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Character Analysis

Ken Howard

Hank Hooper

Played by Ken Howard

49 jokes across 9 episodes of 30 Rock

WAR

25.9

Total Jokes

49

Avg Craft

7.4

Avg Impact

7.0

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Hank delivers 49 scored jokes across 9 episodes of 30 Rock, averaging 7.4 on craft and 7.0 on impact for a career WAR of 25.9. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Hank Lines

All Jokes — 49 total

S5E13

Hank:I'm a hugger. No. Doesn't count as a hug unless it goes on for ten seconds.

7.47.0
S5E13

Hank:Or 'hey, idiot,' like my wife does. I'm kidding. She's an angel.

6.96.2
S5E13

Hank:This is no longer the executive dining room. It's the Everyone dining room.

7.46.8
S5E13

Hank:Do you know who came up with the idea for the DVR? It was the guy who drives me home every night. The original name for the DVR was 'The Thing Carlos Thought Of.'

8.07.8
S5E13

Hank:What is this green stuff? Wipe it off. Wipe it off!

6.45.7
S5E13

Hank:I had naan.

7.97.5
S5E13

Hank:What's six sigma? Rock band?

7.67.0
S5E13

Hank:You could call it 'Blabar.'

7.26.7
S5E13

Hank:I don't fly, but I got my own bus with a pool table in it.

7.87.5
S5E13

Hank:We'll drive to Branson together sometime, take in a Yakov Smirnoff show. Doesn't Russia sound like a crazy place?

7.56.8
S5E13

Hank:Oh, I didn't notice you there, son. You do not have a lot of charisma.

7.87.3
S5E13

Hank:You have a reputation, Jack, as a shark. Kabletown, we're not sharks. We're more like... Whatever the friendliest fish is.

7.77.0
S5E13

Hank:I'm not a science guy.

7.87.0
S5E13

Kenneth · Hank:It doesn't count as a hug unless it goes on for ten seconds. You got that right, son. One...Mississippi...

7.37.0
S5E18

Hank:pardon my French... bonjour.

8.07.8
S5E18

Hank:Now, that's a joke, but I am really, really mad!

7.06.3
S5E18

Hank:Remember when a movie was just a fella with a hat running away from a fella with no hair?

7.66.8
S5E18

Hank:But that's just a little shrapnel side effect from Vietnam.

7.77.3
S5E18

Hank:We throw him in a ditch!

7.57.2
S5E20

Hank:Well, I'll be Bake McBrided.

7.06.0
S5E20

Hank:Without Tracy, your show is like my cholesterol. The numbers are killing me.

7.47.2
S5E20

Hank:Just like the army doctor said to me after my weekend in Okinawa.

6.96.2
S5E20

Hank:Jack Welch once smacked a pretzel out of my hand at the Super Bowl.

7.57.3
S5E20

Hank:I mean, look at March of the Penguins. Who was in that?

7.47.0
S5E21

Hank · Jack:I was sitting in that chair a minute ago. Nope. That was me. What can I say. I smell like leather.

6.56.2
S5E21

Hank:Well, I'll be Bake McBrided

6.86.2
S5E21

Hank:Without Tracy, your show is like my cholesterol. The numbers are killing me.

7.36.8
S5E21

Hank:So you did 99 shows against all odds and reason

7.26.8
S5E21

Hank:Just like the Army doctor said to me after my weekend in Okinawa!

6.76.0
S5E21

Hank:Jack Welch once smacked a pretzel out of my hand at the Super Bowl

7.16.8
S6E04

Hank:Oh, really? Was it invisible?

5.85.3
S6E04

Hank:I drove all the way up here from Philadelphia listening to Garrison Keillor and just getting psyched for a fun day.

7.67.3
S6E04

Hank:What Jack did is a "whoopsie-daisy," like a baby or a woman would do.

7.37.2
S6E04

Hank:Good job, Jack. Blame it on an albino. Classic, 'cause it works.

7.37.3
S6E11

Hank:Last time I was this excited was this morning. I saw a cat wearing the same sweater as its person.

6.76.2
S6E15

Hank:To sit on their couches, and hear stories. Here's one. 1968. We were on patrol somewhere near the Cambodian border.

7.77.2
S6E15

Hank:So we boiled the skull, and made a tea kettle out of it

8.28.3
S6E15

Hank:If I get thirsty, I'll just drink the water from lunch I saved in my cheek

7.36.8
S6E15

Hank:If I get thirsty, I'll just drink the water from lunch I saved in my cheek.

7.87.7
S6E15

Hank:Taking my original buttocks wasn't enough for those bastards

7.77.3
S6E15

Hank:Taking my original buttocks wasn't enough for those bastards.

7.88.0
S6E15

Hank:I fell asleep at a Raymour and Flanigan last week, and a black family tried to buy me

7.97.7
S6E15

Hank:Not buying the Phillies, not marrying my wife sooner, and not surprising you any quicker with this hug

7.87.3
S7E09

Hank:She wanted to be cremated, and she ended up dying in a fire. Such a considerate woman.

7.98.0
S7E09

Hank:That's the same age I was when I started Kabletown, got married, and had my first white child.

7.78.0
S7E09

Hank:What? Is this guy trying to tank the company? But, boy, you proved me wrong.

7.06.8
S7E09

Hank:Celebrity homonym is the number-one show in America.

7.36.8
S7E09

Hank:It'll work great, just like Conan and Jay.

7.37.8
S7E10

Hank:Next Friday is your last show.

7.27.3