
Character Analysis

Danny Baker
Played by Cheyenne Jackson
33 jokes across 7 episodes of 30 Rock
14
33
7.2
6.9
Character Comedy
Danny delivers 33 scored jokes across 7 episodes of 30 Rock, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.9 on impact for a career WAR of 14.0. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.
Funniest Danny Lines
Danny:I never said that Liz banged her way to the middle, or that Jenna kidnapped a Swedish au pair to use as a hair farm, and I never called Tracy clean and articulate.
Danny · Kenneth:Danny: 'Ken, you don't want to be a page forever.' Kenneth: 'Who said I've been alive forever?' Danny: 'What? No, I mean... What?'
Danny:Hey, Frank. Your mom's a hugger.
Kenneth · Danny:Excellent. What about my chin? / I've seen bigger chins on a premature baby!
Danny · Pete:Pete, I have a problem. I need your help. / Oh, my kid got hit by a car! [cuts to Pete running away]
All Jokes — 45 total
Jack · Danny:Jack introduces himself as 'Jack Donaghy' and Danny says 'Oh hey, I'm Jack... Baker.' Then Jack immediately renames him Danny.
Liz · Danny:Liz repeats 'Danny' after Jack renames him, immediately complicit. Danny asks 'Did he just change my name?' as they walk away.
Danny:Danny: 'Last week I was just a street performer making 50 bucks a day and getting memory loss from all the silver paint fumes, and now I'm... Um...'
Danny:Danny reveals he's Canadian, then immediately launches into an over-the-top hockey/football Canadian stereotype speech: 'All right, hosers, I want all 12 of us fighting for every meter on all three downs! We're gonna make this a Boxing Day the Prime Minister will never forget!'
Danny:Danny to Pete: 'Is camera left my left or my right?'
Pete · Danny:You have any kids? / No, I mean, I pretty much raised my little sister 'cause my mom— / That must have been hard. / No, my kid is sick.
Danny · Tracy:I don't even know where the bathrooms are around here. / It's not about the room, Danny. It's about the man. Any room you see around here with a door, you make it your bathroom. You're an actor now.
Danny:Danny tries to suppress his Canadian accent: 'I'm not aboot to... aboot... abwah... out.'
Danny:Danny: 'A couple days ago I was working as a robot for spare change. And now look at me. Kenneth's a page, but who knows? Someday he could be running the network.'
Danny · Kenneth:Danny: 'Ken, you don't want to be a page forever.' Kenneth: 'Who said I've been alive forever?' Danny: 'What? No, I mean... What?'
Danny · Kenneth:Kenneth: 'Well, I guess so [Danny could someday be his boss].' Danny: 'No! I'll brush my own teeth!'
Danny · Pete:Pete, I have a problem. I need your help. / Oh, my kid got hit by a car! [cuts to Pete running away]
Kenneth · Danny:Kenneth confronts Danny: 'You've poisoned Mr. Jordan's and Miss Maroney's minds. You've got to tell them to go back to the way it was. To let me help everyone again. Including you.' Danny: 'Kenneth, I don't.' Kenneth: 'Yes, you do. Because you're scared.'
Danny · Kenneth:Danny's insult tirade against Kenneth: 'You know, of all the weirdos I've met around here, you're the worst! With your creepy Don Knotts face, that ridiculous Hitler Youth haircut...' Kenneth: 'Excellent. What about my chin?' 'I've seen bigger chins on a premature baby!'
Kenneth · Danny:Excellent. What about my chin? / I've seen bigger chins on a premature baby!
Liz · Danny:Danny suggests a duet with Jenna. Liz stifles laughter, then says 'Yes. A duet. Share the stage. She will LOVE that!'
Danny · Jenna:I'm sorry, is your nose bleeding? Yes. Because I'm so happy for you. It's definitely not a rage stroke.
Pete · Danny:Wow, you really get in the Christmas spirit. [snaps fingers] Oh my God. I just got sarcasm.
Danny:i want to be tgs' steve nash. come down from canada, work hard, make the black guy look good.
Liz Lemon · Danny:how drunk are you? / a lot to very.
Danny:but she never takes off her shoes, which i kind of like. even though the reason is she's never let a man see her feet.
Danny:look, i know we're supposed to pretape that robot v.Wade cold open tonight.
Liz Lemon · Danny:richard, would you excuse us please? / what's up? / meet me in my office in five minutes. / well, just let me change. / Mmm, no. That won't be necessary... officer.
Jack Donaghy · Danny:this is from danny's chips costume. what is it doing here? / officer, what's going on up there? / it's an accident. a really bad one.
Danny:♪ The crowd's getting loud / Scotiabank Place / Make a hockey-loving face / At Scotiabank Place ♪
Danny:It's an honor just to be nominated in the same category as Sir Dave Coulier.
Danny:There's gonna be a profile of me in the New York Times as filler because of dwindling ad sales.
Danny:I never said that Liz banged her way to the middle, or that Jenna kidnapped a Swedish au pair to use as a hair farm, and I never called Tracy clean and articulate.
Danny:Why would I? He's not.
Danny · Jack:You're handsome. / So are you, Jack. / I wasn't fishing, but thank you.
Jack · Danny:What's the most handsome animal? / The silver panther.
Danny:Hey, Frank. Your mom's a hugger.
Jenna · Danny · Kenneth:It's like we're married! / Now, don't you two start bickering like old married folks!
Jenna · Danny:It's just... I got a haircut, and you didn't even notice. / Sorry, you get your hair cut every week.
Danny · Jenna:Excuse me? / I don't like your tone. / And I don't like what you've turned into! / I'm not the one who forgot our one-minute anniversary!
Jenna · Danny:Idiot, don't touch the... Nothing. Love you.
Kenneth · Danny · Jenna:Look, I made this picture of us! / Did you draw that? / You might need help. That's awful for an adult.
Jenna · Danny · Kenneth:Careful! / Don't coddle the boy. He can do it. / [Kenneth falls] Oh, my bones!
Jenna · Danny:Now look what you did! / You made him afraid! / Did I also make you half a man? / You're ruining my life! / What life?
Danny · Kenneth:Well, sport, I'm gonna be moving out. / I don't understand. / Well, sometimes two people who care about each other just can't live together. / Oh, no, I get that. What I don't get is this is Danny's dressing room.
Danny:I'm gonna be staying at the Y. It's that dark place under the bleachers that's shaped like a wishbone.
Danny · Jenna · Kenneth:But you're my Danny and Jenna. / And we'll always be Danny and Jenna. We just won't be Danny and Jenna together. / And don't think for one second this means we love you less. / Know that it means that.
Danny · Jenna Maroney:Um, that wasn't me. There used to be another guy. I don't think so.
Danny · Jenna Maroney:That wasn't me. There used to be another guy. I don't think so.
Danny:Can you reminisce about something that's happened since I've been here, 'cause I couldn't see any of that.