Cites Carol Burnett as a major influence and inspiration.
When she hosted I've Got a Secret (2000), her father, William Miller, was a guest contestant. Teri Garr recognized him and recused herself but he "fooled" the rest of the panel and they were unable to guess his secret.
Garnered a lot of publicity with her Los Angeles-based talk show on KFI
Talk Radio in the mid-1990s.
Graduated from the University of Southern California (USC).