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Character Analysis

Keith Powell

James 'Toofer' Spurlock

Played by Keith Powell

43 jokes across 23 episodes of 30 Rock

WAR

15.3

Total Jokes

43

Avg Craft

7.1

Avg Impact

6.7

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Toofer delivers 43 scored jokes across 23 episodes of 30 Rock, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.7 on impact for a career WAR of 15.3. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Toofer Lines

All Jokes — 89 total

S1E01

Liz Lemon · Toofer:'Yeah, or, like, a big coffee dispenser.' / 'That's what a samovar is.'

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S1E02

Toofer:Toofer's reaction after being corrected by Tracy: 'Wow. That was embarrassing for you.'

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S1E02

Tracy · Toofer:Toofer opens a bottle: 'Good gravy. This is a Dunwoody '62.' Tracy: 'It's for you. Take it, my friend.'

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S1E02

Tracy · Toofer:Tracy and Toofer doing impressions: 'What's the deal with pudding? I'm Bill Cosby. Jell-o! Sweaters!'

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S1E04

Liz · Frank · Toofer · Writers · Jack:The writers' room is having a spontaneous one-minute dance party to Chamillionaire when Jack Donaghy walks in and they freeze.

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S1E05

Frank · Toofer:What's really sad is that while she's in this fragile state, none of her friends are messing with her head. I think we should do something about that.

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S1E05

Frank · Toofer:It's like shooting fish in a barrel. / Yeah, if the fish have daddy issues.

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S1E05

Jenna · Toofer:I have this fantasy of sneaking up to the roof of 30 Rock, and we make love while looking out at the city -- / Okay, let me guess. You figured out Frank and I lied to you, so to get even, you're trying to get me naked on the roof and leave me there.

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S1E05

Jenna · Toofer:I have this fantasy of sneaking up to the roof of 30 Rock, and we make love while looking out at the city-- / Okay, let me guess. You figured out Frank and I lied to you, so to get even, you're trying to get me naked on the roof and leave me there.

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S1E08

Toofer:Frank, there are large pockets of African-American culture that Caucasians know nothing about. The stigma of drag is one of them.

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S1E08

Toofer:We never would have stooped so low on Black Frasier.

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S1E08

Toofer:Black Frasier scene: 'Niles, this Beaujolais is impeccable. It's both fruity and precocious.' / 'That's not the only thing around here that's fruity and precocious.'

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S1E08

Toofer:What? It was huge on BET. Every Thursday night at about 9:00 or 9:15.

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S1E08

Toofer:Think about it, Tracy. All the best African-American comedians refuse to do drag. Chris Rock doesn't do it. Dr. Cosby doesn't do it. Bernie Mac doesn't do it 'cause he'd be ugly as hell.

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S1E08

Liz · Toofer:Izzle. 'A suffix that can be used to take the place of anything.' / Well, now you're just being patronizzle.

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S1E08

Tracy · Liz · Toofer:I thought writing with you was gonna be like two brothers writing together. / We're not even speaking the same language. / That's right. I'm speaking English.

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S1E08

Toofer:That's my Harvard a cappella group the Crocodillos. I had a solo in Like A Prayer.

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S1E08

Toofer · HR rep · Tracy:Mr. Jordan called me... the N-word. / And? / And I was really offended. / Because... / Because it's a racial slur. / Brothers talk to other brothers like that. I was being friendly.

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S1E08

Tracy · Toofer:I want you to be my brother, my homeboy, my n-- [Toofer cuts him off]

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S1E08

HR rep · Tracy · Toofer:Whoa! This meeting is adjourned. / No cool, homie! / You might as well spread me down with a fire hose. / Just sounds so hateful coming from you! Ugh! I wish to file a complaint.

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S1E08

Dr. Snoo · Frank · Toofer · Tracy:What else can we not call each other? / How about sweaty greaseball? / Ooh, very good. That's highly offensive. / Person of color. / Guess if you say it like that. / Sneaky Taiwanese tranny who stole my watch. / Ho-ho! Yes! These words are terrible.

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S1E08

Toofer:It's Dr. Martin Luther King, and he did not have a feeling, he had a dream.

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S1E08

Tracy · Toofer:Like professor Martin Luther King said, I have a feeling. / It's Dr. Martin Luther King, and he did not have a feeling, he had a dream.

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S1E08

Toofer · Tracy:You can't call someone that if you've never read the book! / What book?

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S1E08

Tracy · Toofer:That's it! This is it. This is the sketch we should do. Right here, you and me! This is deep stuff goin' on. We gotta write this. / You're right.

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S1E08

Toofer:Okay, he's right, this is funnier. (Toofer, watching the Star Jones sketch instead of the race relations sketch he championed)

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S1E11

Tracy · Toofer:Tracy's autobiography is due tomorrow — he just found out what today's date is

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S1E11

Tracy · Toofer:Tracy: 'How many pages do we have now?' Toofer: 'Five.' Tracy: 'Make the letters bigger, Toof.'

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S1E11

Toofer · Tracy:Tracy's Wikipedia-sourced autobiography: 'According to Wikipedia, you were discovered after doing stand-up at the Apollo in 1984. / I have no memory of that. Write it up.'

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S1E11

Toofer:'I remember that. That video was raunchy.'

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S1E11

Toofer:Toofer: 'I remember that. That video was raunchy.' — stated casually about a children's Christmas song

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S1E11

Tracy · Toofer:Tracy's 2007 autobiography origin story: 'It was early January 2007 when I got the idea to write my autobiography. So I took a meeting at Random House...' — the editor says no, Tracy says 'Oops, my bad. That's on me. Shut it down.'

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S1E11

Tracy · Toofer · Frank:Tracy's autobiography completely breaks down — they reveal they went to Random House and the editor said 'No, Mr. Jordan. No, thank you. We do not want your book.'

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S1E13

Frank · Toofer:Marry, boff, kill — Beyoncé, Paula Abdul, and Oprah. / Dude, that's beyond easy. Boff Beyoncé, kill Paula, marry Oprah.

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S1E13

Frank · Toofer · Jenna:Marry, boff, kill — Cerie, Liz, and Jenna. / Marry Liz, get with Cerie, kill Jenna. / I can hear you!

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S1E13

Toofer:Bone Osama bin Laden. To shame him. And then his own people would murder him.

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S1E13

Toofer:Marry Martha Stewart. 'Cause, you know, she seems like a dirty bird.

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S1E13

Frank · Toofer · Kenneth:Kenneth, this is your chance. Cerie digs you. / Cerie said she would do it with you. / Well, that just makes me perspire.

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S1E18

Toofer · Tracy Jordan:My great-great-great grandfather was one of the few black men who had achieved an officer's rank during the Civil War. This is a picture of him shaking hands with Ulysses S. Grant. / Yeah, let me check that out. / I think he's shaking hands with Robert E. Lee. / Dude, your relative fought for the South.

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S1E18

Tracy Jordan · Toofer:That's messed up. / See? Now you know what I'm going through.

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S1E18

Tracy Jordan · Toofer:I found a biography on your ancestor. It's called 'Confederate Monster: The Tobias Spurlock Disaster.'

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S1E18

Toofer:The barn that John Wilkes Booth hid in belonged to Tobias Spurlock.

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S1E18

Tracy Jordan · Toofer:I want you to write it. / Okay, what's the movie? / It's the story of Thomas Jefferson, only thing we're gonna do it like Norbit, where I play all the parts. / That's actually hilarious. / It's not a comedy. It's a drama.

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S2E08

Pete · Toofer:Pete to Toofer: 'Hey, take that off. You didn't go to Harvard.' Toofer: 'I went to Harvard.'

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S2E08

Toofer · Pete · Frank:Toofer produces the Signet Society pin, Pete produces the same pin from his pocket, Toofer says 'Oh, you mean this pin?' — and Pete points out 'Your lame thing is on his pants.'

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S2E08

Frank · Toofer:Frank's mom is invoked in the hat insult; Frank defends her: 'My mom's a great lady.' Toofer: 'Was it her greatness that made your dad leave?'

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S2E08

Frank · Toofer:Frank/Toofer feud: 'If we give up our feud now, we'll be ridiculed. Remember when Lutz cried during that diamond commercial? It'd be worse than that.'

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S2E08

Frank · Toofer · Josh:Frank and Toofer's feud is resolved because Josh got a frohawk: 'Hey, look who bailed on their lame feud.' — beat — 'Dude, you got a frohawk, man. Do you think you're better than us?'

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S2E08

Josh · Frank · Toofer:Josh: 'It's not even my normal barber. My mom did it.' The writers: 'Dr. Haircut!'

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S2E11

Toofer:This is the speaking banana. Everyone will get a chance to speak, and only then will we make our decision.

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S2E12

Toofer:I've watched seven different people die in subway stations.

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S3E09

Toofer:Toofer's contribution: 'most African Americans don't understand that diabetes is caused by sleeping on your back.'

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S3E13

Jack · Frank · Toofer · Lutz · Josh:What do your dads tell their friends you do? Surgeon. Optometrist. Died. I never really knew my dad, so I just lie to myself. Space assassin.

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S4E04

Toofer · Lutz · Pete:Good evening, we are Laugh of the Mohicans. Our first bit is the Hamburglar— NO!

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S4E04

Toofer · Lutz · Liz Lemon:Good evening, we are Laugh of the Mohicans. Our first bit is the Hamburglar— / No!

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S4E07

Toofer · Liz Lemon:Toofer begins quoting Tennyson: 'As Tennyson wrote, "I mete and dole unequal-"' / Liz: 'No, never mind. Lutz, you want it?'

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S4E11

Toofer · Frank:I don't know. Maybe because one of us still hasn't read the other's screenplay. / I read it. I just didn't like it.

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S4E13

Frank · Toofer:Toofer's Valentine's Day solution: go out with Frank and a janitor with 'messed-up teeth' who 'will only go out with me if she can bring her ugly sister'

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S4E16

Toofer:Surculus et pruna. Surculus et pruna.

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S4E16

Toofer · Frank:Surculus et pruna is the motto of the Twig and Plums. And their motto is, 'Above all, be boring.' / Twig and Plums is a Princeton secret society, and Jack is clearly a member. So if someone says 'Twig and Plums' in front of a member, he has to find an excuse to leave the room, no matter what he's doing.

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S4E16

Jack · Toofer:But during the period of the '90s... / Twig and Plums! / Thank you, folks. Excuse me, I have tickets to a Harry Connick Jr. Concert.

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S4E16

Toofer · Jack:Twig and plums. / Excuse me, gentlemen. I have a, uh... veterinary appointment.

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S4E16

Jack · Toofer:I don't know who the hell told you to say that, Rossitano, but you have no idea — / Twig and plums. / I have to go to an intervention for my... travel agent.

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S4E17

Toofer · Liz:Toofer to Liz: 'Earlier today, Tracy made the accusation that I am the beneficiary of affirmative action.' / Liz: 'Yeah, well, Tracy is a buffoon.' / Toofer: 'That is a 15th-century term for a black pirate! Racist!'

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S4E17

Liz · Toofer:Liz: 'Toofer, you are an invaluable member of our team.' / Toofer: 'Then why are my paychecks a different color than Frank's?'

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S4E17

Toofer · Liz:Toofer: 'I am about to utter two words a Harvard man never says.' / Liz: '"I'm cool"? No, I'm sorry. You can't set me up like that. Don't quit.'

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S4E17

Toofer:Toofer returns midway and explains: 'Liz has invited me back as a budgeted employee. Apparently, I am the only one among us who can spell.'

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S4E17

Toofer · Pete · Tracy:Toofer returns: 'Apparently, I am the only one among us who can spell.' / Pete: 'Welcome back, James.' / Tracy: 'Hang on, who's James?'

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S4E17

Toofer · group:Toofer surrenders: 'Okay, fine, fine! Toofer. I'll just go back to Toofer.' / Everyone: 'Yay! Welcome back!'

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S5E03

Rutherford Rice · Liz Lemon · Toofer:The Right On cable show host introduces Toofer as 'James Spurlock' and Liz as 'someone named Elizabeth Lemon'

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S5E03

Rutherford Rice · Toofer:Toofer is awarded 'Right On's Arthur Ashe of the Week' — for being head writer for one day

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S5E03

Congresswoman Bookman · Toofer · Liz Lemon:Bookman asks Toofer how long he's been head writer. 'One day.' / 'And who is the real head writer of this show?' [long beat] 'I am.'

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S5E08

Toofer:I said time to end the charade and adjust my schedule to buy a new vase.

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S5E08

Jenna · Toofer · Tracy:I'm the hot blonde. / And I'm the nerd who takes off his glasses and everyone realizes he's handsome. / And you're the R.A.

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S5E08

Toofer:Look at me. I'm Ogbert the Nerd. Always have been, always will be.

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S5E08

Toofer · Liz:My glasses are dirty. — Ogbert?

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S5E12

Frank · Toofer · Jenna:Writers competing to impress Lutz — 'Lutz is the best. / Nice feet, Lutz. / I like Lutz the most.'

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S5E17

Toofer · Frank:You never said you were in Lynn Onkman's class. Do you know the kid she had an affair with? No. Yes. I don't know. Shut up.

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S5E17

Pete · Toofer · others:Well done, sir. Guys, a teacher preying on a student is wrong... Yeah. If the teacher is male and the student is female. What happened to Frank is awesome. Standing ovation.

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S5E18

Toofer:With my degree, I can always go into architecture or medical nanotechnology... I'm sorry, I don't understand. Oh. I see. At Harvard, we call them 'concentrations'...

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S5E23

Frank · Toofer:I distracted you, and you died. Game over. / No, I shot my bazooka at the ground to kill myself 'cause Toofer had me cornered. Now I respawn and start over.

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S5E23

Toofer:I'm wearing a diaper, like a baby would.

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S5E23

Liz · Frank · Toofer:Unbelievable! You're still here? / It's still 0-0-0. / To 0.

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S5E23

Frank · Toofer · Lutz:No, I see you. I'm killing myself. Respawn. / Respawn. / Damn it!

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S6E04

Jack · Toofer · Phillie Phanatic:Scotch fountain, Phillie Phanatic: 'Toofer, put that glass down. That scotch fountain obviously was not meant for you. Phillie Phanatic, get away from him.'

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S6E16

Liz · Toofer:You're the man who took professional boudoir photographs and then tried to mail them to Parade magazine columnist Marilyn Vos Savant. I happen to think that smart is sexy. Our foreplay would be puzzle-solving.

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S6E16

Toofer:He is estranged from his son Kellan Lutz from Twilight.

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S6E16

Liz · Frank · Toofer:I want to be famous to make people love me because I hate myself. The Jenna I talk to at night in the mirror thinks I should kill myself. Also, I caused that Italian cruise ship to crash.

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S6E16

Frank · Toofer:We took photos of you and sold them to a garbage fetish website.

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