Kenneth being some type of mysterious immortal being has got to be the most absurd direction to take that character, but it just works so well somehow lol. It's hands down one of the funniest running gags in comedy history haha
Agreed. In a show that's about fairly realistic people that's just a little silly, you would think throwing in an IMMORTAL BEING would be over the top absurd to the point of being critically unfunny but somehow it works.
My favorite running gag was in Arrested Development. Every member of the family had a different idea of a chicken impression, with different sounds and different body movements that never resembled an actual chicken at all. Throughout the series they'd show one at a time occasionally, untill eventually it culminated with all of them doing their chicken impressions at the same time in the same room. Pure Gold
“Kenneth you don’t smell like anything.” “Don’t worry about it.” The nonchalance of how he says it, but you know it’s revealing of his immortality just made me die laughing.
@@troppmanndidn’t that get adapted into a movie like I swear I’ve heard of a film where a man murders women to make a perfume out of them some very weird concept
@@damiannichols1250 Well, NBC wasn't founded until 1926, and they didn't start their Page program until 1933; he _couldn't_ have had his NBC Page uniform jacket before 19[mumble mumble mumble]. Possibly not before _1936_ if you assume "when I first started working here" is _exact_ and Shirley Temple taught him to roll his own cigarettes during his _very first year_ on the job.
I think you have to give the writers a little credit there. A teflon polyanna attitude crossed with rural, old-fashionen, southern social mores doesn't come to you fully formed in the season one writers' room.
the fact that his natural, real voice conveys the idea of the nice guy simpleton without really changing anything works so well when they contrast it against him being an incredibly obvious secret vampire/elder god cultist. by all accounts he seems like one of the nicest guys in hollywood and that's exactly why his character works.
It's weird that this line exists considering it conflicts with his dream journal. Though he could just be going into a deep trance and hallucinating future events.
There's a certain line Kenneth says about his hometown having a clock tower that's counting down to something and nobody knows what. That's my favorite line by Kenneth. Such a great character
@@fortressonahill5860 I think it’s referring to the final day of judgment, that or rapture. It has to be some “end times” scenario. Either way what an insane throwaway line.
It makes sense that an immortal would have a love of television. He's seen technology advance so far in his lifetimes(s) and television must've been one of the big ones for him
That and the fact that even though you're alive you can only be 1 place at a time, so there's so much you'd miss. Tv would bring him news and entertainment from around the world he would otherwise miss out on.
@@Lando_Calzonian_MK8 I think most people did. It's been a while since obscure bible refrences have been mainstream. Also Lando Calzonian is an awesome name.
Theory: Kenneth is a Lovecraftian being like Wilbur Whateley in A Dunwich Horror. The thing is, if Kenneth has been with NBC since Shirley Temple was 8, is his mother VERY OLD and possibly part of the cult? Kenneth mentions that his parents were "technically brothers" and since his concept of Christianity bares almost nothing in common with Christianity outside his home town we can assume that it is at least a sect if not a cult. Also there is a comment about how shortly after Kenneth's father died, Ron moved in which I always took as Ron and Ken's mom murdered Ken's father. This mirrors H.P.'s story with the birth father being afraid of what he had brought into the world until he dies under mysterious circumstances. The most interesting part is the dream journal, the constant talk to Jakob and, him telling his mom he is an immortal being just after being born. All of this info plus the use of Dunwich as a framework tells an interesting story. It implies that Jakob is his brother/ the creature in the dream journal that bares almost no humanoid qualities and isn't even visible to the naked eye. Add in the home town having near identical Ken clones, the clock tower counting down and, the fact that even the mayor doesn't know how it works; and you get an almost complete picture of what's going on in Stone-Mountain Georgia. P.S. I know I put WAY too much thought into this but I had fun doing writing this and hopefully I gave you another reason to watch the entire show again.
@@mrcritical6751 I used to think that, but it doesn't work with him being afraid of age verification because if he was simply reborn, he'd always get a new social security number.
So, it can be surmised that Kenneth is actually the soul of Esau, the older twin brother of Jacob in the Bible whose inheritance Jacob stole and was cast into the desert.
You might be conflating Esau and Cain. Esau was the brother of Jacob and did have his inheritance stolen, but he remained in Israel. Cain was the one cast out into the desert and marked with a sign that made him immortal.
@@iova3922 That is not true. I am a twin and my sister is 9 minutes older. She went through the birth canal first and the hospital even records the times. When I was growing up I was always asked if I was the younger or older twin by children and adults alike. It isn't a lot of time but there is a time difference.
I watched the show as it aired and like twice over before I realized this was a long laced gag through the entire series. I thought originally the joke was Stone Mountain was so stuck in time that he related to old culture bc it arrived in Georgia late. Then I realized all these “I’ve been alive forever” jokes have like a continuity to them it’s hilarious
While I LOVE these clips...I HATE that the streaming version of the last episode on Peacock has cut the final scene with Kenneth and Liz’ great granddaughter completely out!! That’s a big fail, Peacock..Jakob is gonna get ya!!
Netflix cuts stuff from movies too. They cut the scene where the black kid on the bus gives the finger to the white kids. So now all you see is the black kid looking sad and forlorn on the bus.
"You don't want to be a page forever." "Who says I've been alive forever?" "What?" That moment when Tracy was the Only Sane Man and legit concerned about the situation.
He said judging is for God and his angels. Then he judged. He is a vessel for an immortal being, yet not all powerful since he asks Jacob for stuff. Kenneth is an angel, it's been confirmed!
@@chrisarbour Oh no, the true names of the angels in the Bible are uh something else. The renaissance era really did a number on the imagery of angels.
7:21 This is one of my favorite kinds of jokes, when a character says a full statement and then without stopping says “I mean [much shorter statement]”
I think making him immortal was Donald Glover's idea.The fact that the character's background shares similarity to Glover,that Glover was a writer on the show and that he has a fondness for quirky,absurd twin-peakesque scenes makes me think he was the one to come up with it.
@@popmoncatkittyhero Yea, he wrote a spec script for an episode of the Simpsons. Tina Fey apparently was impressed enough to get him a writing gig on 30 rock(not sure how she even got the script to be honest).
@@popmoncatkittyhero Donald only wrote 1 episode (Episode 210 - the one where Kenneth gets addicted to caffeine) BUT did supervise 20+ others (executive story editor).
What’s confusing is in the Season 4 Christmas episode, Kenneth had a crisis thinking that there was no God. So, that means he’s definitely not a god, or an angel, so is he some sort of cursed being, or a vampire? I have no idea.
It could be he doesn't completely understand what he is and what's happened to him. He may have never interacted with god itself and has just been assuming Christian theology holds true based on what's happened to him, but who's to say that Jacob is even really the biblical Jacob?
@@marielewis1530 right especially because if you consider everything that happens in this video, some ancient dark spirit enters him and gets this ball rolling, and this spirit may cause him to become immortal and lose track of his own life's timeline (getting confused about his natural age vs the demon's age and what he really remembers happening), and one can imagine in an attempt to understand what happened to him he went out and studied various texts that led him to believe it was some biblical situation, but then he freaks out when he realizes he doesn't really know for sure
All we know for sure is that Kenneth may have started working at NBC around 1936 based on the 8 year old Shirley Temple cigarette rolling remark and that he was born on May 27, 1781
Let's piece this together. The first place we should start is the grave we see. It says 1781, making Kenneth 241 by 2022. The words he spoke at birth plus the fact he said that judging is for God and the angles. We can assume he is an angle who decided to spend time on earth, he was born to a family on 1781, and as they aged he asked "Jacob" to give his birth parents more time on the mortal world. Like how he asked Jacob for more time with himself and to send his friend back. So it's also clear that he is in a true mortal body but this "Jacob" can bring back the dead, and extend the life span of a mortal.
Kenneth is my fave on 30 Rock! Long live Parcell! I just now in quarantine watched this whole series and can't believe I'd never seen it. I laugh so hard I have to pause it or rewind cuz I miss the next bit. It's so over-the-top funny 😂😂😂😂
My favorite joke in the show is Kenneth in the background of the microwave song. No attention is called to it and no one would’ve thought anything if he wasn’t there
So, I suddenly kinda care about this show now. This is exactly how an immortal would hide. You'd eventually learn plain sight and PR is the way to go. Be goofy and non-threatening. Make it a gag. I am impressed. Mastering people and media and corporations.
It’s kinda off, he was born in “1781” yet his father graduated right before the civil war, I can’t remember what else but there was a few errors in the timeline.
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How does the world deal with the existence of immortal Kenneth? 🤔
The only way they can, they thank Jacob
We embrace it because there's not a single person more worthy of it than him.
Don’t worry about it!
The world can never know.
With a sincere thank you and a prayer for more just like him, 🙏😁
"judging is for God and his angels... So yes" is the most definitive information we get from Kenneth about who he really is.
Still though, he could be a fallen Angel that still considers himself an Angel. Because it’s hinted multiple times that Kenneth has killed people 😅
Maybe God or an Angel told him how they judge Jenna
@@coleeckerman1390Angels kill people all the time.
When they're ordered to.
@@coleeckerman1390 He could've judged them in the name of the lord
There won't be a network...I think Kenneth predicted streaming services
I wanted to thumbs up, but 666...
@@willpina you’re safe now
I bet that’s in his dream journal too
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We had internet streaming then. It was just mostly junk
This is one of the great running gags in tv comedy history. No exaggeration.
And before that it was on radio -- after Vaudeville, of course...
that and Jenna "lowkey" possessing supernatural powers. I love that 30rock really embraced these aspects, haha.
I don't watch the show, what is the running gag?
@@ukmedicfrcs the title of the video is the running gag
@@NotDuncan Oh ok, thank you for replying.
"NO. No it can't be! I'M NOT DONE WITH HIM, JACOB! HE STAYS ON THIS SIDE"
@Mateo Hodge LMFAOOOOO
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Was that Candice Owens in this scene?
@@christopherrichardson2945 No, that was just… a black woman? That’s kind of the only thing she and Candace Owens have in common.
@@alexanderwill2847 it sounded like her to me, that’s all
Kenneth being some type of mysterious immortal being has got to be the most absurd direction to take that character, but it just works so well somehow lol. It's hands down one of the funniest running gags in comedy history haha
Agreed. In a show that's about fairly realistic people that's just a little silly, you would think throwing in an IMMORTAL BEING would be over the top absurd to the point of being critically unfunny but somehow it works.
My favorite running gag was in Arrested Development. Every member of the family had a different idea of a chicken impression, with different sounds and different body movements that never resembled an actual chicken at all. Throughout the series they'd show one at a time occasionally, untill eventually it culminated with all of them doing their chicken impressions at the same time in the same room. Pure Gold
@@tomdoell811”Has anyone in this family actually *seen* a chicken?”
“Kenneth you don’t smell like anything.”
“Don’t worry about it.”
The nonchalance of how he says it, but you know it’s revealing of his immortality just made me die laughing.
Ever read Perfume by Patrick Süskind? The central character is odourless, but with superhuman powers of smell. He's also a murderer.
@@troppmanndidn’t that get adapted into a movie like I swear I’ve heard of a film where a man murders women to make a perfume out of them some very weird concept
@@Alphoric yep it was
“I’ve worn this old jacket since nineteen-huvbaduhh...”
Bit but the grave said 1786
@@damiannichols1250 are you sure there was a 1 there?
@@jabonought It does
@@damiannichols1250 Well, NBC wasn't founded until 1926, and they didn't start their Page program until 1933; he _couldn't_ have had his NBC Page uniform jacket before 19[mumble mumble mumble]. Possibly not before _1936_ if you assume "when I first started working here" is _exact_ and Shirley Temple taught him to roll his own cigarettes during his _very first year_ on the job.
@@damiannichols1250 that's when he was "born" not when he started wearing the jacket.
Jack McBrayer nailed all these scenes! I can’t think of anyone better to play Kenneth.
I totally agree I could t imagine anyone else doing the role justice
I think you have to give the writers a little credit there. A teflon polyanna attitude crossed with rural, old-fashionen, southern social mores doesn't come to you fully formed in the season one writers' room.
Well it was written for him
They wrote the character for him... So it works perfectly
the fact that his natural, real voice conveys the idea of the nice guy simpleton without really changing anything works so well when they contrast it against him being an incredibly obvious secret vampire/elder god cultist. by all accounts he seems like one of the nicest guys in hollywood and that's exactly why his character works.
Where will you sit patiently in the dark while you wait for the next day to start, I mean, sleep.
I sometimes do that. Jacob is kind
the line is delivered so perfecly too
That's my favorite of these.
It made me think he's a vampire lol
It's weird that this line exists considering it conflicts with his dream journal. Though he could just be going into a deep trance and hallucinating future events.
“Where will you sit patiently in the dark waiting for the next day to start? I mean sleep?” As an insomniac, I felt that
There's a certain line Kenneth says about his hometown having a clock tower that's counting down to something and nobody knows what. That's my favorite line by Kenneth. Such a great character
im gonna be honest, i didn't get this one. care to explain?
Maybe it’s counting down to his death?
@@fortressonahill5860 I think it’s referring to the final day of judgment, that or rapture. It has to be some “end times” scenario. Either way what an insane throwaway line.
That where I do all my sniperin’
@@fortressonahill5860 There's a lot of abusrdist humor in 30 rock. Sometimes the joke is just that it isn't a normal thing to say
Imagine the pitch meeting for this show, « and then there’s the immortal one who makes casual remarks about it but no one calls him out on it? »
Kenneth the page originated on the Late Show with Conan O'Brien, so it was probably an easier sell
The other executives- "Now, how would we do that?", Tina Fey pitching, "Super easy, barely an inconvenience".
@@ablackmon_exe oh, really!?
@@ShinySephiroth1 Yeah yeah yeah
@@samuelmehaffey2675 Being a late addition to a comment thread is TIGHT!
"Kenneth you don't have any smell at all!"
*DONT WORRY ABOUT IT*
I like to think that when the construction crew first showed up to build 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Kenneth was already there, waiting.
Who do you think was making coffee and getting lunches for them?
It makes sense that an immortal would have a love of television. He's seen technology advance so far in his lifetimes(s) and television must've been one of the big ones for him
That and the fact that even though you're alive you can only be 1 place at a time, so there's so much you'd miss. Tv would bring him news and entertainment from around the world he would otherwise miss out on.
I have always been invested in Kenneths character. The signs that he was more then human. They added a very interesting depth to his character.
_An eight-year-old Shirley Temple taught me how to roll a cigarette_
@JackMcBrayerFangxrl I just heard that joke and I'm still wiping tears out of my eyes!
How'd you do that slanty text
I know how to do *bold*
@@rosegoid2307 Use underscores ( _ ) at the beginning and end
@@JC42023 ty!
Us living in 2020 "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US JACOB!"
Because Jacob (Mark Pellegrino) is Lucifer.
The first time I saw that seen I thought it was a Lost reference
@@Lando_Calzonian_MK8 I think most people did. It's been a while since obscure bible refrences have been mainstream. Also Lando Calzonian is an awesome name.
*Laughs in January 2021*
Jacob has much to answer for.
Great to know that an immortal divine being also has daddy issues
That's not his real dad
I mean... Don't they _all?_
You mean father-pig issues
I mean... Jesus has them so
I guess you haven't seen Lucifer.
I dont know why but the actor that plays Kenneth has the most innocent sounding voice an adult has that i have ever heard
And yet, in the right situation it can sound unsettling.
What about hazel
Glenn sturgis from superstore anyone?
Yes
@@davidmarek535 Glenn Sturgis must be protected from the evil of this world at all costs.
“What’s wrong, Ken? You’ve got WIFE eyes!”
I don’t know how I missed that the first time around but it is gold.
Wife or waif?
Everytime he says "I have been wearing this jacket since 19 buh-duh-duh duh" it makes me giggle.
I love the Jacob line when Kenneth thinks Tracy has died, it implies such an insane other story going on
I love the fact that they bring back Jacob
The judgement for god and his angels thing cracks me up every time, without fail. Kenneth was the best, and I loved all of this through the years :D
Theory: Kenneth is a Lovecraftian being like Wilbur Whateley in A Dunwich Horror. The thing is, if Kenneth has been with NBC since Shirley Temple was 8, is his mother VERY OLD and possibly part of the cult? Kenneth mentions that his parents were "technically brothers" and since his concept of Christianity bares almost nothing in common with Christianity outside his home town we can assume that it is at least a sect if not a cult. Also there is a comment about how shortly after Kenneth's father died, Ron moved in which I always took as Ron and Ken's mom murdered Ken's father. This mirrors H.P.'s story with the birth father being afraid of what he had brought into the world until he dies under mysterious circumstances. The most interesting part is the dream journal, the constant talk to Jakob and, him telling his mom he is an immortal being just after being born. All of this info plus the use of Dunwich as a framework tells an interesting story. It implies that Jakob is his brother/ the creature in the dream journal that bares almost no humanoid qualities and isn't even visible to the naked eye. Add in the home town having near identical Ken clones, the clock tower counting down and, the fact that even the mayor doesn't know how it works; and you get an almost complete picture of what's going on in Stone-Mountain Georgia. P.S. I know I put WAY too much thought into this but I had fun doing writing this and hopefully I gave you another reason to watch the entire show again.
I think it’s more that every now and again Keneth is reborn judging by his mother’s story about what his first words were
@@mrcritical6751 I used to think that, but it doesn't work with him being afraid of age verification because if he was simply reborn, he'd always get a new social security number.
@@ShinySephiroth1could be that he was afraid they’d look too far into it and see other Kenneth’s that have worked for NBC
Jacob is just a reference to the last season or two of lost I'm pretty sure
So, it can be surmised that Kenneth is actually the soul of Esau, the older twin brother of Jacob in the Bible whose inheritance Jacob stole and was cast into the desert.
I think it’s a Lost tv show joke
I want it to be this
You might be conflating Esau and Cain. Esau was the brother of Jacob and did have his inheritance stolen, but he remained in Israel. Cain was the one cast out into the desert and marked with a sign that made him immortal.
@@iova3922 Why did you quote older twin brother?
@@iova3922 That is not true. I am a twin and my sister is 9 minutes older. She went through the birth canal first and the hospital even records the times. When I was growing up I was always asked if I was the younger or older twin by children and adults alike. It isn't a lot of time but there is a time difference.
30 Rock is just part of the story of Kenneth’s eternal rise to power.
Anyone else see "1781" on Kenneth's tombstone?
yeah
yea lmao 🤣
I really only see the “781” 😅
@@duuuud9364 yeah , same thing
My favorite thing about this is how in 5 years the won't just all be dead but coworkers buried next to each other instead of next to their family.
I definitely did not notice Kenneth there (at 2:09) the first 10 times I saw that episode
Holy moly me neither!!!
It was so subtle lmao
4:54 "I hope I photograph ok, because when I look into a mirror there is just a white haze"
🖤🤍🖤
Things I say so coworkers don't get too chummy lmao
This is my new favorite compilation.
Particularly dear to my heart: 7:59
This is definitely my favorite running gag on any sitcom
I watched the show as it aired and like twice over before I realized this was a long laced gag through the entire series. I thought originally the joke was Stone Mountain was so stuck in time that he related to old culture bc it arrived in Georgia late. Then I realized all these “I’ve been alive forever” jokes have like a continuity to them it’s hilarious
The fact that he sometimes hides it and is sometimes open about it.
While I LOVE these clips...I HATE that the streaming version of the last episode on Peacock has cut the final scene with Kenneth and Liz’ great granddaughter completely out!! That’s a big fail, Peacock..Jakob is gonna get ya!!
What!? Why!?
I just watched the episode last night... it was there! (Gotta get through that final commercial, or maybe they put it back in!)
Netflix cuts stuff from movies too.
They cut the scene where the black kid on the bus gives the finger to the white kids.
So now all you see is the black kid looking sad and forlorn on the bus.
Yeah isn’t her great grand daughter the girl that played she hulk?
Since he's an immortal being it just logical that I worship him from now on.
The Church of Kenneth (led by Parcell’s Angels)
Somehow he is the comic relief on a comedy show😂😂😂
Yay Bespin Cloud Car!
Also, seeing Bryan Cranston and Catherine O'Hara together is such a treat.
I spotted those things too!
In the very last scene, one last SW reference. Love it!
"You were a FAT baby!" gets me every time
"You don't want to be a page forever."
"Who says I've been alive forever?"
"What?"
That moment when Tracy was the Only Sane Man and legit concerned about the situation.
Tracy Jordan’s lines are so underrated: “what’s wrong, ken? You’ve got ‘wife eyes’.”
He said judging is for God and his angels. Then he judged.
He is a vessel for an immortal being, yet not all powerful since he asks Jacob for stuff.
Kenneth is an angel, it's been confirmed!
@Riley the Riolu Feel like that's some lovecraftian type of name then lol
Omg. You're right. I didnt get that scene until I read this.
@@chrisarbour Oh no, the true names of the angels in the Bible are uh something else. The renaissance era really did a number on the imagery of angels.
well he could have been, in the universe logic, telling what the angel said about her to her.
@@chrisarbour Biblically accurate angels are pretty lovecraftian lol
2:09
Kenneth is dancing in the 1960s TV dance party.
5:50
Fred Allen autographing a headshot to Kenneth "You're the Tops!", in Feb 21, 1947
Kenneth is too precious for this world
I just finished watching this show. There are so many great running gags, and this is one of my favs!
I'd really love to meet Jack McBrayer one day and absolutely adore him.
Maybe your great grandkids might some day!
I had nooo idea this was a running gag - mind blown.
I haven't watched the show but I've watched this multiple times because I don't think the show can get better than this
You are truly missing out!
Hold on is he the voice actor of Wander from "Wander over Yonder" ? Man I love that show
Yes it is. No matter any depiction of him he is always semi-divine. In vanquish about being of immense power and modesty
Yep 👍
Nice detail having the NBC logo in Kenneth's dream journal.
7:21
This is one of my favorite kinds of jokes, when a character says a full statement and then without stopping says “I mean [much shorter statement]”
Flying cars at the end sound like they are from the Jetsons. Love it.
Good catch!
I think making him immortal was Donald Glover's idea.The fact that the character's background shares similarity to Glover,that Glover was a writer on the show and that he has a fondness for quirky,absurd twin-peakesque scenes makes me think he was the one to come up with it.
Glover is also from Stone Mountain, GA irl!
DONALD GLOVER WROTE ON THIS SHOW??? 0-0
@@popmoncatkittyhero Yea, he wrote a spec script for an episode of the Simpsons. Tina Fey apparently was impressed enough to get him a writing gig on 30 rock(not sure how she even got the script to be honest).
Kenneth would work for the nutella man
@@popmoncatkittyhero Donald only wrote 1 episode (Episode 210 - the one where Kenneth gets addicted to caffeine) BUT did supervise 20+ others (executive story editor).
Kurgan: The Page! Where is he?!
Ramirez: You're too late I've prepared him for you!
I really wish they shot a scene with Jacob from Lost granting Kenneth immortality.
That would have taken away from the enigmatic mystery. We don't know exactly what kind of being Kenneth is.
So when Lizs granddaughter decided to pitch the show to Kenneth, and he made the show, he played himself
"Funny Kenneth, You don't have any smell at all"
Don't worry about it.😁
Kenneth singing the chorus of It Takes Two is golden.
This is the first time I noticed that Tracy and Jenna died on the same day and Kenneth died two weeks later.
“What’s wrong Ken? You got wife eyes.” God still that gets me till today.
Pretty sure he said "waif" eyes, as in sad lost child eyes
"You know who this is?"
"Who doesnt?"
"Most people"
Lmao
30 rock has been my therapeutic binge watch show this entire pandemic. I’ve rewatched it at least 4 times dear god
Watched it midway through last year, and just started watching it again last week. 30 Rock is a show I would have to actively try to get tired of.
Dear god lemon!
My go-to binge at least once a year. It's sooooo excellent!
I love that he has a little Tracy bobblehead on his desk at 8:38. It's such a sweet detail.
1:27 Jack hitting that high note is amazing. I knew he had an angelic voice, but that's just miraculous!
Go see the music video for Mariah Carey’s Touch My Body and see that Jack was featured in it
I love how Jane is cracking up in the sound over 40 bit.
"Our town minister who died in an organ fire"
"Give me more time with them Jacob"
Next scene with utter chaos
"WHY JACOB"
"Well, Mr. Donaghy", Kenneth pronounces Jack's name correctly because *he's old enough to know Celtic* .
4:18 gold just gold
What’s confusing is in the Season 4 Christmas episode, Kenneth had a crisis thinking that there was no God. So, that means he’s definitely not a god, or an angel, so is he some sort of cursed being, or a vampire? I have no idea.
Dang I forgot about that!
But he talks to "Jacob" which is the name of an arch-angel.
....I don't think we're ever supposed to be sure.
It could be he doesn't completely understand what he is and what's happened to him. He may have never interacted with god itself and has just been assuming Christian theology holds true based on what's happened to him, but who's to say that Jacob is even really the biblical Jacob?
@@rachelrachel9152 I 100% agree, and I think his breakdown was essentially “If God isn’t real, then who tf have I been talking to” lol
@@marielewis1530 right especially because if you consider everything that happens in this video, some ancient dark spirit enters him and gets this ball rolling, and this spirit may cause him to become immortal and lose track of his own life's timeline (getting confused about his natural age vs the demon's age and what he really remembers happening), and one can imagine in an attempt to understand what happened to him he went out and studied various texts that led him to believe it was some biblical situation, but then he freaks out when he realizes he doesn't really know for sure
All we know for sure is that Kenneth may have started working at NBC around 1936 based on the 8 year old Shirley Temple cigarette rolling remark and that he was born on May 27, 1781
I always thought it was a running gag inspired by the show Lost - that shadowy Jacob character that terrorized all the guys on the island.
3:00 kinda looks like a blooper that ended up in the episode! Pretty cool.
i can't believe i totally missed this running gag! so subtly hilarious
“what’s wrong Ken? you got wife eyes” is my favorite line in the whole show 😭
Let's piece this together.
The first place we should start is the grave we see.
It says 1781, making Kenneth 241 by 2022.
The words he spoke at birth plus the fact he said that judging is for God and the angles.
We can assume he is an angle who decided to spend time on earth, he was born to a family on 1781, and as they aged he asked "Jacob" to give his birth parents more time on the mortal world.
Like how he asked Jacob for more time with himself and to send his friend back.
So it's also clear that he is in a true mortal body but this "Jacob" can bring back the dead, and extend the life span of a mortal.
Kenneth is my fave on 30 Rock! Long live Parcell! I just now in quarantine watched this whole series and can't believe I'd never seen it. I laugh so hard I have to pause it or rewind cuz I miss the next bit. It's so over-the-top funny 😂😂😂😂
“What’s wrong, Kenneth? You’ve got wife eyes!”
So many jokes per minute!
Kenneth is so freaking adorable!!!!!!!🥰😘😍❤️
4:14 love this ”I’m not done with him Jacob”
My favorite joke in the show is Kenneth in the background of the microwave song. No attention is called to it and no one would’ve thought anything if he wasn’t there
i didnt even notice him until it was in this compilation
I love Jack McBryer he’s such a cool guy but his smile’s look like he’s gonna kill me
Kenny is an angel.
Best Clip!
Is it implied that Kenneth is an angel who possibly got kicked out of heaven
So he's some kind of angel with no hair, no reflection, no smell, doesn't age and can't sleep. I haven't seen the show but he sounds interesting.
Keneths grave says 1781-2016. That makes him like 235 years old
He must be a Highlander.
7:03 this is one of the funniest out of context scenes
So, I suddenly kinda care about this show now. This is exactly how an immortal would hide. You'd eventually learn plain sight and PR is the way to go. Be goofy and non-threatening. Make it a gag. I am impressed. Mastering people and media and corporations.
Kenneth has a much more serious side. because he knows there can be only one
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Keep 'em "Pearly"
I wish there was a spinoff show of the future where Liz's GGdaughter makes a show for CEO Kenneth.
How did I never get this? This solidified Kenneth being the best character on the show to me! He is truly the GOAT of 30 Rock
Kenneth born in 1781?? 😳
I was about to say that
...Or 781 if the plant isn't covering a 1...
It’s kinda off, he was born in “1781” yet his father graduated right before the civil war, I can’t remember what else but there was a few errors in the timeline.
@@berryb745 The timeline isn't off because it indicates that Kenneth is constantly reborn.
@@kerrycavanaugh4268 yes, there's the episode when he says that his mother told him he was the reincarnation of a priest.
Ron eventually had to go into Witness Protection. I heard he wound up in New Mexico.
8:27 I'm not crying. You're crying!
30 rock was truly demented. We shall never see the likes of it again.
0:04 Tracy’s “What? 😨” was flipping hilarious
Never noticed this part of Kenneth's character
You never noticed any of these cryptic signs? It's my favorite trait of his.