After a particularly trying day at work, Arthur spends the night at the studio with two new friends, Nicolae the janitor and Hank's karoake machine, and one old bottle of booze.
WAR
76.9
Wins Above Replacement
“Arthur After Hours” ranks #10 of 90 The Larry Sanders Show episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 82.9 — Elite. The episode packs 75 scored jokes at 3.0 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Artie landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Artie: You know, you used that excuse 10 weeks ago, memory serves. That means you're not due to start your cycle until the 22nd or 23rd.
Artie Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Hank: And now, because he's a big, phony bastard, Larry Sanders!
Hank Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Artie: You're still the fucking janitor, aren't you?
Artie Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Nicolae: I hope your balls falling off!
Artie: Ah, fuck you. You're fired.
Nicolae: I union. Union this!
Nicolae: I no need brother like you.
Artie: I wish you great success with the show. And personally, I have no ill will toward you... but hope your balls fall off.
Artie Misdirection Escalation ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 75 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ General rule of thumb... if you see nose hair, it's too close. Aha!
Checks for Larry, birds for Hank... aw, throw that one away.
As much as I'd love Larry to ask her about her gorgeous new tits, I feel we covered that front quite well when miss butler was here in may.
Paula: You have to forgive me. I've got my period.
Paula Cringe/Discomfort Setup/Punchline Artie: You know, you used that excuse 10 weeks ago, memory serves. That means you're not due to start your cycle until the 22nd or 23rd.
Artie Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Paula: Well, how do you know I wasn't lying the last time?
Paula Setup/Punchline Misdirection Artie: You were a bit puffy.
Artie Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Artie: Oh, you're good. You're not the first woman who's told me that.
Artie Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Artie: Do you like history, Phil? What does that mean? Because if Larry doesn't want to wear the hat, that's what it becomes, dig?
Artie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Phil: He is supposed to be the gorton's fisherman. Without the hat, he's just a guy in a yellow slicker.
Phil Observational Absurdist Phil: What? Makes me laugh.
Phil: What makes you laugh, the sketch?
Artie: No. The word 'slicker' makes me chuckle.
Artie Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Artie: Say it again. Slicker. Use it in a sentence.
Phil: I like my slicker.
Artie: Ha ha.
Phil: Artie, I'm gonna kick somebody's ass, I swear.
Phil Reaction Beat Escalation Artie: Profanity, beverly. I love it.
Artie Character Comedy Reaction Beat Beverly: that wendy bitch in charge of the audience... she's got her way in the hell up there where we put the retards.
Beverly Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Artie: We call them 'mentally challenged' now, beverly.
Artie Character Comedy Observational Artie: Don't twist your skivvies in a knot, sugar.
Artie Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Artie: Having fun showing her around?
Beverly: Artie, the woman is my mother.
Artie: Is there blood? Everywhere.
Artie: What, can't find your way upstream to spawn?
Artie Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Hank: someone has been touching my karaoke machine.
Hank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Artie Reaction Beat Irony/Sarcasm Hank: I walk in the morning, the red light is on, and this baby is just warm to the touch
Hank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Hank: I know how your people enjoy the karaoke.
Hank Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Bri: Now if you'll excuse me, I must go call my parents and tell them I'm asian.
Bri Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Hank: I miss darlene. And not just because of, you know, the, uh, the sweaters.
Hank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Larry: You know, that was the least graceful entrance we've ever had on the show.
Larry Observational Meta/Self-Referential Larry: I would rather sometimes be allowed to be the man.
Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Sandra: ♪ do-do-do-do-do-do-do ♪
Sandra Physical/Slapstick Absurdist Sandra: I got into bed with them. They had plenty of room.
Sandra Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline Larry: They're arguing, or they're burying stuff in the backyard?
Larry Dark/Subversive Escalation Sandra: All at once, they're just coming at me 100,000 miles a minute. Who is? Everybody in the business.
Sandra: Not a damn thing. I've been fired off everything.
No, you haven't.
Sandra: I'm kidding.
Larry: I have an erection.
Sandra: Funny, so do I.
Sandra: Hey, 2 erections and nowhere to go.
Larry: Hey, thanks for being a soldier about this, rye bread.
Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Artie: Make you feel better to hit me? Go ahead. Shut up. You know you want to.
Ryan: I'm not hitting anymore.
Ryan: And the next time you need somebody to pick you up after one of your d.u.I. S, don't call me.
Ryan Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Ryan: And don't call me rye bread. It's what farrah calls me.
Ryan Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Larry: Speaking of my ass, if it gets any bigger, it's gonna need a publicist. I'm not kidding. It's gonna have a career of its own soon.
Artie: She's probably screwing hans brinker. She's making his skates into earrings as we speak.
Artie Character Comedy Absurdist Artie: That's not my problem now, is it, sweetie?
Artie Character Comedy Reaction Beat Artie: I'm not sending you one thin gilder.
Artie Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Artie: go to rotterdam, then you go to amsterdam, then you go down the road to my city. That's right. It's a little place called I don't give a damn.
Artie Setup/Punchline Escalation Beverly: Of course. You didn't really expect to find him here.
Beverly Observational Deadpan/Understatement Larry: He's lucky he's not in that chair, the fucking asshole. Fuck him! Fuck me for taking this shit for so long!
Larry Escalation Character Comedy Beverly Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Hank: There's those letters I hate. There they are. I hate those fucking letters.
Hank Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Hank: And now, because he's a big, phony bastard, Larry Sanders!
Hank Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Artie: Yeah, I recognize that toluca lake accent.
Artie Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline Artie: No, dipshit. I mean recently, before toluca lake.
Artie Character Comedy Escalation Artie: You just told me that you watch the show a lot.
Nicolae: Yes, but is no Larry.
Nicolae: Hank. Hank is very good. Ha! You know Hank? Hey now!
Artie: You know why we get along, nic? 'Cause we're brothers. We're the unsung heroes. I clean up shit all day, you clean up shit all night.
Artie Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Artie: When you die, you'll go to heaven, you say hello to God, and when God says hello to you, this is what you'll smell on his breath.
Artie Character Comedy Escalation Artie: You're lucky, nic, 'cause the shit I clean up talks back.
Artie Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Artie: I'm gonna resist the urge to, uh, express my anger by using profanity, and I hope you appreciate that, you... scum-sucking asshole!
Artie Misdirection Escalation ★ Rewatch Artie: I wish you great success with the show. And personally, I have no ill will toward you... but hope your balls fall off.
Artie Misdirection Escalation ★ Rewatch Artie: but does it crack? Does it? No!
Artie Character Comedy Escalation Artie: Because all the pressure in this building, all the stress goes right into that, but does it crack? Does it?
Nicolae: No!
Artie: Aw, say, you bet your ass. Damn right it doesn't.
Artie: 'Cause all people remember is the night the chimp grabbed Larry's balls.
Artie Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Artie: That's the way it adds up... just a monkey and some balls.
Artie Callback Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Artie: Here. Iooky here. I want you to take this. Go on, take it.
Nicolae: No.
Artie: Fuck your pride. Keep the clip, too.
Nicolae: Too very many.
Artie: he gave me this the year he took his show to Florida.
Artie Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Artie: Why nicolae get mop?
Nicolae: Brother, you throw bottle. You go clean.
Nicolae Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Artie: You're still the fucking janitor, aren't you?
Artie Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Nicolae: I hope your balls falling off!
Nicolae Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Nicolae: I hope your balls falling off!
Artie: Ah, fuck you. You're fired.
Nicolae: I union. Union this!
Nicolae: I no need brother like you.
Nicolae: I union. Union this!
Larry: He's smiling like that because his refund check from the Betty ford clinic just came in the mail today.
Larry Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Artie Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Hank: Everything is Dan-Dan-dandy.
Hank Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Beverly: Warm, moist, muffin-y goodness. Courtney Cox? Oh, close. A muffin.
Beverly: He's got this friend nicolae. Whew. What a mouth on that one.
Beverly Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — The Larry Sanders Show
