcoholic and now that he’s found Jesus everything is ponies and picnic sandwiches and then they want on to discuss The Disciples of Comedy all about some Christian themed comedy revue. > > Today he was interviewing Pat Boone, ferchrisakes. Fuck man, 10 years ago, I’d bet Miller had an entire chapter in his joke book dedicated to making Pat Boone look like the tool that he is … now he’s sucking his cock on the radio. > > It’s depressing. So is old age and the realization of ones’ own mortality. I don’t doubt that Miller has a deep seated fear of death and as he ages still needs to work and if he can make himself happy talking with other like minded sheep, so much the better. He’s comfortable, he’s paid and has enough of a name that the fundies actually want him around. It’s really a win-win for Miller, who I stopped watching only because he stopped being truly funny after he left SNL. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/34 "2009-09-11T18:11:13Z")
Remember when Miller was a football commentator? Seems like he can’t hold any job post-SNL. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506/35 "2009-09-11T18:14:42Z")
> [@DudleyGarrett](#): > > Nah, Dennis Miller knows where his paycheck comes from, I really don’t think it’s much more than that. Just remember, a large part of his stand-up routine a decade ago was making fun of fundamentalist Christians and otherwise right-wing whackos. In fact, I seem to remember his routine having a liberal bent. That was prior to 9/11. He used to be more liberal/libertarian-esque. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-8pm-address-starts-at-8-15-the-country-is-dooooomed/509506.md?page=1)