Dennis Miller's New Gig: Game Show Host

[CatWoman]

Dennis Miller's cable show, Sports Unfiltered With Dennis Miller, may be getting the ax, but that doesn't mean he'll be out of a job. As USA Today's Gary Strauss reports, Miller will be joining a long line of comedians — including Bob Saget, Howie Mandel, and Jeff Foxworthy — at being a game show host:

"I wasn't looking to host, but when they brought me ... uh, what's the name of the show again? Oh yeah, Amne$ia," Miller says. "I got excited because I realized it's a comedy wrapped in a game show package, and that allows me to be who I am."

Amne$ia contestants earn cash by recalling life events. "It's not just a game show where we're out there smacking buttons all the time and trying to do speed and alacrity. There's some sort of a whimsical walk through a person's life, sort of like Ralph Edwards on This Is Your Life," says Miller, who promises to be less sardonic and more kind than his normal stage persona. "There's potential for a few smiles, a few blasts from the past, and somebody walks away with some bread."


Read more about the comedian-game show host trend here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/22/dennis-millers-new-gig-_n_87945.html

[Buzz Clik]

1. Is "free fall" one word or two?

[long_green]

2. how long until DM works his magic in this format?

I mean how many times can you kill a show until someone gets the message?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Dennis Miller has gone to game show hell

may he stay there.....

[madinmaryland]

4. He's replacing Vanna on Wheel of Fortune?

:wow:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. ROFL!!!!

:rofl:

[Wickerman]

5. Blast from the past, indeed

Why do they keep giving this washed up old hack chances? He is done, put that fork in him and turn out the light and stop wasting money on the old loser. Give some new talent a chance. He's burned through whatever name recognition he ever had.


"There's potential for a few smiles, a few blasts from the past"

[CatWoman]

8. that, my dear Wickerman, is the $10 million question

[tularetom]

18. Stupid mothaf**ka works cheap

Somebody with some dipshit game show that probably won't last a year needed a host stupid or desperate enough to get on board under those terms.

Who could be stupider or more desperate than Dennis fuckin miller?

He probably groveled to the producers to hire him. God I would have loved to see that.

[Donnachaidh]

7. I think a show called "Hasbeen" is more suitable for DM. n/t

[AlCzervik]

9. my newspaper had a small article on this today, they hated it.

[zbdent]

10. Oh, great ... not another "Who Wants to be a Corporate Suckup?"

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. "...and that allows me to be who I am."

Somebody alert the FCC. I don't think you can show that.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

12. LOL, mister "I'm cerebral and can use big words" miller will be stuck in gameshow hell...ask Pat

Sajak how that's worked out for him. Alex Trebeck already has Jeopardy. Dennis Miller you are no Bob Barker. :rofl:

[smokey nj]

13. Next stop, dinner theater.

[zabet]

14. Still too good of a job

for that tired hack.

[lpbk2713]

15. Yaaawwn

It was either that lame show gig or doing

infomercials for men's hair care products.

Miller's 15 minutes came and went long ago.

[laststeamtrain]

16. It's called Amnesia. Kirk Watson is one of the first contestants. n/t

[islandmkl]

17. maybe it's a sucker play...he isn't really the host...

he's going to be the first CONTESTANT!

[Warren Stupidity]

19. Miller's career arc does prove something.

He now gets to fail over and over and over again, but since he converted over to fascism as his ideology, a track record that would have long ago sent other comedians into retirement as greeters at Wal Mart has just opened the door to one 6-figure gig after another.

"Miller will be joining a long line of comedians — including Bob Saget, Howie Mandel, and Jeff Foxworthy " - the sad part here is that once upon a time Dennis actually had talent and wit, unlike these other failed comics.