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Character Analysis

Elizabeth Banks

Avery Jessup

Played by Elizabeth Banks

48 jokes across 13 episodes of 30 Rock

WAR

21.7

Total Jokes

48

Avg Craft

7.2

Avg Impact

6.9

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Avery delivers 48 scored jokes across 13 episodes of 30 Rock, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.9 on impact for a career WAR of 21.7. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Avery Lines

All Jokes — 48 total

S4E13

Avery:And the food in his beard tells us that he purchased a snack pack on the train from New Haven.

7.57.3
S4E13

Avery:Just sit a couple out, Stein, god.

6.96.5
S4E13

Avery:It's 3:30 in the morning in Geneva, Jack. Who's your call with? The hooker working the corner outside Raiffeisenbank?

7.87.8
S4E13

Avery:Look, despite what happened in the shower last night, I'm a pretty traditional girl.

7.16.8
S4E14

Avery:I'll tell him it's a guy I'm having sex with

7.06.5
S4E14

Avery:Do you think it was easy for me to cut ties from my old mentor, Pat O'Brien, after he shaved his moustache?

7.26.8
S4E14

Avery:Do you think it was easy for me to cut ties from my old mentor, Pat O'Brien, after he shaved his moustache?

7.57.0
S4E14

Avery:According to my sources, the clear frontrunner current G.E. executive, Jack Donaghy... with the programming experience, business savvy, and piercing, blue eyes of a Siberian husky

7.57.5
S4E14

Avery:I'm going to celebrate by buying my lady friend that necklace she pointed out and then, cooking her a Western omelette

7.27.0
S4E17

Avery:Think slutty Grace Kelly.

7.37.0
S4E17

Avery:Money bunny Avery Jessup steps out with sexecutive Jack Donaghy.

6.96.5
S4E17

Avery:The sportscaster who bites ladies.

7.06.7
S4E17

Avery:Don't ask how I got them. But I do know the access code to his pyramid.

7.67.5
S4E20

Avery:That is a swing.

7.16.7
S4E20

Avery:But these tactics have worked on stupider women.

7.47.3
S4E21

Avery:You think I don't want to know what Pizzarina Sbarro is going to be wearing?

6.86.3
S4E21

Avery:I'm on Dodecacil, the pill where you only get your period once a year. We're so close to beating that thing completely.

7.77.5
S4E21

Avery:What's that supposed to mean, you dumb douche? Oh, it's starting.

7.27.2
S4E21

Avery:Aloha means hello and goodbye. So, aloha.

6.55.7
S4E22

Avery:Does the 'o' have it? 'o,' we do. Do you 'o'? 'o,' no? Let go. 'o.'

5.75.8
S4E22

Avery:Is their gay juice in the champagne?

7.87.8
S4E22

Avery:I wipe the floor with that bitch.

6.96.7
S4E22

Avery:I wipe the floor with that bitch.

7.27.0
S5E02

Avery:That Russian skank read the ultrasound wrong.

6.35.8
S5E06

Avery:So she can ride the maid! It is adorable.

7.06.5
S5E06

Avery:Lemon went to middle school with a Charlotte who used to rub herself against a tree during recess.

7.07.0
S5E06

Avery:Maybe you and Liz can raise it.

6.96.0
S5E06

Avery:Crazy hormone swing.

6.96.3
S5E06

Avery:Why does everything smell like onions?

5.54.5
S5E10

Avery:That's why I like dating older men. Their parents are usually dead or senile, so there's never an argument about the holidays.

7.97.8
S5E10

Milton · Avery · Jack:By the way, we have a tradition in my family where we let the child name itself. Oh, yeah, that's hippie nonsense. Absolutely not. Well, suit yourself, but my son Spider-Man turned out just fine.

7.98.0
S5E10

Avery:My gift to you is the feeling of superiority you'll have for the next two seconds.

8.08.0
S5E10

Avery:Because, you know, when you're pregnant, one bottle of wine a day, and that's it.

7.37.2
S5E14

Avery:To what, Jack? Be a mouthpiece for Federalism and then die in a duel against someone named Aaron? Is that what you want our daughter to be? A big government duel loser?

8.28.2
S5E14

Avery:I'm still in Girl Scouts. I have 9,000 badges.

7.67.3
S5E22

Avery · Jack:Who's ready for Skype sex? No, no, no. This is the Liddy call.

7.27.0
S5E22

Avery:I don't know why our daughter would be afraid of Reagan.

7.06.0
S5E22

Avery:You people have too much money.

7.36.5
S5E22

Avery · Jack:Do you want to watch me eat jelly beans... real slow? Yes.

7.67.3
S5E22

Avery:I told them it was my razor. I have to shave my legs with it, but they have an app for that.

7.47.0
S5E22

Avery:Did you also call Sally Ride and her sister?

7.36.5
S6E21

Avery:I'm sorry I taste like Korean cigarettes. Tobacco's the only thing with protein over there. Their meat is just deflated kickballs.

7.57.5
S6E21

Avery:I heard her ask her bear who the dye job is.

6.96.5
S6E21

Avery:Kim Jong-Il could not be reached for comment because he was having a totally normal day being alive and not dead.

7.16.8
S6E21

Avery:I thought I was playing you, and you were playing me the whole time. And in 24 hours, I got you to tell me things it would have taken you years to admit.

7.17.2
S6E22

Avery:I was living in an exact replica of Cinderella's castle that Kim Jong-Un had built for his shoe collection.

7.77.5
S6E22

Avery:I kept my sea monkeys alive for 30 years.

7.77.3
S6E22

Avery:I mean, if we wanted this thing to succeed, why would we ask Liz to officiate?

7.97.5