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Character Analysis

James Marsden

Criss

Played by James Marsden

90 jokes across 13 episodes of 30 Rock

WAR

42.9

Total Jokes

90

Avg Craft

7.2

Avg Impact

6.9

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Criss delivers 90 scored jokes across 13 episodes of 30 Rock, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.9 on impact for a career WAR of 42.9. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Criss Lines

All Jokes — 90 total

S6E02

Criss · Liz:Hey, whatever happened to TiVo? Remember, you used to fast-forward, it'd make that sound? Boop-boop, boop-boop. Yeah. Yeah, then it'd be all like, bung-bung. - Boop-boop, boop-boop. - Bung-bung, bung-bung. - Bung-bung, bung-bung. - Boop-boop, boop-boop. Boop-boop, boop-boop.

5.76.2
S6E02

Criss:And he/she has his/her baseball glove and baby. And both sets of genitals!

7.67.8
S6E02

Criss:That was hard to track down. Today, almost all of them are in police evidence lockers.

8.28.2
S6E02

Criss:Is that an Armenian name? Is he a space Armenian? I don't know. The Kardashians are Armenian, they're into black guys, so there's something to it...

6.96.5
S6E02

Criss · Liz:Oh, yeah, if you watch those games, that thing definitely has a menstrual cycle. Right?

7.16.8
S6E02

Criss:I called sunglass hut and got my credit limit raised to $80, plus, they told me I only needed 5,000 more shades points to get free lens wipes

7.47.2
S6E03

Criss:Yesterday, that was the face, feet and colon of a pig.

6.86.5
S6E03

Criss:All right, kids. Who wants some? Get in my van.

7.47.7
S6E03

Criss:Is there a problem, officer?

7.27.0
S6E03

Criss:Well, that's what she said, but...

6.86.0
S6E03

Criss · Liz:Wesleyan is the Harvard of central Connecticut. Yale is the Harvard of central Connecticut.

7.87.5
S6E03

Criss:Had that locked and loaded, didn't you?

7.16.5
S6E03

Criss:You don't say cholesterol correctly. 'Chloresterole.'

7.36.8
S6E03

Criss:What would Jack say about that? He'd say, 'good God, Lemon.' Locked and loaded.

7.57.0
S6E03

Criss:I go back to sleeping on the floor of my Uncle's mattress store

7.67.2
S6E03

Criss:Oh, it's burning the backs of my eyes. Oh, it's burning my face now.

6.25.8
S6E06

Criss:# and the chorus goes here / # yeah this is where the chorus goes # / # I didn't have time to write it / # but the chorus goes here

7.77.7
S6E06

Criss:But you're a lady. Right?

7.06.8
S6E06

Criss · Liz:Well, you know, for thousands of years Japanese diners have used traditional tatami mats... Whoa, okay, no, no, no.

6.86.3
S6E06

Criss:Unless you count that time when the goose chased you into the Central Park boat pond.

7.16.8
S6E06

Criss · Unknown shoppers · Liz:I like myself. I have good taste in drapes. / I wish I'd died on Iwo Jima and never met you. / Whoa. What was that? / Not us.

7.17.0
S6E06

Criss:So tense. Just like my mom's back.

6.56.0
S6E06

Criss:Look, salt and pepper shakers. You put them together, it makes a heart. Take them apart, two red sperms.

6.76.3
S6E06

Criss:What's with the 'neggy' vibes, jeez.

6.96.8
S6E06

Criss · Liz:I don't know if I'm feeling it, you know? / What about this idea? I know a guy who cuts glass... / No. I took measurements, I looked at colors, we came here. This is the plan.

7.37.3
S6E06

Liz · Criss:We are not letting this table be a metaphor for our relationship. That's what Ikea wants us to do. / I'm just not sure my chair wants to be with this table. / Why, because deep down your chair would rather be with other chairs?

7.57.3
S6E06

Liz · Criss:This is why you don't just choose one option. / No, this is why you don't waste 45 minutes wandering around the 'Valentine's marketplace.'

6.96.8
S6E06

Criss:Well what race am I supposed to check? We all come from Africa.

7.37.0
S6E09

Criss:We just, uh, stomp on your foot. Kick you in the knee, Yankees suck, go pats.

6.96.5
S6E09

Jenna · Criss:Nothing that happens on Leap Day counts.

7.26.8
S6E12

Dennis · Criss:I tried to steal beer from a Duane reade, and some black guy cold-cocked me. / Ooh, like a security guard? / I don't know, pal. I don't see people that way

8.17.8
S6E12

Criss:At burning man, and we agreed never to talk about that. At sunset, the CACTI start to resemble people looking for hugs

7.97.5
S6E12

Criss · Liz:Guy with a concussion on St. Patrick's day is like a horse with a broken leg. / Exactly. We should shoot him

8.18.0
S6E12

Liz · Criss:And once again, the puppet will become the puppet master. / What does that mean, 'once again'? That's not a thing

7.57.0
S6E12

Criss · Liz:Love you. / You're the best. / Love you. / Scooby-doo. / I love you. / I just ordered thai food

7.97.8
S6E12

Criss:You solo-ed me.

7.87.8
S6E18

Liz · Criss:♪ Cleanup, cleanup ♪ ♪ do your own housework, you little crackers ♪ - what? - My kindergarten teacher was a former black panther.

7.47.7
S6E18

Criss:Oh, yeah? You're one to talk, buddy. I'm Brent. I'm the new guy on the crew. I'm Rod. I'm the boss. And what I say goes.

5.76.0
S6E18

Criss:I've never been with a man before. Looks like I'm the boss now... Rod.

5.55.8
S6E18

Liz · Criss:Oh! What are we doing? - I don't know. Whatever! Let's wrestle! It doesn't matter.

6.36.8
S6E18

Criss:You have a baby name book, and you circled Adolf?

7.07.5
S6E18

Criss:And he's in trouble, too, 'cause I watched some boxercise videos on demand before coming down here.

7.06.5
S6E21

Criss:Or the plant. It's your body.

6.66.5
S6E21

Criss:The walls are filled with electrocuted mice.

7.37.0
S6E21

Criss:If you take my profits from the hot dog truck and add 'em to the $300 my aunt gave me for Christmas, I'd have $200.

7.27.2
S6E21

Liz · Criss:Boy, I sound just like my dad. Which, I guess, makes me Mrs. Lemon. Seriously, though, I gotta get to work. I gotta get to yoga and lunch with the girls.

7.26.8
S6E21

Criss:I'm a man. I'm a man, I'm a man! I'm an adult man! You think I like you having to pay for everything? It's humiliating.

6.46.2
S6E21

Criss:You think I like having to earn Crisspoints so that I can take you on dates that you actually pay for?

7.77.7
S6E21

Criss:Only because liking the Crisspoints system is one of the ways I earn Crisspoints!

8.38.3
S6E21

Criss:It is a van with a car engine, Liz, okay?

7.06.5
S6E21

Criss:Because you're the person who has to krang that plant for nine months, poop it, and then go back to work to support both of you!

7.17.0
S6E21

Criss:And he has a watch, and an office with a trash can and a little basketball hoop on it.

7.37.2
S6E21

Criss:And he plays as hard as he works because, damn it, he deserves to blow off a little steam.

6.56.3
S6E21

Criss:Also, FOX News is right across the street, and word is Greta Van Susteren eats hot dogs like Slimer.

7.06.8
S6E22

Liz · Criss:Hey! You didn't whisper in my ear and kiss me to wake me up like you always do. / I've never done that.

7.06.5
S6E22

Liz · Criss:You named your van after the guy from Dawson's Creek? / I've seen everything he's ever been in except for that.

7.16.7
S6E22

Criss:[Shouting in Hebrew]

7.36.8
S6E22

Criss:I had no idea the shmuley Israel memorial parade was a predominantly Jewish event.

7.26.8
S6E22

Criss:You know what kind of women in their 40s have never been married, Liz? Uggos, crazies, and bailers. You're not an uggo.

8.08.0
S6E22

Criss:I didn't Rob a bank, Liz. God! No, I sold the van this morning... To a really nice young guy on Meth.

7.87.3
S6E22

Criss:I don't wanna wait for our lives to be over.

7.97.3
S6E22

Liz · Criss:Have you ever had a girlfriend willing to Thelma and Louise with you? / No. Never. But come on, Bonnie and Clyde. Okay, I'm a boy. I'm a boy, Liz.

7.57.0
S6E22

Criss · Liz:You said, 'baby,' instead of 'plant.' Now say, 'man cave.' / Never!

7.57.0
S6E22

Liz · Criss:Because we are thinking about having a baby... Together... That will emerge from my vagina. / Or a Chinese vagina.

7.46.8
S7E02

Liz · Criss:It's like I'm Don Draper and you're Megan. Okay, you're Don Draper. No, you're Glen and I'm Sally.

7.16.5
S7E02

Criss · Liz:Because you kept saying your Aunt Flo was in town. She was. Remember? I took her to MOMA and the cloisters?

8.07.8
S7E02

Criss:I assumed those were all vaginal euphemisms.

7.26.8
S7E02

Criss:♪ Your body is my garden of Eden ♪

6.26.0
S7E02

Criss · Liz:You just spoke in German. I don't think so, Criss.

7.36.7
S7E07

Criss:If it's positive, 'Awesome! We're having a baby! I wanna name it Frisbee!' If it's negative, 'Awesome. We're not gonna fight about the name Frisbee, and we get disco fries for breakfast 'cause we're sad.'

7.06.8
S7E07

Liz · Criss:You know who else was married? Ted Bundy. - I don't think so, Liz. - Really? He's so handsome. Is he still alive?

7.06.8
S7E07

Criss:You know, I always imagined getting married right when they take your picture on Splash Mountain.

7.47.0
S7E07

Criss:She made it out of parachute silk while hiding from the Germans.

7.77.7
S7E07

Criss:Oh! My lip is caught in the grill!

7.27.0
S7E11

Criss:Guess there's another full-figured Bev at the office there.

7.67.5
S7E11

Criss:No, bowling ball's too small. It's like a basketball. A small basketball that you win at the fair.

7.67.3
S7E11

Criss:I want to paint a mural of Houston for the kids, but I'm terrible at drawing swamp humidity.

7.67.2
S7E11

Liz · Criss:Sex on the couch?

6.86.2
S7E11

Criss:Did you know that every year more people die from disease and accidents combined than from just trampoline accidents?

8.07.5
S7E11

Criss:I'm the only single guy here, Liz, except for Ladarius, whose wife died in a trampoline accident.

8.18.0
S7E11

Criss:They're not coming in on 1/29 on Flight 124. They're coming in on 1/24 on Flight 129.

6.46.0
S7E12

Criss:"Now I'm all jittery and weird and... bird!"

7.06.5
S7E12

Criss:"Or that one where your hands are spiders. Hand spiders."

6.96.3
S7E12

Criss:"like, I don't know, a show about a dentist's office where the sassy hygienist says things like, 'I'm turning 30... Again.'"

7.06.5
S7E13

Liz · Criss:Since when do you listen to T.I.? - That message board is for moms. I thought you were a lady.

7.77.2
S7E13

Criss:Sitting at a desk makes me crazy, so I keep getting up and getting coffee. Now I'm all jittery and weird and... bird!

7.36.8
S7E13

Criss · Liz:Her kids were so bored, I just wanted to jump over that divider and play waiting games with them, like carpet adventure. - Or that one where your hands are spiders. - Hand spiders.

7.57.0
S7E13

Criss:If you were a dude, you would not even be thinking that. It's okay to want to work. One of us has to. We just got it backwards. You're... the dad.

7.47.0
S7E13

Liz · Criss:I do like ignoring your questions while I try to watch TV. - Exactly!

7.26.8
S7E13

Criss:A show about a dentist's office where the sassy hygienist says things like, 'I'm turning 30... Again.'

7.06.5