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Character Analysis

Hank Azaria

Comic Book Guy

Played by Hank Azaria

71 jokes across 31 episodes of The Simpsons

WAR

24.7

Total Jokes

71

Avg Craft

7.1

Avg Impact

6.7

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Comic Book Guy delivers 71 scored jokes across 31 episodes of The Simpsons, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.7 on impact for a career WAR of 24.7. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Comic Book Guy Lines

All Jokes — 71 total

S2E21

Your spirits have imparted a glow to this old warhorse. I feel like Radiation Man!

6.55.8
S2E21

I stand corrected.

6.05.5
S2E21

Get that punk's name. No one makes a fool of me.

6.75.8
S2E21

It is, my lad. But I'll let you have it for 100.

6.96.3
S2E21

Your emotion is out of place.

7.77.0
S2E21

No way. What do you want? I don't need this. I've got a master's degree in folklore.

7.77.5
S3E07

If I hear one more thing about the Simpsons... I swear I'll scream. At first they were cute, but now they're annoying. 18 bucks for this? What a rip-off.

6.87.2
S5E01

Ich bin ein Springfield Swap Meet patron.

6.36.0
S5E07

Here, boy. In here. Huh? Hold on, Son. [Engine Puttering] So long, suckers. Damn. They're very slowly getting away.

7.78.0
S5E16

I did it. Second in line. And all I had to do was miss eight days of work.

6.76.3
S5E16

With the money you would have made working, you could've bought tickets from a scalper. In theory, yes. Jerk.

6.36.3
S5E21

Oh! That is so cool! That is so exciting! That is so-- / Crappy.

7.37.2
S5E21

This-- This is an arm drawn by nobody. It is worth nothing.

7.16.8
S5E21

Can't you give me anything for it? / I can give you this telephone. It is shaped like Mary Worth.

7.16.7
S6E15

How could I charge full price to the man whose lust for filthy magazines kept me in business during that first shaky year?

7.37.0
S6E15

Oh, by the way, here is your new issue of Gigantic Asses.

7.07.0
S6E18

So we propose changing our name from Springfield to Seinfeld.

6.77.2
S6E22

Behold the ultimate Pog.

6.86.5
S7E02

The only decent new one is Radiation Dude. - He's a cheap imitation of Radioactive Man.

6.85.8
S7E02

Up and Atom! With 'at 'em' spelled A-T-O-M, in a delicious pun.

7.37.0
S7E02

While Radiation Dude has a similar but lamer catchphrase, 'Up and let's go!'

7.17.3
S7E02

I have got to do something about that air conditioner suction.

6.65.7
S7E02

Need know star R.M. pic.

6.86.0
S7E04

Since my breakfast burrito is congealing rapidly, I will be blunt.

7.66.8
S7E04

But they were most interested in having possession of a little boy's soul.

7.17.0
S7E04

It contains a very rare Mary Worth... in which she has advised a friend to commit suicide, thank you.

7.97.8
S7E11

Allow me to summarize the proposed transaction. You wish to purchase Bonestorm for 99 cents. Net profit to me, negative $59. Oh, oh, please take my $59. I don't want it. It's yours.

7.67.3
S7E11

Eh, eh, eh! Seeing as we are unfamiliar with sarcasm, I shall close the register at this point and state that 99 cents is the rental price.

7.77.0
S7E11

Though I do have a surprising abundance of Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge.

7.67.3
S7E18

Perhaps because you are a prepubescent ignoramus.

6.56.2
S7E18

Are you the creator of Hi and Lois? Because you are making me laugh.

7.36.3
S7E18

I simply can't allow you to waste them here when there are so many crimes going unsolved at this very moment. Go! Go, for the good of the city.

7.16.3
S7E21

All right! Fangoria will give me 25 bucks for this shot.

7.77.2
S7E21

That is a rare photo of Sean Connery signed by Roger Moore. It is worth $150.

7.87.0
S7E21

A child has already solved the Jumble using crayons. The answer is 'fries.'

7.36.5
S8E03

I see. Do you have a receipt, quote-unquote 'sir'?

6.05.2
S8E03

I find their choice of prize highly illogical... as the average Trekker has no use for a medium-size belt.

7.26.8
S8E03

Very well. I must hurry back to my comic-book store... where I dispense the insults rather than absorb them.

7.87.3
S8E04

Oh, all the time. Have you ever heard of this kid Milhouse? He's a little wiener who-

6.25.8
S8E14

In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone... he strikes the same rib twice in succession... yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we- to believe that this is some sort of a- [Chuckles] a magic xylophone or something?

7.36.5
S8E14

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

7.87.5
S8E14

I withdraw my question.

7.57.2
S8E14

Last night's Itchy and Scratchy was, without a doubt... the worst episode ever!

7.57.3
S8E14

Worst episode ever.

7.67.3
S8E15

In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone... he strikes the same rib twice in succession... yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we- to believe that this is some sort of a- a magic xylophone or something?

8.28.0
S8E15

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

8.08.2
S8E15

I withdraw my question.

7.57.3
S8E15

Last night's Itchy and Scratchy was, without a doubt... the worst episode ever!

7.57.8
S8E15

Rest assured that I was on the Internet within minutes... registering my disgust throughout the world.

7.98.0
S8E15

Worst episode ever.

7.57.3
S8E17

Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.

6.66.3
S8E18

Yes, but only by night. By day, I'm a mild-mannered reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper.

7.46.7
S8E20

In volume two, Radioactive Man travels through time... to defeat Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic games

7.57.3
S8E20

pardon me, Santos, if that is your real name, Bart Simpson... but your phony credit card is no good here

6.86.0
S8E20

Now, make like my pants and split!

6.65.8
S9E04

I'll bet I get blamed for this. But, Aquaman, you cannot marry a woman without gills. You're from two different worlds.

7.57.2
S9E04

Oooh, I've wasted my life.

7.17.0
S9E06

I'm comfortable with who I am. You're a disgrace to this family.

7.67.7
S9E23

[Sighs] Oh. It appears... I will have to find a new fortress of solitude.

6.75.7
S10E05

Comic Book Guy to Kim Basinger: 'Those red pumps you wore in L.A. Confidential were fabulous. Where can I get a pair for my, uh, mother? She wears a 12 double-E.'

6.66.5
S10E09

Hi, Lisa / Hey, Lisa / Guten Tag

6.35.7
S10E09

A, that is not water. It is diet Mr. Pibb. And B, I- ooh

6.86.3
S10E09

Don't try to change me, baby

7.27.0
S10E12

'Legends of comedy,' my tuchus! What has Fatty Arbuckle done that I haven't done?

6.86.2
S10E12

Yeah, not a dame in sight. Oh, thank God. Now we can stop holding it in. [All Sighing]

6.06.0
S10E12

Real. Real. Real. Real. Real. So by the process of elimination, this one is the fake. [Groaning] That's painful.

7.27.2
S10E13

Worst... reading... ever.

6.86.5
S10E14

My Barbara will no longer pleasure me with the French arts!

6.66.5
S10E21

Whoa! This place has everything... even a Shoplifting Department. What convenience. I'm doin' all my thievin' here.

7.47.3
S10E22

Forsooth. Mine eyes doth rove of their own accord

5.85.8
S10E22

Or Walden Two. - Yeah, a real Candy Land! - Of the mind. The mind.

6.36.3