Timothy Simons, who plays Jonah, a terrible person, on HBO’s “Veep,” lives in Los Angeles with his wife, a public-school teacher, and their seven-year-old twins. On a recent morning, he was in a recording studio in Chelsea, standing in a circle with the four hosts of “Story Pirates,” a podcast for children that is built around manic enactments of stories sent in by children. Recent submissions to the show include “The Dad Who Inhaled a Spider and Kept Coughing and Coughing,” “Where Do the Body Parts Go?,” “The Penguin Would Probably Forget,” and “Be Still and Know That I Am God.”
In the final season of “Veep,” which just concluded, Jonah—who has at times been disparaged as Jonad, Hepatitis J, and the Pointless Giant—ran for President. “Veep” has been largely hidden…
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The New Yorker (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 20, 2019