Watching 30 Rock

Oh grrrrl! Tina Fey has just dissed nasty on Paula Abdul. Tina is in this month’s Playboy (with clothes, c’mon they do have great articles) and in the interview she reveals what a train wreck Abdul is. She said Abdul was “awful” when she hosted the show in 2005.

“I was pregnant [with daughter Alice] at the time and probably a little moody, but I remember thinking, ‘She’s a disaster! I gotta prop this lady up and get her on TV,’” Fey dished. She went onto say Abdul was “disastrous … in the way she generally appears to be.” Abdul didn’t even want to play herself in an American Idol sketch so Amy Poehler had to play her (probably with a lot less crazy).

But this is the first time Tina has dropped da bomb on former SNL hosts. Last year she revealed a big old shit bomb about Paris Hilton on the Howard Stern show. When Howard asked her how Paris was as a person, Tina said

“She’s a piece of sh-t. The people at SNL were like maybe she’ll be fun, maybe she won’t take herself so seriously. She takes herself so seriously! She’s unbelievably dumb and so proud of how dumb she is. She looks like a tranny up close.”

Oh! Harsh girl! She went on to say how Paris refused to do a fake sex tape sketch and her main goal was to play her big rival at the time Jessica Simpson, in a sketch. She wanted to make Simpson look fat. Because after all making fat jokes about skinny people is at the heart of middle school humor.

The other person who mildly bore the brunt of the Fey insult machine was Matthew McConaughey who Fey says is nice but doesn’t smell too good. We can see that. Keep the celeb dish coming Tina we like it! Maybe if this whole writer strike thing doesn’t end you can be a guest columnist on our sister blog Trashy Celebs.

Paris Hilton, Tina Fey, Playboy, Jessica Simpson, Matthew McConaughey, Paula Abdul

Entertainment Weekly is running a poll asking readers to vote for the Best TV of 2007. You can, and you MUST, click on that link and go vote for 30 Rock as the Bes Comedy of 2007. (Okay, you don’t HAVE to, but we here at Watching 30 Rock would appreciate it and I’m sure everyone at 30 Rock would to, especially one Tina Fey.) Other shows in the poll include The Office, Ugly Betty, Family Guy, and Two and a Half Men. (I pretty much despise one of those shows, despite the fact that I never watch it, and I won’t tell you which one it is, but one hint is that it is a show that DOES NOT have a blog dedicated to it on this network.) While you are there, you can also vote for Best Drama (go with House) and Best Reality Show (my favorite is The Amazing Race), among others.

So what other things in the 30 Rock would you like to see a poll about? Maybe a poll choosing between Liz Lemon’s Converse All-Stars or her Sketchers as Best Bicurious Shoes? Or between sweet, naive Kenneth or sweet, naive, slightly creepy Kenneth? Crazy Tracy or … crazy Tracy? Grizz or Dot Com? Jack Donaghy with Condolezza Rice or C.C.? Did you like Al Gore’s guest appearance or Edie Falco’s? Straight Frank who looks like he smells or Gay for Jamie Frank who looks like he smells? Liz with Jamie the coffee guy or Liz with her third cousin, The Hair?

And for the record, I won’t be bossy about most of these choices except for one: Frank has gotta stay Gay for Jamie. And I expect to see some trucker hat slogans proving it!

30 Rock, Entertainment Weekly, Best TV of 2007

Cold opening on exterior shot of the NBC building. Everyone is coming up to Liz asking her to hang out with them. Frank and Lutz are going to walk around Times Square and pretend to be foreign, Jenna is getting drinks with recently divorced camera guy and Tracy is going to an animals only strip club (”does that mean the animals strip or the animals are the customers?”). Liz turns them all down because she’s got balls on her mind. No, not that, a meatball sub with extra bread you perv!

Jack catches Liz calling in her food order and pretty much sums up her evening. Meatball sub extra bread, bottle of NyQuil, tivoed Top Chef, a little Ms. Bonnie Rait, lights out. Jack reveals that Casey gets voted out which makes Liz scream “You monster, why are you like this?” Actually Casey was in the final three so she didn’t really get voted out but it was funnier the way they did it. Credits.

Tracy comes into Jack’s office with the baseball team he’s coaching (part of his community service since his motorcycle hit a police horse). The team is from the worse neighborhood in New York and doesn’t seem to keen on Jack’s story about how his baseball team won the Boston city championship even though they were all white and the other team was completely…never mind.

Jack goes on about how baseball taught him how to dream and asks the team what their dreams are. Enter a scene reminiscent of those first Monster.com ads from Superbowl past. The kids dream of doing vending machine maintenance, being shot by a cop and suing the city, cleaning an office like this one, etc. Jack tells them that these are not the dreams of winners but Tracy corrects him that they’re not winners, they’re 0 and 17. Opps.

A cute blond guy is delivering coffee. Jenna asks who ordered the “Veal,” but Liz tells her that guy is a baby. Jenna flirts with him anyway “I like your blond streaks, it’s very Simon LeBond.” Liz tells Jenna that she’s talking to an ultra-sound to which Veal replies that he’s getting attitude from the sexy librarian. Ultra-smooth Liz is flustered and slips into a very Wake Up Wakefield moment. “Sexy, what no you are, shut up.” But she isn’t the only one who has a crush. Frank would totally go gay for Veal. Everyone laughs but he isn’t kidding. Holy Mango!
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