Todd Joseph TJ Miller born June 4 1981 is an American actor and standup comedian After college Miller moved to Chicago and began to perform improv and standup comedy He toured with The Second City for two years In 2008 he was named one of Varietys 10 Comics To Watch He portrayed Marmaduke Brooker in Carpoolers on ABC 20072008 In 2008 he made his film acting debut in Cloverfield 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 The Goods Live Hard Sell Hard and the grindcore musician Rory in Mike Judges comedy Extract In 2010 he costarred in Shes Out of My League as Stainer played Brian the Concierge in Get Him to the Greek and had a supporting role in Unstoppable From 2010 to 2014 he voiced Tuffnut Thorston in the first three How to Train Your Dragon films In 2010 he played Ranger Jones in the liveaction animated film Yogi Bear and he also played Dan in Gullivers Travels In 2011 he appeared in the film Our Idiot Brother and in 2012 he had a cameo as administrative personnel for Rolling Stone in the musical film Rock of Ages On 12132010 10282011 and 6142012 he performed standup on Conan On November 15 2011 his standup special No Real Reason premiered on Comedy Central In 2011 he hosted a special called Mash 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 Chelsea Lately In 2012 he voiced Robbie Valentino on the Disney channel cartoon Gravity Falls He also voiced Gorburger a giant blue monster talk show host on The Gorburger Show which originally aired on Funny or Die and YouTube for 2 seasons in 201213 then on Comedy Central for a 3rd season in 2017 In 2013 he costarred in the Fox TV series The Goodwin Games as Jimmy Goodwin In 2014 he was in Transformers Age of Extinction and he voiced the character of Fred in the superhero CGI film Big Hero 6 He voiced Augie in the 2015 animated film Hell and Back In 2015 he was part of Funny or Dies Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival a touring show which included Amy Schumer Aziz Ansari and other comics From 2014 to 2017 he starred as Erlich Bachman in the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley for which he won the Critics Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2015 In 2016 he starred in the movie Search Party with Adam Pally and the movie Office Christmas Party On June 17 2017 HBO premiered his hourlong standup special TJ Miller Meticulously Ridiculous which was filmed in Millers native Denver at the end of his 2016 Meticulously Ridiculous Tour In October 2017 Miller began his Touring In Perpetuity Tour a self described One Man Philosophy Circus In 2018 he played the role of IR0K in the film Ready Player One directed by Steven Spielberg As a commercial actor he voiced a talking ball of mucus in commercials for Mucinex and starred as Greg the Genie in a promo campaign for Slim Jim meat snacks He hosted a podcast with friend and fellow comedian Cash Levy titled Cashing in With TJ Miller which began airing in March 2012 on the Nerdist Network He is also a frequent guest on Doug Bensons podcast Doug Loves Movies
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