Miller's Bad Night

Last night, in the course of five minutes pseudo-intellectual television host/comedian and former Monday Night Football commentator Dennis Miller succeeded in: 1) Conflating Sweden and Switzerland (he suggested "Finding Neverland" director Marc Forster, a Swiss, ought to like Bergman, because wasn't he from Switzerland, too?); 2) Conflating the Best Picture Oscar with Best Director (asking Forster how he felt to be nominated for Best Director); 3) "Making up for" the Best Picture/Director flub by asking Forster how Forster could live with himself knowing that his movie was nominated but he wasn't. Great save, dumbass!

Finally, Miller realized that he'd just unmistakably outed himself as an idiot on national television and fell to the floor in part-mock, part-real self-revulsion. A baaaaad night, to be sure.