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Don Imus’ Temporary Replacement On MSNBC: Stephanie Miller
She is GREAT! She combines talk show issues with fast-paced comedy and satire and has one of the few talk shows that does not get tiresome or predictable.
We mentioned her in THIS POST.
23 Responses to “Don Imus’ Temporary Replacement On MSNBC: Stephanie Miller”
Thank God – I was sure it was going to be Michael Smerconish- who can’t really carry a cable talk show.
I was hoping for some old Storyville music that might have survived the moral police of the first World War. Now that’s a tune you can Charleston to!
Miller is so childish — a true poster CHILD for the Left.
Never heard her show, but just now saw her pic at Wiki…….are gratuitous sexist remarks allowed?
Saying that she will be replacing Imus is a misstatement. She will be hosting a new type of program that will be filling the time slot that Imus had on MSNBC.
The local radio station in DC that used to carry IMUS now has Wall Street Radio that is incredbility boring. WFAN has been using Mike and the Maddog for the morning drive time slot.
Well the reason so many stations carried Imus and MSNBC simulcast his broadcast, was that his show gave them a huge boost in the ratings. Some of his comments were horrendous, but he seemed harmless enough as a person.
> are gratuitous sexist remarks allowed
Like mine about Sergolene Royal?
Are the remarks correct?
Those of you who like her show despite the childishness of it, hey, it’s more lively than Al Franken’s show and less strident and wacko than the other Air America show with Garafalo’s male colleague. (Less strident than Hannity, and some other conservative hosts, too.)
I actually like having a CD player in my current vehicle and getting to listen to something other than the talk show-NPR mix.
DLS – Miller uses more of a comedy schtick like Rush Limpbaugh. Give her a chance, anything would be better than MS.
Miller is the daughter of the guy who ran as VP on Barry Goldwater’s ticket. I love her show because I study comedy and some of her zingers work, some don’t, but her show doesn’t have that mean, angry, berating rant feel that most talk radio does. It’s almost like a political laugh in. She makes it very clear where she stands. But I turn on most of these talk shows on the right and left and I know what they’re going to say before they say it. Some of Stephanie Miller’s jokes don’t work but then she does so much material in a show. A lot of them do. She has been far more serious on the cable talk shows when they have her on. She has made no bones about the fact that she is partly doing a COMEDY SHOW. She actually had a late night comedy show at one point that was syndicated by Disney, I believe, but it didn’t last too long. NO I don’t agree with every idea she says — but so WHAT??? It’s an entertaining show. The question is whether she can do this now on radio. Most of these talking heads on TV political talk shows are males these days — so it’ll also be refreshing to see someone trying to prove their manhood by screaming louder than their guests for a change
Who can watch MSNBC anymore w/out Imus? If you actually watched his show, you loved it. Actually, the entire station should just disappear for how few people now watch it. Keith Olberman is just awful. Our mornings are brutal and we’re waiting for the I-Man’s return somewhere.
Rudy and Joe G. wrote:
> Miller uses more of a
> comedy schtick like
> Rush Limpbaugh.
> Some of Stephanie Miller’s
> jokes don’t work but then
> she does so much material
> in a show. A lot of them do.
Miller’s jokes, I find, often are childish. (I believe Joe G. knows what I’m talking about when it comes to some of the jokes’ not working as hoped.) And I’m adjusting for a personal political bias. I have laughed once in a while at her jokes (yes, some of them do work, Joe G.) and the best ones I’ve passed on to my radical friend — she loves ‘em.
Miller is a perfect fit for MSNBC. She is a lightweight, bland and less controversial than lukewarm tapioca.
“Stephanie Miller is as harmless as a kitten” _randi rhodes
Randi Rhodes is worse.
Bland????? Hardly!! Is she as in depth with issues as, say, Randi Rhodes? No, but her show is often GREAT comedy with an edge, mostly political (but the show is not above skewering anyone, particularly the entertainment industry, and even herself.). I wonder whether Shoreke actually has listened closely to an entire show, because I can’t see how it could be deemed as bland.
I have to agree with DLS- I can’t deal with too much of Randi Rhodes. The only lefty pundit/comedians I like are men — Colbert, Stewart, Olbermann and sometimes Bill Maher- though sometimes he’s too obnoxious. Franken is really obnoxious.
Conservatives-Like Joe Scarborough or Pat Buchanan- I can’t listen to the rest of them for more than five minutes- makes my skin crawl.
If they take the show’s whole cast of characters with them, expect hilarious self-deprecation from Steph, brilliant parody writing and the voices of a whole city of characters from Jim Ward, and Chris’s excellent GOP research (they watch FOX so you don’t have to), great music bumps and hysterical laugh.
Which lawsuit will occur first: O’Reilly for their duelling O’Reilly parodies and clips from his show (please play the O’Reilly chicken dance song, and do his sex dungeon with Geraldo) or Dick Cheney, for the Darth Cheney imitation, or KtotheJtotheILintheHizzHouse, the dictator of North Korea, with his case of Zagnut bars and his tricked-out AMC Pacer?
Stephanie Miller is brilliant…I am a 47 year old white male, self employed and nearly all my associates are Republican Limbaugh sheep. I have to admit, Miller has opened my horizons…My wife and several friends are now converted..Give her a couple weeks and you will learn something and be entertained at the same time…The facts are the facts and Bush is an idiot! The conservative talking heads are actually defending the job the Attornet General gave the other day. That performance was indefensible, the AG is either a complete idiot with late stage alzheimer’s or just a despicable liar…The guy is not fit to run a lemon aid stand, let alone the justice dept. He would not admit to remembering anything and Bush actually said he did a fine job….As far as I am concerned we need some truth in the media – the conservative shows have become ridiculous…
I-man come back. My morings are now filled with the phony smiles you ranted about. I am a black man and since you have been gone my mornings suck to high heaven. Start your own radio show. Internet streaming to radio stations who will brodcast it across America. I will not watch MSNBC, CBS or listen to CBS radio until they bring the I-Man back. Say what you want the man was a genius.
Ditto on R Rhodes, her moonbat paranoia is like nails across a black board. My komrads forgot Ed Schultz, would most moonbats have a serious debate with Viegeria(sp)? Iherad these two on Ed’s show and they talked like adults, something rare on both sides. I also miss the I-man, Bernard was the real racist and he gone too.
Stephanie and her crew are funny smart and easy on the ears (mostly). She would do great on The View, Good choice MSNBC.
Her show is funny and always brings up valid points …maybe the right would be more comfortable with her if she were mean spirited , picked on the little guy and made up stuff………..
Stephanie Miller is unwatchable. Imus viewers want something real…not forced laughter and phony banter.
Horrible.
Get someone like David Gregory or another Imus regular to fill in. Ratings for MSNBC mornings are going to continue to bottom out if folks don’t listen to the viewers that were watching in the first place.
I didn’t follow Howard Stern to satellite radio and was left in the SoCal abyss called morning drive until I heard the Stephanie Miller show and got hooked. I’m a professional in my late 40s and appreciate the humor to mix with a progressive perspective. I don’t consider her to be a lightweight. You really have to understand the material if you intend to joke about it. Twenty years ago I heard people say there was no humor on the left. Now, we have guys like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to compare to [delaminated] retreads like Rich Little.