[wastedyears]

Is he only just now noticing this?

[School of Rational Thought]

“Is he only just now noticing this?”

He was being sarcastic. Dennis Miller is a comedian with a rightward orientation.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

No, just trolling libs is all.

[katana]

Understatement of something glaringly obvious, like saying "That probably wasn't the best idea he ever had" over the still smoldering corpse of someone on oxygen who decided to light up a cigarette, can be pretty funny. Take the scene in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life where a British officer's leg is bitten off during the night, prompting lines like "Nasty bite", "Stings a bit", and "Not to worry, a lot of it going around, probably just a virus, and if you're going to play rugby just favor the other leg."