When Vulture attended the Bored To Death panel discussion at the Paley Center a few weeks back, show creator (and “drowned ghostly ship’s captain†resembling) Jonathan Ames played it coy when an audience member asked him about the role marijuana plays in the show’s creative-development process. As he put it, “I think it can be a lovely drug, from my memory of it.†Well, we caught up with Ames at the Moth Ball the other night, and he was singing a bit of a different, sweet-smelling tune. “You know that vaporizer they use [on Bored to Death]?,†he asked us. “I was given that by the production, yeah. So fucking good. They gave us a vaporizer. Yeah … it’s really good. Was yesterday Monday? So Sunday, I vaporized mid-day. I love it. I love my vaporizer. One bag, it’s like getting heroin.†Guess you can chalk that up as yet another reason why a good number of TV creatives choose HBO over Showtime.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story contained an inaccurate quote about the Bored To Death producers, Jonathan Ames and marijuana. We have corrected the quote and we regret the error.