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"Jason Schwartzman has dismissed claims that the characters on his show Bored To Death are too ironic and self-conscious. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Schwartzman explained that the comedy focuses on complex people. &amp;quot;None of the characters are judgemental or mean,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re just people who are deeply flawed, and they&amp;#039;re trying to get better but they keep f**king up. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re not making fun of people and they&amp;#039;re not ironic. The humour comes from how they mess up their lives, not from our ironic commentary on how they mess up their lives.&amp;quot; Schwartzman also revealed that he enjoys working on such a different kind of show. &amp;quot;With a lot of shows, they spell everything out for you,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;They let you know exactly what&amp;#039;s happening, and what happened just before, and what&amp;#039;s probably going to happen next. Because there are so many shows with that type of structure, we have the freedom to do a plot in lower case letters. It&amp;#039;s about the moments that would be edited out of any other show or movie.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;A lot of shows take you from A to B to C. I like stories that happen in between those letters... I think each movie and each TV show and each song can be more interesting if it&amp;#039;s just part of a puzzle. It lets an audience put the pieces together themselves and give it their own meaning.&amp;quot; Bored To Death continues on Sundays at 10pm on HBO. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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