2 months agoMidnight Snack: Rainforest Pizza with TJ Miller
T.J. Miller’s career spans the spectrum, from a one-hour Comedy Central special to a Weird-Al-type music album, The Extended Play, satirizing celebrity culture. Add to that a film resumé that includes polar opposite titles like Cloverfield and Yogi Bear, and you have a man who readily admits, “I have had the weirdest film career that anyone has had to date. I would stake it against even Stephen Root.”
TJ orders his go-to favorite, a pepperoni pizza, and we take a seat on the patio outside.
Henry: How did you find this place?
Henry: Sesame?
TJ: Early on, I used to live in this building on Orange and Hawthorne, and it was this shithole drug den. It looked like drug den, at least. There were guys who all had these prison tattoos, these Russian prison tattoos, who would just smoke and read the Bible or weird, long novels. It was very strange. So I was in this neighborhood, and I would walk around, and one time, I just saw that sign. They have the shittiest sign in the world. Look at it. It just says, “PIZZA.” It’s so ugly! And the thing is I didn’t like Los Angeles pizza in general. I lived in New York for a little while. I was just looking for a New York-y style pizza, and I came here, ate it, and it was so f***ing good. The crust was awesome.
TJ: Sesame crust. It’s a certain kind of dough, it’s very good, and I don’t know - a lot of people hate it. A lot of people hate that I love it here. They don’t want to meet me here. They don’t want to come to parties that I have here.
