[Note: For a more complete rundown of today's DVD/Blu-ray releases, go here. I thought D.M. deserved a little special attention …]
It’s a shame what’s happened to Dennis Miller’s career. After graduating from Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” anchor chair, Miller went on to fame and fortune with some killer HBO specials, crappy movie work (Disclosure, The Net, Bordello of Blood), a weekly TV show (Dennis Miller Live), and a memorable stint from 2000-2002 in the booth with Al Michaels and Dan Fouts on ABC’s Monday Night Football. After the 9/11 attacks, Miller’s politics and comedy took a hard right turn, with the previously sharp counterculture comic rolling over for the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.
This article appears in Apr 1-7, 2009.