Alleged comic Dennis Miller has thrown his weight behind President Bush in the 2004 presidential election. They make quite a team: Bush can confuse audiences with his clumsy tongue, and Miller with his self-consciously erudite efforts at a brand of comedy called “toilet humor,” wherein “jokes” circle around and around until reaching their inevitable center: shit.

So who thinks this is funny? From the Yahoo News story:

“He had a special barb for one candidate, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who has questioned the Iraq war, comparing him to Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who followed a policy of appeasement of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II.

“‘He can roll up his sleeves all he wants at public events, but as long as we see that heart tattoo with Neville Chamberlain’s name on his right forearms, he’s never going anywhere,’ Miller said.” Miller did not allude to Bush’s tattoo of a bottle of beer and a coke mirror hiding behind a bush with the legend “AWOL and Lovin’ It.”

I’m in stitches. The only thing funnier than Dennis Miller is the time Caspar Weinberger couldn’t get the money he wanted for defense out of Congress and dissed himself by saying he had “acquired a reputation of being stubborn, uncompromising, immoderate and unpragmatic.” Yaheard?