Silicon Valley

Season 4 M-Net (*101) 23:50 Comedy

Spoiler Alert! This is TJ Miller’s (Erlich Bachman) last season with Silicon Valley (2014-current) as Pied Piper’s pompous investor/overlord Erlich and Erlich joining a Tibetan monastery in the episode 10 season finale couldn’t come sooner for the Pied Pipers. “He is an outsider. Nobody wants him there. Nobody likes him. Someone would pay to have Erlich go away.” For TJ though, quitting wasn’t linked to any desire to retire. “In comedy, you walk off-stage when the laughs are at their peak,” he jokes.

The 36-year-old is now touring 1

with his live stand-up comedy show “TJ Miller On Tour”.

TJ and his wife Kate are marketing 2

their own “ironic luxury perfume” brand under the Hot Trash label, including scents like Wet Garbage.

The comedian’s gift to his dancer3

and-model wife on their wedding day – 6 September 2015 – was a painting of Beauty & The Beast and antique leg irons (a ball and chain).

Not everything is joke though – TJ 4

always wears the miniature compass that Kate gave him “so that you could always find your way back to me”. 5 The song he hates most “in the entire history of music” is The Black Eyed Peas’ Boom Boom Pow (2009). “It’s terrifyingly vague,” he complains. “The ‘pow’ is whatever branded endorsement comes their way at that point.”

If you ask a question he doesn’t 6

like, don’t be surprised if TJ pulls out a slide whistle and plays it instead.

He’s a master juggler and his skills 7

earned him a place as a Magician Member at Hollywood’s Magic Castle.

And as far as characters go, Erlich 8

isn’t his zaniest – TJ plays a giant blue alien in his 2017 Comedy Central talkshow The Gorburger Show.