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That strangled cough-laugh mashup you heard Saturday afternoon was a collective nerdgasm as fans packed a ballroom at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Montreal to listen to a Q&A with the cast and co-producers of the TV series Silicon Valley.

While in Montreal, cast members T.J. Miller and Thomas Middleditch performed in other Just for Laughs events, including galas, but the panel was the marquee event for the fans. They bayed with laughter for a solid hour as the the cast turned the session into a melée of comic one-upmanship that covered ceremonial genital duct-taping, spitballing dick-farm marketing plans and accusing the onstage (male) moderator of looking like kd lang and supporting the terrorist organization ISIS. Somehow, the latter did not come off as mean, although the moderator looked ready for sedation by the end.

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“Some of us are not that dissimilar from our characters,” declared Miller, who plays Erlich Bachman, the obnoxious but devoted mentor to Pied Piper, whose every screen moment shows him engaged in sating his massive and manifold appetites, from herbal to sexual to yogurtal.