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October 5, 2006
Dennis Miller Concert Review
Reviewing comedy seems much more personal than music. People sometimes go to see bands they may not be too fond of, just to go to a concert.
But not many people will spend the money to see a comedian they don't care for.
Such was the case Wednesday night with Dennis Miller at the Palace Theatre in Stamford. If you like Miller's worldview, then you would have loved the show. If you disagree with his politics or find his references a bit too obscure, then it probably wouldn't have been much fun for you.
I admit to being in the former group and find him to be a scream and feel strangely proud of myself when I understand one of those obscure pop-culture references he's noted for.
The first half of the show was mostly devoid of political content and he busted out a few old jokes — comparing a woman who gave birth to her 23rd child to a clown car and how an ancestor of his worked in the sequin mines of Las Vegas.
Other targets included Bronson, Mo., ("Las Vegas for people without teeth"); Krispy Kreme's proposed liquid doughnut ("perfect for fat people too lazy to chew"); and, of course, the French, whose plan to get rid of junk food in schools is "part of the French master plan to raise healthier cowards."
Toward the middle of the show, Miller started to dip into his political grab bag and, though he claims to be "a Libertarian on most issues," liberals took the bulk of the abuse.
For instance:
On former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean: "How can we take seriously a former governor who's only job was to show his face once a year and nail a bucket into a tree?"
On Hilary Clinton: "Hilary said she didn't know Bill was running around on her, well then she's not smart enough to be my president."
And he really unloaded on James Carville, calling him "a satanic Chihuahua" and "a Muppet washed on hot." Miller, who backs the war in Iraq as a way of being "proactive instead of reactive," was much kinder to the current administration than most in show business.
He imagined a conversation about Vice President Dick Cheney in a cave where one terrorist says to another, "Hey, Cheney just shot his friend in the face. And he hates us; what do you think he's going to do to us?"
And President Bush, who "never said we'd find 'nuclear' weapons in Iraq. He said 'nucular.'"
Miller also sounded downright conservative when it came to issues of racial profiling on airplanes ("The fact that the 9-11 terrorists came from the same region isn't profiling, it's called being minimally observant"); not executing murderers because they were temporarily insane when they committed the crime ("All right, then we'll fry you in a clown suit"); and pedophiles ("They're talking about implanting transmitters in pedophiles to keep track of them. You know what's easier? Burials."). Reading this, you might think it was a Republican rally, but Miller found enough humor in these sensitive topics to keep the crowd laughing. The audience did not, obviously, share all of his views, but Miller has the ability to make you laugh as he expresses his outlook, even if you disagree with it.
And laughing, really, is what it's all about.
Posted by Sean on October 5, 2006 7:43 PM
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