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" I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things. "
T. J. Miller
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" 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. "
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Food
" There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff. "
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" When you get into a car, and there's trash, or it's dirty, or one of the hubcaps is off, you're like, 'Come on, dude.' Every woman likes the confidence and self-respect that says, 'I get oil changes. I look after my vehicle.' That's what I recommend: Act like you don't care, but take care of your body. "
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Car
Look
Body
" Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering. "
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Almost
Effective
Satire
" I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage. "
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Sit
Write
Up
" I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something. "
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Work
Crazy
" I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me. "
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About
Role
Next
" Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut. "
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Debut
Like
Me
" There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me. "
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Nothing
Award
Awards
" 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. "
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Interesting
Kind
Live
" 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. "
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Nice
Think
Moral
" I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy. "
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Me
American
Summer
" It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people. "
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Myself
Having Fun
Yourself
" 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. "
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You
Things
Back
" 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. "
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Comedy
Really
Stuff
" Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic. "
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Life
Hard
Kind
" I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs. "
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People
Concerts
Hip-Hop
" I don't know that I would host the Golden Globes or the Emmys because I don't think they have the appreciation for irreverence that the Critics Choice does. "
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Know
" We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'. "
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Positive
Optimism
Valley
" 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. "
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Done
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People
" J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche. "
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He
Morgan
" Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful. "
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You
Euphoria
Everything
" My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you. "
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Want
Work
You
" I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times. "
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Own
Myself
Me
" I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism. "
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Always
Me
Like
" People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars. "
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Life
Dream
Speech
" I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'. "
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People
Me
Hurt
" My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence. "
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Grooming
Face
Confidence
" 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. "
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Working
Better
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