Don't rant, Miller is the bomb.(sportscaster and comedian Dennis Miller)(Brief Article)

You've caught his menage-a-talk act with "Danno" and "Albeeno." You almost cracked open an encyclopedia when he claimed a ref was "trying to let Paris know Conde-sur-l'Escaut had been captured." Maybe you threatened to boycott Monday Night Football because of him. Yo, babe: Now's your chance to join the Dennis Miller Fan Club!

As president of DMFC Local 760, I maintain Miller has taken this institution to new heights of entertainment/merriment--Dan Dierdorf never declared, "There's no such thing as minor groin surgery;" Frank Gifford rarely speculated about whether the pope was tough enough to go across the middle. But I wasn't a charter member. When this socio-smarty pants-comic entered the booth last year, I was yabba-dabba-dubious.

Ditto Denny. "I'm thinking, `I've fallen through some cosmic bunny hole,'" he said at a network junket this summer. "Scared s-- because I didn't know how hard it was going to be, and at season's end scared s-- because I knew how hard it was."

Now a 47-year-old sophomore under new coach Fred Gaudelli, Miller sounds more spontaneous with one-liners, and he's not forcing stats or interrupting. Yet he remains ABC's stem-cell experiment. TV Guide named him most-liked and most-hated sportscaster, concurrent heavyweight titles made famous by How-ard Co-sell. Mazel tov.

Those who consider Dennis the menace can't understand why his words don't match the pictures or the mondobizarro culture ...