Stuck-in-the-past Dennis Miller visited The O’Reilly Factor for his regular Wednesday gig last night where he shared a string of gay jokes about Muslims. Bill O’Reilly obviously loved the riff, judging from his laughter. But I’ll bet there were plenty of Muslims who didn’t find it funny. And for those of you wondering why some of them hate us, you might want to check this out as one likely reason.

Ironically, at the beginning of the segment, O’Reilly said, “I want lively, robust debate, but I don’t want any derision.” He was referring to a previous segment in which he had chided Republican Kate Obenshain for, apparently, laughing at something Democrat Kirsten Powers had said.

While I applaud O’Reilly for that, it would be nice if he applied the same standards for everyone.

A few moments later, O’Reilly opened the door for Miller’s derision by saying, “A couple of Muslim nations will not allow gay people in and Iran, Saudi Arabia and a few others will execute you if you are a homosexual. Did you know that?”

Miller, looking like he had just rolled out of bed after a night of boozing, shrugged. “That whole part of the world’s nuts,” he sneered. “They ought to spend some of that oil money on therapy. Because, you know, my feeling is they’re all one tumbler click away from being full-bore, firemen-calendar-on-the-refrigerator gay themselves.

“So you think that there may be a latent thing here,” straight man O’Reilly said.

“Of course there’s a latent thing,” Miller replied. “These people are more closeted than Patty Hearst when she got kidnapped. You know what I mean?” There was laughter off camera that can only be described as derisive. Miller went on to jeer about the Islamic punishment for “(glimps(ing) a chick’s ankle” and wondering what happens “if they do actually have to ogle a dangler.”

“It all backs up,” “psychologist” Miller continued, once the guffawing stopped. Then he moved on to nostalgically-themed quips at the expense of Secretary of State John Kerry, Celine Dion and suggesting that Vladimir Putin is closeted, too.

O’Reilly could barely talk, he was laughing so hard.

By the way, I wonder what these two would say about the likes of Pat Robertson – who hasn’t executed anyone for being gay – but obviously thinks God does and does so justly. Jerry Falwell, too. But I could assure you that Miller will not be making gay jokes about either of them on The Factor. And if, by some odd chance, some hapless guest should do so, I could assure you O’Reilly will not be amused.