Kenneth Parcell

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. 2Biography 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 rube, 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