[7][2] Seattle magazine City Arts called Miller "an endearingly positive presence" in the comedy scene of the Pacific Northwest.
[13] As a teenager, Miller was arrested several times for minor drug violations and similar offenses, and was incarcerated in Yakima County Jail.
[14] During this time, he worked a variety of jobs, including dishwasher, bouncer, warehouse worker, landscaper, assistant preschool teacher, bartender, and farmhand.
[18][19] He graduated from Evergreen State College in Olympia in 2017 and became a chemical dependency counselor and public speaker on addiction recovery.
[8][20][21][22] Miller's first public performance was as part of a vaudeville show in Olympia in the mid-2000s, balancing a lawnmower on his chin.
[3][28] Miller's journey from addiction to stand-up was profiled on the Seattle Times' Outsiders podcast in 2020, which looked at issues around homelessness.
[8][21][29] During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Miller wrote 100 new jokes a week, performing via streaming on Facebook, to raise money for homeless nonprofits.
[30] Miller has also produced comedy shows in Olympia, including co-founding the ongoing open mic event Vomity.
[3][39] Miller also won three Best of Olympia awards in the annual readers' poll of Tacoma, Washington, alternative newspaper Weekly Volcano.
[42] Miller is heavily tattooed; his tattoos include two important personal milestones in his comedy career: the marquee of Olympia's Capitol Theater,[1] and a picture of a vomiting man under the word "Vomity," celebrating the Olympia open mic he co-founded, Vomity.