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Dennis Miller, headed to Tampa with Bill O'Reilly: 'We don't know each other that well'

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Dennis Miller often gets cast as the odd comic out these days.

While the longtime stand-up comedian, Saturday Night Live and HBO alum calls himself "socially liberal," his right-leaning views and long-running "Miller Time" segment on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor have made him a curiosity in an entertainment industry that, at least in the public mind, typically leans left.

Miller doesn't think about it much, even less since his run on Fox News ended when the O'Reilly Factor was canceled in the wake of Bill O'Reilly's sexual harassment scandal, Miller said.

"I'm topical," he said. "When times grow polarized, topical reads political. It's sort of like when you're doing Weekend Update. The only mandate is 'be funny'."

Miller will reunite with O'Reilly in Tampa on Saturday when The Spin Stops Here Tour arrives at Amalie Arena.

Even that live show has proved controversial in the wake of O'Reilly's firing, so we asked Miller about the petition to stop it, and his place in political commentary and comedy, during a phone interview on Sept. 7, right before Hurricane Irma came and went through Florida.

It's kind of a strange day to be talking to you, because a hurricane is bearing down on Florida. Have you ever been through a natural disaster?

Well, I opened for Carrot Top.

Why is it always poor Carrot Top?

It's only because he gave himself that name, Carrot Top. If I'm going to pull something out of the hat, I'm going Carrot Top.

Really though, ever been through a disaster?

Out here in California we have earthquakes, which at least with hurricanes there's a cone of uncertainty and you're watching it approach. An earthquake is like a hurricane with no cone of uncertainty. You're in bed and the TV bounces off the wall. Really though, because I'm a man of faith, let me say that Florida is in my prayers.

On the O'Reilly Factor you and Bill O'Reilly have great chemistry. Are you two actual friends?

It's the magic of showbiz. I was on a split screen in L.A. and he was in New York. I hardly ever talk to Bill, except when we're on the road. We get along well, I think we like each other, but we don't know each other that well. We're not getting together and scrapbooking. I think what people liked about us together was that I'd call him Billy, which was taking the piss out of him and this General Patton persona he had. Occasionally, I'd get him to laugh out loud. Making him laugh was a big thing for the audience because he's gruff so much of the time.

Are you aware of this petition online calling for venues to cancel this tour after O'Reilly's sexual harassment scandal?

I wasn't. Is the show still on? Somebody please let me know if I need to be there or not.

How did you experience the situation with O'Reilly being forced off the air?

That's his business. That's it.

But what about you, personally? You were on his show for years.

Showbiz is unpredictable. What are you going to do when it comes down? You move on. It just is.

You have a moment in one of your comedy specials, where you're trashing Alaska and you turn around and say it's actually lovely there, and you remind the crowd, 'Hey, some of these are jokes.' Because of the line you ride between political commentary and comedy, do you find you have to remind people you're joking more than other comics?

I really don't think about it that much. I have a lily pond approach. I don't look at the far shore, which would be complete acceptance. I'm just looking for the next lily pad so I can stay dry. Do I turn things into a Sardi's caricature for purposes of a joke? Sure, of course. What am I doing up there, a TED talk? As far as being political, once you do Weekend Update and talk about the news, from then on in you're doing topical jokes.

You studied journalism in college. Has that influenced your comedy career?

No. I didn't even buy the books for the last two years. I'm not Woodward and Bernstein. When I went for my first job, covering high school football for a newspaper, the guy said, 'You'll be paid by the column inch. I said, 'Check, please.' You never want to figure out how much money you're making with a ruler. It's kind of funny I ended up a caricature of a journalist on Update, but there's only one directive there: get laughs.

Are you a big consumer of news, though?

Not anymore. When I was on O'Reilly I had to pay attention. At 63, I'm delightfully staying in the dark. It's like in 2001 when he starts pulling out memory chips from Hal. That's me. I'm going to more basic modes. I'm singing Daisy , my antennae aren't up as much. I do remember when journalism was about the five Ws. You reported the news. It was a job. Now everyone is a town crier who is going to save the planet, such noble people. Lots of lifetime achievement awards at the Newseum. It used to be more selfless.

You post on Facebook a lot. Do you like social media?

I write jokes because I think of jokes a lot and I still need a place for them. I used to do it on a legal pad. Facebook is like writing them down in public. I quit Twitter because one day I was on there reading about someone's brunch and thought 'never have lives been less lived and more chronicled.' I don't think Lewis and Clark took as good of notes as the Kardashians do. But I like thinking of a joke and putting it down. I read the first 20 comments so I can judge it. I can't go into comedy clubs and test out new jokes, so I do that.

Wait, why can't you go to a comedy club?

Cause I'm 63 and I don't want to drive two and a half hours to L.A. and be wheeled on stage like Weekend at Bernie's .

Are you getting grumpier or softer with age?

Probably both. The ability to get softer and grumpier as you get older, it's just a commensurate thing on the other side of the equation from being lean and pissed off when you're young. I'd hope in your 60s you're not as go-for-it as you were in your 20s. I look back and get a headache. I was so aggressive about getting ahead.

Who is the funniest liberal, and who is the funniest conservative?

I think my good friend Martin Short is liberal, isn't he? Funniest conservative? We live in polarized times. I wouldn't even want to name people to be conservative in these rough times because I know there are lot of people out there with 'love in their heart' who want to put a Masterlock in a sock and hit you if you're not as loving as them. When I come to Tampa, I'll be a funny, fiscal-defense conservative that night.

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Bill o’reilly’s live tour is still happening (for now).

"The Spin Stops Here Tour" starts June 17 with two sold-out shows in New York.

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Bill O’Reilly is out at Fox News after allegations of sexual harassment, but it’s all systems go for the anchor’s live “The Spin Stops Here Tour,” despite some pressure on arenas to cancel appearances. 

The show stars O’Reilly along with comedian Dennis Miller and Jesse Watters , best known for his humorous on-the-street interviews on the now-canceled The O’Reilly Factor .

As of Friday, Ticketmaster was still selling standard tickets for $65 and VIP seats for $500, the latter of which includes a meeting and photo opportunity with the three stars and an autographed gift bag. Ticketmaster, owned by Live Nation, had no comment on Friday.

Show promoter Icon Concerts didn’t respond to a request for comment, though “The Spin Stops Here Tour” was still listed at its website Friday, and tickets were still for sale via Ticketmaster there, as well. 

“The Spin Stops Here Tour” starts with two sold-out shows June 17 at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury in New York, then heads to Baltimore, Tampa, Las Vegas and Anaheim.

But not if Care2 has its way.

Care2 is a for-profit, online petition company for progressive causes, and it has collected more than 22,000 signatures so far asking venues to cancel the shows due to the allegations against O’Reilly .

Before Fox News and O’Reilly officially parted ways Wednesday, Care2 says it was instrumental in getting Jenny Craig to pull its ads off of The O’Reilly Factor by presenting the dieting company with a petition signed by 30,000 people.

Two years ago, Care2 presented a petition encouraging an Atlanta venue to cancel a Bill Cosby appearance because of allegations of sexual misconduct. That effort failed, so Care2 helped organize a protest outside of the arena, with attorney Gloria Allred and some of Cosby’s accusers in attendance.

It’s too soon to commit to a similar strategy, both Allred and  Care2 manager Julie Mastrine  told The Hollywood Reporter on Friday.

“There are no plans for protests now, but we won’t rule it out, either,” said  Mastrine . “We haven’t delivered the signatures yet, so it’s impossible to say.” 

O’Reilly , Miller and Watters were unavailable for comment.

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What’s the latest news about? Politics? Okay, let’s make a good uncontrollable laugh out of it! Let’s enjoy the things we all so often take seriously. Bill O’ Reilly and Dennis Miller’s “Bolder and Fresher Tour” is going to be more and more adeptly entertaining, exceptionally hilarious and ingeniously amusing! Catch this sarcastic duo live at the Westbury Music Fair in New York on June 01, 2013 at 8:00 PM.

What could be more unique than a pair of two quite knowledgeable people, up onstage, discussing serious issues using snide remarks, comical body movements and sarcasm to the highest level of funniness and intellect? That thing only the host of political commentary program The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’ Reilly and the Weekend Update  anchor on  Saturday Night Live , Dennis Miller could do! Insightful and analytical observations? They’re ready to show it! Side-splitting humour and mockery? They exude it! Originality and creativity? They’re oozing with it! Body language? They’ve perfected it! What else could you ask for? Bill and Dennis is perfectly crafted for this indeed Bolder and Fresher Tour. Whatever political view you believe in, you have to walk down on an uplifting trek once in a while with these two seriously uproarious  guys and the enthusiastic crowd of all shapes.

Whether or not you agree with their rants and comments, you are going to be laughing all through the night and have an amazing evening. So, don’t miss this show, buy your tickets now while it’s still available!

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When Bill O'Reilly is looking for laughs, he often dips into his repository of impersonations.

He does a mean James Carville.

"'Mr. President, where are yooou?'" O'Reilly said during a live performance on Saturday night. His voice mimicked the Cajun accent of the famed Democratic operative. "'We're dyin' down here-uh. But you're up there! You need to get down here-uh!'"

There are seasoned comedians who will never kill like O'Reilly did at the NYCB Theatre in Westbury, New York. It was the latest stop in the "Don't Be A Pinhead Tour," a nationwide slate of sporadically scheduled performances starring O'Reilly and Dennis Miller.

O'Reilly toured the country in a similar fashion with Glenn Beck, the former Fox News host who left the channel in 2011. Since then, O'Reilly has toured with Miller, the conservative comedian who appears regularly on O'Reilly's top-rated Fox News show.

Some tickets for Saturday's show went for more than $450.

Westbury, a village not far from where O'Reilly grew up on Long Island, has played host to the tours before. The 3,000 in attendance included Joe Baccoli and his son, Stephen, who drove from a nearby town. Stephen isn't an O'Reilly fan, but he bought his father a ticket as a Christmas present.

"Everything he seems to report is factual," the elder Baccoli said of O'Reilly. "He investigates it first before he reports it. And I've never seen him have to make a retraction."

Joe Baccoli said he wasn't familiar with the questions raised by critics this year about O'Reilly's various embellishments .

Neither were Deb and Jody Nihart, who came to Westbury from Indiana.

The Niharts were visiting Manhattan and Niagara Falls. But, Deb Nihart said, "the trip was built around this because we've always wanted to see Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller."

The stars of the show operated like tag-team partners. Miller opened with a set, which was followed by O'Reilly's own solo monologue. An intermission was followed by 30 minutes of prescreened questions from the audience. The whole thing lasted about two hours.

Miller, the "Saturday Night Live" alum, warmed up the boozy crowd with a series of zingers aimed at conservative targets. He lampooned global warming activists, joking that Al Gore has "a carbon footprint like Emmett Kelly with plantar fasciitis."

Nancy Pelosi, Miller cracked, looks like she's "perpetually witnessing the docking of the Hindenburg."

The only joke that didn't land was the one Miller told about Bill Cosby distributing water at a marathon.

"See, by him passing out the water he would have rohypnol in it," Miller explained.

The audience groaned.

"You don't want to defend him. Bad guy," Miller said of Cosby, who has been accused of rape by dozens of women.

For O'Reilly, it was a show for his most loyal constituents, who he refers to affectionately as "the folks." They cheered loudly when he said that the country needed "a good, strong leader" in the White House. One audience member who submitted a question asked if the "government should pay to rebuild Baltimore" after the recent unrest over the death of Freddie Gray. Several people in the crowd shouted "no."

"What an interesting question," O'Reilly said. Ultimately, he decided that he would only support the reconstruction effort if there was a "big change in culture in those neighborhoods."

At a different point on Saturday, O'Reilly employed his voice-alteration skills to mock the people who protested and rioted in Baltimore last week.

"'We need jobs. We need jobs down here. We need jobs,'" he said in an unusual intonation that made him difficult to understand.

"OK, great. Let's burn the CVS down. That'll help out," O'Reilly continued, reverting back to his normal voice. "Let's force the baseball team out of town. That did a lot of good for all the vendors."

That was perhaps his most serious moment of the evening. Most of the time, O'Reilly played for laughs.

When he discussed President Obama's embrace of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie after Superstorm Sandy, O'Reilly quipped: "You may not have seen the president because he was behind the governor."

He said that Rosie O'Donnell could have been used to cap the well after the 2010 BP oil spill, but there was "not a crane big enough in the world" to lower her into the Gulf of Mexico.

O'Reilly took a jab at Hillary Clinton, too.

The joke's setup: The Chinese sent 2,000 pantsuits to the Clinton Foundation, which has been the subject of recent criticism over its foreign donations. To escape scrutiny, O'Reilly explained, the foundation sent the former secretary of state's preferred attire back to Beijing.

He brought the joke home with yet another impersonation.

"We don't want them back,'" O'Reilly said, Chinese accent and all. "'They don't fit anyone here in this country.'"

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WATCH: Dennis Miller reveals what it was REALLY like working with 'Billy' O’Reilly on Fox News

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In this episode of "The Rubin Report," Dave Rubin talked to actor, comedian, and talk show host Dennis Miller about the current state of comedy in today's politically correct culture.

Dennis revealed what former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly was really like behind the scenes and what it was like to do the "Miller Time" segments on "The O'Reilly Factor." He discussed why he thinks the dynamic between them worked and the very intentional reason he called him "Billy."

Dennis also offered his thoughts on cancel culture and the damage that a fear of telling jokes is doing to comedy. He also describes why he self censors because he doesn't think it's worth the hassle.

Watch the video below to catch more of the conversation:

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