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Character Analysis

Elaine Stritch

Colleen Donaghy

Played by Elaine Stritch

66 jokes across 7 episodes of 30 Rock

WAR

37.5

Total Jokes

66

Avg Craft

7.4

Avg Impact

7.1

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Best Jokes by Colleen

All Jokes — 66 total

S1E21

She's got a good, solid baby bucket.

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S1E21

She's like a white geisha.

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S1E21

And it's not 'Bee-yan-ka,' like Sanka. It's 'Bee-yon-ka,' like Willy Won... Wonka!

6.96.3
S1E21

I was at a costume party earlier this evening. And the hostess's dog attacked me, so I had to stab it.

7.78.0
S1E21

Tell him his mother's here. And she loves him. But not in a queer way.

7.06.7
S2E09

Isn't this the office you had before? I thought you were up for a big promotion. / I am, Mother. And there are only two nicer offices in the whole building. / Only two? I don't like the odds. I think you better let that dream go.

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S2E09

Is she Spanish? / What if she was, Mother? / She's very smart, Colleen. You'd like her. / My thanks to the peanut gallery.

7.06.3
S2E09

Jack... this coat isn't gonna take itself off.

7.17.0
S2E09

The TV had over 100 channels, for God's sakes. I'm only gonna be here for three days!

7.26.7
S2E09

Jack, do you have a bathroom that I can get to in a hurry? / Yes. Right... in here, Mother. / Well, that is close, isn't it?

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S2E09

Let's all meet down at the soda shop while this country turns into Mexico.

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S2E09

You give me 10 minutes with the Lemon family, and I'll have them tearing at each other like drag queens at a wig sale.

8.08.2
S2E09

Really? Life is too short? Because your life seems endless.

8.38.5
S2E09

Because the Lemons are not what they appear to be. I mean, I may be heavy furniture, but I did a pretty good job raising you.

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S2E09

Bingo.

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S2E09

Tomorrow night I'm gonna take you to a cathouse. / I hate cats. / You'll learn to love them.

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S3E20

Paul, this is Jack, my son. Jack, this is Paul Brett.

6.66.0
S3E20

Paul lives in Florida. He paints landscapes and he makes his own soda.

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S3E20

It's Florida, Jack! It's like it never stopped being the '70s down there.

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S3E20

It's Florida, Jack! It's like it never stopped being the '70s down there. And a guy like Paul, who can drive at night, You just don't say no to that!

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S3E20

That man left and came back so many times That I totally lost count! One night, he went out to move the car, And he was gone... From the spring of '57 until... One night he just showed up out of the blue! 'put your shoes on, Collie. We're goin' to see some like it hot.'

7.37.0
S3E20

You're nothing like him, you know. No way you ever could be.

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S4E20

Necktie. Too late, Jackie.

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S4E20

our lady of reluctant integration in waltham

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S4E20

who pours scotch like a woman

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S4E20

Two women, Jack, at the same time. What are you, Italian?

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S4E20

Just bring my son one of everything. That way, he doesn't have to choose.

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S4E20

Mrs. Donaghy keeps tricking me and running away, but not anymore. Carl, they need you out in the hall. Yes, ma'am!

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S4E20

because chest-wise you have the measurements of an altar boy.

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S4E20

I've got to get back to calling Kenneth 'carl' to see if he ever corrects me. Carl! Yes, ma'am?

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S4E20

I assume herpes.

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S4E20

I'll be circling the globe in my coffin rocket. Something I saw on tv. It's very expensive.

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S4E20

I can't!

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S5E10

I didn't care much for the gazpacho soup. I mean, where's the fun of sending it back because it isn't hot?

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S5E10

What are my chums at the death shore retirement community gonna say... When I tell them that my unmarried son has knocked up a protestant?

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S5E10

It should have gone to the other boy!

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S5E10

Most people thought I was a hero for killing Lydia's parrot.

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S5E10

He got me a kidney... From Elvis Costello.

7.97.8
S5E10

Welcome to my Christmas Attack Zone.

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S5E10

I had a couple of rich men die on top of me.

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S5E10

Seems like people are back on my side, Jackie.

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S5E10

You insult your own intelligence.

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S5E10

You are a war criminal. I hate to say it.

7.37.0
S6E17

Dr. Singh, are you stealing my hats? What do you do, feed them to your cow God?

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S6E17

Ooh, sofa. Somebody got all flouncy when I wasn't looking. What are you gonna do, put on your galoshes and go eat some fruit, like a Frenchman?

7.47.0
S6E17

What are you gonna do, put on your galoshes and go eat some fruit, like a Frenchman?

6.96.5
S6E17

Yes, I know it's over, Kouchie. Unlike you, I have eyes.

6.46.0
S6E17

This is supposed to be a hospital, not a Japanese internment camp I volunteered at during the war.

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S6E17

What if I run into Eloise? Am I supposed not to mention the fact that she has a gay grandson? Everybody knows!

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S6E17

Can we do something about the temperature in here? I'd like it humid and cold. Duck!

6.45.8
S6E17

God on a wheel! Jackie and I know how we feel. We don't have to say it out loud like a couple of gays getting married in jean shorts in Provincetown while I'm just trying to enjoy an ice cream on the pier!

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S6E17

'Say it out, speak it clear. You should listen, dude. Also, hear. It's too late, when--' You have two minutes to find that battery before I die.

7.57.5
S6E17

Sew up your cabbage hole, girl.

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S6E17

If you were my kid, I'd mail you back to the stork.

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S7E08

Well, she's wearing it pulled back, but it's not working. Exactly, because of her ears.

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S7E08

I see her spot in front of my left eye. If this turns out to be a stroke, you're in charge of plucking my chin.

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S7E08

I have a few things I want to say to you before I meet the Grim Reaper, who is black, I assume, what, with the hoodies he wears.

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S7E08

I didn't trust that scout master. He was always wearing shorts.

7.36.8
S7E08

For grave robbers.

7.16.7
S7E08

I went down to a pack a day for you!

7.57.3
S7E08

I was watching TV, and they started interviewing an Asian Santa Claus, and my arm went numb!

7.26.7
S7E08

My father did not kill dozens of Germans so that his daughter could die in a van!

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S7E08

The horse is one of only three appropriate subjects for a painting, along with ships with sails and men holding up swords while staring off into the distance.

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S7E08

I'm going out of this world exactly the way I came into it. Wearing a hat!

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S7E08

Are you the same guy as before, or does that sun-bleached turd have a twin brother?

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S7E08

I breastfed you for nine years!

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