It's just an inkblot

The fact that I need to point out that Dennis Miller's show on CNBC was cancelled probably means something.

I'll leave you with this quotation from a rare Tom Lehrer interview in 2000, before Miller's show started:

O: What new comedy do you like?

TL: I don't really keep up with it, I'm afraid, so I can't really name anybody. Eddie Izzard is wonderful, I think, but I've only seen that one HBO special he did. He's one of the few people who talk about stuff other than girlfriends and relationships and flatulence and genitalia. There are very few of them who actually talk about real stuff. I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand. The people who are sort of, "Aren't I funny?" It's that Chevy Chase school of comedy. "I'm funny, aren't I?" I hate that. Just do the job.