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The Rant Zone

An All-Out Blitz Against Soul-Sucking Jobs, Twisted Child Stars, Holistic Loons, and People Who Eat Their Dogs!

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In this fourth installment of his acclaimed Rants series, the bestselling author, Emmy® Award-winning talk show host and wise-cracking analyst for ABC's Monday Night Football makes hamburger out of society's most sacred cows as only he can, with the kind of allusions that require high SAT scores—or at least a smart crib sheet. In ranting against bureaucrats, for instance, Miller notes, ""They may bestride the rest of us like some kind of Cubicle Colossus bellowing, 'I am Ozymandius, Clerk of Clerks! Look on my Files, ye Mighty, and despair!' All ye who enter here.""

Long before he became a network football analyst, Miller was an expert commentator on another violent, full-contact sport: American pop culture.

Here, Miller takes on Bush-league politics, child stars with rap sheets, women with bigger muscles than he has, herbs you don't smoke, God, and, yes, football. Nothing is out of bounds. Don't feel guilty for laughing—these rants are actually good for you. (They provide your daily irony supplement.) Hilarious, sometimes angry, always insightful, The Rant Zone is Miller's most provocative book to date. With Dennis Miller calling the signals, the comedy always goes deep.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 8, 2001
      "I don't care who you know, you never start out at the top, no matter what business you're in. First you're given oil wells, then you're given a baseball team, and then, and only
      then, are you given the White House." This Miller "rant," similar to the others that run five or six to a page in this new collection, his fourth, encapsulates all of his comic traits: biting, slashing, witty and ecumenically politically savage, targeting right, left and center. This persona—honed on HBO's Dennis Miller Live
      and ABC's Monday Night Football—is not a far throw from his kinder Saturday Night Live
      days, but his aggressive tone and often vicious ridicule make him this country's most notorious satirist, social agitator and malcontent. Whether he is going after George W. Bush or Gary Condit, Miller is rude and abrasive, taking on everyone and everything, from God (whose "name gets thrown around like the drunken dwarf at a biker rally") to the fat Elvis ("after the 50s, even Elvis couldn't do Elvis")—although much of his anger is directed at stupidity in government and popular culture. Though funny, the pieces tend to suffer from sameness, and in the end, after he has demolished most everything in sight, readers have no idea of what Miller's politics or thoughts really are. Despite its political topics, Miller's work is really about great stand-up, not serious exploration of current events. Of course, that's just our opinion. We could be wrong.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      If you've seen Dennis Miller on "Monday Night Football" telecasts or his own cable program, you know what you're in for here--sarcastic, profane, comic essays on the contemporary scene. To Miller, the world is a stupid place filled with stupid creatures. Only he and his audience have any sense. Like many other stand-up comedians who have turned to audiobooks, he suffers without a live audience, tending to rush a bit and play at one aggressive level. Consequently, for full enjoyment, the listener is advised to listen in short spurts. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine

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