Best Episode Yet.

“He held our hands during our triumphs, and our senate hearings”

Alec Baldwin=Comedy Gold

so will they make joeks about tracy morgan getting arrested for dui?

STREET CRED

totally great episode—the face tattoo! and alec baldwin is such a comedy hero

it’s been a good week for tv really—this, the office, battlestar, gilmore girls, the unit, and, srsly, the o.c. were all great. (well, i guess heroes was just alright. i do not know about other shows.)

“I’m expecting a call from 1983”

i love 30 rock.

i hope it starts to feel a bit more ensemble — liz is currently all over every plot thread (not even with a single independent minor-character subplot) and sorta feels like the only sane one of the bunch. its good for now, but’ll get wearying without some other characters developing a bit. the intern seems a good bet to go with. he could get all woody from cheers.

woody in his pants, you mean!

lol!

there’s already been b-plots with the intern, like the one where tracy jordan’s sending him all over town to get stuff.

yes. the shows needs more receptionist too. much, much more.

“I Am A Stabbing Robot”

was it on last night?

“me and the wife like to play rape...”

Yeah, I’m checkin’ it out on the website

X-POST

“Nickelback just added another date...”

i like to walk around without my pants on to remind my kid who has the biggest dong in the house

(paraphrase)

Last night was the first time I ever watched. Wow. Is it always that good?

“Chewbacca, can I talk to Tracy now?”

i watched it for the 1st time last night too & just clicked on the thread to quote that

“i’m just gonna watch you play halo until i fall asleep” was pretty sad.

i love 30 rock

when tracy morgan fell asleep on the conan o’brien show i think that was the first time i had laughed out loud at a new sitcom in a long time.

I love the Beeper King.

I just watched this and we were roffling the whole time. “Why don’t you have feet, blue dude?” And Dr. Leo Spaceman!

mind grapes

I still can’t get over that Street Cred back and forth from last week:

Tracy:“Of course, a white woman from Whiteville can’t understand Street Cred.”

Liz:“First of all, it was White Haven, and it wasn’t as nice as it sounds.”

There’s a tear in my eye right now, and it isn’t entirely due to my allergies.

Blue man was Rachael Dratch again, right? I love that shit. The little clog-dancing bit at the end was great too. Love this show.

yeah the mind grapes thing was hilarious. the callback when morgan casually drops the phrase was totally great.

also—“it’s after 5. what do you think i am, a farmer?”

Tracey “I’M FREAKING OUT” on the ceiling was an amazing wtf moment. I am in LOVE with this show.

watched all 7 episodes last sunday, genius.

Also, this show has been pretty good about subplots: Tracey sending the page on all those crazy errands, the bald guy being forced to wear the wig, the receptionist and her ridiculous clothes.

“Lemme tell ya about 20 year olds: half of them are 16.”

Walks all over That Other Show That Draws Inevitable Comparisons without even trying.

frasier?

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

“she said she was 16 but i could tell she was really 22.”

i love this god damned show. seriously. love it.

i love 30 rock

Fey doing “At Seventeen” at the karaoke bar!

Best show on TV. The sitcom lives on!

filling hole in haert left by arrested development

Baldwin wanting to kick Putin’s ass.

This is the best show on television. Full stop.

otm, all of you

after being caught on dateline to catch a predator:

“that was when we were broken up!”

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.

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

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.

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.

all the episodes are up now! yay!

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

This is the best show on television. Full stop.

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

“Sorry I’m late, I was at a luncheon for Ann Coulter’s 60th birthday.”

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

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

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

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

this is the second best

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

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

i’m so happy i came around on the office

one of the best things ive ever seen on tv

i said this to myself three times while watching it

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.

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.

Also: “I think I voted for Nader! NADER!”

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

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

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.

“but i already have a drink. you think he’ll buy me mozzarella sticks?”

“like professor martin luther king said, ‘i have a FEELING.’”

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.

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.

I totally just remembered: THE RURAL JUROR.

the rur jur!

i wish this show had like 100 episodes already.

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

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

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

DAMMIT JOHNNY YOU KNOW I LOVE MY BIG BEEF AND CHEDDAR

It seems to be emanating from my butt.

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

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

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.

Studio 60 was supposed to be funny?

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.

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.)

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

BRING BACK SPORTS NIGHT

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.

Oh so it’s all “shut up woman” now is it? DAVE STOP DIXIE CHICKING TINA FEY DAMMIT

& stick w/ the big beef & being funny stuff

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

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.

the big beef and cheddar? xpost

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

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

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

“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.

Yes it was definitely a bit of in-show product placement (remember the Staples shredder episode?), but I just...even if it hadn’t been funny, it would’ve been incredible enough on the basis of holy shit Isabella Roselini loves big beef and cheddars!

xpost someone just said the same thing to me in chat. I never see the promos.

Off this line of discussion, but have they ever run the ep where Tracy and Jack go golfing? It was gonna air when the show was on Wednesdays, but then it got bumped and the show was moved.

Speaking of product placement: how quickly we forget about the prolonged Snapple bit (& the Snapple cameo last week)!

snapple was on seinfeld, too. and i like snapple. so it gets a pass, imo.

plus they handled the snapple bit all meta.

actually, it was kinda meta-meta, since obv NBC makes them put products in the show, so they made a show about how NBC makes them put products in their show within a show.

and that’s actually my favorite episode so far.

tep, what’s my opinion on 30 rock?

You like Alec Baldwin despite being worried that they’d trap him in Meet the Parents-esque DeNiro-lite nonsense, but you’re not really crazy about Judah Friedlander.

Chances of Kenneth getting lucky before the show goes on pre-sweeps hiatus?

but you’re not really crazy about Judah Friedlander

Why doesn’t Kevin like Judah Friedlander? He’s minor and harmless and funny enough.

i was kind of wondering about that myself. actually, i don’t like him but i have nothing against his character.

one of my favorite Jenna moments is her calling the Friedlander character on being as invested in a certain persona as she is in hers.

It’s not that Kevin dislikes him, he’s just not crazy about him. Kevin would say that Friedlander is fine in the show to date, it’s just that he wouldn’t want to see him become more prominent or fleshed-out, because he suspects he’d be less funny in larger doses.

TEH TRUCKER HAT IS A JOKE ON HIM, do u see?

one of my favorite Jenna moments is “Muffin Top”

Jenna’s the show’s secret weapon:

- “my SEXUALITY”

- “I remind myself of Grace Kelly”

- her “impromptu” song on Tracy’s borrowed yacht

I feel like Jenna is a part that you have to be egoless to play, so kudos to Krakowski.

her “impromptu” song on Tracy’s borrowed yacht

is that a real song?

imdb judah friedlander thread titles

This guy is a genius

i cant stand this guy

Great comedian. Great person.

Why this guy use the same clothes in every film/series?

Paul?

Am I the only one out there who loves Judah?

Whats up with the hat?

IS this him?

imdb photo

i can’t really imagine rachel dratch in the jenna role at all, it’s weird that she was originally cast in it. although maybe the character really shaped up differently after krakowski was cast.

needs more ghostface

srsly though, i wish this was on right after the office so i wouldn’t have to be all “what the fuck, scrubs isn’t cancelled yet?!” every week.

i dunno i kinda like a half hour breather between the only 2 shows i watch

Scrubs is great. Spend more time with it. Let it in. You will be rewarded.

“I studied fried chicken at the school of hard knocks.”

“truth bombs”

lol @ all the Designing Women jokes. and also i liked how they let Tracy play off his “crazy black dude” image and do something different.

Sherlock Homo!

and the case of the gay sweater!

America’s Next Top Hobo!

False alarm — it turns out she ASKED him to take it out!

“God, it’s like dating Katie Couric all over again.”

I hate to say it, but this show is replacing The Office in my rankings of favorite tv program.

yeah Jack paints the head of GE and puts it on his wall? freaky!!!!

sherlock homo had me in tears

Liz: It rhymes with the title of your favorite Todd Rundgren album

Trucker Hat: There’s an insult that rhymes with The Hermit of Mink Hollow?

I wish I could just marry this show.

i want a whole episode about twofer

besides the n-word one (‘it sounds so HATEFUL when you say it!’)

omg the look Twofer gave Tina when she said “everyone needs to see Mamma Mia before it closes”!

Superballs!

yeah Jack paints the head of GE and puts it on his wall? freaky!!!!

— Mr. Que (pelagi...), February 16th, 2007.

I know!

“...simply the BEST!”

“...simply the BEST!”

Just what I was coming to post.

I was worried that eventually they would give Judah Friedlander more of a role on this show, it turns out I was right, but not right to worry.

As a “lady”, I love how Tina Fey shows what it’s like to be a real female. The boyfriend said last night, while TF was having her Designing Woman breakdown, “Oh! She’s just like you when you have PMS!”

hahahaha yeah this show has grown on me. i am starting to fall in love with it. should i make it a mix tape?

Also, in the this show keeps surprising me category: Tracy Morgan, surprisingly capable of real dramatic delivery.

no shit! I noticed that last night, the guy is a crack up. also his golfing outfit rules.

“I don’t have a daughter.”

“We’ll have a casting call next week.”

“he’s best known for getting caught using a corporate credit card at a gay strip club.”

[pan to the dude giving kenneth “golf lessons”.

...simply the BEST!

TRANSCENDENT MOMENT!!!

“I studied fried chicken at the school of hard knocks.”

— horseshoe (rosalind51...), February 16th, 2007 6:25 AM. (horseshoe) (later)

this is one of the greatest jokes ever written

Hey guys, help me remember what Tracey ordered at the bar.

Mustang Melon?

and barbecue chips

“I studied fried chicken at the school of hard knocks.”

— horseshoe (), February 16th, 2007 6:25 AM. (horseshoe) (later)

this is one of the greatest jokes ever written

— ^@^ (map@), February 16th, 2007.

I seriously got a little teary with wonder when he said it.

hey son i wasn’t kidding about the barbecue chips

“son”!

Tracy Morgan really wears a tux, too.

“Ah, Kenneth, if you’re worried about disgracing the National Broadcasting Network, you’re too late.”

“If anyone ever calls me that name again, I will fire you, and you will NEVER alter drapes in Atlanta again — because NO ONE. CROSSES. A SUGARBAKER. WOMAN!”

The Jerry Maguire thing had me in stitches, I wish I could remember it...

funny. alls i can say is, funny.

“At hello, you had me.”

OMG I forgot about when Donagy slams tina fey’s fingers in the necklace box like pretty woman lol

nobody talking abt the the helicopter thing...BUM OUT

“is he the gay dude from project runway?”

I’ve been downloading this show for a month or so. I’ve never seen any of the actors except Baldwin before, and I’m in the UK so I’m surely missing out on a lot of the cultural humour and some of the gags. But I still love it! Tina Fey is so likeable, Tracy Morgan is a great actor (I get the impression from this thread that he’d previously been seen as something of a hack, amirite?), Baldwin is genuinely weird, and Kenneth lights up my life. I think I prefer it to The Office (both versions) and Curb. It’s so merry and cheerful and silly.

“I have a column in Ebony called Musings”

“Which is it? You Love me, or you got squatters rights?” “I don’t see why they’re mutually exclusive!”

“When I saw you getting ready to go out and get nailed by a bunch of guys last night, I knew for sure it was over. And for the first time since the 86 World Series I cried. I cried like a big dumb homo.”

“When you said ‘hello’, you had me.”

enhance enhance enhance

“rarely wants to do it”

Tracy Morgan is a great actor (I get the impression from this thread that he’d previously been seen as something of a hack, amirite?)

He was on SNL, which is mostly so crappy that no one looks good (he did much better here than most, though, in my opinion). Then he got a sitcom, which really sucked and was cancelled pretty quickly. He is displaying more range on 30 Rock.

i think i’ve got it all except the last 3 cons

CONS: LOVES FAMILY GUY

HAHA @ FAMILY GUY

Tracy was one of my favorites during his run on SNL. Brian Fellow and Astronaut Jones, as well as the wino in the sewer guy character, are some of the best recurring characters on SNL in the last 20 years.

Another grab:

The last three look like “attempted threeway, racist, uses Italian ? even though Irish”.

Thanks for the culture deets, nickn. SNL is generally held in contempt then?

as well as the wino in the sewer guy character

yesssssss!

wears italian horn even though irish. lolzzz

haha wears acid wash denim. i think that would be the end of things for me.

tracy morgan was on SNL for a long time, so there were different phases

he’s never been seen as a hack, but he has been known to be just as unstable as his character

i love filling in brits on US TV culture and vice versa

Tracy likes to drink, and he likes to drive. His character on the show is 50% Martin Lawrence, 50% himself, but 100% genius.

the whole character is a parody of the “crazy black comedy actor” stock character, which is what makes it so fuckin great

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, and he had some great roles. He’s not really perceived as a hack, or much of anything, as I don’t think he’s really known at all outside of his SNL roles, since his show lasted for all of 2 seconds.

SNL was classic in the mid ’90s? Um, er...

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.

hat=hate

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

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”.

Season 6 Teaser: Fey grabs own boobs

lol awesome grifter kelsey grammer’s coming back