John Hodgman on his show ‘Dicktown:’ ‘There’s so much generational humor’
nypost.com“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “Parks and Recreation” and “The Tick.” “And David’s character would be my former arch-nemesis from high school who has failed to leave town.
It was David’s idea that Hunchman should be continuing to solve mysteries for teenagers, since that’s how he got his big start.
And now he’s still stuck in this town, working for teenagers, which is the most humiliating thing you can possibly imagine. There’s so much generational humor to play off of there.”Although the main characters share their names with the series creators, they aren’t direct stand-ins, Hodgman said. “John Hunchman is a version of me gone wrong,” he said. “John Hunchman was a weird only child who kept his own company and was obsessed with facts and read encyclopedias all day.
There is some similarity to my background, there. But I’m lucky that I have humans in my life – one of whom I am now married to – who, over the years, have helped me become a whole human being who can interact with others and not find such confrontations to be terrifying.
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