Dennis Miller on culture wars

Larry O’Connor who writes for Mediaite says that late night TV has become unwatchable to him and many others because it’s not funny and it’s all political. Now, there’s some nasty stuff going on between Jimmy Kimmel and our friend, Brian Kilmeade. Kilmeade criticized Kimmel for his stand on Obamacare.

Now, I know Kimmel and I like Kimmel and I feel terrible for Kimmel’s baby who had to undergo heart surgery and has more to come. Kimmel’s point of view is that he can pay for this, but other people can’t so American’s need this kind of health care so that poor people who have ill children can be treated.

 This isn’t a crazy point of view. Then Kilmeade, gently gave him a little jab about it. On Kimmel’s show last night he laid out Kilmeade. Be that as it may, it just demonstrates that late night TV is no longer what it was under Johnny Carson. 

Miller reminds us that Carson joked about everything, but he moved the show along, he didn’t sit on one topic for too long. Carson’s theory was to never have more than 3 jokes per topic. You could also say that Carson threw darts at all the balloons, but he didn’t use a flamethrower. 

We ask Miller if he’d rather watch entertainment or political commentary on late night TV and he says neither, he’d prefer to watch Turner Classic movies because he likes to watch TV to escape the world.

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