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OK, so it took me a month to finally spit this out, but here goes: What was WWE thinking when they chose Dennis Miller as the host of the Slammy Awards?

Now, I enjoy the humor of Miller as much as anyone, and have since his early days as the Weekend Update host of Saturday Night Live, but really, Miller’s thinking-man’s humor is just a few notches too high to be a good fit for wrestling audiences; hell, it’s a few notches too high for a Yale Law crowd.

Most of the jokes went over flat with an audience that wanted action, not verbal wit. The boos were heard even through WWE’s muting. His humor was political rather than wrestling-focused, which made the whole affair even more painful. It went over like a natural colon cleansing.

There are a lot of good venues for Miller, but Raw was now one of them. Paging Frank Caliendo, anyone?