There is something funny about reading stand-up comedy, and I am not referring to the jokes. New York Times best-selling author Dennis Miller, or more fittingly known as former "Saturday Night Live" news anchor and HBO talk show host, has come out with "The Rant Zone." His book is a compilation of short chapters from everything on the American agenda, such as Education, God and the Tobacco Industry all the way to "The Sopranos"÷ Dennis Miller captures Americans' paradoxical lifestyle and rightfully makes us all out as "overfed, overindulged, spineless crybabies."

Introducing every chapter with, "I don't want to get off on a rant, but ·" and ending every chapter with "Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong," may seem clever, but it easily turns to cheese. Miller makes a couple of convincing arguments in the name of his bickering, though. As unsafe as the NRA has made road rage nowadays, he asserts that everybody's license plate number should be the same as their cell phone number. This way, you can wait until you are at a secure distance before screaming at them, "assuming that they have asshole-waiting."

Miller is a politically extroverted figure so he has some interesting insight into America's anatomy. He can pinpoint our funny bone without going much deeper. He does a decent job at finding humor in the everyday mayhem the United States creates.

However, the true humor in reading his stand-up is ironical. The Acknowledgement on the first page admits that most of the material has already been used on cable, most of which is still from the Clinton era. It's like watching the epic long movie "Roots" and then having the published volumes come out afterwards.

The only place college students can almost relate to him is when he talks about his college days, which took place in approximately 1963. He also continuously refers to the Ī50s as the "Golden age of Television," except he complains there was no remote control. But since the book is short and full of paragraph long one-liners, it is an easy read and a quick laugh.

But, "that's just my opinion. I could be wrong."