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Todd Joseph "T.J." Miller (born June 4, 1981) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. After college, Miller moved to Chicago and began to perform improv and stand-up comedy. He toured with The Second City for two years. In 2008, he was named one of Variety's "10 Comics To Watch." He portrayed Marmaduke Brooker in Carpoolers on ABC (2007–2008). 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 Judge's comedy Extract. In 2010, he co-starred in She's 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 live-action animated film Yogi Bear, and he also played Dan in Gulliver's 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 12/13/2010, 10/28/2011, and 6/14/2012, he performed stand-up on Conan. On November 15, 2011, his stand-up 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 2012–13, then on Comedy Central for a 3rd season in 2017. In 2013, he co-starred 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 Die's 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 hour-long stand-up special, T.J. Miller: Meticulously Ridiculous, which was filmed in Miller's 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 I-R0K 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 Benson's podcast Doug Loves Movies.
StoryShuffle is a serial anthology framed as bedtime. Henry Hemsely tells stories to his grandkids, Selene and Milo. He is a shaky storyteller, so he rewrites everything mid sentence. The kids interrupt and demand changes. Comedy swings into action, then into sudden drama. The twist. The characters inside the stories hear Henry’s narration. They argue with the voice controlling their world. Five rotating stories drive the series. The Knight and the Talking Tree Sir Alden Greyford gets an order from King Edwin of Bramblekeep. Kill the “monster” in the Blackwood. Alden charges in with a sword that keeps breaking. At the center, he finds Gravelroot, a kind talking tree who wants someone to listen. Henry tries to force a battle. The kids change the rules. Alden gets a ridiculous fire sneeze. Gaylord Munck appears to mock every mistake. Alden wins by listening, not killing. The Three-Day Sheriff Jack Miles enters a dusty border town and gets mistaken for a sheriff because of his huge hat. He teams with Claudia, his smart horse, and Rose Harper, the saloon owner. Billy “Three Fingers” Kane threatens the town. The kids demand a ten man duel and random chaos, including a giant cow in the street. Jack becomes a hero by doing the job while terrified. The Last Bus Sam Headley drives an old bus toward a bridge that closes soon. Every passenger creates a new problem. A cat rescue detour. A prank kid. A forgotten stop. A couple fighting in the aisle. Mad Tax narrating louder than Henry. Officer Baker chasing them for shifting reasons. Sam holds the group together and pushes through the chaos. Operation Teapot Occupied France. A resistance team must destroy an enemy radio station. They discover it under a bakery, surrounded by tea and pastries. The kids demand cake, so the team throws a tea party as cover. Messages hide in poetry. A cake loving enemy soldier becomes a weak link. The mission succeeds through distraction and nerve. Café Rain In a small town cafe, Ethan Parker and Claire Bertrand keep meeting. Every time they get close to honesty, it rains. The regulars вмеш. The musician scores the tension. The painter captures their moments. The kids demand upgrades, so the rain turns colorful and the cafe turns surreal. The rain stops only after they admit their feelings. StoryShuffle runs on one engine. Henry, Selene, and Milo reshape the plot in real time. The story worlds fight back. The bedtime voice becomes part of the action.
