Todd Joseph “T.J.” Miller (born June 4, 1981) is an American actor and stand-up comedian.<\/p>\n
After college, Miller moved to\u00a0Chicago\u00a0and began to perform improv and stand-up comedy.\u00a0He toured with\u00a0The Second City\u00a0for two years. In 2008, he was named one of\u00a0Variety’s “10 Comics To Watch.”<\/p>\n
He portrayed Marmaduke Brooker in\u00a0Carpoolers on ABC (2007\u20132008).<\/p>\n
In 2008, he made his film acting debut in\u00a0Cloverfield in which he only appeared onscreen for a few minutes, but his voice was heard in almost every scene as the person who videotaped most of the events depicted. In 2009, he played Cessna Jim in\u00a0The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard\u00a0and the grindcore\u00a0musician Rory in\u00a0Mike Judge’s comedy\u00a0Extract. In 2010, he co-starred in\u00a0She’s Out of My League\u00a0as Stainer, played Brian the Concierge in\u00a0Get Him to the Greek\u00a0and had a supporting role in Unstoppable. From 2010 to 2014, he voiced Tuffnut Thorston in the first three\u00a0How to Train Your Dragon\u00a0films.<\/p>\n
In 2010, he played Ranger Jones\u00a0in the live-action animated film\u00a0Yogi Bear, and he also played Dan in\u00a0Gulliver’s Travels. In 2011, he appeared in the film\u00a0Our Idiot Brother and, in 2012, he had a cameo as administrative personnel for\u00a0Rolling Stone\u00a0in the musical film\u00a0Rock of Ages.<\/p>\n
On 12\/13\/2010, 10\/28\/2011, and 6\/14\/2012, he performed stand-up on\u00a0Conan. On November 15, 2011, his stand-up special\u00a0No Real Reason premiered on Comedy Central. In 2011, he hosted a special called\u00a0Mash Up, which was picked up in 2012 for a full season by Comedy Central. He also appeared frequently as a member of the “round table” on\u00a0Chelsea Lately.<\/p>\n
In 2012, he voiced Robbie Valentino on the Disney channel cartoon\u00a0Gravity Falls. He also voiced Gorburger, a giant blue monster talk show host, on\u00a0The Gorburger Show, which originally aired on\u00a0Funny or Die\u00a0and\u00a0YouTube\u00a0for 2 seasons in 2012\u201313, then on\u00a0Comedy Central\u00a0for a 3rd season in 2017. In 2013, he co-starred in the Fox TV series\u00a0The Goodwin Games\u00a0as Jimmy Goodwin. In 2014, he was in\u00a0Transformers: Age of Extinction and he voiced the\u00a0character of Fred\u00a0in the superhero CGI film\u00a0Big Hero 6. He voiced Augie in the 2015 animated film Hell and Back. In 2015, he was part of\u00a0Funny or Die’s\u00a0Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival,\u00a0a touring show which included\u00a0Amy Schumer,\u00a0Aziz Ansari, and other comics.<\/p>\n
From 2014 to 2017, he starred as Erlich Bachman in the\u00a0HBO\u00a0sitcom\u00a0Silicon Valley for which he won the\u00a0Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series\u00a0in 2015. In 2016, he starred in the movie\u00a0Search Party with Adam Pally and the movie Office Christmas Party.<\/p>\n
On June 17, 2017, HBO premiered his hour-long stand-up special,\u00a0T.J. Miller: Meticulously Ridiculous, which was filmed in Miller’s native Denver at the end of his 2016\u00a0Meticulously Ridiculous Tour. In October 2017, Miller began his “Touring In Perpetuity Tour”, a self described “One Man Philosophy Circus.”<\/p>\n
In 2018, he played the role of I-R0K in the film\u00a0Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg. As a commercial actor, he voiced a talking ball of mucus in commercials for\u00a0Mucinex and starred as Greg the Genie in a promo campaign for\u00a0Slim Jim\u00a0meat snacks.<\/p>\n
He hosted a podcast with friend and fellow comedian\u00a0Cash Levy, titled\u00a0Cashing in With TJ Miller, which began airing in March 2012 on the Nerdist Network. He is also a frequent guest on\u00a0Doug Benson’s podcast\u00a0Doug Loves Movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Todd Joseph “T.J.” Miller (born June 4, 1981) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. After college, Miller moved to\u00a0Chicago\u00a0and began to perform improv and stand-up comedy.\u00a0He toured with\u00a0The Second City\u00a0for two years. In 2008, he was named one of\u00a0Variety’s “10 Comics To Watch.” He portrayed Marmaduke Brooker in\u00a0Carpoolers on ABC (2007\u20132008). In 2008, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8302","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n