DENNIS MILLER: THEY SHOOT HBO SPECIALS, DON'T THEY? (TV)
Summary
In this live special, Dennis Miller performs stand-up at the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Miller brings his gifts for language and rapid-fire pop cultural referencing to a variety of topics, including the following: Michael Jackson's changing skin pigmentation; the World Trade Center bomber; the recent demise of his own syndicated talk show, "The Dennis Miller Show"; Bruce Jenner's infomercial; what one would have to do to get kicked out of the rock band Guns 'n' Roses; his marriage and sex life; his two-and-a-half-year-old son; guys with bad "achy-breaky" shag haircuts who look like Jane Fonda in "Klute"; aging flight attendants and bad flights; French actor Gerard Depardieu; Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.); how it is impossible to tease anyone anymore in a world where hyper-sensitivity abounds as people increasingly break off into separate tribes; his own as a white male WASP; the absurdity of the furor over Madonna's "Sex" book; the self-righteous finger-wagging of singer Barbra Streisand; women reporters in men's locker rooms; abortion; gun control and the National Rifle Association; Manuel Noriega's finding religion; Saddam Hussein's similarity to the dismembered knight in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"; tension between police and citizens of Los Angeles; President Bill Clinton's cabinet; the 1992 Republican National Convention; Texas billionaire and 1992 independent presidential candidate H. Ross Perot; Miller's respect for retired Navy Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale, Perot's vice-presidential running mate. (This program is closed-captioned.)
Details
- NETWORK: HBO
- DATE: March 27, 1993 9:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:01:46
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:39107
- GENRE: Comedy; Specials
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; African-American Collection - Comedy
- SERIES RUN: HBO - TV, 1993
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Brad Grey … Executive Producer
- Marc Gurvitz … Executive Producer
- Dennis Miller … Executive Producer, Writer, Performer
- Jeff Ross … Producer
- Emily Cohen … Associate Producer
- Jim Yukich … Director
- Sandra Restrepo … Production (Misc.), Production Supervisor
- John Irwin … Production (Misc.), Production Manager
- Sandy Wernick … Production (Misc.), Executive Consultant
- Corey Feldman
- Michael Jackson
- George Hamilton
- Abraham Lincoln
- Moe Green
- David Hasselhoff
- James Whitmore
- Jay Leno
- Barbara Eden
- Ichabod Crane
- Lee Haney
- Bruce Jenner
- David Niven
- Klaus Barbie
- Omar Sharif
- Adolf Hitler
- Tovah Borgnine
- Mike Todd
- Stradlin, Isadore "Izzy"
- Slash (Saul Hudson)
- Nipsey Russell
- America (pop group)
- Ted Knight
- Madame Curie
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- Harold Lloyd
- William Holden
- Jesus Christ
- Dante Alighieri
- Joe Franklin
- Gallagher
- Sanford Meisner
- Jane Fonda
- Roddy McDowall
- Charlton Heston
- Victor Buono
- James Franciscus
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Fred MacMurray
- Hume Cronyn
- Jessica Tandy
- Waldo Pepper
- Bobby Lansing
- Gerard Depardieu
- Jerry Lewis
- Eva Gabor
- Da Vinci, Leonardo
- Kahoutek
- Kennedy, Edward "Ted"
- Jimmy Page
- Melvin Dummar
- Thant, U
- Spike Lee
- James Mason
- Travis Bickle
- Paul Bunyan
- Madonna
- Wes Craven
- Barbra Streisand
- Amelia Earhart
- Clarence Thomas
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Camille Paglia
- Arlen Spector
- Renfield
- Count Dracula
- Charles Keating
- Manuel Noriega
- Werner Erhard
- Saddam Hussein
- Judy Landers
- Wile E. Coyote
- Norman Rockwell
- Bill Clinton
- Montel Williams
- Richard Belzer
- Al Gore
- Ed Sullivan
- George Bush
- Fleetwood Mac (pop group)
- ABBA (pop group)
- Yoko Ono
- Fine Young Cannibals (pop group)
- M.C. Escher
- Janet Reno
- John Lithgow
- Warren Christopher
- Lloyd Bentsen
- Robert Reich
- Nero
- Caligula
- Patrick J. Buchanan
- Max Cady
- Atticus Finch
- H. Ross Perot
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Simon Bar Sinister
- Karen Silkwood
- James Stockdale
- Paddy Chayefsky
- Quayle, J. Danforth "Dan"
- Elvis Presley
- Shelley Winters