T.J. Miller sounds insufferable in another interview

He's chock-full of opinions.
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UPDATE (4 P.M. Eastern time, July 24, 2017): This story has been updated to include tweets made by T.J. Miller.


Remember that wild interview T.J. Miller gave to The Hollywood Reporter a few weeks ago? Well, he's back in the spotlight, saying more ~ controversial ~ things in a new interview with Vulture.

Once again, Miller bared all — opining on everything from his exit from Silicon Valley, to his theory on women's humor. Oh, and he knows that his last interview was a bit...outlandish.

"Nobody right now is publicly the Lindsay Lohan–train wreck–but–not–quite person. If I’d just said it was an honor to work on Silicon Valley and was thankful to Alec Berg, I would have disappeared," he told Vulture. "Instead, by being just a little authentic, I infected the news cycle."

He continued, "It’s more important to be polarizing than neutralizing.That’s my position."

OK, fair enough.

Unlike the THR interview, though, this was less focused on Silicon Valley, and more on Miller as a person.

"People need a villain, and I’m occupying that space," he said.

Interestingly, Miller offered opinions on lots of humor-related things, telling the reporter from Vulture that Louis C.K. "doesn’t say anything surprising anymore," and that Aziz Ansari is good at his job, "like Dane Cook."

And on women: "They’re taught to suppress their sense of humor during their formative years." This, he says, is why women are less funny.

*Insert world longest groan here.*

Miller has since tweeted a clarification of that statement.

Silicon Valley does, however, make its way into the conversation during the interview. And as Vulture points out, Miller is still getting work despite some controversial outbursts and his extremely candid THR interview.

“My goal,” he said, “is to distract people from the tragedy of the impermanence of everyday life. And I can do that best by oversaturating the market. Statistically, I give people a better chance of laughing if I do film, stand-up, improv, podcasts, TV, advertising than if I just say ‘What’s a bigger TV show I can be on?’ I’m not making things for wannabe intellectual hipsters complaining on Reddit. I’m doing The Emoji Movie and Deadpool 2 for people en masse."

Elsewhere in the chat, Miller tries out negging and mind tricks on the reporter. Read the whole thing over at Vulture.

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