T. J. Miller
I love Denver.
I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.
To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon.
Some people in Silicon Valley are as bad as the 'Koch Brothers', you know? Don't be mistaken. For every some of those, though, you get people who come up with something like 'Leafly', which does what 'Yelp' has done, but in a much more specific way, and it's important because it's the dawn of this new era.
I actually prefer Twitter as a medium, and I also got into Periscope for a second, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with it. I can't figure out if the only important thing about it is the live broadcast, or if it's an interesting kind of way to log what you do.
I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant.
It is good to connect to someone who reminds you that you have some real authenticity.
I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.
I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.
Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.
Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
I'm not, like, an action-hero guy.
I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
'Guardians of the Galaxy' is tongue-in-cheek and has a sense of humor about itself. But it's nothing like 'Deadpool.' 'Deadpool' is this super-bizarre thing. The best thing about it is that it's R-rated.
I don't get along much with myself.
Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.
Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?
I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
I listen to 'deep dish house'.
My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.
I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.
Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
I find Denver's hipster scene to be fully unique.