Jonathan Ames

Why Bored to Death Belongs in the TV Comedy Pantheon

Alex Rabinowitz | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Jason Schwartzman, Party Down, Arrested Development, Bored-to-Death-Canceled, Jonathan Ames, Bored to Death, HBO Bored to Death, Zach Galifianakis, TV Canada, TV News

History may not be as kind to Bored to Death as it has been to Arrested Development or Party Down, but for it to be forgotten would be a grave injustice.

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Drinks With 'Bored To Death' Creator

Posted 12.21.2011

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With HBO's drastic Christmas cleaning yesterday -- canceling "Hung," "How to Make It In America," and Bored To Death" -- many TV viewers are in mourni...

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'Bored To Death' Canceled: A Eulogy

Alex Moaba | Posted 02.20.2012

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"Bored To Death" was canceled Tuesday by HBO, swept out in a holiday housecleaning that also took "How To Make It In America" and "Hung." I can't blame the network for putting "How to Make It" and "Hung" down. While the former improved marginally in its second season, it was laughably predictable and inevitably doomed by the "Entourage" shadow. And once the male hooker novelty wore off, "Hung" was just kind of taking up space.

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HBO Axes Three Fan Favorites

Posted 12.20.2011

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HBO has canceled three of its shows: "Hung," "How to Make it in America" and "Bored to Death," Variety was the first to report. But the primetime cabl...

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Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis And Ted Danson Tackle Sperm Mysteries

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 12.10.2011

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Jonathan Ames enters the rustic Italian cafe with an unassuming hunch, sporting a scruffy beard and newsboy cap, happily anonymous on the streets of B...

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'Bored To Death' Returns With Elder Love, Man Love

HuffingtonPost.com | Katy Hall | Posted 12.06.2011

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The men of Bored to Death love each other. Not in the sharing a bed sense, though the characters played by Ted Danson, Jason Schwartzman and Zach Gali...

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This Won't Bore You

Posted 12.06.2011

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A novelist writing about a television show about a novelist is a bit of a trip. That the show's novelist shares a name with the novelist who writes th...

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'Bored To Death' Creator Jonathan Ames Talks Writing, Perversion, Chicken Sacrifices

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 08.17.2011

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Jonathan Ames is curious. Not in the sense that he's strange - though he surmises he may have some sort of personality disorder - but rather, his unen...

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"It's Like My Heart Has Sciatica": Love And Heartbreak In 6-Word Memoirs (PHOTOS)

Larry Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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The oft-quoted Tolstoy line "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" seems to hold true in matters of the heart a...

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Fictional Novels Starring Non-Fictional Authors

flavorwire.com | Stephanie Hlywak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, City of Glass, David Foster Wallace, Lunar Park, Paul Auster, Bret Easton Ellis, The Pale King, Jonathan Ames, The Alcoholic, Books News

Authors often appear in their own works of fiction as thinly veiled surrogates -- Kilgore Trout is widely believed to be Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, an...

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Tune in and Step Right up... It's the Man With Two Faces

Jill Di Donato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mad Men, The Wire, Jason Schwartzman, Bored to Death, Jimmy McNulty, Jonathan Ames, Don Draper, Hank Moody, Californication, Omar Little, Entertainment News

He's dangerous, inaccessible, vulnerable, sexy, secretive, and these days, dominating cable TV's leading men.

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Jonathan Ames' Trouble (and Hit TV Series) Began When He Was Bored

Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Where does Ames end and his character begin? He says, "Jonathan the character is wonderfully more brave and delusional than I am, which enables him to take on things that he shouldn't."

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HuffPost Review: The Extra Man

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's tempting to give The Extra Man a pass on the basis of Kevin Kline's performance alone. But there's a hole in the center of The Extra Man. And its name is Paul Dano.

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Jonathan Ames and Friends Celebrate Anti-Valentine's Day

HuffPost Eyes&Ears | Alex Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

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A bad breakup can do a lot for one's creativity. That seemed to be the take away message of Thursday's Jonathan Ames emceed, Anti-Valentine's Day cel...

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Jonathan Ames and Fellow Broken Hearts Celebrate Anti-Valentine's Day

Alex Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

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The author of eight books and creator of HBO's Bored to Death incorporated a male corset, an elevated testicle and tree-humping into the tale of his love and loss of a middle school girlfriend.

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Silly Hats At Sundance: Which Celebrity Looks Most Ridiculous? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

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When Hollywood descends on Sundance, it's entertaining to see how stars who spend most of their time in 70-something degree sunshine dress for cold co...

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Garrison Keillor Delights at the Black and White Moth Ball

Ariston Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jonathan Ames, Garrison Keillor, Anna Deavere Smith, The Moth, New York News

The Moth has found a way to make storytelling vivid and alive, even for impatient New Yorkers.

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Bored To Death Writer Jonathan Ames Uses Twitter To Watch His Own Show

animalnewyork.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Personally, as a HUGE fan of Ames' writing, I find him enormously endearing, and his using Twitter to find a kindly stranger willing to let him come o...

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Jonathan Ames Talks "Bored To Death," Life In Brooklyn, And Wanting To Be Like Matt Damon

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Ames, noted writer, boxer, and, um, masturbator, recently took some time out of his busy schedule to answer some questions about his new HBO ...

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Review: Jonathan Ames' The Alcoholic (Plus a Huffington Post Exclusive Look at Monica Lewinsky's Cameo)

Bryan Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, DC Comics, Michael Chabon, Dean Haspiel, Monica Lewinsky, Jonathan Ames, Alcoholic, Graphic Novels, Literary Caliber, Entertainment News

This is a graphic novel of a literary caliber and tells a very sad, sweet story of a writer finding himself.

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