Larry Miller

One of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces, Larry Miller has appeared in over 50 films, including Pretty Woman, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Princess Diaries I & II, The Nutty Professor I & II, For Your Consideration, Keeping Up with the Steins, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, with Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer, The Aristocrats, and most recently as a featured character in the animated Jerry Seinfeld film, Bee Movie. Television credits include “Medium,”“Desperate Housewives,” “Dirt,” “Law & Order,” “Seinfeld,” “Boston Legal,” “8 Simple Rules,” “Mad About You,” “Real Time with Bill Maher,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” and “The Late Show with David Letterman.” Mr. Miller has also starred in several of his own HBO comedy specials and on Broadway in Neil Simon’s play, “The Dinner Party.” Mr. Miller also wrote the best-selling book Spoiled Rotten America and is a contributing humorist to the The Huffington Post and The Weekly Standard.

MB: How long have you been performing?

LM: That would be since ‘78. Stand-up comedy. It was at The Comic Strip in New York. It was great. I loved it from the start.

MB: Were you nervous at all?

LM: Rather than nervous, I would say not very good, and perhaps unabashed. I really did feel that the first time I went on stage I wasn’t very good. But even then, I had the idea that if you want to look like Schwarzenegger you should start doing push-ups. And that image came into my head: “Well, I think I just did my first push-up.”

MB: Did you find yourself getting nervous at all when you started performing?

LM. No. There were a couple of jobs where I was somewhat ill at ease. But not as a syndrome relating to comedy. Not at all.

MB: What were the circumstances when you were ill at ease?

LM: [That happened with] two jobs out of what, eleven thousand?