Kenneth Parcell
fictional character from 30 Rock
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 saw him as a breakout character.
Biography
Kenneth is a perpetually cheerful NBC page hailing from Stone Mountain, Georgia (an homage to the hometown of 30 Rock writer Donald Glover), raised in a pig farming family by parents he has alternatively claimed were first cousins and "technically brothers." He states that he loves only two things: "everybody and television". After graduating from an all-African-American high school, Kenneth studied at Kentucky Mountain Bible College, majoring in Television Studies and minoring in Bible Sexuality.
Throughout the series, Kenneth has painted a picture of a poverty-stricken, sexually deviant, inbred, criminal-class family line, declaring Parcells as a whole to be "neither wealthy nor circumcised." Furthering this point, he and his family lived in a militia camp during a period of time in his childhood and three of his nine siblings were given up for adoption. Kenneth has also alluded to his family subscribing to child marriage. During a drinking contest against a group of Teamsters, Kenneth discovers that he has unknowingly had alcohol before (which he calls "hill people milk",) and, because he has been drinking it "since [he] was a baby", he has a high tolerance, managing to keep up on his feet while everyone else competing in the contest gets blind drunk. (This essentially mirrored a scene from No Time for Sergeants, in which Andy Griffith portrayed a similar rube from backwoods Georgia.) Despite his high tolerance for liquor, Kenneth is very susceptible to the effect of caffeine, once going on an espresso-fueled bender and nearly returning to his home state in shame. In the episode "Black Light Attack," he reveals his teeth are wooden prosthetics.
Kenneth has a close relationship with his mother, Pearlene, considering her to be his best friend and crediting her with his optimism.
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