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Character Analysis

Catherine Tate

Nellie Bertram

Played by Catherine Tate

75 jokes across 16 episodes of The Office

WAR

23.7

Total Jokes

75

Avg Craft

7.0

Avg Impact

6.7

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Nellie delivers 75 scored jokes across 16 episodes of The Office, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.7 on impact for a career WAR of 23.7. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Nellie Lines

All Jokes — 75 total

S8E15

Nellie:giving everyone 20 minutes to shower, plus 50 for Jim to style his hair, 20 for breakfast, 40 for Erin to get post between her room and the lobby, 90 for Ryan to do his morning ecstasy

7.88.0
S8E15

Nellie:Expected a man, did you? Strong, powerful huge whopping penis? Well, sorry to disappoint But my huge whopping penis is right here and I'm not afraid to use it So stop looking at my breasts and start looking at my penis

7.37.5
S8E15

Nellie:I went on a shopping spree Very destructive, I bought 1/ pianos

7.07.0
S8E15

Ryan · Famous Amos · Nellie:What's under the cloth? We'll get to that Cookies. I bet you anything it's cookies It's cookies Let me finish my speech first Oh, we get the gist It's just success and effort, isn't it? So just don't be coy. Make with the cookies

6.66.5
S8E16

Nellie · Todd:- Blow in my ear. - All right. Like I'm on the beach. - [Blows] - Oh. [Imitates seagull calls] Seagull. [Cawing] And-- and a wave crashing.

5.36.0
S8E16

Nellie · Todd:Impressive. Oh, please, anyone can tie a knot. The real skill is in untying it. Mm...

4.84.5
S8E16

Dwight · Nellie:Seven, one, one, nine... No, no, no. Not numbers, no. Try again. Ugh, I'm still getting numbers. Seven, one, one-- Is anyone around here thinking the numbers seven, one, one?

6.46.0
S8E16

Nellie:Look, the light went off. Just as I said the light went on.

5.75.0
S8E17

Nellie:I was born in the little working class town of Basildon, and until the age of 32, I talked like this, which was bloody horrendous, innit?

6.46.0
S8E17

Nellie · Unknown:What's lower than dirt? Loam, magma, mantle, outer core, inner core. - Yeah, thank you. - Loam. Bloody loam, I came from.

6.76.5
S8E17

Nellie · Unknown:When I auditioned for the Spice Girls, I didn't even get a callback. Which Spice Girl? The black one. I never stood a chance.

7.07.0
S8E17

Nellie:Your little man is unraveling. Now, go and fix it.

6.35.5
S8E17

Nellie:You are gonna bloody ruin it. You're gonna bloody ruin it because you're a no-good half-ass cockeyed...

6.56.0
S8E17

Jim · Nellie · Dwight:We could have integrated more Chuck into the presentation. Dwight. You're the Vice President.

6.06.0
S8E19

Nellie:What brings you to town? Certainly not the Harry Houdini Museum. What a nobody. Look, some Hungarian just found their way out of a sack. Let's build a shrine.

6.76.0
S8E19

Nellie:I have one simple philosophy in business: If the seat is open, the job is open. It's how I came to briefly race a formula one car.

8.07.0
S8E19

Nellie:The three slowest laps ever recorded.

7.37.0
S8E19

Nellie:Because it is 10:00, I've been in this chair for an hour, and no other manager has come and sat in my lap.

7.67.0
S8E19

Nellie:I think it's a cross between 'Dumbo' and 'Jumbo'. With a hint of 'chubby.'

7.06.0
S8E19

Nellie:The way Pam trusted you to provide for her so she wouldn't have to work?

7.88.0
S8E19

Nellie:You are our Atlas, and for that, do you not think you deserve a raise?

6.65.0
S8E19

Nellie:Dreamt I could breathe underwater like Jacques Cousteau.

6.35.0
S8E19

Nellie:I'm Tinkerbell. I'm a magical fairy who floated into your office to bring a little bit of magic into your lives, to give you all raises.

7.37.0
S8E19

Nellie:I grew up poor. I had little formal education. No real skills. I don't work especially hard... And most of my ideas are either unoriginal or total crap. And yet... I walked right into a job for which I was ill prepared, ill seated, and somebody else already had and I got it. If you ask me, that's the American dream right there, anything can happen to anyone. It's just random.

8.38.0
S8E20

Nellie:Nellie's elaborate snooze button story with sound effects

6.05.0
S8E20

Nellie · Kevin · Angela:Are there a lot of Irish people living around here? Yes. Yes. Ugh! I hate that! No offense.

7.17.5
S8E20

Nellie:Ay, caramba! The natives are getting restless!

6.56.5
S8E20

Nellie:Keep that stuff on the basketball court. Or the squash court, or the supreme court.

5.54.0
S8E20

Nellie:Bunch of grown men waving wands, pulling bunnies out of body crevices.

6.66.5
S8E20

Nellie:I wonder if king-sized sheets are called presidential-sized in england. I really should have a tweeter account.

6.25.5
S8E20

Nellie · Dwight:That's what I call my box full of photos of Henry. Why not call... Shh!

6.66.0
S8E20

Nellie:What kind of fool gets her heart broken by a bloody stage magician?

8.38.5
S8E21

Nellie · Andy:No. Obviously, we'll figure out the, uh, logistics of moving all of this stuff out of here. But... You know, the sooner the better. Get back to normalcy. Hmm, no.

6.87.0
S8E21

Nellie:Oh, Bobby, get accustomed to it, because then it feels good when they finally say yes.

7.26.5
S8E21

Andy · Nellie · Angela:I'm going to dock your pay $100. Okay. Five... four... You can't dock my pay. Angela! Dock Andy's pay $100! On it! Great!

7.47.5
S8E21

Andy · Nellie:$10,000. 5...4... You're just saying numbers. It's meaningless. It's literally like... 3... 2... One.

6.76.5
S8E21

Dwight · Nellie:Oh, and Andy lost his masculinity, so congratulations on that. What do you mean? Erin made it clear to me that he was unable to perform sexually last night. By contrast, I went to sleep with an erection so large it was like I was wearing no blanket at all.

8.38.5
S8E21

Nellie:I just wanted to take the man's job, not his manhood.

7.37.0
S8E21

Nellie:Andrew, not everyone here is important. And the word is impotence. Which is important in its own way.

7.77.5
S8E21

Nellie:'Take a man's job, but leave him his balls.' Margaret Thatcher said that... probably. Don't know. Don't read. Didn't see the movie.

8.28.0
S8E21

Nellie:Small, bigger, biggest. Oh, sexual innuendo. Not intentional. Shut up!

7.27.0
S8E22

Nellie:Tracks of My Tears and what else? What are some more? What's one more?

6.66.5
S8E22

Nellie:Everybody told me if I moved to America I'd be murdered.

6.86.5
S8E22

Nellie:I've never eaten a taco. I'm not entirely sure what they are. As long as they're not slimy, and please, God, don't let them have eyes.

7.37.0
S8E22

Nellie:Nellie trying to eat tacos visual gag

6.26.5
S9E01

Nellie:Now, I don't like to throw around the 'B' word. But I'm going to be a huge bitch to you.

7.57.5
S9E01

Nellie:Oh! Swish. It was nothing to do with me. I just happen to be sitting near to where the bins are.

7.06.0
S9E01

Nellie:There are two things that I am passionate about, recycling and revenge.

8.07.5
S9E02

Nellie:Andy has shot down all of my special projects thus far, but this one is about charity so I'd like to see him piss on that one.

6.86.5
S9E02

Nellie:You support the Taliban abroad, so I assume you're willing to live by their rules here.

7.77.5
S9E02

Nellie:This is a lovely pen, and it's mine now, because I stole it.

7.57.5
S9E02

Nellie:That means you're not serious, or someone's getting their hand cut off.

7.58.0
S9E02

Nellie:I suggest you spend some quality time together, just you and your hand, tie a shoe, toss a salad. Do any of the two-hand activities that you'll miss the most.

7.27.5
S9E02

Nellie · Dwight:Well, he's a genius, you know? He was in graduate programs at Yale, Columbia and NYU all at the same time. Whoop-de-doo. That doesn't make you a genius.

6.96.5
S9E02

Dwight · Nellie:You're the stupid one. Like you. You, you, you, you, you...

5.86.0
S9E03

Nellie:Pam, I'm related to Tonya Harding. No, I'm just practicing my lying.

7.26.5
S9E03

Nellie:My ex behaved like Nixon. All of the lying, none of the sexual charisma.

8.07.5
S9E03

Nellie:You're a cocky little thing, aren't you, Pam?

6.76.5
S9E03

Nellie:Hiring Scranton's most dangerous young muralist to paint the warehouse wall.

7.57.0
S9E03

Nellie:She never loved you. / I am gonna find you someone better, and rich. And Filipino. But we'll break that to her later.

7.57.5
S9E05

Nellie:I once saw him yell at Phyllis for sneezing wrong.

7.17.5
S9E07

Nellie:children of the world coming together, cutting down trees to make paper. But not in a child labor-y way.

7.27.0
S9E07

Nellie:he looks like he's laboring over a stool, having just eaten human flesh.

7.58.0
S9E12

Nellie:Andy has just started to be nice to me and now I've sent his girlfriend into the arms of a younger man! And I cc'ed him on every incriminating memo. 'Pete and Erin, don't hold back. Our social media presence should be hot, hot, hot. Go at it vigorously.' I did everything but unzip their pants for them.

7.27.5
S9E12

Nellie:Most relationships eventually die on their own. But sometimes they just need a little pillow over the face.

7.77.5
S9E14

Nellie:I believe in you, I believe in your art, and I am bored.

7.36.5
S9E14

Dwight · Nellie:All right, then, no bottoms. Uh... We should ask you to do big rounded W's. Yes, or nippleless breasts, perhaps.

7.07.0
S9E14

Nellie:Or melons, like cantaloupes, with, like, the halves are cut off and then just the bottom parts...

6.05.5
S9E14

Nellie:The first 'sorry' sounded sincere. There were two or three sorrys in there. So it's a lot.

7.67.0
S9E14

Nellie:Go all Hammurabi on this clown.

7.46.0
S9E16

Nellie · Toby:Nellie's Scranton Strangler advice: 'Do something about it. Get it out of your system, whatever it takes.'

6.56.0
S9E16

Toby · Nellie:Toby's strangling aftermath and Nellie's commentary about 'the proud neck of justice'

7.07.0
S9E20

Nellie:Not one of us remembers you saying anything about $2,000. I forgot. I completely forgot.

6.46.5
S9E20

Nellie:But my new studio apartment is just fine for me and Phillip and Tinkie and Crinklepuss and Bandit Two and Pawlick Baggins and Lady Aragorn and their 10 kittens.

7.58.0
S9E20

Nellie:I'd be one of those gold-digging tramps you read about that try to bag a farmer.

7.27.5