Funny / The Miz

Who says this isn't perfect casting?

• When Miz won the WWE heavyweight title for the first time in 2010, the camera focused on a "disgruntled little girl distraught with the outcome". This gave birth to the meme known as "The Miz Girl".
• The Miz, at a house show, is trying to get the crowd to quiet down so he can do his catch phrase uninterrupted. Which results in the crowd jeering louder every time the mic approaches his mouth.
• Miz, Christian and R-Truth are arguing over who got screwed the most during the Capitol Punishment PPV, on Raw the following night, the argument dissolves into...well, into this.
• Raw 9/3/12, the Miz is put on commentary duty for the night. The very things that make him annoying normally make him absolutely hilarious as a commentator. You can tell the guy's having a blast. And he actually manages to not talk about himself for most of it.
  • So much so that he was part of the Commentary Team for WWE Main Event for a while.
• The commercial for Survivor Series 2012 involves Miz having a bucket list. It must be seen to be believed.
• Raw 12/3/12; having performed a Heel–Face Turn, he manages to be quite funny as he calls out CM Punk. Including getting the crowd to chant that Paul Heyman is a walrus.
  • Along with that, when CM Punk demands that he and the fans apologize to Heyman, Miz says "Okay...I'm sorry that you're a REALLY REALLY big walrus!"
• Two Words: Miz-co Inferno. If you notice toward the end, he actually split his pants. Bonus points for JBL and Cole being absolutely oblivious to what "twerking" actually is (they describe almost everything he does as twerking, but are oddly silent when he actually twerks).
• The Miz heard that Damien Mizdow was doing a commercial and barged his way into said commercial. This is the hilarious result.
• Miz and his wife Maryse send Finn Bálor a Get Well Soon card.
• Prior to his hot Talking Smack promo against Daniel Bryan, the Miz "starred" in a KFC commercial as a chicken battling against a buff Colonel Sanders played by Dolph Ziggler. No, seriously.
  • Like the Miz said himself on Instagram, "I'm an actor!"
• The Miz pointing out that while AJ Styles was in Japan growing his hair out like America's Next Top Soccer Mom, he was beating John Cena before beating John Cena was even cool on the grandest stage of them all.^note Actually, back in April 2011, AJ Styles was still wrestling in TNA as the leader of Fortune, but of course WWE would rather not talk about AJ's stint in TNA.
  • AJ made the soccer mom quip work even better with his wide-eyed reaction◊. He then offered an excellent retort by talking about how he knocked Miz's teeth out the last time they faced in Memphis and asking Maryse if her husband were "performing" with a limp.
  • This segment is made even funnier with John acting as an instigator for both of them.
    John Cena: (to Miz) OH SNAP! Are you going to let him talk to you like that? Talk to you and your wife like that? Step up, bro.
• On a December 2016 House Show, the Miz reacts hilariously to marks chanting, "Miz can't wrestle!" and smarks rebutting, "Yes he can!" by at first turning around from time to time, dancing to the beat of the chants, then doing a head bang.
• "Total Bellas Bull S***". Full stop. Miz and Maryse mock John Cena and Nikki Bella, turning their life into an over-the-top parody.
• Dean Ambrose was his guest on the 12/6/16 edition of Miz TV and he wasn't able to win the WWE World Championship, so the Miz decided to give him a gift. A participation award.
  • The icing on the cake is the fans chanting "You deserve it!" while Dean is visibly trying not to laugh.
• The Miz ignores Maryse's attempts to seduce him in favor of playing Fantasy Football on this Total Divas clip.
• On the 6/5/17 edition of Raw, Miz and Maryse celebrated his 7th Intercontinental Championship win with balloons, wine, and a bear mascot that neither of them ordered, so Miz attacked him, believing he was Dean Ambrose, only to discover he wasn't. From there, Miz said to the man in the bear suit that at least he had the privilege of being beaten up by the Intercontinental Champion. #Mizbear
  • Afterwards, Miz attacked a huge gift box with a steel chair, a tackle, and an elbow drop in true Nature Boy fashion, thinking that Dean is lurking inside. It turned out to be a grandfather clock that Maryse bought for her husband. After she left in tears, Miz called Ambrose out, only for the Lunatic Fringe to end up being the camera man and laying Mizanin down with a Dirty Deeds.
  • It was also during this segment that Miz buried "You Deserve It!" chants.
  • Earlier before the segment, the Miz and Maryse see the unconscious body of Big Cass in a pile of wreckage on their way to the ring. They walk off as if nothing happened.
• On a June 2017 house show, with the Miz partnering with Samoa Joe to face against former Shield teammates Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins, Rollins calls and mimes that the Miz is a chicken, which makes the crowd start a "K! F! C!" chant.
  • This serves as a great callback to a certain KFC commercial involving the Miz and Dolph Ziggler.
• In My son is a WWE superstar, Miz's parents talk about his childhood and how he got into the business. While his mother is your normal mom that supports her son 100%, Miz's dad on the other hand...
  • Miz's dad was so well liked by the fans that they have compared him to Zack Ryder's dad and even got a David Flair style titantron.
  • Miz also revealed in an interview that his dad calls after a match and will say "Why don't you get an entrance like the Undertaker? Your entrance doesn't even have pyro". He also said to Miz at one point "Why don't you do any of that stuff Evan Bourne does?"
  • Here is Miz sharing some more hilariously embarrassing moments with his dad with R-truth and Curtis Axel at table for 3.
• The promo that the Miz and the Miztourage made against Jeff and Matt Hardy was gold, putting in references like Jeff's outdated fashion choices and Matt's Broken Gimmick (the "Delete Delete Delete" chants were countered by "Restore Restore Restore" chants and Jeff was called "Brother Zero"). He finishes the promo off with an acapella rendition of the Pantera song "I'm Broken".
• His Snickers commercial where he acts all nice and friendly to a homeless guy he picks up in his limo, with Maryse being completely confused with this new attitude. It has to be seen to be believed.
• On the go-home RAW to TLC 2017, Miz is hyping up his team in their locker room for their match versus The Shield...only to wonder where Curtis Axel is. Cue Braun Strowman telling Miz that he "encouraged" Axel to go after The Shield solo, which is funny enough by itself, but Miz's absolutely resigned look on his face is hilarious, knowing that he's not gonna like what he sees when he finds Axel.
• Miz utterly taking Sam Roberts to the verbal woodshed for not booking him on his show in the run-up to RAW 25.
  Miz: RAW 25 is this Monday at the Barclay's Center and Manhattan Center. Sam will be there. Nobody will care.
• The Miz showing how old he is in this video with Alexa Bliss where he refers to a fidget spinner as a "fitbit" in order to fit in with what the kids are doing nowadays.
• In the Gauntlet match leading up to the 2018 Elimination Chamber, Miz comes out second to last, defeats Finn Bálor...and then realizes, after all that, he still has to face Braun Strowman. You can practically see the five stages of grief playing out on his face.
• The maniacal look that the Miz had when his plans to pit Finn Bálor and Seth Rollins against each other started to succeed.
  • Miz also used the Indy names of Seth and Finn in another promo of his, calling them Tyler Black and Prince ""Nevitt"^note It's actually Prince Devitt respectively.
• After Team Awe-ska (Miz and Asuka) beat Team Little Big (Braun Strowman and Alexa Bliss), the totally tired and aching Miz ended up on the floor after (what he claims as) his Deliberate Injury Gambit while celebrating with his energetic tag team partner, who was none the worse for wear.
  • Really just about everything involving Team Awe-ska is hilarious, such as The Miz admonishing Asuka for hugging Naomi, going as far as to declare “There’s no hugging in wrestling” and provoking Asuka to give him a hard chop in the chest only to whine to her that it would leave a mark.
• So after Cleveland pays tribute to their hometown boy in a respectful fashion, what does he say in his first promo back home? "I live in L.A.". What a heel.
• The Miz gets a little absurd when he gets hungry in his latest Snickers commercial. ACTING!
• During a Miz TV segment with Randy Orton and Jeff Hardy, Randy visibly corpses after hearing Miz say to him, "Randy Orton is ninth on a Top Ten List on Smackdown? Ninth? Ninth? Randy Orton, ninth doesn't even get you a medal!"
• Xavier Woods referring to Miz as "Hokage Miz" due to his ridiculous outfit during an interview segment with The New Day on Miz TV.
  • Even funnier, the Miz then botched the name of Fortnite, calling it "Fortline" instead.
• The Miz's red Hokage-like outfit is funny enough on its own. But the backstage segment he performed with The Bar where he chops and deflects pancakes while blindfolded with his ninja headband is just pure art. The Miz is training to unlock his Byakugan, as one Twitter user put it.
• Although most fans felt ripped off and confused over the short, barely over two minutes Squash Match of Bryan vs. Miz at Super Showdown, the ensuing Hurricane of Puns was almost worth the unusual ''small package'' finish. Bryan proudly tweeted out that #MrSmallPackage had struck again while Miz tweeted in response that he's too ''big of a man'' for Bryan's ''small package''.
• The Miz during the 10/9/18 edition of Miz TV describes Daniel Bryan to AJ Styles as "a different opponent" who "doesn't use psychological warfare", "won't attack you from behind", and "if he goes to your house he's going to tend to your garden", eliciting laughter from the crowd. He then introduces Bryan as an honorable boy scout before snoring in the middle of his introduction.
• On WrestleMania 35, Miz's Dad actually did the old-timey "put up your dukes" pose against Shane McMahon to protect his son in an equal parts heartwarming and ill-advised fashion (he isn't exactly an Action Dad). This naturally led to people making memes out of it.
• We've come full circle. Miz has become the Miz girl. For those who don't understand the context, this is when Miz is fighting Bray Wyatt at TLC 2019, and Bray is coming out in his "Firefly Funhouse" gimmick complete with the happy theme song.
• MC MIZ and Johnny Drip Drip's 2020 diss track on The Usos & The New Day. It has to be heard to be believed. Miz and Morrison likely would've used it for their WrestleMania 36 entrance had the COVID-19 Pandemic not stepped in
• Tyler Breeze vs. The Miz for the UpUpDownDown Championship on 7/14/20. Not only was Miz scolded by Maryse like a little boy for being noisy while playing video games; Tyler also retained and talked mad smack at Miz for good measure. The top comment on the video even takes AJ Styles' quote about Michelle McCool during his feud with The Undertaker and attributes it to Breeze for everything he says and does after the scolding:
  Your wife is going to run you into the ground, and I'm gonna help her.
• This tweet that Miz retweeted that mixed Johnny Cage's Mortal Kombat ending with a picture of the Miz◊.
  • Then there's this tweet and picture◊ of the Miz with the original^note Motion Capture actor of Johnny Cage, Daniel Pesina.
  • Then there's this tweet by Ed Boon himself backing Miz up when he said he should be Johnny Cage in the sequel to the 2021 Mortal Kombat movie.
• After his loss to Gran Metalik, Miz was in a funk because of his loss at TLC meant that he failed his Money in the Bank cash-in opportunity. Or so he thought? Adam Pearce comes in with the briefcase, telling that Miz's case about it being an invalidated cash-in because it was John Morrison who did the cash-in for him, not Miz was taking under consideration. Adam says that Miz was correct and was given back the briefcase and the opportunity. Both Miz and Morrison celebrate like they just got a PlayStation 5 for Christmas.
  • It's funnier when you consider the body language of both men when Adam gave it back. Like their argument of it being invalidated cash in was simply a last ditch effort, not thinking that it would work. To their pleasant surprise, it in fact worked and they couldn't believe it.
• "Hey Hey, Hop Hop" sounds better than it has any right to be, but it's also quite the hilarious diss track against Bad Bunny.
  Miz: Hakuna Matata. Como te llamas?^note Translation: What's your name? Dos piñatas^note Translation: Two piñatas. Waka Waka.
• In the first few minutes of the "Trainwreck: Woodstock '99" documentary released in 2022, many eagle-eyed Twitter users were able to recognize a young Mike Mizanin screaming part of the title of the documentary before the actual Title Drop.
  • An old friend of his that he took with him to the event inadvertently and retroactively confirmed that it was him way back in 2013.^note Apparently and ironically, he was straight edge at the time.
• Pat McAfee loves the annoying antics of the Miz and his "entertaining movie character" (which Pat likens to the Bob Evans character played by Matthew Goode in The Offer).
• The Miz dancing to Cody's and Dominik's themes on the 6-5-23 edition of Monday Night RAW is quite hilarious.
• During Miz TV, Miz did a hilarious Meme Acknowledgement of the Invisible John Cena meme in the 9/4/23 edition of Monday Night RAW. He was fully committed to the bit, to the point of even doing a Skull-Crushing Finale on "John".
• The Miz has a rant about being stuck in a locker room backstage at the 2/26/24 Edition of Monday Night RAW while people are struggling to get him out. Don't worry, he's able to get out later and make it to the show.
• Him being the Only Sane Man during R-Truth's Judgment Day storyline and subsequently the "Regeneration X" team. Miz is just bewildered that Truth, alongside Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa suggest that the best way to get revenge is to either dump slime on the group or feed them bread and suggest that it'd be better to take their tag team title belts.
• On the 4/16/24 RAW, Triple H has revealed the new World Tag Team Chamiponship belts to him and R-Truth. Truth is in disbelief...not at the titles but at Triple H (or "Tommaso") somehow making them magically appear. It takes Miz having to speak to him in French (they were in Montreal that night) before it clicks.

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