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Character Analysis

Paul Rudd

Mike Hannigan

Played by Paul Rudd

96 jokes across 18 episodes of Friends

WAR

11.2

Total Jokes

96

Avg Craft

6.7

Avg Impact

6.5

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Mike delivers 96 scored jokes across 18 episodes of Friends, averaging 6.7 on craft and 6.5 on impact for a career WAR of 11.2. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Mike Lines

All Jokes — 96 total

S3E04

Mike:...but these cartons are so flinging, flanging hard to open!

4.94.0
S3E04

Mike · Kevin:-Intrigued? -You're flinging, flanging right I am!

4.33.0
S8E03

Phoebe · Mike:-Maybe you and I should do something. -All in good time, my love. All in good time.

5.95.0
S8E03

Phoebe · Mike:-Maybe they don't trust us. They let me keep my key the last time they were out of town. The time you broke the ketchup bottle and cleaned it with Monica's guest towels?

7.06.5
S8E03

Mike · Phoebe:-Hey, I washed those. -No, you didn't. Yeah, that didn't sound like me.

7.26.5
S8E03

Phoebe · Mike:-What stuff? -Monica's chicken parm. I'll take care of it.

5.85.0
S9E03

Mike:Okay.

6.06.5
S9E03

Mike · Phoebe:I am Mike. - Attaboy.

7.37.5
S9E03

Mike:Wow, if I had a nickel for every time somebody's asked me that.

4.85.0
S9E03

Joey · Mike:From school. - We met in college. I mean high school.

6.06.5
S9E03

Joey · Mike:Mike, attorney at law! Ha, ha. Actually, I just gave up my practice. - What? That's the kind of thing you usually run by me. Ha, ha.

6.36.5
S9E03

Mike · Joey:Six. - What are you doing? I said seven!

6.07.0
S9E03

Mike:I didn't hit his mother with a car.

5.96.0
S9E03

Mike:Really, I'm a pretty nice guy. Just ask my parole officer.

6.47.0
S9E03

Mike:Apparently, I'm not a funny guy.

5.85.5
S9E03

Mike:Because I was told that I'd get a free dinner, which I didn't. And that I'd meet a pretty girl, which I did.

6.87.0
S9E03

Mike · Mary Ellen:There isn't a piano here. - That wouldn't stand in the way of a true pianist.

6.46.0
S9E03

Mike:[Mike performs air piano]

6.37.0
S9E04

Phoebe · Mike:Do you have a compact in your purse? -No. You look great.

6.35.5
S9E04

Mike · Ross:Unless... You're not gonna try and get me to join a cult, are you? No, it's just, you know, you have that look. Damn Supercuts!

7.47.5
S9E04

Ross · Mike:Vikram? What? That's a real name.

6.86.5
S9E04

Mike:I'm trying to remember the last time I opened a door and you weren't there.

6.76.0
S9E04

Phoebe · Mike:You gave up that right when you slept with Rachel. RacheI? I thought she just had a baby with Ross. Yeah, well...But Emma's birth certificate might say 'Geller'...but her eyes say 'Mukherjee.'

7.67.5
S9E04

Mike:That is so wrong. And on top of that, he's a glue sniffer?

6.76.5
S9E04

Mike:And you don't have to worry about glue-sniffing with me. Although, I do smell the occasional Magic Marker.

7.37.0
S9E04

Phoebe · Mike:Can I think it's cool that you kissed me...and also want to kiss you again? And be a little concerned about the Magic Markers?

6.86.5
S9E06

Phoebe · Mike:Phoebe needing both hands to hold Mike's hand

6.55.5
S9E06

Mike · Phoebe:If you were bigger you'd hit me

6.86.0
S9E06

Mike · Phoebe:Mike offering gum instead of a key, then finding five dollars

6.56.0
S9E06

David · Mike:Don't point your finger at me! Why? What are you gonna do about it?

6.26.0
S9E07

Mike:Wow. You look... like my mom.

6.57.0
S9E07

Mike · Phoebe:What are you doing? -Trying to get your parents to like me.

6.46.5
S9E07

Mike:But, I mean, you have met humans before, right?

7.37.5
S9E07

Mike · Phoebe:'Pervert Parade'? -'Ode to a Pubic Hair'?

7.68.0
S9E07

Mike:Who are, by the way, the most sinfully boring people I've ever met in my life.

7.47.5
S9E09

Ross · Mike:I got beer. I got bottled breast milk. Why don't we start with the beer.

7.38.0
S9E09

Mike · Ross:Do you have one here? No. Okay.

6.47.0
S9E09

Mike · Ross:I don't really like to talk about it. That's okay. We'll talk about something else.

6.16.5
S9E09

Mike:Well, he and I would probably have a lot to talk about.

6.77.5
S9E09

Ross · Mike:What's the difference between beer and lager? I don't know.

7.27.5
S9E09

Ross · Mike:We could look it up. Things are about to get wild.

6.77.0
S9E09

Mike:To the land where time stands still?

7.58.0
S9E09

Mike · Phoebe:But really, how much dirtier can it get? Oh, Mike.

6.87.0
S9E12

Phoebe · Mike:It starts with a V and ends with an X. And hopefully with a T-O in the middle. You know, come to think of it, the capital of Peru is 'Vtox.'

7.06.0
S9E12

Mike:I don't know, but they don't sound like spa treatments.

6.66.0
S9E12

Mike:No. No, to test his neck strength.

7.06.5
S9E12

Phoebe · Mike:Oh, my God! Bob had babies! Bob's a mom! We'll have to think of a new name. I don't know, I kind of like 'Bob' for a girl.

6.96.5
S9E12

Mike:Well, maybe it wasn't Bob. Maybe it was a mouse. Susie?

6.45.5
S9E12

Mike:Yeah, not such a problem with rats. No, they're more of a 'love the one you're with' kind of animal.

7.47.0
S9E12

Phoebe · Mike:Rat baby! Rat baby! Rat baby! Rat baby! Maybe that's him.

6.66.0
S9E13

Mike:I'm not here to judge.

6.86.5
S9E16

Mike:I put that tube top on as a joke.

5.55.0
S9E16

Phoebe · Mike:Why don't you turn them inside-- Done it.

6.36.0
S9E16

Mike:Partly because I live above a known crack den...

6.36.0
S9E16

Mike:Unless they're playing 'This Is What My Sister Would Look Like.' Yeah, she's not so cute.

7.06.5
S9E16

Mike:Honey, leave the terrible jokes to me.

6.66.0
S9E16

Mike:I don't have any porn. Back of the closet in my bedroom.

7.37.5
S9E16

Mike:Well, I think the reason people laughed is that it's a play on the word 'roomie.'

6.56.0
S9E16

Mike:You know, sometimes your words, they hurt.

6.05.5
S9E16

Mike:And...hernia.

7.06.5
S9E17

Mike:Sorry. I guess I was thrown off by the mention of my name.

7.67.0
S9E17

Mike · Phoebe:Just to be with you one more night. I want that too. But is that gonna make it too hard? It can't be any harder than this.

6.35.0
S9E17

Mike:If I had known the last time I saw you would be the last time, I-- I would have stopped to memorize your face, the way you moved. Everything about you. If I had known the last time I kissed you would be the last time... I never would have stopped.

5.34.0
S9E17

Mike · Manny:I knew you'd be here! Aw, crap.

6.86.5
S9E23

Mike:Actually, yeah, that'd be great.

7.26.5
S9E23

Mike:I wouldn't brag about that, big guy.

6.36.0
S9E24

Mike:I wouldn't brag about that, big guy.

6.16.0
S9E24

Mike:Knock that dog off her head.

6.36.5
S9E24

Mike:'Serve the ball, chump.' Okay, better comebacks, Mike. Better comebacks.

6.76.5
S10E05

Mike:There's no one else in the world I would ask to marry me three times.

7.67.0
S10E07

Mike:Well, I think you're going to appreciate the crap out of this one

5.65.0
S10E07

Mike · Phoebe:Completely anonymous. From two kind strangers Mr. X and Phoebe Buffay

7.37.0
S10E07

Mike · Phoebe:Not necessary - Buffay is spelled B-u-f-f-a-y

7.16.5
S10E07

Mike · Charity worker:Oh, look, we get this free T-shirt. Uh, actually that's the shirt I wore to the gym

6.16.0
S10E07

Mike:We're seriously asking for the money back?

6.15.5
S10E07

Mike:Oh my God! I love your shirt

6.06.0
S10E07

Mike:This feels really good

6.15.5
S10E07

Mike:She could've been talking about either one of us

7.06.5
S10E07

Charity worker · Mike:And when you do, make sure you ask for Brian. Oh, is that you? No

6.66.0
S10E12

Monica · Mike:You don't know military time? I must have been in missile training the day they taught that.

7.06.5
S10E12

Mike:Okay, so 1800 minus 12... is 1788.

6.46.0
S10E12

Mike · Chandler:That why your hand's against my crotch? - That is why.

6.56.5
S10E12

Joey · Mike:Oh, a wiseacre. Strike two.

7.26.5
S10E12

Mike:Hey, unless we move in with you, Dad.

6.86.0
S10E12

Mike · Joey:That must have been one lousy movie. That was me!

7.57.5
S10E12

Mike:I thought it would be fun if the third groomsman was my family dog, Chappy.

6.96.5
S10E12

Mike:I crushed a pill and put it in her drink.

7.88.0
S10E14

Phoebe · Mike:Call me Mrs. Hannigan. / Mrs. Hannigan? Can't you see I'm in the middle of something?

7.67.5
S10E14

Phoebe · Mike:Meet Princess Consuela Bananahammock. / You're kidding, right? / Nope.

7.07.0
S10E14

Mike · Phoebe:Then I'm gonna change my name. / Great. Okay, what are you gonna change it to? / Crap Bag.

8.28.5
S10E14

Phoebe · Mike:Mike Crap Bag? / No. No 'Mike.' No, just 'Crap Bag.' First name: Crap. Last name: Bag.

8.38.5
S10E14

Mike:It's fun, it's different, and no one else has a name like that.

7.87.5
S10E14

Mike:If you need an easy way to remember it, just think of a bag of crap.

7.88.0
S10E14

Phoebe · Mike:How about Buffay-Hannigan? / Really? / Yeah. I'm Phoebe Buffay-Hannigan-Bananahammock.

7.98.0
S10E14

Mike · Phoebe:Do you even know what a banana hammock is? / It's a funny word. / It's a Speedo.

7.87.5
S10E18

Mike:Only without the Nazis. Although that sounds kind of dull.

8.18.0