30 Facts About Stephanie Miller

Stephanie Catherine Miller was born on September 29,1961 and is an American political commentator, comedian, and host of The Stephanie Miller Show, a Progressive talk radio program produced in Los Angeles, California, by WYD Media Management and syndicated nationally by Westwood One.

Stephanie Miller is the youngest of four children; her two elder sisters, Libby and Mary, are almost 20 years her senior.

Stephanie Miller's brother ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives from upstate New York, in 1992 and 1994.

Stephanie Miller made me cry when she said I shouldn't be Carol Burnett because there's only one Stephanie Miller and nobody does what I do.

When Stephanie Miller moved back to upstate New York a few years later, she worked at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club in Buffalo, living in a $125 per month apartment over a pizza parlor near the club.

Stephanie Miller was the first comedian to perform when the Chicago Improv club opened.

Stephanie Miller performed at the Laugh Factory when she moved back to Los Angeles from New York City in 2003.

Stephanie Miller says she has a talk with her late father every time she is about to face an audience.

Stephanie Miller initially set out to be an actress, and for many years had hoped to star in her own sitcom, and expressed interest in doing film.

Stephanie Miller began her radio career after her father's death in 1983, when she returned to Lockport from California.

Stephanie Miller then took an on-air job at radio station WLVL in Lockport, where she went from evenings to afternoon drive to mornings in three months.

Stephanie Miller then sent a tape to Brother Wease, the morning drive host at WCMF in Rochester, New York.

In 1993, Stephanie Miller headed back to Los Angeles to develop a sitcom for Warner Brothers that never materialized.

On her show on KFI, Stephanie Miller began to incorporate political talk.

Beatts enjoyed working on the show with Stephanie Miller, and liked the immediacy of a daily talk show.

Comedian and voice actor Carlos Alazraqui, who later worked with Stephanie Miller on her KABC radio show, and is a regular guest on her current radio program, was part of the Irregular Regulars sketch comedy group on Stephanie Miller's television show.

Stephanie Miller later said that she didn't enjoy Equal Time "very much" and that Buchanan would only talk to her when the camera was on.

Stephanie Miller left the show in 1998 to become the original host and a writer for a year on the Fox Family channel program Show Me the Funny.

In February 2000, shortly before her departure from KABC, Stephanie Miller began hosting the Oxygen Channel's revival of the game show I've Got a Secret.

Stephanie Miller hosted its revival of I've Got a Secret, which ran for 120 episodes until 2001.

From 2004 to 2005, Stephanie Miller served as a frequent panelist on the PAX TV game show Balderdash, which was hosted by Stephanie Miller's friend Elayne Boosler.

In 2004, Stephanie Miller was initially offered the original morning show at Air America, but the offer was withdrawn, and the slot was taken by Morning Sedition, with Marc Maron, Mark Riley, and Sue Ellicott.

On September 7,2004, The Stephanie Miller Show was launched by Democracy Radio and WYD Media Management.

Stephanie Miller was ranked second in Los Angeles right behind The Rush Limbaugh Show.

In 2011, Stephanie Miller won the Talkers Magazine Judy Jarvis Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to Talk Radio by a Woman.

Since 2010, TV and video simulcasts of The Stephanie Miller Show have been broadcast through numerous outlets, including Ustream, Current TV, and Free Speech TV.

In 2007, Stephanie Miller launched a spoof Presidential campaign with CC Goldwater, the granddaughter of Barry Goldwater.

Stephanie Miller's father ran with Barry Goldwater as vice president in 1964.

Stephanie Miller has never been married and has no children, and often jokingly refers to herself as "a childless loser".

Stephanie Miller credited country singer Chely Wright with helping her in coming out.