Dennis Miller - The Raw Feed

Dennis Miller - The Raw Feed


Starring:Dennis Miller
Director: James Yukich
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Dennis Miller rolls out a highly polished new act in this HBO special, taped before a live Chicago audience on March 1, 2003. While Miller's social commentary remains rigorously middlebrow, it's his typically loquacious, often elegant, occasionally anachronistic (one wonders what the young, Windy City audience makes of Miller's coiffure reference to "the harmonica player from the J. Geils Band") delivery that makes The Raw Feed worth visiting. Surreal esoterica abounds from the moment the comedian takes the stage with references to the "sequin mines of L.A.," the India-Pakistan conflict as understood through the filter of Jonny Quest, the length of purchase receipts from Circuit City, and suck-up Saudi royalty described as "the Eddie Haskells of the Middle East." The occasional killer line emerges, including Miller's prescription for peace in Israel (give Palestinians the casinos) and a hard truth about nature: "It's like Nick Nolte with a clogged Eustachian tube." --Tom Keogh
Description
After nine seasons of headlining more than 200 shows, and five Emmy? Awards to his credit, comedian Dennis Miller gets back to his stand-up roots for the HBO special, DENNIS MILLER: THE RAW FEED. With scathingly humorous wit, Miller gets out his sociopolitical thermometer and takes the nation's temperature as he rips into hot button issues on sex, religion, politics, and the Middle East. Miller speaks his mind about celebrities and pop culture trends. Even retailers are not immune to Miller's scrutiny as he reaches a bit further with acerbic comments on the length of a receipt at one popular chain and the logo and possible marketing strategy of another. Watch DENNIS MILLER: THE RAW FEED to see who rates worthy of a little roasting Miller style.
Dennis Miller - The Raw Feed
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Love Dennis Miller's humor
  • Heh....
  • This guy USED TO BE FUNNY
  • Preachy, not Funny. Bland, not Insightful.
  • Woulda been a 5 star but for the language...
 Dennis Miller - The Raw Feed
Starring: Dennis Miller
Director: James Yukich
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0000A7W10
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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Dennis Miller rolls out a highly polished new act in this HBO special, taped before a live Chicago audience on March 1, 2003. While Miller's social commentary remains rigorously middlebrow, it's his typically loquacious, often elegant, occasionally anachronistic (one wonders what the young, Windy City audience makes of Miller's coiffure reference to "the harmonica player from the J. Geils Band") delivery that makes The Raw Feed worth visiting. Surreal esoterica abounds from the moment the comedian takes the stage with references to the "sequin mines of L.A.," the India-Pakistan conflict as understood through the filter of Jonny Quest, the length of purchase receipts from Circuit City, and suck-up Saudi royalty described as "the Eddie Haskells of the Middle East." The occasional killer line emerges, including Miller's prescription for peace in Israel (give Palestinians the casinos) and a hard truth about nature: "It's like Nick Nolte with a clogged Eustachian tube." --Tom Keogh

Description

After nine seasons of headlining more than 200 shows, and five Emmy? Awards to his credit, comedian Dennis Miller gets back to his stand-up roots for the HBO special, DENNIS MILLER: THE RAW FEED. With scathingly humorous wit, Miller gets out his sociopolitical thermometer and takes the nation's temperature as he rips into hot button issues on sex, religion, politics, and the Middle East. Miller speaks his mind about celebrities and pop culture trends. Even retailers are not immune to Miller's scrutiny as he reaches a bit further with acerbic comments on the length of a receipt at one popular chain and the logo and possible marketing strategy of another. Watch DENNIS MILLER: THE RAW FEED to see who rates worthy of a little roasting Miller style.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Love Dennis Miller's humor.......2007-01-04

I find myself not only laughing at this wonderful comedian, but thinking to myself, you know that is how I see the events in the world. He has a everyday man's common sense approach to the events he comments on. Not for the faint of heart IF strong language offends you this isn't your kind of stuff. He is delightfully funny, and a real smart and savvy guy. Worth the price of the DVD.

5 out of 5 stars Heh...........2006-09-30

If you cannot stand someone who disagrees with you, don't get it (because you don't get it). This is brilliant, if you only like things that pad your bias, then go get a mirror and a microphone and entertain yourself. I think its incredibly funny and will likely only offend those who cannot handle someone who looks beyond wings (which are for birds). Thinking is a *lil* different than leaning "right".

1 out of 5 stars This guy USED TO BE FUNNY.......2006-08-25

There was a time when Dennis Miller was cutting edge,among the best of the topical comics...He used to have a weekly show on HBO,a gig on monday night football,and,most importantly,a non-partisan sense of humor..in sum,this guy USED TO BE FUNNY..
As with all things,Miller's time has passed...He no longer has a weekly show on HBO,he no longer has a gig on monday night football,and this album is about as funny as a policy speech by Donald Rumsfeld(which,coincidentally,it sounds like in its later half)...
Miller,on"Raw Feed"reveals himself to be a neo-conservative partisan..Now,don't get me wrong here,Miller has every right to be whatever he wants to be politically,but unless he is determined to be another Rush Limbaugh,his jokes must at least have the appearence of being non-partisan..On this album,recorded before our on-going three year plus morass in Iraq,Miller sounds like a brainless Bush booster,applauding the then looming war in Iraq as necessary,attacking Saadam Hussein as being THE threat to global peace,and,in the end,making all of the same mistaken assumptions about who we are and what we can accomplish in the middle-east that Bush & company have made..Listening to this drivel three years later,after so many of our assumptions have proved to be unfounded,is like have to repeat root canal surgery...Worse,the current Dennis Miller,now reduced to being a media version of the afore-mentioned Rush limbaugh,appearing on as many talk shows as will have him and espousing the same tired lies that come out of the mouths of the Bush press secretaries,has failed to understand that making macho jokes about the"necessity"of a failed war based on faulty,and perhaps deliberately deceptive information IS JUST NOT FUNNY.
Buy this item if you must,if for no other reason than to experience for yourself the emptiness of Miller's vision.How the once might have fallen....

1 out of 5 stars Preachy, not Funny. Bland, not Insightful. .......2006-06-21

Dennis Miller started his career with such zeal and a great zest for standing up to anyone's authoritative morality that he was a great shining star in the Saturday Night Live cast.

He has placed spotlights on the wrong doings of so many people and institutions that his perceptions became a comedy language that many understood and wasn't ever duplicated. He was a great comedian.

Then, something happened to him that is the death of any great comedian. He stopped being impartial and became fanatical.

Great comedians have one trait that they all share: They have faith in NOTHING. When you chose a side, it means that you have placed people and ideas as "off limits". All of a sudden, there are topics that you don't make fun of anymore. This then presents a problem to your audience, because they start questioning your sincerity in your commentaries and in your humor. In other words, why is this not funny anymore, but this is?

He went from being funny, to telling us what is funny. This is not a true comedian. This is a "preacher", and since 9/11, we have witnessed what he considers is his "religion".

Many have said that he has always been this way, but for someone who has followed his career from the begining, my feeling is either:

1) This is True, and thus he has been lying to us all these years.

or

2) This is False, and has degenerated into a human fanatic.

In either case, I did not buy this video to be preached to, I bought it to laugh, and I sure as hell didn't laugh. The aggrivation I had to go to return this product was traumatic enough that I will never buy another product of his ever again.

4 out of 5 stars Woulda been a 5 star but for the language..........2006-02-08

Agreed and agreed...if you are a staunch left-winger with absolutely no sense of humor, stay away from this. If, however, you are able to enjoy humor and let the politics fall by the wayside, this is one enjoyable DVD. From his speculation about crop circles (possibly ads for Target?) to his stance on priests and NAMBLA (how can you not love his suggestion for renaming and restructuring, errr resurgering that group?), I laugh every time I watch this. The language will be offensive to some, appropriate to others but if you can get past that and let the politics go, you will enjoy this. Might even get ya thinking about how backward some things are.

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