Re: studio audience

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> On 17 Mar 2004 17:14:27 -0800, stevehoran2001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (steve horan)
> wrote:
> >
> >He's a jingoistic jerk.  He was interviewing Dana
> >Priest of The Wa****ngton Post (if I'm not mistaken)
> >the other night.  He kept trying to bait her into
> >tra****ng Kerry and she seemed to be getting tired
> >of his xenophobic attitude.  DM questioned her on
> >whether it was possible for Kerry to visit with
> >foreign leaders if he hadn't been abroad in so
> >many months.  DP's sarcasm was dry but noticable
> >when she answered that it's possible for foreigners
> >to fly over here.  Miller sat there looking kinda
> >dumb. 
> 
> I watched the interview, and the sarcasm started with Priest, who
> actually said, "There's this thing called international airlines" in
> response, which clearly caught Miller off guard. It surprised me too,
> as the interview had been pretty civilized to that point.

But it seem like Miller had been prodding her to
dish some dirt on Kerry and finally she bristled.
I'm not sure if it was because she's a partisan
for Kerry or because of the derisive way Miller
talks about "foreigners".

> 
> <snip>
> 
> >There are also a lot of cheap jokes aimed at
> >people's relative unattractiveness but he's
> >always done that.  Find a picture of someone
> >looking stupid and your halfway to a belly
> >laugh.  It's not surprising that Dennis K
> >is his favorite target.
> 
> His humor is certainly politically incorrect, much like Bill Maher. I
> find them both very funny.

I like Maher a lot but I've never liked Miller.  It's
not only because Maher's independent, but left-leaning,
politics are more in line with my own than Miller's
partisan Republican views.  It's also because Maher's
humor is rooted in ideas.  Miller seems to be getting
laughs by stereotyping personalities and ridiculing
peoples' appearances.

> 
> >His humor is about as cruel as Howard Stern's.
> 
> Miller and Maher can both be cruel sometimes, but I think it's clear
> that either one is much funnier than Stern.

Yeah, I was exaggerrating by comparing Miller to Stern.
And Maher can be cruel; I remember some stuff he said
about retarded kids on PI that was pretty offensive.

> 
> DaveW