Larry Miller (comedian)

Lawrence "Larry" John Miller (born October 15, 1953)[1] is an American stand-up comedian, actor, podcaster and columnist.

Personal life
Miller was born in Valley Stream, New York,[1] on Long Island. He is Jewish.[2]He has said that one of his grandmothers was from Latvia and one of his grandfathers was from Austria. Miller married television writer Eileen Conn in 1993. The couple have two children.[3]

Acting career
Miller is primarily regarded as a character actor and is well known for playing 'stuck up to suck up' characters that alternate between being condescending and sycophantic. [4]

Miller's first acting job was as the Emcee on "Fame", the television show. He gained mainstream attention for his part in popular scenes of Pretty Woman involving him as a store clerk for the main characters.

His film roles include Walter Stratford in the movie 10 Things I Hate About You, as well as several characters in Christopher Guest's mockumentary movies. He has held prominent supporting roles in Carry On Columbus, The Nutty Professor, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, and Max Keeble's Big Move. He has over 50 film appearances. [5]

He was part of the main cast of Life's Work, The Pursuit of Happiness (TV series), and High School Cupid, a Cupid Inc. Story. He is also a frequent guest actor on television, most notably as the nasty doorman on Seinfeld. He played Edwin Poole in the ABC dramedy Boston Legal. He played night-club owner Michael Dobson in two Law & Order episodes, first in the episode "Coma" and then later in "Encore". Miller appeared as himself in a third episode, "Smoke". He was also in 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, where he played Tommy, Kyle's obnoxious father and Paul's colleague. [6]

He is close friends with Jerry Seinfeld and auditioned for the part of George Costanza.[7][8]

Television writing
Miller served as a writer for the television shows Uncommon Sense (2005), Just Words (1992), and Pros & Cons(1999).[citation needed]

Commentary
From 2002 to 2004, Miller wrote a column for the magazine The Weekly Standard that usually ran once every two weeks.[9] Since then, he has continued to contribute occasionally to the magazine. His subject matter has included politics as well as reminiscences about fellow entertainers, and anecdotes from his own life.[10]

Two of the columns he wrote in 2002 served as the text for frequently-forwarded emails at the time, though in both cases his words were attributed to others. The first was his very first Weekly Standard column in January 2002, in which he mocked various anti-war platitudes of the time;[9] the text was incorrectly attributed to retired Air Force general Richard E. Hawley.[11] The second was an April 2002 column defending Israel in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict,[12] which was attributed to fellow comedian Dennis Miller.[13] Another email which also began to be forwarded in 2002, purporting to offer "George Carlin's Views on Aging", was derived in part from a stand-up routine that Larry Miller performed in the 1990s.[14]

Miller began a weekly podcast on the Carolla Digital Network, This Week with Larry Miller, suspending it after falling and injuring his head severely in April 2012. After hospitalization and a coma, he said in January 2013 that he was convalescing. Miller resumed the podcast on January 9, 2013.[15] In February 2015 the podcast was retitled The Larry Miller Show with direct distribution.[citation needed]

Television

 * He voiced the Pointy-Haired Boss on Dilbert.
 * He played Garvin in the Season 4 premiere episode "Doctor Solomon's Traveling Alien Show" in 3rd Rock from the Sun.
 * He voiced a patient on Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist in the 1995 episode "Everybody's Got a Tushy".
 * He voiced XR in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.
 * Appeared on Seinfeld in the episode "The Doorman" as the Doorman to Mr. Pitt's residence.
 * Appeared as himself on The Larry Sanders Show in the 1998 episode I Buried Sid
 * He had a recurring character on Law & Order as serial wife-murderer Michael Dobson, as well as playing himself in a single episode.
 * Appeared on Desperate Housewives' second season 7th episode as Leonard Harper.
 * Appeared on a special "Scene Stealers Edition" episode of the Anne Robinson Version of The Weakest Link but was voted off.
 * From 2009-2010, starred in 10 Things I Hate About You, reprising his role from the 1999 movie of the same name.[17]
 * Appeared on a few episodes of Boston Legal as Edwin Poole.
 * Appeared on Burn Notice as Harvey Gunderson in the episode "Comrades" in 2008.
 * Appeared on an episode of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!.
 * He voiced himself on the "Larry Miller Hair System" episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
 * In May 2010, Game Show Network announced that Miller would host a new comedy game show entitled Late Night Liars.[18] The show premiered on June 10, 2010 and aired until early 2011.
 * Appeared as a doctor in episode 6 of the 1st season of the Starz original series Gravity.
 * Appeared as Stu Tyler on My Wife and Kids (3 episodes)
 * Appeared as lawyer Garret Price in Monk (2 episodes)
 * He made a voice guest appearance on The Penguins of Madagascar as Clemson in "Right Hand Man", "The Hoboken Surprise" and "King Me".
 * Appeared as Eddie Kravitz in season 8's "Palestinian Chicken" episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
 * Appeared as Larry Diller in season 2's "Camp It Up" episode of Disney Channel's Shake It Up
 * Appeared as Principal Fickman in season 1's "Team-a-Rooney" episode of Disney Channel's Liv and Maddie.
 * Appeared on Hot in Cleveland as Melanie's creepy dentist in season 5's "Elka Takes a Lover".
 * Appeared on the BBC The Bob Monkhouse Show in 1984, along with Joan Rivers and Rosemary Clooney.[19]
 * Appeared on Just Shoot Me! as pretentious talk-radio host Emerson Gray in the season 1 episode, "The Assistant".
 * Appeared as a teacher on iCarly as Mr. Daviad in season 3 episode 12
 * Appeared as Mr. Painter on Clipped in the season 1 episode "Free Wednesday".
 * Appeared on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson on November 3, 1988, along w/ Michael J. Fox and author Harry Lorayne and on December 27, 1989, with guests James Stewart and Gladys Farek.