T. J. Miller

“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.”

“There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.”

“I think it is very important to be a method actor.”

“It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway.”

“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 told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.”

“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.”

“Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.”

“I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.”

“I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'”

“Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.”

“Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.”

“I don't get along much with myself.”

“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.”

“Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.”

“I find Denver's hipster scene to be fully unique.”

“'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' - there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.”

“J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.”

“I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.”

“When you spend such a large portion of your life working - and it's not fun, and you're worried about getting sued or fired for saying the wrong thing or for acting crazy at a work party - then what has work done to America? That's the impetus to have a huge office Christmas party.”