Even though he looks nothing like the real life Jonathan Ames who created the show, there is hardly anybody out there to play a neurotic Jewish private dick/writer better than Jason Schwartzman.
Maybe we’re helping push along the myth that Jews control media by listing our ten favorite Jews on the small screen, but in this case we’re willing to take that chance.
Even though we can’t figure out how to write a good Hanukkah song, Jews wrote and produced most of the Christmas songs that aren’t sad, and are actually really catchy.