Danny Lidz is a radical religious Jewish conspiracy theorist and communist who lives in a cramped apartment with his heavyset brother Arthur. Danny is thin and lean and both men display hoarding tendencies with old newspapers stacked high throughout the apartment. Danny constantly spouts paranoid conspiracies, randomly sings "The Internationale," and accuses others of being fascists or anti-Semites. He and his brother are currently guardians of their nephew Stephen while his mother Selma is ill