A political commentator, talk show host, comedian, writer, and ex-sports commentator, Dennis Miller is a renowned celebrity and a household name among fans.
While working with Saturday Night Live, a sketch comedy series that continues to air on NBC even now, Miller hosted several other talk shows as well with channels like HBO and CNBC.
His career is extensively made up, hosting one talk show and then another. Born in Pittsburgh, this Scottish comedian has revealed to fans that his first ever exposure to comedy was through a Kelly Monteith stand-up show that he had seen as a child, even getting the opportunity to talk to the comedian himself.
Others who have influenced his comedic style and have inspired him to pursue stand-up comedy as a career include names like Jonathan Winters and Tim Conway.
The way Miller has talked about his childhood school days and how things eventually led him to work in the industry make him seem like a classic case of a child with low self-esteem, who used humor as a shield and has now managed to make for himself a vast career out of it.
After realizing that he was the class jester who knew how to get others to laugh, Miller took a career path not quite related to the field.
He took to writing for the South Hills Records, commentating on sports with a slight mix of humor in it, but he eventually quit and took to doing odd jobs till the embarrassment of being twenty-one and without a direction hit him and he resolved to pursue comedy.
From open mics to sending a joke to a contest being held by Playboy magazine to appearing at the New York Laff Off contest to becoming a part of the comedy club franchise, The Improv to finally getting a slot on Late Night with David Letterman, Dennis Miller managed to find his way into the comedy scene and has since then climbed up the ladder of success one step at a time.
Dennis Miller’s Net Worth
The seventy-year-old comedian is at the peak of his career and has been for long enough for fans of comedy to know all about him. His success took its sweet time to find its way to him, and the talented comedian has given his all to maintain it.
Not only has he been called the best host that Saturday Night Live has ever seen, but he has also been ranked twenty-first on the 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time by Comedy Central.
With such titles and influence, it is only right to wonder what exactly could be the net worth of such a successful comedian.
While the exact numbers are not available, Dennis Miller’s assumed net worth is estimated to be around a whopping $100 million. His wit never seems to miss a beat, and observations are so specific they may leave you shocked, so it does not come as a surprise that the comedian has set a firm foot in the industry.
He is an expert when it comes to comedy, commentary, hosting radio shows that go on for three hours, and talk shows with celebrity guests. With a diverse skill set, Miller has hardly ever faced a lack of opportunities to commit.
His time with Saturday Night Live, hosting Dennis Miller Live, which went on to bag several Emmy Awards, leading the recent documentary series, The Infomercials That Sold Us, Monday Night Football, and many others has helped him establish himself as a successful personality in the industry.
His ability to add a sprinkle of humor to talk show interviews, monologues, and even sports commentaries is what fans love him for. He is bold with his style of jokes which are usually dripped in political satire might also be the thing is keeps him relevant among fans today.
Apart from hosting talk shows and doing comedy, Miller can be spotted in several films, including Madhouse, Disclosure, The Net, Murder at 1600, Joe Dirt, and The Campaign, among others, and these roles must have also added to his current standing net worth.
Throughout his successful career, Dennis Miller has taken to investing in several properties and real estate as well.
Along with his wife, Carolyn Espley, he is known to have owned a four-acre property in Montecito, which they ended up selling in 2020 for $49 million, a ridiculous increase amount completely different from what he bought it at.
Not just this, but the couple has bought and sold several other properties in the same area multiple times, and currently have their beautiful vacation home located in Sun Valley, Idaho, which is just one of the few properties that the couple owns publicly.
