When I saw the ads late last year I thought, I'm never going to watch a primetime television show starring Alec Baldwin. Then my brother Daniel said it was good, said that if I liked The Office, I'd like 30 Rock, I saw Tina Fey probably for the first time ever, and I was hooked.
Here's why 30 Rock is worth watching; it's because of lines like this:
Tracy Jordan (as stereotypical black male star, including entourage. Tracy has just discovered that he isn't actually the best Halo player ever): Grizz, if Kenneth can beat me and you can beat Kenneth, then by the transitive property, you should be able to beat me too!
The implication is that Grizz hasn't been playing fairly.
Here's another example. Realize, I'm transcribing these lines from memory, so they're probably less than perfect.
Jena (overweight female comedy star, trying to save her career by losing weight): Tell me about my crazy surgical options.
Dr. Spaceman (his name is pronounced as though it were Italian, spa-che'-maen): Well, Jena, there are some wonderful crazy surgical options available to you. How about Crystal Meth--(something something something. He holds up a brochure with the words "You do the Meth" printed on the front). How important is teeth retention to you?
Jena: Somewhat important (she responds slowly).
This is truly funny stuff. Sometimes the politico-religious satire is too dead-on.
Tracy Jordan: What's your religion, Liz Lemon?
Lemon: I pretty much do whatever Oprah tells me.
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Yeah, Tina Fey is hilarious. Did you really already get all the way through season one last week? I can't say much; Shannon and I have been averaging at least three episodes of "The Office" a night.
She hosted SNL the other night. Overall, it wasn't a great episode, but she had a great weekend update segment if you can see the video on NBC's website. Michael wouldn't like it, though, because of the political content.
Mike Huckabee also made a cameo appearance on weekend update with a pretty funny gag that seemed to be completely misinterpreted by the Associated Press. The joke is that he says that he'll know when it is time to quit (the presidential race), but then he misses several cues that his segment is over. Of course, the AP article discussing this scene describes it as if Huckabee really was just incompetent.
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