WAR
86.8
Wins Above Replacement
“Kirk Steele” ranks #33 of 50 Broad City episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 86.1 — Elite. The episode packs 80 scored jokes at 3.8 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 7.1 on impact, with Abbi landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Ilana: Ilana's porn search path: 'So I started with average-size penis jerk. That led me to twins squirting, hello. Which then brought me to frosted tips masturbation.'
Ilana Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Ilana · Customer: Ilana: 'Hey, listen, I've been there, sweetie. I've been there.' Customer: 'To my dick?' Ilana: 'Yeah.'
Abbi: Mid-workout, Abbi as Kirk Steele: 'When I grow up I either want to be a stunt choreographer or I want to work with kids with MS.'
Abbi Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Abbi · Trey: Trey: 'Abbi, that trick is for after hours, okay?' followed by Abbi's quietly devastating '...Kirk?'
Abbi Trey Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Ilana: Ilana on Oliver's future: 'If I didn't step in, he could go to Yale. And then Yale law and then kill a stripper and settle out of court.'
Ilana Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 80 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Trey (Kirk Steele): The cold open plays extended moaning and sex sounds over what turns out to be a porn video — the punchline is the man saying 'yeah, that's a nice beach ball' mid-moan, revealing this is scripted/absurd porn dialogue
Abbi: Abbi eats cold fries from the bathroom floor — 'Good, 'cause they're from last night. Someone left them on the floor in the bathroom.'
Abbi Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Abbi · Interviewer: Job interviewer says a 'fucking idiot' could put wristbands on people; Abbi responds 'Oh, I'm a... I'm a huge fucking idiot' as a sincere pitch for her own qualifications
Interviewer: 'You're not wristband material' — the formal pomposity of the rejection for a task explicitly described as one a 'fucking idiot' could do
Abbi: Abbi threatens 'You're gonna rue the day' after being rejected for a wristband job
Abbi Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Abbi: 'I'm just going to be digging out other people's pubes till I'm a great-grandmother'
Abbi Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Ilana · Abbi: Ilana says 'Amber alert. Urgency.' as her phone sign-off, then hangs up without giving Abbi any of the details she needs
Oliver's Mom: Oliver's mom gives Abbi-level detailed instructions: 'no soy', then recommends Babbo, Nobu, or Momofuku as fallback options for a kid's lunch
Ilana: Ilana makes a phone call mid-conversation with her employer; when called out, she responds 'Did I?' with complete sincerity
Ilana Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Ilana: Ilana responds to instructions about Oliver's dietary restrictions and where to take him ('Babbo or Nobu or Momofuku') with 'YOLO, FOMO, tippy-tee'
Ilana Character Comedy Absurdist Employer/Helen: Employer announces she's going to 'interview Desi Tutu and wax with Martha Plimpton' as her Saturday plans — delivered as completely normal
Ilana: Ilana calls the employer 'what a bad bitch' immediately after she leaves
Ilana Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Ilana · Oliver: Ilana greets Oliver: 'Last time I saw you, you were a toothless spud sitting in your own poop'
Ilana: Ilana's four R's of environmentalism: 'Reduce, re-use, recycle, Rihanna!'
Ilana Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Ilana · Barista: Barista's flat refusal: 'I'm sorry ma'am, we can't reuse cups. It's a health code violation.' — followed by Ilana's 'Come on. This is so gross.'
Ilana: Ilana on Oliver's future: 'If I didn't step in, he could go to Yale. And then Yale law and then kill a stripper and settle out of court.'
Ilana Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ilana: Ilana's rationale: 'If I don't do something, he could turn into another useless rich old white man'
Ilana Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Abbi · Ilana: Ilana watching porn in a coffee shop with a child present — Abbi's horrified 'Ilana, I'm not watching porn in here'
Ilana: Ilana's porn taxonomy: 'I don't watch anything but solo porn because regular porn is like, shut up little girl, wash my feet!' — her full description of mainstream porn's dialogue
Ilana Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Ilana: Ilana's extended parody of mainstream porn's 'barely legal' dialogue, including 'I love shaved pubes and tan, crispy bellies and tits'
Ilana Character Comedy Absurdist Ilana: Ilana's porn search path: 'So I started with average-size penis jerk. That led me to twins squirting, hello. Which then brought me to frosted tips masturbation.'
Ilana Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Abbi: Abbi: 'Whoa, I just usually Google "porn".' — as a confessional reaction to Ilana's elaborate search taxonomy
Abbi Reaction Beat Character Comedy Ilana: Ilana's 'That's probably why I really, really don't like most of it' — followed by her suggesting Abbi should check her search history
Ilana Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Ilana · Abbi: Discovery reveal: 'Oh my god, Trey is in a porn! Kirk Steele? Hold on—' — the reveal that Abbi's boss is a porn star, followed by Abbi's panicked repetition
Ilana Abbi Setup/Punchline Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Abbi: Abbi: 'So before Trey was my boss, he was a porn star? So I'm taking orders from a porn star.'
Abbi Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Ilana: Ilana's advice: 'Use it, bitch.'
Ilana Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Trey: Trey adopts a brief British accent to announce the 'bloody fucking spill' then immediately drops it: 'But really, there's a bloody fucking spill in the spin studio'
Trey Character Comedy Absurdist Abbi · Trey: Abbi fakes illness to avoid cleaning: 'I gotta relax before I teach the 12:30 kick ass kettle bell class' — she has no such class; Trey's confused 'What are you talking about right now?'
Abbi Trey Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Abbi · Trey: Abbi performs an extended, disgusting throat-clearing as part of her fake illness: 'Whoa, that is a lot of phlegm, isn't it?'
Abbi Trey Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Abbi · Trey: Trey: 'Abbi, that trick is for after hours, okay?' followed by Abbi's quietly devastating '...Kirk?'
Abbi Trey Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Trey · Abbi: Trey's office is revealed to be a storage closet containing Abbi's personal items — he insists 'it's your office, all your stuff's in here'
Abbi: Abbi's defeated capitulation: 'Fine, it's my fucking office.'
Abbi Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Trey · Abbi: Trey offers to go down on Abbi in exchange for her silence: 'What do you want, money?' / 'No.' / 'I'll go down on you right now.' / 'No, what?'
Trey Abbi Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Abbi · Trey: Abbi's actual ask: 'I want to teach the 12:30 kick ass kettle bell class.' Trey: 'We can start there. That's Gemma's class.' Abbi: 'I don't care.'
Abbi Trey Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Abbi · Trey: Trey: 'Look, can't I just go down on you?' Abbi: 'No, stop it.' Trey: 'I think it would be in your best interest—' Abbi: 'Kirk.'
Abbi: Abbi attempts to demonstrate kettle bell form and immediately causes a disaster — 'I don't know what just happened with my body. It's like I literally have zero upper body strength.'
Abbi Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Abbi: Abbi attempts to demonstrate kettle bell form, immediately drops the weight and apparently smashes a $1400 mirror.
Abbi Physical/Slapstick Escalation ★ Rewatch Trey · Abbi: Trey: 'I have a kid.' Abbi: 'What, you do?' Trey: 'Probably! I mean, a paternity suit could pop up at any time.'
Trey Abbi Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Trey · Abbi: Trey: 'Please, Abbi, I have a kid.' Abbi: 'What, you do?' Trey: 'Probably! I mean, a paternity suit could pop up at any time.'
Trey Abbi Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Ilana: Ilana on the subway: 'Shh, Oliver, we don't talk about Uber down here.'
Ilana Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Ilana · Oliver: Ilana's game: find the most disadvantaged person on the subway and give them your seat — Oliver correctly identifies it's himself
Abbi: Abbi's internal debate about raising $700: 'Sell mushroom chocolates! No, I can't do that. Can't get back in the game. Just got my record expunged.'
Abbi Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Abbi: Abbi on her art: 'It's brilliant, but no one understands it.'
Abbi Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Abbi: Abbi's reason for selling clothes: 'I get compliments.' — her full justification
Abbi Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Abbi · Oliver · Buyer: The Beacon's Closet scene — Oliver and Abbi bonding as the buyer makes unimpressed faces at clothes Abbi is clearly emotionally attached to
Abbi · Oliver: Abbi watching Oliver try to walk in her heels: 'But honestly, your legs look amazing. As well as my tukas?' — Oliver correcting her: 'It's tucchus, but I am loving it, brother.'
Buyer: Buyer: 'Oh, I saw a denim jacket like that on who wore it best? Leighton Meester wore it best.'
Buyer Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Abbi: Abbi's dead aunt's apothecary bag story: 'She was a flight attendant. She died in that plane crash. It was terrible over the midwest.' — gets $20 cash offer.
Abbi Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Abbi · Buyer: The buyer's 'apothecary bag' assessment: '$226' — Abbi having sold everything including the deceased aunt's bag for $20 total, then finds the bag worth $226
Abbi Buyer Irony/Sarcasm Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Abbi: Abbi sells her art at a street table — her description: 'Celebrity's favourite foods. Original pieces, people! Bitch's gotta buy a mirror here.'
Abbi Character Comedy Absurdist Ilana · Abbi: Art negotiation: Ilana offers $2 for two $40 paintings — 'I meant $2.00.' — and Abbi says 'No way' then immediately says 'okay let's do it'
Man: Man on Ron Howard: 'Of course, shrimp cocktail's Ron Howard's favourite food. He probably has it three, four times a week, that fucking pussy.'
Man Absurdist Character Comedy Abbi · Customer: The celebrity food art itself is revealed: Ron Howard's favourite food is shrimp cocktail; Bruce Springsteen's is a tomato because he's from Jersey
Customer · Abbi: Angry customer: 'Is it that unbelievable? Forty doll... I give $40, I'm gonna get a little more than artwork from you over there, sweet cheeks.'
Abbi: Abbi: 'Why don't you fuck my fucking dick?' — aggressive non-sequitur response to the customer's pass
Abbi Character Comedy Absurdist Ilana · Customer: Ilana: 'Hey, listen, I've been there, sweetie. I've been there.' Customer: 'To my dick?' Ilana: 'Yeah.'
Ilana: Ilana and Abbi's total: '$22 still.' — their running fundraising total is $22 after all that effort
Ilana Deadpan/Understatement Escalation Oliver: Oliver to Abbi's employer: 'We hung out with Abbi, Ilana's girlfriend, even though they can't be together right now. But they will be someday.'
Oliver Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Employer/Helen · Ilana: Employer: 'I had no idea you were gay.' Ilana: 'We all...' [trails off, doesn't complete the sentence]
Employer/Helen: Employer decides having a 'gayby-sitter' will be wonderful for Oliver's CV to get into middle school
Employer/Helen: Employer deliberates about giving clothes to homeless people vs. horses: 'The horses do get very cold in the winter, but on the other, the less fortunate probably get just as cold, maybe even more so.'
Ilana · Oliver: Ilana's complaint then immediate plan: 'Come on, dude, I thought we were cool. Now I gotta lug all this shit to some Jesus house?' — followed immediately by Oliver's scheme to resell at Beacon's Closet
Ilana: 'The student has become the teacher.' — Ilana's reaction to Oliver's Beacon's Closet plan
Ilana Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Ilana · Oliver: Oliver whispering 'Yes, queen!' while Ilana mouths it silently — a child absorbing Ilana's vernacular
Oliver: Oliver asking 'Do the homeless like Prada?' — completely sincere
Oliver Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Abbi · Ilana · Beacon's Closet Employee: Abbi and Ilana return to Beacon's Closet with designer clothes; the worker at first doesn't recognize them ('Remember me?') and the Pretty Woman reference begins
Abbi · Ilana: The Pretty Woman callback: Abbi and Ilana return to Beacon's with better clothes — 'Remember me?' / 'Big mistake. Big. Huge.'
Abbi Ilana Meta/Self-Referential Callback Callback Abbi · Ilana: 'Big mistake. Big. Huge.' [Pretty Woman reference]
Abbi Ilana Callback Meta/Self-Referential Callback Abbi · Ilana: Abbi celebrates '$13,000 in store credit' — Ilana immediately: 'Dude, I need the money.'
Abbi · Buyer: Abbi asks what her dead aunt's apothecary bag is now priced at in the store: '$226.' Beat. 'Wonderful.'
Abbi Buyer Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Abbi: Abbi's parting shot: 'By the way... I know that shirt's from Forever 21. You're not kidding anybody.'
Abbi Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Abbi · Trey: The mirror installation scene — Abbi and Trey wrestling with the mirror in the dark gym after hours
Abbi Trey Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Abbi · Trey: Abbi and Trey installing the mirror after hours. Trey: 'Looks good.' Abbi: 'Yeah. They're not gonna know, right?' Trey: 'No one will ever notice.' [Cut to the clearly crooked mirror]
Trey · Abbi: Trey ambushes a nearly-asleep Abbi: 'Not so fast, muchacha. I need you right here.' — there's no pube situation, but she has to teach a class
Abbi: 'This is a bazinga. I swear, I've lost all respect for you, Trey.' — Abbi uses 'bazinga' to call out a fake-out
Abbi Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Trey: Trey's flattery: 'Abbi, you're such a good cleaner. You're so special.' — as his sincere compliment to get her to clean
Trey Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Trey · Ilana: Regina has been missing for 48 hours — Trey: 'Plus Regina who normally teaches the class has been missing for 48 hours.' Ilana: 'Love Regina, but that's awesome.'
Abbi · Class: Abbi's class speech: 'What's up, guys? Are you ready to rise to your potential?' — the class responds with enthusiastic 'Yeah! Let's do this!'
Abbi: The Kirk Steele workout class: Abbi channels Kirk Steele's porn persona, introducing herself as 'I'm Kirk Steele. I'm 18, I'm from Orlando, Florida and my favorite movie is Garden State. Are you ready to explore the infinite abyss?'
Abbi Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Abbi: Mid-workout, Abbi as Kirk Steele: 'When I grow up I either want to be a stunt choreographer or I want to work with kids with MS.'
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