ABOUT MARK MILLER
Mark Miller has sold movie projects to Warner Brothers, been a writer and producer on numerous TV sit-com staff, a humor columnist for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, a humor blogger and unique jobs interviewer for The Huffington Post, and is a part of the Los Angeles storytelling community.
He has also performed stand-up comedy in nightclubs and on TV, and written special comedy material for numerous performers including Jay Leno, Jim Carrey, Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, Garry Shandling, and Dana Carvey.
His first book, a collection of his humor essays on dating and romance, is 500 Dates: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Online Dating Wars. But Mark says he’d trade all his success away in a minute for immortality, inner peace and limitless wealth. Check out Mark’s Huffington Post interviews of fascinating people who are leading, changing, advancing and/or enhancing their fields.
Staff Writer, Story Editor, Executive Script Consultant,
Producer on such shows as
The New Odd Couple
She’s The Sheriff
Different Strokes
The Munsters Today
The Carol Burnett Show
Dana Carvey’s HBO Special
Latest Posts
Humor us: How Central Coast Comedy clubs pivoted during pandemic
By Mark Miller Special to The Business Times Laugh and the world laughs with you. Maybe. Own a comedy club and you struggle during a pandemic. Perhaps no small businesses depend more on tightly packing large numbers of customers into…
LEAST FREQUENT COWBOY UTTERANCES
“Hey, Tex, I’d die, I’d simply die for your spanikopita recipe.” “She’s not just my manicurist; she’s also my friend.” “Oh, come on. Comparing Nuryev to Baryshnikov is like comparing apples to oranges.” “If you must know, Francoise, I’m weeping….
LEAST KNOWN FACTS ABOUT FISH
If a starfish is cut into chunks, each piece will grow into a completely whole starfish – and yet will be unable to carry the simplest tune. Not all fish live only in the water. Many have summer residences in…
CARTOON STRIPS
Testimonials
What people are saying about me
Kevin Nealon
“Mark is a very good friend and brilliant writer. He is like a brother to me. At first, I wrote that he is like a sister to me, but he seemed upset by that, so I revised it.”
Jay Leno
“Mark Miller, a veteran of over 500 dates, tells you how dating really is – the good, the bad, the sad, the horrible, the even more horrible, the unbelievable – with tremendous humor and insight.”
Louie Anderson
“Mark Miller was always funny and now the world of online dating he has done it again! I’m sick of him always being the funny one!”
Yakov Smirnoff
” If there’s only one single book everyone should read about dating, this isn’t it. But this one is laugh-out-loud funny. I laughed my Yak-off!”
Dana Carvey
“The brilliant Mark Miller was at the epicenter of the early San Fransisco comedy boom. You’ll love his book!”
Kevin Pollak
“Mark Miller has finally decided it’s safe to share this hilarious and helpful book with the world at large.”
Latest Media
500 Dates: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Online Dating Wars
2-minute promotional video for humorist Mark Miller’s “500 Dates: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Online Dating Wars”, a collection of humor essays about Miller’s experiences in the world of dating and romance.
Humorist Mark C. Miller’s story: “The Hottest Date I’ve Ever Had”
At the Story Salon, in Studio City, California, in front of a live audience — well, there might have been a couple of dead people there, humorist Mark Miller reads a true story about the hottest date he ever had.
An Open Letter to Art Garfunkel from his Ex-Girlfriend, Cecilia
My good friend Cecilia Lopez gave me her okay to share this presentation on her behalf. She’s way too emotional about this to present it herself. But I think she’s hoping somehow it’ll get back to Art Garfunkel. They’ve fallen out of touch.