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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.

Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.