When I started college in Chicago in the mid-1990s, my university decided that the best way to prepare new students for life in the big city would be to hire J. J. Bittenbinder to give his crazy, crazy seminar. That seminar was my first real exposure to weird Chicago culture, and Mulaney’s account is not at all…

He used to be pretty awesome, I remember loving his HBO show back in the day.

That’s a trick question: A. Whitney Brown was never funny...

He had bits he did then that he couldn’t do now, like the crashing airliner bit where he described Christian Hosana-ing with hands above head as “the existential handstand.”

So he’s a mean coward. Excellent!

I love how much Miller has had to dumb down his act to fit his new audience. He’s not making sideways references to Hannibal crossing the Alps these days.

Ah yes...80's Miller

I came here to write something very similar. I am 10 years your junior, but I grew up reading Dennis Miller’s rant-centric books. In fact, his books were one of the few things my dad and I bonded over during my teenage years. I thought he was funny, smart, had a great cadence and delivery, and I sure did feel like he…

This might not be the hill you want to die on. Kanye wasn’t just “not following in this wave of blind identity politics.” He said slavery was a choice. It’s pretty clear the dude needs to be quiet, because everything out of his mouth is idiotic nonsense.

Yeah, Dennis Miller, man. He was the funniest guy and, now, he’s just...whatever. I remember his old stand up and his TV show (the HBO one, I remember his late night show but it never really stood out.)

I remember way back in the day (circa the 1992 election) watching a stand-up routine of his that veered off into him just ranting bitterly about politics. So that was always an issue, but after September 11 it seemed to completely take over his act and his public persona.

This is just my personal dividing line, but Miller being an asshole is something I’m able to ignore when looking back on his better earlier work. “Lovable dad” Bill Cosby being a serial rapist—including being that during the time he was playing Cliff Huxtable—is in a different category.

Dennis Miller used to be funny. Now he’s not. You weren’t wrong to like him when you were younger. I did too. But now I don’t.

Why regrettable? It was funny then and still is today.

With the exception of lying through her teeth to the American public to protect not the Presidency, but our dangerously inept president.

So the takeaway here is that Dennis Miller is okay with making brutal jokes about public figures, he just won’t do it to their face.

“It’s just Sanders seems like a decent woman”