Dennis Miller

American stand-up comic, talk show host, commentator, and actor Dennis Miller first rose to national attention as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in the mid-'80s. A native of Pittsburgh, Miller began hosting a Saturday afternoon news magazine on local station KDKA-TV called Punch Line, which was aimed at teenagers. He began performing stand-up shortly afterward, rising in the ranks of the club circuits on both coasts before being discovered by Lorne Michaels at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles. In 1985, he succeeded outgoing anchor Christopher Guest on SNL's popular Weeken...