Why aren't there More Conservative Comedians?

[TlalocW]

96. I watched SNL religiously back then... He wasn't that great

Even when he was spouting somewhat more liberal jokes, the smug look on his face, and his incessant need to show how smarter he was than you with the 5 minutes dissertations that referenced everything from, "War and Peace," to Hitchcock movies just was too much. Being the Weekend Update anchor at least forced him to try and keep things a little shorter, but other than that, no one ever used him in any of the other sketches, and apparently if he wrote any sketches, they didn't get used (since the comedians mainly write skits for themselves to be the stars in) because all he could do was Dennis Miller/Smarmy-Jackass-Who's-Full-of-Himself. I remember one skit he was in, and he was playing a teenage son in a dysfunctional family at Christmas, and it was just painful to see him attempt to "broaden" himself and "act." Even when he gets bit parts in movies - I'm thinking stuff like, "Joe Dirt," - his character is just him. Phil Hartman and Jon Lovitz could disappear into their roles, especially when they were fast-talking 1940s archetypes (this is gonna be the way it is, see?). Hell, once, on Weekend Update, they had a special correspondent who was Dennis Miller, played by Dana Carvey, and he nailed the Miller character perfectly.

I listen to a comedy radio station, and they play him every now and then. There was one time that he stepped outside himself and told a touching and humorous story about getting to bring his mother to a private dinner with Frank Sinatra and how gracious he was. Otherwise, it's just his talking about, "how we need to take those cats in the Middle-East out, cha-cha."

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