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The star of The Emoji Movie has rowed back on his comment that women are not as funny as men
TJ MILLER IS an American stand-up comic, actor and writer, best known for his role in HBO sitcom Silicon Valley.
He’s the main voice actor in the soon-to-be-released star-studded animation The Emoji Movie, and has been doing press interviews for it over the past couple of weeks.
That’s where the saga began.
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Speaking in an interview with Vulture Magazine – published in yesterday’s New York Magazine – he made a comment about why, “in his view, women aren’t as funny as men”:
The opinion wasn’t referenced again, as writer David Marchese had so many other bizarre statements to contend with, including these passages:
The interview immediately went viral for a whole host of reasons, but this passage was perhaps the most quoted
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But his claims that women weren’t as funny as men were called out immediately
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Given he was on a press tour for a movie, it seemed like an odd place to pull out deliberately controversial and bizarre actions
The criticism reached a point yesterday when Miller felt compelled to respond
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He took to Twitter, saying everyone had missed the point:
It’s certainly a little more nuanced than his original statement in the Vulture interview, but it’s still difficult to decipher what he’s actually trying to say – especially with regards to “the misogyny of women’s humor” – and whether he’s in a position to comment in such broad strokes.
Although the bizarre statements weren’t confined to the interview, as they continued online
*eye roll*
The press tour rolls on as The Emoji Movie gets released in various countries in the next week, and the comedian will even be making a stop off at the Vodafone Comedy Festival in Dublin on Friday and Saturday.
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