The world is completely mad and careening and hurting itself more than it is helping itself, and so I feel privileged to be afforded the opportunity to try to entertain people, to be a clown, and to simply make something. Or, rather, make something up.
Jonathan Ames, concluding his short Salon column on how he makes his TV show, Bored to Death.
As a lost writer in lost New York, I found this show spoke to me in ways no other program — comedy, drama or otherwise — has done. Add to that Jason Schwartzman, he of Max Fischer in Rushmore fame, and it’s by far my favorite show on television.
And Ames’ quote here, which I think provides a hint of the show’s unwritten mission, really explains why; both why I love the show, and why I write. Maybe it’s irresponsible to doodle as the world tears itself apart, but every time civilization crumbles, it looks to words and entertainment to make sense of it. Or at least distract from the falling rubble.
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