Jonathan Ames

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Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2010

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Ames is a novelist, non-fiction and television writer. He created and writes the HBO series Bored to Death, which returns with its second season this month.

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0:58.0	There are a few writers as funny or as unique as Jonathan Ames.
1:02.7	His books are trips deep into his own mind, web full of odd sexual hang-ups and amazing
1:10.6	jokes and literary illusions and all kinds of amazing stuff.
1:15.8	He's turned that mind to television recently, with board to death on HBO.
1:21.3	The show stars Jason Schwartzman as a detective named Jonathan Ames.
1:26.9	The fictional Jonathan Ames closest friends are a magazine editor played by Ted Danson
1:32.2	and a comic book artist played by Zach Gallifinakis.
1:36.0	Here's a clip from the second season.
1:37.8	Ted Danson's character, a magazine editor, has moved out of his house into a hotel because
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