Here is the cover of Vanity Fair featuring our girl Tina Fey, along with Amy Poehler and Sarah Silverman. Be sure to take note of where Amy’s hand is. HOTT.
The cover was shot by the amazing and incredible Annie Leibovitz as part of a photo spread accompanying the article “Who Says Women Aren’t Funny?” Not me, that’s for damn sure.
30 Rock, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, Vanity Fair, Annie Leibovitz
Dear Tina Fey,
Hey there. I know it’s been awhile since I’ve written. I haven’t been avoiding you, Tina Fey, I promise. I guess I’ve been trying to give you some space and all, since all filmed episodes of 30 Rock have now aired (and let me tell you, that “Midnight Train to Georgia” number was freakin’ brilliant) and I know you can’t be filming or airing any new episodes right now, so I thought you might be sad. But also, this is time you can be spending with your gorgeous little baby, Alice, and that’s a good thing. Lots of Octopus Time, right? Awesome.
What else have you been up to lately? Catching up on reality shows? Watching some Deal or No Deal? You seem like a secret American Gladiators fan. Or maybe you bought a Wii and have been playing Super Mario Galaxy and Guitar Hero. Whatever you’ve been doing, Tina Fey, we hope you have been relaxing and having some fun and not stressing out too much. We’d totally like to help you de-stress and I really don’t mean that in a dirty way.
But I’ve been hearing rumors here and there, Tina Fey, that there have been some breakthroughs in talks and that the writers’ strike could be resolved as soon as the end of this week. The end of this week! That makes me want to do some sort of Octopus dance! I won’t do that in public, because I don’t want to embarrass myself, but if this rumor turns out to be true, I will wait until it’s just me and the dog and the cats at home and I will Octopus dance myself all over my house! I’d like to think that you and the 30 Rock writers and the cast (even Alec Baldwin) will be dancing around your living rooms too.
The other day when I posted that video “Monkey Boners” from the ASSSSCAT Improv Special, it actually was the second video I located from the program. The first one I located is actually the one I linked below, and is actually my favorite of the two. In this one, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler play “sexy tennis.”
Sexy tennis! Sign me up for lessons. But only if these two are my instructors:
I’ve read here and there that Tina Fey is uncomfortable with love scenes (which leads me to believe we won’t be seeing her playing any romantic leads anytime soon) which I’m thinking is true, based on her body of work so far. But if we can get a hint of sexy Tina Fey while we are laughing our asses off, then that is good enough for me. Oh yeah!
So tonight, Amy is liveblogging the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards for our sister site, Trashy Celebs. And since our hero Tina Fey is presenting the first award (and showing off her bare right shoulder — pretty racy there, Tina Fey!) with Steve Carrell, I thought I’d pop over here and tell you about any of the 30 Rock angles to the event. Fey and Carrell are presenting Best Actor in a Drama Series, which must be a bit awkward because you know they will be making jokes and those serious, serious actors will just be all “shut up, so I can be pretentious!” Oh, James Gandolfini won! And he gave Tina Fey a peck on the cheek and totally did not order a hit on her. That’s a relief!
Other, more obvious 30 Rock connections to the SAG Awards:
Tina Fey, nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series (along with Christina Applegate, America Ferrera, Mary-Louise Parker, and Vanessa Williams.) Guess what? TINA FEY WON HELLS YES! She thanked the SAG for “considering her an actor at all” and then she thanked Alec Baldwin, comparing doing scenes with him to “Fred Astaire dancing with a hat rack.” Funny and humble, even after winning. And thanking SAG for supporting the Writers Guild, because she is selfless and giving.
(See that NBC, you bitches? She won. WON! And I have been hearing too many rumors suggesting that with the writers strike and all, 30 Rock might get cancelled. DO NOT DO THAT YOU WILL BREAK MY HEART.)
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Oh. My. God. People. This is freakin’ awesome. This is MADE of awesome. “Awe” and “Some” hooked up at the drive-in one night last spring and this video was born.
Like anyone likely to be reading this blog, I have been missing 30 Rock lately, longing for a new episode and dreading the possibility that there won’t be any new episodes for a long time, if ever, due to the writer’s strike. So I went a cruised around YouTube, doing searches on Tina Fey, and came across the above video, which is from the ASSSSCAT Improv TV special which originally aired on Bravo. And while it sure isn’t the same as a brand spakin’ new episode of the best show on television, it certainly made me laugh pretty hard and filled a little bit of the gaping hole in my comedy world. Watch it now! Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, and monkey boners! What else could you ask for? (Well, maybe Alec Baldwin also saying “monkey boners.”) In fact, this video kinda makes me want to make a list of actors and actresses that I would like to hear say “monkey boners.” This list would include Helen Mirren (as Queen Elizabeth and as herself), Philip Seymour Hoffman, Angela Lansbury, Bea Arthur, John Malkovich, Kate Winslet, and Sir Ian McKellen. That would also be made of awesome. Tell me I am wrong!
Still, I would much rather be hearing Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin saying “monkey boners” on a new episode of 30 Rock. But while I am wishing for things that won’t happen this week I’ll also wish for a magically clean house, a winning powerball ticket, and gas for 25 cents per gallon.
Dear Tina Fey,
Congratulations, Tina Fey, on winning the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. You know how excited we are for you here at Watching 30 Rock both as bloggers who write a site about your show and also as big fans of both the show, you, and all your other work. We are so happy for you! Finally getting the recognition you deserve as an amazing comedic actress.
We were really, really bummed however, that the SHOW didn’t win the Golden Globe this year, losing to HBO’s Extras which I must admit I have never seen, even though I dig Ricky Gervais. Do you watch that show, Tina Fey? Do you watch any of the other shows nominated in your category? (Californication, Pushing Daisies, Entourage). If you do watch them, do you watch them because you like them or did you just start watching after the nominations so you could check out the competition? It’s okay, Tina Fey, you can tell me. We were also really bummed that Alec Baldwin didn’t win in his category, because he is just getting funnier and funnier with every episode, much like the show itself. And he did do an excellent job finishing his muffin. Please tell him that from us.
So I have another question for you, Tina Fey. Did you even bother watching the pseudo-Golden Globes broadcast tonight, with the douchey hosts from Access Hollywood just standing there telling us who won and offering their “commentary” like we even care what they think. What a joke. I mean, awards shows are always too long and have stupid jokes and boring moments and the occasional pompous speech, but dammit, that is why we watch them! To see who shows up in a stupid dress or drunk or who didn’t bother to comb their hair. I’m sure that is at least part of the reason you like to go too!
So congratulations, Tina Fey. We would totally like to see your Golden Globes some time and I totally don’t mean that in a dirty way.
Stay righteous, Tina Fey.
Lori
Need more 30 Rock in your life? Thanks to fanpop.com you can vote on a bunch of interesting 30 Rock topics. Sure there’s typical stuff like which is your favorite Frank trucker hat (it’s tied between “And” and “Extra Cheese”) but there’s also atypical things like best sketch idea with hobos and will Jack and Liz ever hook up (50% say no).
There’s some interesting fun facts too like I didn’t realize Josh was raised as a girl for 10 years. And there’s mind bending questions like which is more disgusting eating a poptart that was used in a sex game or drinking an entire bottle of expired ketchup? (For me it would really depend who was using the poptart). Have fun.
You can be friends with Kenneth! Some very nice person has created a MySpace page on behalf of Kenneth the Page from 30 Rock. I’m guessing it isn’t an official page created by the actor or by the show or by NBC, but that is okay. Kenneth totally would/should have a MySpace page. Can’t you imagine him writing his blog every night after work, giving his totally awesome Kenneth the Page viewpoint on life at 30 Rock.
So here is Kenneth the Page’s (unofficial) MySpace page.
Why would you want to be friends with Kenneth? Why would you NOT want to be?
In addition to the recent Golden Globe nominations honoring 30 Rock the show has also recently received nominations from the Writer’s Guild of America. The show was nominated for Best Comedy (writers: Brett Baer, Jack Burditt, Kay Cannon, Robert Carlock, Tina Fey, Dave Finkel, Daisy Gardner, Donald Glover, Matt Hubbard, Jon Pollack, John Riggi, Tami Sagher, Ron Weiner) and for the episode “Negotiation,” written by Matt Hubbard.
Now if there was only some way for the show to be nominated for an Academy Award, a Tony, a Pulitzer, and a Nobel Prize!
The Golden Globe nominations were announced last week and to our great delight, 30 Rock received three nominations: for Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy; Best Performance by an Actress In a Television Series, Musical or Comedy (Tina Fey, of course), and Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy (Alec Baldwin, well duh.) Awese! And what did Tina Fey apparently say upon hearing about her nomination?
I am excited and very grateful to the Hollywood Foreign Press, and I look forward to being the least glamorous person at the Golden Globe Awards.
Aw, Tina! You know your fans don’t expect you to be glamorous. I dare say that we might be a little disappointed if you went glamorous on us. We expect you to be funky and cool and funny and awesome and, yes, hot. Which you are, every time we see you on TV.
In other Golden Globe/30 Rock news, Alec Baldwin is offering to save the broadcast in the light of the current writer’s strike. See, as long as the writer’s strike is still in full swing, there is no one to write the oh so funny jokes we typically see in award show broadcasts. And with the writer’s strike, there is definitely no chance that someone will finally write some damn funny jokes for the first time in the history of awards shows. So this doesn’t leave much for the actual awards show television airing — just handing out the awards would get boring after a while, I guess. But Alec Baldwin is saving the day by offering to host the awards in his Manhattan apartment:
(From the Huffington Post)
Barring any imminent settlement of the WGA strike, the 2007 Golden Globe Awards will be held at my apartment on the Westside of Manhattan this year. I have cleared all of this with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The HFPA makes only one simple request and that is that you pre-order your meal selection NO LATER than Friday, January 4th, 2008.
The choices are as follows:
1) Tuna Salad, whitefish salad or egg salad (choice of one)
2) Ham, turkey, bologna, swiss cheese (choice of two)
3) Potato salad, macaroni salad, cole slaw (choice of two)
4) Pickles, relish, mustard, mayo, rye bread…all complimentary.
5) Beverages are as follows: Liter of red or white wine or 6 (six) cold bottles of Amstel (promotional) complimentary.
All other cocktails will be cash bar. (Sprite, Coke, Strawberry YooHoo and Diet Peach Snapple are complimentary)
Please e-mail your food order and e-mail your clip for the show to: TheglobesareatAlecs@AlecBaldwin.com
A quick Red Carpet, hosted by Radioman, will be held at the parking lot of Tavern on the Green before we are all shuttled to my apartment building. ‘Round…5:30-ish? Sound okay?
Looking forward to seeing you all on January 13th at my place.
What? A cash bar? Who would have thought Alec Baldwin would be so cheap. Although maybe celebrities are just as bad as college students when it comes to sucking up free liquor. (I remember my grad school days when a bunch of my fellow classmates got kicked out of a professor’s party after her husband caught them getting into his good vodka. I was never I vodka drinker.) But I will say that six cold bottles of Amstel Light sounds pretty good. I just hope the whole thing gets filmed for a Very Special Episode of MTV’s Cribs.
Cold opening: Jack is in his office (which is decorated for the holidays) when Liz comes in to wish him a Merry Christmas before they break for the holidays. Wait, TV shows get a holiday break, just like in school? I’m in the wrong career. He gives her a Christmas present: a new photo scanner/paper shredder (from GE, of course!) Won’t people just end up shredding their pictures by accident? Yeah, I need one of those for “scanning” my old prom photos.
Frank wheels a big cart filled with various bottles of booze into the writer’s room, already making a pre-apology for all the offensive things he is about to do at the office LucaChristmas Party and offering pre-forgiveness to his coworkers for when they leave him passed out by the elevator. I thank the fates that my office holiday party is over lunch and that we can’t drink because I’m sure my coworkers would just leave me in the parking lot. Everyone is cheering and is totally psyched about the party, especially Cerie who is hoping Frank will reprise is “horny Santa” gag from last year. I guess Frank isn’t gay for Jamie anymore.
Back in Jack’s office, he asks Liz if she has big plans for the holidays. Her family is coming! Yay, we get to meet more Lemons! They are going to see Jersey Boys! Jack can’t understand why Liz isn’t stressed out over her family’s eminent arrival. Her family hasn’t argued since Carter left office! Jack has invited his mother to join him from Florida but she is stranded due to Hurricane Zapato. He points to the big TV on the wall, showing the weather channel, amused the the eye of the storm seems to be right over his mother’s house. So much for paralyzing Irish guilt. He’s going to drive up to Vermont and surprise C.C. ….. or he would be, if Jonathan hadn’t just announced that Jack’s mother had taken a bus to Atlanta and talked Jet Blue into taking a ticket from Amtrak. Damn, she’s good! Jack’s mother is disappointed that Jack is still in the same office, since he is up for that promotion and all. Maybe he should let that dream die. I think Jack should start drinking, pronto. Jack’s mom greets Liz, insults Jack’s girlfriend, insults Liz and gets passive aggressive about her coat, all in the span of about 2.3 seconds. I want to call my Mom and tell her I love her.
Credits. Boop de boop. I love that head turn Jack does, although it seems completely out of character for him.
Next we get one of those AmEx commercials designed to look like part of the show. I don’t get paid to recap those. Moving on!
Liz and Jenna enter the writer’s room and Jenna pretends she didn’t realize tonight was LudaChristmas, except she is totally wearing a slinky dress under her coat. You got us good, Jenna. Liz says she isn’t going to the party because her parents and her brother Mitch are in town. Her brother Mitch has Trauma Induced Niveaphasia — he is stuck in 1985, the day before his senior class skiing trip. I would not want to be trapped in my senior year, hence the desire to shred my prom photos. We get a flashback to meet Mitch (Andy Richter)!
Kenneth the Page comes in to deliver presents from the parent company, Sheinhard Wigs. More photo shredders! Everyone throws them away, but Kenneth is appalled that no one has any Christmas spirit. No one understands Christmas. Just then a stripper arrives, there to have Christmas mints eaten off her body. She appears also to have tuberculosis. I hope they got a discount for that.
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So in lieu of no more 30 Rock episodes being produced, the folks who make lists have made more lists. In fact, nothing says end of the year like lists. VH-1’s entire December programing schedule is, what? Yes, lists!
30 Rock has graced the tres place on TV Guide writer Matt Roush’s Top Ten Shows of 2007. Says Roush:
30 Rock
The funniest show too few are watching, and easily the most inspired comedy airing anywhere on TV, NBC’s gloriously wacky and sharply written satire goes behind the scenes of a dysfunctional comedy series where corporate lunacy reigns. Tina Fey is terrific as the frazzled and forlorn showrunner/den mother, and there’s true genius in Alec Baldwin’s career-high craftiness as her hilariously inscrutable boss.
Rock on sister, or er, brother. We agree. C’mon smart people it’s ok to watch TV. Really, there’s lots of good stuff on. Don’t be afraid, come towards the light, get tivo, grow an extra ass. Seriously, TV is the new film. Or maybe we just haven’t seen very many good films this year. But we do love us some Dexter and I did watch most of the Ken Burn’s seven-part documentary about World War II called, The War (despite Lori calling me a nerd whenever I put it on).
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Do you like lists? I like lists. I’m not sure why, maybe I just enjoy organization. And I do like “best of” lists, especially when I know, watch, eat, listen to, read, drive, wear, or own whatever is on that list. Maybe that is insecurity or the desire for a sense of superiority or whatever. (I am cool! I am all about what is current and hot and must-have!)
And here’s a list I can feel some of that smugness about: Time magazine has published a series of lists, aptly called the “50 Top 10 Lists of 2007.” This includes lists in general categories News, Arts & Entertainment, Science, Business, Tech & Sports, and Pop Culture.
Why am I telling you all this, my dear and lovely Watching 30 Rock readers? You all are so smart (not to mention hot, rich, and famous) that I’m sure you already know: because 30 Rock is listed as #3 on Time’s list of the Top Ten Returning TV Series. Yeah! We’ve all known it for a while and I’m glad that the show is getting a little more mainstream attention and kudos. Here is what Time has to say about the show:
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Interested in an inside glimpse of the Saturday Night Live studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza? Brian Williams (NBC Nightly News host and recent SNL host) gives you a look on this brief 30 Rock tour. No appearances from Tina Fey or the rest of the cast (or even any cast members from SNL) but interesting nonetheless.
So after you are done looking at that picture of Mr. Williams being all serious and journalistic, click the smaller picture of him below for an occasionally snarky video tour of part of 30 Rock. Mr. Williams, make a guest appearance on 30 Rock! You seem cool!
'Early Nightly': Touring 30 Rock
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