Kenneth Parcell
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Kenneth Parcell
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| First appearance | "Pilot" |
| Last appearance | "Last Lunch" |
| Created by | Tina Fey |
| Portrayed by | Jack McBrayer |
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| Nickname(s) | "Kenneth the Page" "Ken" "Kenny" "Ken doll" "" "Ken-Tucky-Derby" "Albino goon" "Albino slave monkey" "Slack-jawed donkey" "Bowling pin with a face drawn on it" "Cheap albino lesbian" "Finger with teeth" "Hummel someone left on the radiator" "Mouth breathing Appalachian" "Apple-faced goon" "K" "Special K" "Susan" "Thumb with a wig" "K-pax-o-gum" "Innocent Goon" "String Cheese with a tooth stuck in it" "K-Town Records" "Kenmore washers and dryers" |
| Aliases | "Cranston" "Silas Merrymount-Peppercorn" |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation |
NBC page (former) CBS page (former; from episodes "The Fabian Strategy" - "Let's Stay Together") NBC Standards and practices department employee (former; from episodes "Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whisky" - "Grandmentor") Janitor at 30 Rockefeller Plaza (former; from "Kidnapped by Danger" - "A Goon's Deed in a Weary World") President of NBC (from "A Goon's Deed in a Weary World" - present) |
| Family | Pearlene Parcell (mother) Unnamed father Ronald "Ron" McDonnell (stepfather) Nine unnamed siblings |
| Significant other(s) | Hazel Wassername (ex-girlfriend) |
| Relatives | Unnamed grandmother Unnamed uncles Jesse Parcell (cousin) Steven (cousin) Clay Aiken (cousin) Lyle (nephew) Unnamed niece |
| Religion | Christianity ("Eighth Day Resurrected Covenant of the Holy Trinity") |
Andromakennethamblesorton "Kenneth" Ellen Parcell is a fictional character on the NBC comedy television series, 30 Rock, portrayed by Jack McBrayer. Originally a supporting character in the first two episodes of the series, the show's producers eventually viewed him as a breakout character.
For his portrayal of Kenneth Parcell, McBrayer received one Primetime Emmy Award nomination and seven Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, winning one.
Kenneth Parcell is a perpetually cheerful NBC page (worth $7 according to Jack Donaghy, later $5 after several years of depreciation), who hails from Stone Mountain, Georgia (a reference to the hometown of 30 Rock writer Donald Glover, who also hails from Stone Mountain), where his father was a pig farmer. An awkward yet polite , he always projects an extremely optimistic demeanor, and is excited and happy to do his menial job, an attitude that comes from his love for television and his devotion to the NBC network. Kenneth once suggests he had been working for NBC since 1936/7 (when Shirley Temple was 8), although this may be untrue as Kenneth comes up with many differing stories about his age and when he began his job at NBC.
In "Believe in the Stars", he states that he loves only two things: "everybody and television". In "The Ones", as he is passing out from a strawberry allergy, Kenneth exclaims that his real name is Dick Whitman (a reference to the AMC drama, Mad Men). In "Standards and Practices", he tells Liz that his first name is short for "Andromakennethamblesorten". In "Reunion", a flashback shows that Kenneth attended an all African-American high school. At Kentucky Mountain Bible College, Kenneth majored in Television Studies and minored in Bible Sexuality; In "Kidney Now!", he states that his favorite subject was science, "especially the Old Testament". In "Blind Date", Jack Donaghy states that Kenneth's Myers–Briggs Type Indicator "shows a rare combination of extroverted, intuitive, and aggressive" (which is the same as his own).
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