Dennis Miller's rant on intelligence

[@nancymcmonarch]

This reminds me of the best advice my father ever gave me. "You are more intelligent than 99% of the people you're ever going to meet. Don't ever be smug or cruel about it, because you were just born lucky. And in this world, it's more important to be kind than smart."

[@martinriggs8567]

That is good advice. If you follow it, you’ll never find out if you are actually more intelligent than 99% of people. Ignorance is bliss.

[@jeffw1267]

​@@martinriggs8567As a top 1% in intelligence level myself, I find out very quickly who is dumber than I am. They watch the news and believe it, can't find Brazil on the world map, and vote for an Alzheimer's patient for president because orange man bad. It would drive me nuts if I allowed it to.

[@nova3752]

​@@jeffw1267calm down, soft manchild. you're not smart because you dont watch news and can find Brazil. You're not even average at that point

[@jonathanaugustin647]

Wow, I thought family guy was exaggerating.

[@byggmeaty2310]

😆 🤣 😂 😹

[@brianwebb8136]

28 years later, and it still rings true. The man might as well be a prophet. Still love how he always said “I don’t wanna go on a rant here…” then tears into the subject matter.

[@markyounger1240]

This is so accurate that he could be seen as a time traveler.

[@paulsecon4889]

Still fucking funny and relevant,all these years later.

[@fredonski]

Here I am watching this in 2022 and noticing is more relevant than ever.

[@twbicknell8819]

Here it is 2025, still waiting for that fawk-a-lounger

[@guglacownt5946]

This makes about as much sense as beowulf having sex with robert fulton at the first battle of antietam

[@MayorOfMidland]

What the hell is a rant?

[@burnbabylonburn78]

🤣🤣🤣🤣I just read that in Dennis Miller’s voice. Well played!

[@spockboy]

@@MayorOfMidland RANT: to speak or shout at length in a wild, impassioned way.

[@jakefranklin89]

Agreed. When a neoconservative defenestrates it’s like Riskalnakov filibuster deoxymonohydrogenase

[@lindaberg1695]

He's not wrong....an honest stand up guy in the same comedy slot as Carlin.....

[@rustednailz6232]

This rant is more prevalent now than it was back in 95

[@eydie57]

Dennis Miller has always looked like he could be Rider Strong's father. I love both of them.

[@redhurricane24]

It is 2019. And this rant has never been more spot on than right now.

[@jaewok5G]

"hold my beer" - 2022

[@rickysammy1]

"Bright people who I used to respect now stay home to watch Beverly Hills 90210..."

[@bullcrapptv]

Holy shit. He just wrote the script for idiocracy 11 years early.

[@alanchu8660]

Gee, this rant is more dead on today than it was back in 1995.

[@bilalc4415]

Isn't it sad? lol we have more technology to teach us, but use it to distract us!! Right now you can go on your phone and look up Kennedy's inaugural speech in less than 10 seconds(depending on the connection) and watch it on your phone, but we use that to distract us with fucking memes that do nothing for us! We have the technology to be the most productive generation, but we allow it to keep us asleep!

[@paulsecon4889]

Alan Chu Yup It Is

[@uTubeNoITube]

This was 1995 and sadly, it's only gone downhill from what he's talking about here ;( What he said about technology has become the truth, remember, this was when the internet was in it's infancy and cell phones were still the size of phone books. 2015 and we have Bieber... *weeps for the future of America*

[@nenofalletta]

I wish HBO would still play this show.

[@Varsityy1]

uTubeNoITube Amen to that, buddy! As a matter of fact, let me add something to the table. Did you know that an actual high school diploma can't even help you get an actual job anymore? Why is that true? It's because of the fact that high schools don't teach us everything that we need to know before we can have wonderful lives. While the high schools of this generation are teaching us how to become wonderful college students, they're not really teaching us how to become perfect adults in the near future. Also, you know that the world is dead when people actually get their information from Dennis Miller and Jon Stewart. Come on, now! Of course, that's just my opinion, and I could be right.

[@nenofalletta]

eliemuller Dennis Miller should be a school teacher he is so smart.

[@Varsityy1]

Nino Falletta That's exactly what I was saying! Of course, we'll be laughing while we're learning because he's also extremely funny.

[@caseyjoanz]

+Nino Valletta Yeah, that's really shooting for the moon! Especially for a guy who talks down to the truly informed! He's memorized every book he ever read. Both of them!

[@NoahDiamond-Firearms-LLC]

I love this. I don't know if he write it all, but he has the delivery for sure. I am certain he is very intelligent as his response times are amazing and his executions are precise.

[@briggadoonfallon7976]

Percise*

[@tickedoffnow]

He's incredible 🌹♥️

[@icaruswithovaries]

Oh god. Dennis saw the future.

[@TravisCotter]

Dennis Miller is great. Mr. X

[@higherground711]

They weren't just rants. They were prophecies. Prophecies that all came true. Today it's the internet beast that's swallowing people whole. 💻🐲

[@josephthomas2226]

smartest man in comedy. he and Norm McDonald together were classic.l

[@bryanhowell7744]

I miss this show

[@Mastermind8908]

Maybe its good Jon's show was canceled then. It may have set him up down the road for the Daily Show and a lot of us know how that went.

[@decoytarget6185]

Yeah, it was one of the best weapons the Liberals ever had. You had a comedian who was able to attack conservative ideology by mocking it everyday, while holding up liberal ideas as the common-sense alternative. Then, when he got called on his bullshit, he would revert back to saying he was just a comedian and no one should take what he says too seriously.

[@decoytarget6185]

Interesting land on intelligence, but he had Jon Stewart as a guest that evening. Jon Stewart and intelligence go together like two positively charged ions.

[@mrkeogh]

@@decoytarget6185 John Oliver does the same thing: "Nobody is saying you can't do X, but we've just spent 20 minutes making fun of people who do X, so you do the math around whether anyone actually does X anymore when they're getting shit for it from everyone around them because of shows like this peddling half-truths and trendy politics..."

[@2ld4u]

This is Dennis Miller at his finest. His majestic, dark hair bobs with every witty word that he has to say. He is a masterpiece!

[@burnbabylonburn78]

I’d really like to hear what he has to say now! Dennis Miller, where are you? He’s like George Carlin...predicting the future.

[@cwhip2432]

The Eradicator he’s not George Carlin man. Miller is great but not Carlin. He’s a fox contributor now, he does come on every once in a while to give opinions. Stand up career is killed now because he’s a conservative.

[@raybrown1725]

@@cwhip2432 His career was dead so he joined the circus he used to rant about

[@roasrunna8634]

Not Carlin , not funny .

[@charlessentenat1250]

I don't know what we would do without him.

[@DrJCS3]

Dennis Miller is articulate, energizing and raises some important issues. I regret he finds Fox so hospitable only because it makes me wonder if he has been co-opted intellectually as much as some the other Foxies. On the other hand, maybe it's his way of trying to score with that hot, blond crazoid they put on occasionally.

[@bigol9223]

I think it's more that others may not be so open and hospitable

[@JimGetten]

Does this relate now more than ever?

[@artyvandelayed]

Looks like his predictions are pretty accurate. One step closer to idiocracy!

[@edwardmiessner6502]

I was surprised at his incredulity at "F as in Faeroe" at first until I realized he meant "Pharoah."

[@waynebooker498]

Nope, your not wrong. I'd like to hear an update to this bit for 2022 considering all the new BS we have to deal with. Reality TV, Furries, Metaverse....

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

Goddamn imagine if he was still this guy. :\

[@MrHaircut1]

I am a conservative, aside from the religious aspects. He doesn't make me feel stupid. I get most of his references and I doubt anyone, including his fans, get every reference he makes, though I doubt they'd admit it. They'd just laugh anyway. He can just sometimes come off as being obsessed and preoccupied with naming as many references as he can, even when it's not necessary. That combined with his hostle manner of speaking is annoying to me at times. I'll concede that he's probably smart...

[@feonjun]

I don't want to go on a rant here, but the flux-capacitor of the hypotenuse of the z-axis has tangent with the g-string of the inverted caliper where Obama used his birth certificate to stroke the cow with Copernicus at the right angle.

[@philliesphan312]

Wow! This was even five years before the reality tv juggernot got us! Even back then there were people on tv who had an iota of acting talent. Looks like he was right saying the technology would get us.

[@liebherr1400]

Everything you've said is correct, except that most teachers aren't Union. Their are 23 Right to work staes in the US. The problem with poor quality teachers is the pay, plain and simple. Have you ever taken a job from the lowest bidder? Its the same thing, quality comes with a cost. Please keep in mind that their are 1000's of great teachers out there, but imagine how much better they would be if they got paid more than 30k a year.

[@mikehancock5744]

DENNIS THANK YOU FOR MAKING US 😆🤣😂

[@rmondave]

Education could be improved simply by allowing COMPETITION and CHOICE: Get rid of teacher's unions and tenure, insert merit pay and recognition. The remaining problems would be fixed with competition or by definition they simply cant be fixed with anything but a restart button: 1. Disinterested and incompetent parents 2. Obsolete curriculum and outmoded delivery 3. A polluted gene pool, will not be fixed in the short term. Some issues are too sensitive to even be raised.

[@bpd35]

Dennis Miller for President

[@likes2aplay]

loved it thank ya

[@Tsnore]

Is Dennis Killer related to Judth Killer formerly of the NY Times and now also of Fox Noise?

[@djnross]

@Ronin1914 Thank you sir...Many happy returns to my synoptic trail wherever Ariadne's thread unspools.

[@notme1048]

The Algonquin Round Table Wikipedia site just crashed from too much traffic

[@justjimmy765]

The dialog is spot on, but the sound engineer can't set the release gate on the compressor.

[@davidh9596]

Sad but true

[@madbear3512]

Favorite thrash song

[@tybo09]

Nobody go back in time and show THIS Dennis Miller an episode of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo"... The universe would collapse.

[@Rodshark75]

Show him a clip of himself today... his head would become a black hole of hypocrysy after he says Betsy Davros a "fine choice" to run the department of education.

[@RobbKong999]

@SouthShoreLax What the hell does rant mean?

[@jelaninoel]

Imagine what he’d have to say now

[@LooneySplatooney]

Oh he has a lot to say and thankfully hasn’t been CANCELLED …. Yet

[@travishammond23]

Perfect

[@RobMacKendrick]

Like Yogi Berra always said, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." (You'd be surprised how many people don't get this joke today.)

[@TheSleepingonit]

He is spot on

[@liebherr1400]

I feel your pain. I live in the South as well.

[@concordetconstabulary219]

Man did this hit the mark perfectly.

[@pagalley1]

Miller is a very intelligent guy...He's a SNL alumni, but, I don't see him on any of the SNL specials...I loved this show...HBO should bring it back...Dennis Miller, like Bill Mahar, is one of the smartest standup comedians out there...Technology has become too overwhelming...It's robbing us of our humanity...That's just my opinion, though...I could be wrong.

[@Fersomling]

What year was this? Obviously pre-2000 from the content.

[@mrfudd13]

Can't say we didn't see it coming.

[@moneybagzz]

He asks the right question > WHY BOTHER?

[@Ryomaslade45]

@MarkArandjus I think he was aiming more towards the normal people having more reliance on it. The idiot who just needs to pass Spanish so he can go out and play another season of Hockey in High school, can now easily do his essay using some program(on a slightly higher quality level then babelfish) and really no one would be the wiser. But you could also be right as well, especially since such programs weren't as available in '95.

[@Moviefan2k4]

I don't always agree with Dennis' views, but he pretty much hit the nail on the head with this one. I read about two kids not long ago, who sat on a bus not 6 feet from each other, texting back and forth instead of talking. When people can win a legal case against McDonald's over coffee being too hot, and more people on TV champion killing babies instead of protecting both them and their parents...you know something's really gone to hell.

[@24ballin23]

@feebleblunt1 stewart doesn't have a team of writers? colbert doesn't have a team of writers?

[@Tobysgmc]

And this was before virtual doctor visits

[@soapg532]

the hell does rant mean?

[@Verbal_Kent]

I mean when a neo-conservative defenestrates it's like Raskolnikov filibuster deoxymonohydroxinate

[@mtb416]

every single commercial these days is the same as well

[@JINFAMOUS_]

Truer words have never been spoken by this man...if video killed the radio star then technology killed the genius! With new technology, gadgets and devices coming out pretty much every week...it has us as ppl rely less on natural brain power and more on who can one up the next with who can get the newest iPod, HDTV, Smartphone first...as well as what Snooki and The Situation did on the most recent "Jersey Shore". Senseless television and never ending emerging technology although may seem as...

[@robloxvids2233]

And this was back when the only Kardashian anyone knew about was O.J.'s lawyer Robert.

[@K31R616]

At least 3, for sure.

[@felicity4711]

4:08 Kenobi?

[@thomasboudreau4563]

In 95, this could be considerded hyperbole, but 28 yrs later...literal

[@intanjible]

Did he really pluralize "metropolis" as "metropoli" as if the word were spelled "metropolus" and designed to be pluralized with the letter "i" at the end?

[@alltruthmatters4395]

We live in the movie “Idiocracy”.

[@politure]

I agree wholeheartedly, but is it ironic that some of his jokes are cultural references to celebrities and products or tv shows?

[@spreadthelove77]

Dennis Miller is truly no laughing matter................

[@seth7733]

Calling someone an Einstein is an insult because it's sarcastic...

[@gator1973ful]

Grit and Sanka. Ah....Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[@matttrafton2725]

An oracle of the highest order.

[@BeauregardHall]

4:25 That time Dennis Miller said he's on the left.

[@IoEstasCedonta]

Dennis Miller talking up Jon Stewart... that's some eerie foreshadowing there...

[@BattlegroundVictory]

absolutely agree... currently, his radio show is disaster... his side kick sits there laughing and giggling like a school girl as Dennis rambles on in random directions, obviously quite impressed with himself and the adoration of his ignorant Fanboy base... meanwhile, I just change the channel... *yawn*... boring as all hell...

[@JaySports644]

@deezydmv He said go back to listening to Dane Cook.

[@Feetie39]

Dennis we miss you so much. Come back. The dark side is not worth it. Come back please.

[@MrHaircut1]

... but the obscure references aren't what makes him so. Logic is all that matters to me and he seems less concerned with showing the logic in his arguments than making his similes and references. An even better Churchill quote, paraphrased: "If you're not liberal by 20 you have no heart. If you're not conservative by 30 you have no brain."

[@LeroyRifkin]

What the hell does rant mean?

[@michaellinner7772]

I've got to go there on Dennis. It's not Education System, but rather it's "Educational System". In English we don't use nouns to describe other nouns. 😁

[@imdave1990]

20 bucks says this dude's sexually frustrated.

[@erichaynes7502]

Dennis Miller makes Nostradamus look like Alex Jones after a 3 day meth bender!

[@rontayan]

Then pop culture fused with social media.....the technology has totally made us worst.

[@LooneySplatooney]

26 years later… what happened??? Dumbing down of America!!! We are seeing it tenfold now

[@citizenoftherepublic9795]

Back when Dennis Miller made sense.

[@jonathandevereaux298]

He never stopped making sense, you just got dumber

[@krazykkarl]

Still is

[@lbsrfr999]

@feebleblunt1 - Dennis is brilliant. He does this stuff daily on his radio show. He blows away feeble minded and blunt induced callers with quick wit and knowledge of the issues.

[@2pacthugzta]

@MasterOfSparks Agreed.

[@MelancoliaI]

I'd like today's sad Fox News-frequenting Dennis to meet this Dennis.

[@Bcutter]

What the hell does "rant" mean?

[@JINFAMOUS_]

(con't)....a gift from the tech angel but what it is, is a crutch to connect via high-tech while in reality the quickest way to disconnect from social human contact. For the first time in history we have male spouses choosing their video games over their girlfriends. Females are more into what BGC star is wearing other than attending to their children and relationships as a whole are more disposable and frowned upon than ever. What happened! Obesity of TV and technology!...it killed the human!

[@raferalstonisgoat4457]

dennis doing a 180 on his political views is sad

[@michaelsix9684]

he was hilarious

[@alifelesscritic]

..."PHAR-AOH" IS a very INTELLIGENT way of setting the correct spelling for the word !

[@jordanjudice4504]

Can anyone from the future tell this guy about kindle?

[@1965ace]

He is right ! We elected Mr. 57 States, and the media thinks he's the brightest guy that ever lived.

[@ArinKambitsis]

He meant to say 47 states, because he'd been to 47 states, and had one left to go. It was a slip up, and I would bet a million dollars that he's smarter than all of your family combined.

[@1965ace]

Arin Kambitsis Really because that's only 48 , there are 50 states, no wonder he has people like you thinking he's smart. I will never "rspct" this idiot who has screwed up this country so bad.

[@ArinKambitsis]

He's talking about the lower 48, genius. Visits to alaska and hawaii weren't part of that tour. Also, he took the reigns of authority from George W. Bush, the worst president in u.s. history, who bankrupted this country through war, deregulation, and tax cuts for the rich. You think this country is worse now than when it was mired in Iraq and losing 500,000 jobs a month? What kind of tumor do you have?

[@1965ace]

Arin Kambitsis President 57 states is such a hypocrite ranting about the national debt in 2008 and he has almost doubled it now. That is about $170,000 per household that we have to pay back not some imaginary politician or rich guy. I bet you think we should raise corporate taxes ? Who do you think pays for that dummy ? Let's raise gasoline tax, you idiot, you pay for that at the pump. Jobs are leaving the country because of high taxes and regulation. If you regulate a business and tax it to the point it makes more sense to move it to China then it will. You must be uneducated and over indoctrinated to believe anything this government says.

[@1965ace]

Arin Kambitsis It's all very simple by last year the national debt was 17 trillion , when dummy took over it was about 10 trillion, when dummy leaves it will be around 20 trillion. Yes per person the debt is about $60,000 the average number of people in a house 3 on low side that is $180,000 PER HOUSEHOLD. Take a basic economics course, there is no free lunch.

[@caseyjoanz]

This guy wants to be Mort Sahl. Sahl's arcane references gave the audience credit for their intelligence. He was informed, and he assumed his audience understood. Miller is a lightweight who prepares and rehearses a rant. A rant is extemporaneous outrage. When you have to dim the houselights and cue the audience, your rage is contrived bullshit. Sahl confounded Kennedy's "best-and-brightest". Miller confounds Bill O'Reilly: about as hard as doing chin-ups on a curb.

[@jonathandevereaux298]

Can someone translate pseudo intellectual for me? It's not one of the languages I speak.

[@MarshallMathersthe7th]

What the hell does 'rant' mean?