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.

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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!

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This picture of the cast of 30 Rock would like you to know that it is still digesting yesterday’s meal and will not be hitting the mall today for the holiday sales.

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Happy Thanksgiving from this picture of the cast of 30 Rock.

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We wish. We would so see 30 Rock on Ice. Especially if there were bigheaded mascots of Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy skating around with Dorothy Hamill and Brian Boitano inside. That would so rock out nuts. We’d get to our seats early, thumbing excitedly through our big glossy program that featured highlights from the show. Who knew there’d be a number about how Frank comes up with the sayings on his hats? (Pennywise flyer ads). At intermission we’d order cotton candy and hold it because we wouldn’t want to miss a thing waiting in that bathroom line…But I digress.

There is no such thing as 30 Rock on Ice but a lucky 150 or so got to see a live version of 30 Rock on Monday at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York. I myself had an uncomfortable experience at UCB a few years back. I was in New York with my dad and grandma for a matinee of Wicked. We were in the mood for some more live entertainment and I suggested UCB. I’d attended some mighty fine improv shows in New York before and didn’t take into account the 27 and 50 year age difference of my travel partners. Opps.
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Want a chance at stardom? A chance to meet some of the funniest and most cleverist people on television? A chance to stalk Alec Baldwin? A way to be a part of your favorite TV show? Or maybe just a trip to New York City? Well here is your chance!

CharityFolks.com is auctioning a walk-on role on 30 Rock! Included in the prize is two roundtrip tickets to New York City on JetBlue. Proceeds of the auction go to support the Carol Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund.

Carol Baldwin, of course, is Alec Baldwin’s mother. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990 and later underwent a double mastectomy. In 1996, she founded the Carol Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund, which to date has funded 47 research grants totaling $2.3 million. Carol serves as Chairperson of the Board and frequently speaks publicly regarding the cause and raising funds to support research. She has been honored in East Setauket, NY when the Carol Baldwin Breast Care Center was named in her honor in 1996. She is also involved with the Onondaga Breast Cancer Mapping Project.

As of this writing, bidding on this auction was at $7,000, so if you have some extra cash in your pocket, why not make a bid? You could be on television AND support a worthy cause! I would be all up in bidding on this mofo, but alas, I work in the non-profit world myself, so I don’t really have an extra $7,000 to spare. But if one of y’all bid and win, hey, let me know, because I have a message or two to pass on to the cast. Starting of course, with our very best wishes to Carol Baldwin for all her good work for this cause.

You can read an interview with Carol and Alec Baldwin here: The Baldwins Take on Breast Cancer.

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