Politics, Pandering, and Punch Lines

Dennis Miller is the second-most-entertaining, freedom-loving, semi-intellectual, autodidactic, libertarian funnyperson in the country. (The first is Penn Jillette.) You know the résumé, more or less -- Saturday Night Live, the HBO shows, the radio programs, the rants, the guest appearances on Fox News, in which he plays gleefully to the...

By Brandon K. Thorp

January 5, 2012

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Dennis Miller is the second-most-entertaining, freedom-loving, semi-intellectual, autodidactic, libertarian funnyperson in the country. (The first is Penn Jillette.) You know the résumé, more or less -- Saturday Night Live, the HBO shows, the radio programs, the rants, the guest appearances on Fox News, in which he plays gleefully to the resentments of that network's gazillion-strong audience without mentioning his troubling support for gay marriage and abortion rights. He'll be at the Kravis Center (701 Okeechobee Blvd., WPB) Thursday, telling it like it is -- or, at least, telling it like he thinks the paying public thinks it oughta be. It's a tough kind of contortionism, and nobody's better at it. Tickets cost $25 to $100, and you can get 'em at kravis.org.
Thu., Jan. 5, 2012

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