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This show is definitely very good. The one thing I'm hoping for once they settle in a bit is for it to have more of an ensemble feel, and for the Jane K character to be fleshed out in a more consistent way.

Doesn't fill the void of AD for me...that sort of belongs to It's Always Sunny In Philadelpha.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

frasier?

-- a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (slytus...), Today. (later)

black frasier! the bar scene was good. i'm gonna miss ryan o'reilly. i hope this show runs forever.

-- scott seward (skotro...), Today. (later)

i totally made the frasier joke before seeing the episode!! EEEEEEERIE

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i was thinking last nite that it would be such a shame if they yanked this show cuz there are so many places they can go with it. i want to see where they all live! you need time to develop that timing that a good ensemble show has.

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish they had all the episodes up on nbc.com instead of just the most recent. the only one i missed was the first one with beeper guy.

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

all the episodes are up now! yay!

― sterl clover (s_clover), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

they are???? for real? did nbc just read my last post?

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the best show on television. Full stop.

With The Wire on hiatus as of Sunday, you may well be right.

― Name Not Found (rogermexico), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

"Sorry I'm late, I was at a luncheon for Ann Coulter's 60th birthday."

― Name Not Found (rogermexico), Saturday, 16 December 2006 07:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I WANNA HOLD UP A MIRROR TO SOCIETY, AND THEN WIN AN AWARD FOR BIGGEST MIRROR

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 16 December 2006 07:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Tina Fey must be so pleased that this picture is on the nbc.com 30 Rock landing page.

http://www.nbc.com/30_Rock/images/episodes/season1/101/rok_101_01.jpg

― Name Not Found (rogermexico), Saturday, 16 December 2006 08:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm calling for a wire/30 rock crossover. maybe they all go to paris or something.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 16 December 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

this is not the best show on television, the office is the best show on television

this is the second best

― this is cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 16 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

the hour-long office last thursday was one of the best things ive ever seen on tv

― and what (ooo), Saturday, 16 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

the two shows are neck and neck for sitcom greatness, although i would throw every other episode of 'everybody hates chris' in there

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 16 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm so happy i came around on the office

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 16 December 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

one of the best things ive ever seen on tv

i said this to myself three times while watching it

― this is cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 16 December 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i just realized that '30 rock' made a joke about condi rice getting off on abu ghraib sexual fantasies. is this what our country has come to, that we joke about things like this? our government goes around the world on flimsy pretexts, captures people in their own countries, allows uneducated and unsupervised national guardspeople to maim and torture and humiliate them...and it is FODDER for throwaway JOKES in prime-time network television SITCOMS?

if so, awesome.

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 16 December 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe the most unexpected thing for me is that it's turned me into a fan of Tracy Morgan. The Mind Grapes episode is just nuts. And so so freakin' funny.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 16 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: "I think I voted for Nader! NADER!"

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 16 December 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

This will only be the best show on TV when Astronaut Jones makes an appearance.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 16 December 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

for long time tracy morgan fans, this show is manna from heaven

― this is cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 16 December 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah his homeless guy wooing kate hudson underground is one of the best snl things eva.

love how his character is a hack comedian but then totally wtf hilarious in his everyday life.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Saturday, 16 December 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

"but i already have a drink. you think he'll buy me mozzarella sticks?"

― johnny crunch (johnny crunch), Saturday, 16 December 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

"like professor martin luther king said, 'i have a FEELING.'"

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Sunday, 17 December 2006 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link

whoever said that it's not the new arrested development it totally right. Not the same kind of show at all. this is -- dare I say it? -- the new News Radio.

I still don't know, even after having said it, if I dare to say it.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 18 December 2006 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link

the formula certainly fits fairly closely in terms of cast. tracy is totally the bill mcneil of the bunch. no central-cast couples as of yet tho, which is actually probably a good step above since that always seemed one of the most trad-sitcom elements of newsradio.

― sterl clover (s_clover), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I totally just remembered: THE RURAL JUROR.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 22 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

the rur jur!

i wish this show had like 100 episodes already.

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish they had a box set out for like, the first three seasons.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish that the show was beamed into my brain every minute of my life

― max (maxreax), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i love that you can watch it all online! i watched like 3 or 4 last sun!

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

DAMMIT JOHNNY YOU KNOW I LOVE MY BIG BEEF AND CHEDDAR

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

It seems to be emanating from my butt.

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Tina Fey dissed archfoe Aaron Sorkin Sunday night at the Writers Guild Awards. The "30 Rock" star competes with Sorkin's "Studio 60": Both take place behind the scenes at a show like "Saturday Night Live," where Fey was head writer. Wiggling around the Hudson Theatre stage in a party frock with plunging decolletage, Fey told the crowd, "I hear Aaron Sorkin is in Los Angeles wearing the same dress - but longer, and not funny."

Ha ha

― The Many Faces of Gordon Jump (Leon), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

ohmygod I don't think I could possibly love Tina Fey more.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

haha x2!!!! I watched that show for the first time last night because I was too lazy to change the channel, it was so incredibly unfunny, and on top of that totally missed the mark as far as compelling drama. I actually felt sorry for it.

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Studio 60 was supposed to be funny?

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

There were a couple times it tried really hard ("Metric Conversion"!).

party frock with plunging decolletage

Okay I'm imagining Kenneth guy saying this all starry-eyed and full of wonderment and LOLing. That kid has turned out to be a highlight of this show.

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Last night's 60 was a trainwreck-bad episode, but it isn't a good series even at its best. Sorkin's response to failing ratings seems to be to beef up the show's worst aspects.

(It's never funny. It's people reading scripts stoically and saying, "This is really funny" in Joe Friday monotone.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I had it on in the background last night. I couldn't get past all the "Perry on teh drugs" stuff, which was beyond overwrought.

x-post

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

BRING BACK SPORTS NIGHT

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I was hoping the sly little digs in the promo spots & the first few weeks was the end of the stupid Sorkin "rivalry" thing, since A) they're playing for the same team, B) they're both treading water, and C) they're not competing for anything in any which way. Tina needs to just cut bait on the Sorkin hate & stick w/ the big beef & being funny stuff.

I'd defend yesterday's ep, & the series in toto (which I like despite its armor chinks), but y'all are gonna shout me down, so fuggit.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh so it's all "shut up woman" now is it? DAVE STOP DIXIE CHICKING TINA FEY DAMMIT

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

& stick w/ the big beef & being funny stuff

What's the big beef? And isn't she funny regardless?

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll defend its potential, but the show is cut off at the knees by its inability to show us any comedy that's funny. When SNL's been so spotty for so long, it really takes work -- or a complete lack of comic sense -- to show us material that makes it look brilliant by comparison, especially when we only see pieces of sketches and the writers don't have to worry about paying off the jokes. At this point he may as well just have Dane Cook reading printouts of the excelsior thread in front of a greenscreen of cats making squinchy faces, and then Matt and Danny can prance around to the side, stalking chicks and pouting.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

the big beef and cheddar? xpost

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

This is exactly why Tep needs to be a writer for Studio 60!

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost Meanwhile, Fey is happy to make fun of how lame SNL is. "Pull your own wisdom teeth."

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

"Big beef and cheddar" did not make me lol, because it seemed like it was reaching, and reaching toward a corporate endorsement at that.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

"Big beef and cheddar" did not make me lol, because it seemed like it was reaching, and reaching toward a corporate endorsement at that.

Also, I saw that on the show promo at least 5 times before the show, so it was not so funny at official time of joke arrival.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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Family Guy is hated in some circles more than others. Like, comedy writers vs. the same hipsters that are supposed to be their audiences. Careful with Family Guy hat, there.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 06:49 (seventeen years ago) link

hat=hate

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 06:50 (seventeen years ago) link

(and I guess they were being careful, what with burying it in a list that was onscreen for 1 second.)

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 06:54 (seventeen years ago) link

SNL _is_ generally held in contempt (right now, especially) but at the same time it is the premiere network sketch comedy show, so to be on it is still a pretty big deal. Tracy Morgan was on it in the mid 90s, when it was pretty classic

Your first sentence contradicts your second. SNL is beyond classic or dud anymore. It simply Is, like the universe simply Is. Sometimes an actor gets a spinoff movie, sometimes they do not. Sometimes an actor is very funny, sometimes medium funny, sometimes not funny at all, and this has no bearing on how long they stay on the show. It is random. It operates on a principle that the Christian right would describe as "Darwinism".

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 07:03 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

Season 6 Teaser: Fey grabs own boobs

― Tumblr Whites Off Earth Now!! (Sandbox Grisso-McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link

lol awesome grifter kelsey grammer's coming back

― Mr. Stevenson #2, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link

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