
Character Analysis

Bevers
Played by John Gemberling
118 jokes across 17 episodes of Broad City
48.5
118
7.0
7.0
Character Comedy
Bevers delivers 118 scored jokes across 17 episodes of Broad City, averaging 7.0 on craft and 7.0 on impact for a career WAR of 48.5. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.
Funniest Bevers Lines
Bevers:After Bevers's entire masturbation description, he ends with: 'Whoa, cool shirt.'
Abbi · Bevers:I think it's a bed sore. — I've only been sitting on the couch, so technically you're gonna have to call it a couch sore.
Bevers:Bevers's extended masturbation description — 'I like to start off slow... work the tempo up and up... lick a thumb... brush it lightly against the nipples... there's a [bleep] there... I like to apply pressure... then right when I'm [bleep], I [bleep], then I [bleep] into the [bleep], hard, hard, hard. And then I [bleep], and it just— it— it— It's a very powerful feeling.'
Abbi · Bevers:Abbi: 'Bevers, I swear to God that better be E.R.' / Bevers: 'It's... Good Wife.'
Bevers:Bevers: 'I wasn't even touching my wiener yet. I was still just doing butt stuff.'
All Jokes — 102 total
Bevers:Maybe in the future if you do that, put it on, like-- Like, all six sides of the cheese brick.
Bevers · Ilana:I do know that, but I also know that you told me not to touch your stuff in the bathroom. Right. That's my mistake.
Bevers:Like a hot cookie? Soft but not moist. Or, surprise me!
Bevers:I know you don't like me to answer the door because I don't technically live here.
Bevers:I'm not your roommate's boyfriend, I'm your husband.
Abbi · Bevers:You're Jeremy Santos. No, I'm Matty Bevers.
Bevers:Chicken!
Bevers:Oh, I totally missed, Abbi! Oh!
Jeremy · Bevers:Dude, you gotta know someone you can set me up with. You know what? No, I don't. Sorry.
Abbi · Bevers:Abbi wakes up and Bevers says 'Someone had a sexy dream, huh?' — implying he witnessed or heard something
Bevers:Abbi wakes from the dream and we hear an adjacent male voice narrating: 'My neighbor Abbi is so sexy and now I have this great big humongous boner'
Bevers:Bevers refuses to go to his girlfriend's parents' house because 'it's too much presh. Her parents are like, too into me. They just think I'm really fun.'
Bevers:'It's like camp right now!' — Bevers treating a hurricane and an unwanted houseguest situation as summer fun
Bevers:Bevers's camp rap includes the line '♪ We like to eat Skittles and master the bait... ting of hooks and archery too ♪'
Bevers:'Not just with our mouths but with our mushroom caps ♪' — the camp rap escalates to explicit territory
Bevers:'Should I put my Lincoln Log on one of these cans? That is so sweet. Abbi would love it.'
Bevers:Bevers's camp defense: 'Camp was rough. Tonight brought up a lot of bad memories.' Implication: he pooped in a shoe at camp.
Bevers:Bevers: 'Only me and Greg Shapiro could blow ourselves. I was always the fastest at it. Always!'
Bevers:Bevers clarifies the self-blowing: 'I would blow myself and Greg would blow himself separate, across the room. There's a video of it! There's a...'
Abbi · Bevers:Abbi comes home to find Bevers 'straightening up the living room' — holding a blanket, surrounded by Abbi's belongings arranged as masturbation props
Bevers:Bevers: 'I wasn't even touching my wiener yet. I was still just doing butt stuff.'
Abbi · Bevers:Abbi: 'Bevers, I swear to God that better be E.R.' / Bevers: 'It's... Good Wife.'
Abbi · Bevers:Abbi: 'You have a way of tainting everything I love.' / Bevers: 'Taint? Don't.'
Bevers:Bevers's reaction shot — 'Yeah, see how it goes. You see how it goes!' — he doesn't believe she'll actually move
Bevers:Bevers quietly says 'Sorry' — a single syllable, totally unconvincing, as Abbi leaves
Bevers · Abbi:Bevers attempts to apologize with bagel bites arranged in the shape of an 'A' — 'because I know how you like to label your food'
Bevers:Bevers's extended masturbation description — 'I like to start off slow... work the tempo up and up... lick a thumb... brush it lightly against the nipples... there's a [bleep] there... I like to apply pressure... then right when I'm [bleep], I [bleep], then I [bleep] into the [bleep], hard, hard, hard. And then I [bleep], and it just— it— it— It's a very powerful feeling.'
Bevers:After Bevers's entire masturbation description, he ends with: 'Whoa, cool shirt.'
Ilana · Bevers:Ilana on the phone with Bevers to identify Benny Calitri: 'He was my "plus one"!' — and Bevers's reveal that he's 'one of my best friends'
Bevers:Hi, Abbi-Dabbi. Smells like you've been working out.
Bevers:I have been making some home improvements. This way we don't have to trudge all the way to the master fridge.
Abbi · Bevers:It's like two feet farther. — Simple. — I don't think this is a good idea. — Elegant.
Abbi · Bevers:Bevers, do you want me to get it? It's heavy. — It's clearly gonna... the floor. — Oh, (bleep).
Bevers:I'm sorry. I guess I don't know my own strength.
Abbi · Bevers:Bevers, what is on your back? — You know, I don't know. I just know it itches a lot, and it really hurts.
Abbi · Bevers:I think it's a bed sore. — I've only been sitting on the couch, so technically you're gonna have to call it a couch sore.
Bevers:She's spearheading Habitat For Humanity down there. I know everybody else has moved on to the new hip tragedy, but it's still a mess down in Haiti.
Abbi · Bevers:Hey, Abbi. — Bevers.
Bevers · Abbi:Hey, Abbi. — Bevers. [Abbi visibly horrified to see him at her gym]
Trey · Abbi · Bevers:You guys know each other? — You two boyfriend-girlfriend? — God, no. He's my roommate's boyfriend.
Bevers · Abbi:This is the only gym my friend Abbi works in, plus they provide free razors. — You have a beard.
Bevers · Abbi:I'm excited to do this with you, Abbi. We can take the subway here together. I'll break for lunch whenever you do. We help each other. — I don't need help, Bevers.
Bevers:Oh, really? 'Cause I see someone is training instead of cleaning.
Bevers · Abbi · Trey:Oh! (Farts) I'm sorry. — Okay, I think we're done. — Abbi, if you farted, it's all right. — Trey, I did not just fart. — I moved his gluteus sensitive... — Yeah, that's a woman's fart.
Bevers:Bevers: 'She just went to the can, she had to take a doody.'
Bevers:Bevers: 'I've sailed on this boat with Melody for 12 quarters now. I know all its secrets. The captain is a murderer.'
Abbi · Ilana · Bevers:They get locked in the storage room immediately after finding the liquor
Bevers:Bevers: 'Wait, wait, move out of the way. I'm gonna ram the door. The man is gonna ram the door. Wanna see me ram it?' — then immediately injures himself
Bevers · Abbi:Bevers: 'Sorry, Abbi, I broke your Starbucks gift card.' / Abbi: 'Bevers, I still had $17 on that.'
Bevers:Bevers: 'Well, maybe now you can start supporting local businesses.' — after breaking Abbi's Starbucks gift card
Bevers:Bevers calculates bar restock timing: 'If each one of them has at least three drinks per hour, that's 750 drinks every hour... They're gonna have to restock the bar in 20 to 25 minutes.'
Bevers:Bevers: 'Would you rather drink a cup of mayonnaise or a cup of jazz?' — introducing 'jazz' as a euphemism
Bevers:Bevers: 'I like to call it jazz because it comes out of my horn and you never know where it's gonna go.'
Bevers:Bevers' Patois accent: 'Me hearing a lot of chitchat. Me don't hear you answering that question, why?'
Bevers:Bevers: 'Because the shrimp is always the first thing to get eaten on these boats.' — completely reasonable explanation for pocket shrimp
Bevers:Bevers reveals the ring and vocalizes his own dramatic fanfare: 'Bom-bom bwooom.'
Bevers · Abbi:Bevers: 'Besides, we already live together.' / Abbi: 'No, you do not live together. You have your own apartment.' / Bevers: 'Jesus!'
Bevers · Abbi:Bevers asks Abbi to be his best man. Abbi's reaction: 'Bevers, you have four brothers.'
Bevers:Bevers: 'When we get out of here, I'm gonna pop the big Q in front of everybody... I already worked it out with the DJ. I'm such a showboat.'
Bevers:Bevers: 'Melody and I haven't had sex in weeks, on purpose though. It's called edging.'
Bevers:Bevers explains edging via whale blowhole analogy: 'You know how whales have that blowhole?'
Bevers:Bevers: 'Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.' — in a terrible British accent
Bevers:Bevers' proposal speech goes off the rails: 'Uh, yeah, so Abbi... [pause] ...is my best man.'
Bevers:Bevers: 'Abbi's transitioning into becoming a man, and I'm just so proud of her.'
Bevers · Abbi:Bevers: 'Because of you. You and Ilana made me realize we shouldn't be getting married yet. We're too young.' — then: 'So, you told everyone I'm transitioning into becoming a man.'
Bevers:Bevers: 'Well, somebody must've sweet-talked her, 'cause we just boned in a lifeboat. There was so much jazz.'
Abbi · Bevers:What the fuck, Bevers? / I'm sorry.
Bevers · Abbi:Sorry, Ab, the next bus out of Atlantic City isn't 'til morning. I could FaceTime with you and watch you sleep if that'll help. / All right, bye. / What... What are we doing? What's this relationship?
Bevers:What's up with that outfit? It's confused.
Bevers:Am I at the farmer's market 'cause this is so juicy.
Bevers:I mean, I'm obviously straight, but I would absolutely suck him dry.
Bevers:Before we get started... Will you give me some dick deets?
Bevers:Knee caps, baby. Those thighs could crack a coconut. Make me a 'Vaginia-colada.'
Bevers:Oh, mommy, I would sip Dem milkbags like a Capri Sun.
Bevers:You Betty me 'Veron-ing' ya.
Abbi · Bevers:All right, now you're going too far. / Oh, here we go.
Bevers · Ilana · Abbi:I'd wrap my thighs around that big basketball head. / Ew, what the fuck. / Oh, Ilana. That's your brother.
Bevers:The empire waist is reading very Mormon. You're beggin' to have his babies.
Bevers:those legs, I mean, you just got those slut legs sticking out.
Abbi · Bevers:How the fuck do you know this much about fashion? / You know, I worked every summer at my Grandma's department store in St. Louis. / Lord and Bevers.
Bevers:Uh, Abbi? Do we live in a zoo? Because I'm pretty sure there's an elephant in the room.
Bevers · Abbi:I thought Melodie bought me that suitcase. / I use it so much. / You do? / Just once.
Bevers:You guys are so Vivian Leigh and Laurence Olivier.
Bevers · Abbi:I have a way with words. / No, thank you, Bevers.
Bevers:Well, if you're not gonna say it, I will. I'm gonna miss you too.
Bevers:please leave the radio on when you're gone for Rat Bastard and her family. / We can afford it.
Bevers:Bevers: 'All my friends call me Bevers.'
Bevers · Abbi:Bevers explains the house rules: 'as a guest, the rules of the house are I never pay for food, I never do chores' — Abbi corrects him: 'No, that'd be weird.' Bevers: 'Okay. Got it.'
Bevers:Excusez-moi, mademoiselle, but, uh, who da' fresh man meant?
Bevers · Mike:I'm Matthew Bevers, I'm Abbi's roommate. Oh, hey, um... Mike, I heard.
Bevers · Abbi:Did you call me?! Bevers! No! What? Oh, shh, uh... Bevers, Jesus!
Joanne · Bevers · Abbi:Well, I'm Joanne. Joanne? I'm Matthew. Or Abbi's mom is how you should introduce yourself.
Bevers:Joanne, until next time.
Joanne · Bevers · Abbi:Oh, well... Okay. Yes, until next time. Your scarf. Thanks. Cute. Mom? Furry little bear.
Bevers:Bevers appears at the door in a robe and makes an overdramatic entrance: 'What twister blew into town and spit out you two tumbleweeds?'
Bevers:Bevers has sold ALL of Abbi's furniture while they were out — 'I sold every last bit of furniture, and I up-sold most of it... Bevers-style.'
Bevers · Abbi · Ilana:Bevers rubbing/touching them while they're coming down from MDMA — 'Okay, what are you doing? Please stop. / Ew, why are you doing this? / Bevers. Stop.'
Bevers:'And here's my commisshy.' — Bevers presents his commission
Abbi · Bevers:'Wait, Bevers, does Melanie even know I'm moving out?' / 'Oh, yeah, she knows.'
Bevers · Abbi:Bevers on the roof — sunburned nude everywhere, locked out, needs his kimono
Abbi · Bevers · Ilana:All right, Bevers, uh, you know, cover yourself up. I don't want to see your sunburned penis. / Open your eyes. / No. / It's kosher, dude. Open 'em up. / Surprise!
Bevers · Abbi:Bevers's cheese storage gift — a labeled box so no one takes Abbi's cheese at her new place