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Character Analysis

David Denman

Roy Anderson

Played by David Denman

42 jokes across 22 episodes of The Office

WAR

7.9

Total Jokes

42

Avg Craft

6.8

Avg Impact

6.5

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Roy delivers 42 scored jokes across 22 episodes of The Office, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.5 on impact for a career WAR of 7.9. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Roy Lines

All Jokes — 56 total

S1E01

Roy · Pam:Roy to Pam: 'It's only 20 past 5:00,' dismissing her request to go for drinks with coworkers.

6.45.5
S1E01

Jim · Pam · Roy:Jim and Pam's parking lot goodbye: 'What's in the bag?' revisited — Pam leaves with Roy, Jim watches.

7.87.0
S1E04

Roy · Jim · Pam:Roy overhears Jim trying to explain the alliance prank to Pam and confronts them: 'What the hell is this? Are you trying to cop a feel or something Halpert?'

6.56.3
S1E04

Roy · Dwight:Roy asks 'Dwight, what the hell is he talking about?' — Dwight: 'I have absolutely no idea.'

8.38.3
S1E05

Michael · Roy:Michael to Roy: 'You still gettin' it regular, man? Huh? I mean, I can tell her it's part of the job.'

6.97.2
S1E05

Michael · Roy · Pam:Michael to Pam for the jump ball: 'Pam, you kind of have your foot in both camps here. Why don't you do the jump ball?' — Roy: 'Don't listen to him, Pam. Tip it my way or you're sleeping in the car.'

7.27.2
S1E05

Roy · Pam:Roy's talking-head where Pam sees Roy talking to someone ('looks good'); Roy notices her watching and says 'Hey baby' — then someone comments: 'Look at Larry Bird. Larry legend.'

6.26.0
S1E05

Roy · Unknown:Roy looking at Pam's injury or exhaustion: 'Let's get you into a tub.' — immediately followed by someone else also saying 'Yeah, let's get you in a tub.'

5.24.8
S1E06

Roy · Jim · Pam:Roy: 'Man, I would be all over that if I wasn't dating Pam.' Jim, Pam (off screen): 'We're not dating, we're engaged.' Roy: 'Engaged, yeah.'

7.07.2
S1E06

Roy · Pam:Roy tickles and pesters Pam who's trying to stay mad at him: 'Come on. Cut it out... Are you still mad at me now? Stop! Huh? Huh? Come on. Come on, Pammy.'

5.04.5
S1E06

Roy:Roy on Jim: 'Jim's a great guy. He's like a brother to me. We're like best friends in the office. And I really hope he finds someone.' — after forgetting he and Pam were engaged

6.66.5
S2E01

Roy:Roy accepts Pam's 'Longest Engagement' Dundee on her behalf and his entire speech is: 'We'll see you next year!'

7.97.7
S2E04

Roy:Roy says he plays 'Who would you do?' at home 'while I'm falling asleep' — implying he does it alone, suggesting his relationship with Pam is sexless

7.27.0
S2E04

Roy · Angela:Roy's answer to 'Who would you do?': 'Oh, I got it. What's the name of that tight-ass Christian chick. The blonde?' — Angela responds: 'My name is Angela.'

8.18.5
S2E04

Roy:Roy: 'You're all gay.'

7.27.0
S2E04

Roy:Roy: 'You're all gay.' [After Jim picks Kevin and Michael picks Ryan]

6.26.0
S2E11

Roy:Roy describing Pam in high school as 'total Miss Artsy-Fartsy, wore the turtleneck and everything'

6.56.0
S2E11

Roy · Pam:Roy ignoring Pam's request to find a quieter spot, chanting 'Darryl! Darryl! Darryl!' instead

7.16.8
S2E11

Roy · Pam:Roy announces in front of everyone he wants to set a June 10th wedding date — inspired by Michael's 'motivational' presentation

7.27.0
S2E15

Roy · Jim:Roy confronting Jim about the 'crush' rumor — the entire conversation where Roy insists they're 'cool' while Jim clearly is not fine

7.47.5
S2E15

Michael · Jim · Roy:Michael's 'guys' gripe session: 'We even like the same girls, some of us.' — followed by extreme awkward silence with Jim and Roy both present

7.27.3
S2E15

Jim · Roy:Jim and Roy's awkward 'should I leave?' exchange after Michael's comment about liking the same girls

7.37.0
S2E15

Michael · Darrell · Roy:Michael shushes Darrell; Darrell: 'Don't shush me.' Michael: 'That was just... breathing.' Roy: 'Pam shushes me. It drives me crazy.'

7.06.8
S2E16

Roy · Pam:Pam tells Roy she'd hoped he'd get her something despite their 'no big gifts' agreement — Roy's response: 'Valentine's Day isn't over. Let's get you home, and you are gonna get the best sex of your life.'

6.97.2
S2E21

Roy · Pam:Roy is revealed to have been the one who complained about Pam planning her wedding at the office — not Angela. 'I didn't know that Toby was going to write it down.'

7.47.2
S2E22

Roy · Jim:Jim's confessional: 'I'm pretty happy these days. I'm getting married soon...' — wait, that's Roy. Followed by 'Why did I talk to Jan about transferring? Well... I have no future here.'

8.28.3
S2E22

Kevin · Roy:Kevin's exchange with Roy about Scrantonicity: Roy offers them the wedding gig without asking Pam

7.26.8
S3E01

Pam · Roy:The awkward conversation between Pam and Roy in the break room: 'Chicken or fish?' 'Uh... chicken.' 'So, you, uh, having a good day?' 'Excellent. Thanks.' 'Good. I'm glad.'

7.47.0
S3E01

Roy:Roy's talking head: 'I got them a toaster. They called off the wedding and gave the toaster back to me. I tried to return the toaster to the store, and they said they no longer sold that kind of toaster. So now my house has got two toasters.'

8.28.2
S3E01

Roy:Roy's talking head: 'After Pam dumped me, I kinda stopped taking care of myself... I hit bottom when I had a drunk driving arrest. I've been working out... I'm not gonna take her for granted. I gotta win her back.'

6.96.5
S3E04

Roy · Pam · Jim:Roy interrupts the grief counseling session to tell Pam something is wrong with her car radiator — revealed to Jim as a fabrication to rescue her

6.45.7
S3E04

Roy · Pam:Roy to Pam about her new (small) car: 'It sure is small.' Then: 'Got air bags?' Pam: 'I think so. I don't know, I was mainly focused on the cup holders.'

6.35.7
S3E06

Pam · Roy:Pam and Roy have a tense exchange at the party: she invites him to dance, he declines to watch the shoes, asks who she was texting. She says 'No one.' Phone buzzes immediately.

7.57.8
S3E07

Roy:Roy: 'I don't want to work here without Pam. It'll just be like loading trucks without any meaning, you know.'

7.26.8
S3E11

Roy:Roy to his friend (Darryl?): 'Hey. You remember when we were planning our honeymoon, and you wanted to go to Hawaii and I wanted to go to Mexico? Yeah. I was definitely right.'

7.57.0
S3E11

Roy:Roy: 'What am I gonna do?' — then immediately: 'I'm gonna hang it up at home. I don't have a lot of art.'

8.38.3
S3E15

Roy · Pam:Roy to Pam: 'I know you probably aren't gonna remember this, but, uh, those color roses... I got you those color roses for our prom.' Pam: 'Roy, I picked those flowers. Phyllis just stole all of my ideas for our wedding.'

7.87.3
S3E15

Roy · Pam:Roy confessional: 'I guess I wasn't really too involved in the planning.' Pause. 'Yeah.' / 'Sorry about that.' Pam: 'It's okay.' Roy: 'Well, you think it sucks for you. I'm the one who actually wanted to get married.'

7.67.2
S3E16

Roy · Pam · Kenny:Roy shows up to Pam's art show with his brother Kenny — the only guests — and Roy says 'How about this, huh? I show up with my brother, and no one from work is here? That's pretty cool, huh?' while Pam is visibly alone

6.86.5
S3E16

Roy · Pam:Roy drags Pam to the art show; when he sees it he says 'You're the one who said we needed more culture. This is culture to you?'

6.76.3
S3E17

Roy:My brother, he just unloaded the jet skis and he, kind of, took a bath, so we're gonna go get hammered.

6.76.3
S3E17

Pam · Roy:Pam tells Roy about the Jim kiss at Casino Night. Roy's reaction: 'Jim came on to you? Just listen. No, I am listening! That's the problem, I'm listening!'

7.17.2
S3E17

Pam · Roy:I want us to make it. I want a fresh start. That's awesome. That's what I want. Okay, but in order for us to make it, there can't be any secrets between us. / I didn't... I didn't do anything. Ask anybody. I totally could have and I didn't at all.

7.67.5
S3E17

Kenny · Roy:Are they gonna call the cops? No. I paid them off. Jet ski money? All of it.

8.28.3
S3E17

Roy:I'm gonna kill Jim Halpert.

7.98.2
S3E18

Roy · Jim · Dwight · Pam:Roy charges at Jim in the office and Dwight pepper sprays him — the sound and chaos inferred from 'Roy! Ahh! Roy, don't! God!'

7.28.0
S3E18

Roy · Kevin:Roy reappears; Kevin shouts 'Roy! Look out!' — then Roy calmly says 'Thanks, Kev. I'm... good, though.'

7.06.8
S3E18

Roy:Roy apologizes to Pam: 'I just kept thinking about you two together, and I thought you guys were really good friends or... or maybe he was gay or something.' Pause. 'Not that that's wrong.'

6.76.5
S5E04

Darryl · Roy:She thought I was McNabb. / I can see that.

6.65.8
S5E04

Jim · Roy:Jim casually tells Roy: 'She's engaged... to me.' — beat between 'engaged' and 'to me'

8.48.5
S5E04

Jim · Roy:Last night, she was out with her friends till like, 8:00 A.M. / What?

7.27.0
S5E04

Roy:I am going to see Pam. Because... I feel like I should.

6.86.3
S9E02

Jim · Pam · Roy:Jim and Pam arriving at what appears to be Roy's very nice house, being offered mimosas and banana peels being taken away by staff

7.17.0
S9E02

Roy · Jim · Pam:Roy introduces Pam as 'My ex-fiancée. Ha-ha.' to the stranger — then Jim's reaction

6.76.7
S9E02

Roy:'Is it almost time to cut the pancake or what?' — at Roy's fancy wedding breakfast

6.05.5
S9E02

Roy · Pam · Jim:Roy: 'Come on, if it wasn't for you, I never would have met Lara. I mean, seriously, I kind of dodged a bullet on that one. I'm just kidding. You're welcome.'

7.27.3