Character Analysis

John Oliver

Professor Ian Duncan

Played by John Oliver

76 jokes across 15 episodes of Community

WAR

25.7

Total Jokes

76

Avg Craft

7.0

Avg Impact

6.8

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Duncan delivers 76 scored jokes across 15 episodes of Community, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.8 on impact for a career WAR of 25.7. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Duncan Lines

All Jokes — 74 total

S1E01

Duncan · Jeff:'Genius at law' / 'you got to stop saying that' / 'i will never do that'

6.05.8
S1E01

Duncan:I still cannot figure out how you gonna join September the 11th with my DUI

7.37.0
S1E01

Duncan · Jeff:Duncan's chalupa story - ordering food from emergency call box during DUI

7.07.3
S1E01

Duncan:Duncan: 'I do love America, I do love it, very much. I love chalupas.'

6.56.2
S1E01

Duncan · Jeff:You're trying to use reverse psychology on a psychologist? / No, I'm just using regular psychology on a spineless British twit

7.77.3
S1E01

Duncan:Duncan wanting Jeff's Lexus for test answers and ball warmers comment

6.76.0
S1E01

Duncan · Jeff:Duncan: 'I've been divorced seven times. Sometimes, I think I'm doing something wrong.' / Jeff: 'You keep getting married.'

7.27.0
S1E05

Duncan:hey, british dentistry is not on trial.

7.06.8
S1E05

Duncan:do you mind if we have this conversation in a room with less balls?

7.77.3
S1E05

Duncan:thinking maybe fridays, nine-ish, something like that.

7.77.5
S1E05

Jeff · Duncan:does he know he stole it? i don't think so. let him enjoy it.

7.37.2
S1E25

Duncan:You know, you don't actually have to lie on a sofa like it's a Woody Allen movie.

7.06.0
S1E25

Duncan:There are bugs on the windshield of your mind you may never be able to squeegee, like a certain birthday party attended by a rather enterprising transient in a dinosaur costume.

7.26.7
S1E25

Duncan:Your mouth looked like a coin purse.

7.37.0
S1E25

Duncan:Or may I say, 'meow-chelle'?

5.44.8
S1E25

Duncan:Jeff and Britta did, uh, the Yankee Doodle. Oh, don't tell me that didn't make it to the States. It clearly originated here.

7.36.8
S1E25

Duncan:Your lipstick looks better.

7.57.0
S1E25

Duncan:My name is Professor Ian Duncan, and I would like to rap for you. Drop a beat. My name is Ian Duncan, and I'm here to say, I'm going to rap to the beat in a rapping way, I've got a real big penis, and I drink lots of tea

7.07.0
S1E25

Duncan:Who is it here who has a dalmatian fetish?

7.37.0
S2E03

Duncan:Now, I don't normally teach anthropology, but apparently professor bauer tried to strangle mr. Winger and has been put on administrative leave with pay.

7.17.2
S2E03

Duncan · Duncan:Seriously, does anyone know? / - you, in the boobs.

6.16.2
S2E03

Duncan:Wow! Wow. I thought psychology was a racket.

6.96.3
S2E03

Duncan:I'm not actually drunk, and I can prove it. I blew beneath the legal limit just this morning.

7.57.5
S2E11

Duncan:Fascinating. And publishable.

7.36.8
S2E11

Duncan:I am a professional. And you are tampering with a highly delicate book deal. I mean, human being.

7.77.2
S2E11

Duncan:I'm not just a psych professor. I'm also a Christmas wizard.

7.26.8
S2E11

Duncan:You have a drum.

6.66.2
S2E11

Duncan:I don't know! We never know! Mom won't stop crying! I'm going to America with grandma!

7.97.8
S2E11

Duncan:Bloink!

7.06.8
S2E11

Duncan:Hey, not the face.

6.56.2
S2E12

Duncan:I have stopped drinking. Mainly due to the fact that I could no longer get an erection.

6.86.8
S2E12

Duncan:Now that I'm on the wagon, you can expect both this class and my penis to be more focused and rewarding.

6.66.3
S2E15

Duncan:You promised the study group? Whip, crack! I'll see you at precisely 6:30, or as the English call it, gravedigger's biscuits.

5.95.7
S2E15

Duncan:I'll see you at precisely 6:30, or as the English call it, gravedigger's biscuits.

7.77.3
S2E15

Duncan · Jeff:Pretty exciting first half. Yeah, 0-0. Electrifying.

5.95.5
S2E15

Chang · Duncan:Hey. In England, fanny means vagina, right? In England, everything means vagina.

7.37.2
S2E15

Duncan:In england we call them Italian fannies.

6.96.3
S2E15

Jeff · Duncan · Magnitude:It's weird, but I've never heard of Magnitude before tonight. He's a one-man party! Oh, yeah! Pop, pop!

6.66.2
S2E22

Duncan:Don't know. Don't care. But so far, you're all getting As.

7.16.5
S2E22

Duncan:Throw paper balls at her head until she sits down.

7.77.5
S2E22

Duncan · Troy · Abed:It's Troy. / Hey, the man wants to give Darrell an A, let him do it.

7.06.2
S2E22

Duncan:Question number two: How awesome is it that this class is fake?

7.36.8
S2E22

Duncan:And that is what Jews do at weddings.

5.85.3
S2E22

Duncan:You know, like that film Children of the Corn.

7.87.7
S2E22

Duncan:Do you know what, I have left the exam paper in my office. But it is a real doozy. There is an interactive element. A performance component. And I don't want to tip it, but there may be a lump of clay coming to everyone in the room.

7.37.0
S2E22

Duncan:Well, a lot more are conceived. / No, Paul, that's off the record and not true. Sort of.

7.46.8
S4E12

Duncan:Greendale community college is a total joke. They'd give a degree to a monkey.

6.05.3
S5E03

Duncan:She's still alive, but I've put in my time.

7.67.3
S5E03

Duncan:We know that he hates money or loves it or doesn't care about money and hates butts or loves them.

7.17.2
S5E03

Duncan:Real fans call him Dave.

6.56.3
S5E03

Duncan:I use an older, British form of Facebook called 'mug-scroll.'

7.47.3
S5E03

Duncan:Oh, bloody hell, my shoe is untied by British standards.

7.98.3
S5E03

Duncan:Oh, bloody hell, my shoe is untied by British standards.

6.66.3
S5E05

Duncan:I'm not afraid to push a girl into make-believe lava. In fact, it's been my primary strategy

6.96.7
S5E05

Duncan:This is why the English never win any sports. 'cause everyone else cheats!

7.06.5
S5E06

Chang · Duncan:And then we'll have some cakes, party hats, birthday stuff! / I'm sorry, birthday stuff?

6.76.8
S5E07

Duncan:Well, it's starving children with cleft palates, Britta. What part would you have me be disinterested in?

6.76.3
S5E07

Duncan:She's everything I love about America. Bold, opinionated, just past her peak, and starting to realize that she has to settle for less.

7.67.7
S5E07

Duncan · Jeff:I like to drink. Yeah. I have a serious problem. That had better be true.

7.47.5
S5E07

Duncan:I hated Reese's pieces before E.T. ate them, sorry.

7.16.7
S5E07

Duncan:And now, you're going to go pull a Dane Cook in one of those three movies he was in about Dane Cook getting laid by accident. Only it's not a Dane Cook movie, Jeff, because this time, someone's watching: me. Your friend, British Jason Biggs.

7.57.5
S5E07

Duncan:Do you know Rimples and Splikket? They were the British Laurel and Hardy. Most of their stuff is timeless, but you do need to know that the prime minister went to Oxford, not Cambridge, as the sketch implies.

7.57.0
S5E07

Duncan:I've been defining myself with reactions to and from other people my whole life. Now I feel worthless just because I'm worthless in relation to my friends, which means they're not my friends.

7.57.2
S5E07

Britta · Duncan:And please don't take offense at this, but thank you for not hitting on me. I was just vulnerable enough to do something really stupid. What's wrong? Nothing. Nothing. It's nothing. It's the... the stupid steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car.

7.17.2
S5E07

Duncan:It's the... the stupid steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car.

6.96.3
S5E07

Jeff · Duncan:Or maybe I just realized that I was spending the whole night getting to third base with the wrong person. You're a good friend, and I don't say that often enough. That's really nice. But you can't have sex with me.

7.57.2
S5E07

Jeff · Duncan:But you can't have sex with me. / How about we have these drinks and then not have sex, with anyone, together?

7.26.8
S5E12

Hickey · Duncan:Scunthorpe? I was stationed around Scunthorpe. - No. - Oh, wait, wait.

6.96.5
S5E12

Hickey · Duncan:O'er the lady's smocks I tarry Through the hollyhocks and glen For a piss and a thrush In Scunthorpe - Then it's off to Henningpen

7.06.8
S5E12

Hickey · Duncan:I lost my virginity at Stainsbury's. - My mother was a Stainsbury whore.

7.47.2
S5E12

Duncan · Hickey:Mine was missing a thumb. - Oh, my God. - Two thumbs, she got both. - Two thumbs.

7.37.2
S5E12

Duncan:I mean, you may have slept with my aunt... but given the circumstances, cheers.

7.47.3
S5E13

Duncan:It's pronounced 'aluminium.' See, he's fine.

7.37.2
S5E13

Duncan · Unknown · Duncan:Doesn't electrocuted technically mean killed? - You always have to correct people? - You always have to police correcting?

6.76.2