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02/11/2004: "Identity Crisis"

Oh Dennis, forget what I said, and please, please take the stick out of your ass!

Dennis Miller's new CNBC talk show is in trouble. Opening to a huge-by-CNBC-standards initial audience of 746,000 viewers, the show averaged 540,000 viewers during week one, and week two is down to just 261,000. Gee, that bad? Yeah, Dennis seems to believe, somehow, that his time has come, and it has frightened him so badly that he has forgotten who he is. Click more.. below.

Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune television critic, writes, "You can't spend a career deflating absurdity, and then conduct the kind of fawning interview with Schwarzenegger that Miller did on his first CNBC show, Jan. 26. Viewers' discomfort was mirrored in the face of the man who, Miller seemed to forget, was a bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-governor." Steve goes on, "And then there's the chimp. On night one, Miller delivered a mission statement for his show, very sincere sounding, then ended it by saying, "I believe there's a common-sense revolution coming, folks," and having the chimp come over and join him to pose for the camera."

"It was a very funny undercutting of everything he had just said, a reminder of the old Dennis Miller."

"But most everything "The Dennis Miller Show" has done since suggests that he was kidding about the chimp, serious about the revolution and his rightness to help lead it."

Right there, BOOM, Steve hit the nail on the head. I think Arnold, Dennis's buddy, invited him to run as Vice President on Arnold's "common-sense-revolution, post constitutional amendment" Presidential ticket, and whoa, our boy lost it. Will he get it back? Who knows, but if he ever gets the stick out of his ass I'll bet the famous Yogi Berra line, "I really didn't say everything I said," will be written on it. Maybe a few nights in the sack with some distant Kennedy gal would do the trick for Dennis's perspective, but, failing that, there's always Jessie Ventura. What a kick in the head.

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