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Character Analysis

Jami Gertz

Jane

Played by Jami Gertz

10 jokes across 2 episodes of Seinfeld

WAR

2.1

Total Jokes

10

Avg Craft

6.9

Avg Impact

6.5

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Jane delivers 10 scored jokes across 2 episodes of Seinfeld, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.5 on impact for a career WAR of 2.1. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Jane Lines

All Jokes — 23 total

S5E12

Jane · Elaine:'No, I'm sorry. I can't spare it.' / 'You can't spare it?' / 'No. There's not enough to spare.'

8.08.0
S5E12

Jane:'No, I don't have a square to spare. I can't spare a square!'

8.79.3
S5E12

Elaine · Jane:'Look, I don't have a square and I don't have a ply! No, no, don't go! I beg you!'

7.37.8
S5E12

Elaine · Jane:Both Elaine and Jane recounting the same bathroom event from opposite perspectives simultaneously, each convinced they were the wronged party.

8.38.3
S5E12

Jane · Elaine:Jane: 'I simply could not spare it.' Elaine: 'She wouldn't stop. Help me! Help me!' Jane: 'Please, please!' — each woman quoting the other's words back as evidence of insanity.

7.98.0
S5E12

Jane · Jerry:Jane asks for Jerry's napkin: 'I've got oil all over me. Can I have your napkin?' / Jerry hesitates, says he needs his own.

7.67.2
S5E12

Elaine · Jane:Elaine and Jane meet — the audience knows they are the two women from the bathroom — and exchange forced pleasantries: 'It is so nice to meet you.' / 'I look forward to Saturday night.'

8.38.8
S5E12

Kramer · Jane:Kramer meeting Jane: 'Well, hello, Jane.' / 'Jerry's told me so much about you, I feel like I know you intimately.' / 'I don't think so. No, we never met. I never talked to you on the phone.'

7.17.0
S5E12

Kramer · Jane:Kramer meets Jane: 'Jerry's told me so much about you, I feel like I know you intimately.' / Jane: 'I don't think so. No, we never met. I never talked to you on the phone.'

7.98.2
S5E12

Jane:Jane abruptly cancels plans to split a cab with Kramer: 'I changed my mind. Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna go now.'

7.87.8
S5E12

Jane · Kramer:Jane walks in: 'Hi. I thought I'd find you here.' Kramer: 'Hello, Erica.' Jane: 'Erica? What are you talking about? Selling sexual pleasure on the phone? I sell paper goods, you jerk.'

8.38.5
S5E12

Jane · Jerry · Elaine:Jane: 'Excuse me. Do you have a tissue?' Jerry/Elaine: 'No, I'm sorry. I can't spare it. There's just not enough to spare.'

9.19.5
S5E12

Elaine · Jane:Elaine and Jane end up in adjacent bathroom stalls again — Jane needs toilet paper.

8.99.2
S5E12

Elaine · Jane:Jane: 'Hey, wait a minute. I know you!' Elaine: 'That's right, honey. And I know you!'

8.69.3
S5E12

Jerry · Elaine · Kramer · Jane:Jerry and Elaine reconcile by giving each other paper goods: Jerry hands Elaine a napkin, she thanks him. Kramer and Jane exchange phone-calls cut-off.

7.37.3
S5E12

Jane · Kramer:Kramer's phone buzzes; Jane: 'Don't call me anymore.' / Kramer (immediately): 'You either.'

8.28.3
S5E21

George · Jane:I never tasted a cough medicine I didn't love. / Me too. I love cough medicine. / You see? We were made for each other.

7.16.7
S5E21

Jane · Jerry · Kramer · Elaine:Jane walks back toward the group still topless and everyone awkwardly avoids looking / offers drinks

7.68.0
S5E21

George · Jane:You told her? / Yeah. What's the big deal? / You don't understand this organ. It's very... schizophrenic.

7.87.5
S5E21

George · Jane:I think you spoke to Rachel. That's what I think. / So what if I did? / She didn't say something to you about a certain something? / I don't know what you're talking about. / I think that you think that a certain something is not all it could be, when, in fact, it is all that it should be, and more.

7.98.2
S5E21

Jane · George:I'm sure it is. / Look, you don't understand. There was shrinkage!

7.77.8
S8E20

Jerry · Jane:Jerry's date says she was in that theater and found the 'Must miss!' joke really funny

5.45.2
S8E20

Jerry · Jane:Jerry checks his messages and Jane — his date's competitor — accidentally calls his number seven speed dial, which is now Jerry's number

7.47.3