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Character Analysis

Jeffrey Tambor

Congressman Walter Griswald

Played by Jeffrey Tambor

30 jokes across 1 episodes of Taxi

WAR

3.4

Total Jokes

30

Avg Craft

6.6

Avg Impact

6.2

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Best Jokes by Walter

All Jokes — 30 total

S1E15

Take this cab to Cuba.

5.65.0
S1E15

Did you hear that? I said Cuba, like... like a hijack.

5.24.7
S1E15

Don't you love life, driver? / No, we're just good friends.

7.06.8
S1E15

Did I say something to offend you tonight? / Everything after hello.

6.67.0
S1E15

What did you think that I meant when I said two hours ago, 'Please, for the love of God, take me home'? / I thought you were coming on to me.

6.87.0
S1E15

I guess this means you don't want to sleep with me.

6.15.5
S1E15

You have women in your cab all day long. I never meet anybody. / What do you do? / I'm a United States Congressman.

7.37.3
S1E15

Dad's a major contributor to the party, so, to thank him, they, uh, they ran me for Congress.

6.15.5
S1E15

The week before the election my opponent was convicted of murder. / But you did win. / We had to have a runoff.

7.88.3
S1E15

There's talk of a recall.

6.86.0
S1E15

Hey, I'm in your district. I voted for you. / Oh, yeah? Why? / The other guy was up for murder.

5.65.7
S1E15

Said something about having to get up early and change her phone number.

7.06.5
S1E15

You know how embarrassing it is to go to the presidential inaugural ball stag? I only hope people think I'm gay.

6.66.2
S1E15

Damn it, Louie, you little twerp / She's much nicer than what I'm used to.

7.17.2
S1E15

I guess you can say 'thank you' too often.

6.15.3
S1E15

I perspire freely. I'm talking buckets. That's why I'll never be reelected. Who's going to vote for a man who always looks like he just stepped out of a sauna?

6.85.8
S1E15

I shake hands with people, and they wipe their hands off. They pretend to do something else so they won't hurt my feelings. They, uh... they cross their arms. They adjust their ties. They wave hello at friends.

6.76.3
S1E15

Could we talk about something else? I'm talking about sweat again. Why do I always talk sweat on dates? It's because I'm always sweating on dates.

6.96.0
S1E15

He hates me. / Who? / The waiter. I know when a man despises me and that man despises me. He's going to spit in my food.

6.25.0
S1E15

What, they run out of towels in the men's room? / No, that's, uh, that's sweat.

6.15.8
S1E15

I never want to see me again.

7.36.8
S1E15

Oh, yeah? You want to go out Saturday night? / Oh, no, Saturday, I made these... / See? See? What about Sunday? / No, I take the kids... / Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. What about Monday? / Monday's a bad day. / Mm-hmm. Tuesday?

6.96.5
S1E15

What's wrong with you?

7.17.0
S1E15

Maybe just a little... applause.

7.47.2
S1E15

I've never sweat so much in my entire life.

6.45.8
S1E15

I had a little time to think before you woke up this morning... seven, eight hours...

6.86.2
S1E15

Walter, you want to fly your parents to New York because of what we did last night? / It's a shuttle.

7.06.5
S1E15

How about every Thursday night for the next three months? Is 8:00 okay?

7.57.3
S1E15

It was, I guess, an ordinary evening for most people.

6.25.5
S1E15

there are some things a gentleman does not discuss.

6.35.5