Watching 30 Rock

Dear Tina Fey,

How are you doing Tina Fey? Sorry we haven’t written in a while. Do you miss us, Tina Fey? Because we are writing to tell you how much we will miss you once the new episodes of 30 Rock have all been shown and there are no more to show because of the writers strike. We will miss you a lot, Tina Fey.

I know this must be a hard time for you, Tina Fey, with the strike and all. I’m sure you are torn between wanting what is best for your writers, yet also not wanting your show to be off the air too long. We know that November its sweeps month, so it’s important that good, funny, quality shows get aired and get good ratings. Yet I know how much you support your writers. We do to, Tina Fey! In fact, in a parallel universe, we like to believe that WE are a couple of your writers!
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Tina Fey and Jane Krakowski are in a photo style layout sort of thing in this month’s Instyle magazine. The story called Are you an Introvert or are you an Extrovert has been thoughtfully scanned by a nice livejournal person.

According to the accompanying text, Tina is the introvert which totally comes through with this quote overlayed on a picture of her wearing a stunning white dress. “I like presenting myself, rather than presenting the clothes. If this dress spoke to me it would say ‘Don’t get too drunk. Try to stay as class as I am.’” Nice. What’s also really nice is this picture.

Now excuse me as I go photoshop my head on Jane’s body.

Tina Fey, Instyle, Jane Krakowski

Everyone’s got their favorite t-shirt. It could be the one that’s four sizes too big and full of holes but damn is it comfy. Or it could be the one that .314 percent of the population gets but you fell superior wearing.

Anyway, my point is this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly is the “Photo Issue which includes a series of photos of TV and movie actors wearing their favorite t-shirts. Lo and behold, one page features 30 Rock cast members donning their faves. We’ve swiped the pics along with the descriptions below just so you don’t have to go out and spend your hard earned $3.95 on EW. Aren’t we sweet?

Tina Fey -”The shirt was my brother’s,” she says. ”We grew up right near the Tower Theater [outside Philadelphia] and saw a lot of great concerts there, and then we could walk home. I was never the most knowledgeable Who fan, but I’m a big fan of my brother.”

Jack McBrayer - ”That is the actual gym shirt that I wore in middle school in Macon, Georgia,” says the 30 Rock page. ”You can tell by its pristine condition that I wasn’t real into PE. Lots of sittin’ on the bench, helping the jocks with their math homework.”
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Sure she played cousin Vicki in National Lampoon’s Vacation and professed to the fact that her dad said she french kissed the best, but Jane Krakowski is so much more than that. The Parsippany, New Jersey native is actually a Tony award winning, Day Time Emmy nominated veteran of stage and screen.

Jane begun her career at the age of 14 on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow in 1984, playing the role of Theresa Rebecca (T.R.) Kendall, a role she played until the show ended in 1986. In fact, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for the role in 1987. Including her role in Vacation, Jane appeared in many screen-character roles including small parts in Fatal Attraction and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vega.

A trained singer, Krakowski has made numerous appearances on stage. She appeared in the 1989 Broadway musical Grand Hotel as the typist and would-be-film-star for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Her solo number “I Want to go to Hollywood” is included on the original cast recording. At the 2000 American Comedy Awards, Krakowski won rave reviews when she performed a sexually charged musical tribute and love letter to Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates.

In 1995, she played the ditzy flight attendant April in The Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Company.

However, Jane landed what would become her biggest role, playing office assistant Elaine Vassal on the television series Ally McBeal for five seasons until 2002. Her role on Ally McBeal earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1999.

That is until 2006 when Krakowski joined the cast of 30 Rock, where she plays Jenna Maroney, a cast member of the fictional late night sketch show TGS with Tracy Jordan. Krakowski was cast to replace Rachel Dratch, who played Jenna in the show’s unaired original pilot episode.

Don’t forget to catch Jane, Tina, Tracy, Alec and all the other brilliant performers on 30 Rock on NBC.

Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Ally McBeal

So just to make sure you have a day complete with 30 rockness check out these before, after and during 30 Rock related activities.

First, check out fabulous interviews with Judah Friedlander and Tracy Morgan courtesy of AV Club.

After the show, be sure to check out the one and only Tina Fey answering your questions (and marriage proposals from certain bloggers who shall remain nameless) on a live chat beginning at 9PM eastern time.

As for during the show…c’mon, it’s 30 Rock, it’s Tina Fey, it’s Jane Krakowski in a fat suit, it’s the season premier of 30 Rock! So laugh your ass off, or stare blankly at the tv if you have no soul or sense of humor, you still get to watch Tina Fey.

Tina Fey, 30 Rock, Tracy Morgan, Judah Friedlander

So if you haven’t watched 30 Rock you may remember Jane Krakowski as sexpot Elaine Vassal on Alley McBeal. However Ms. Krakowski is much more of a rounded actress than a Calista Flockhart sidekick (anyone remember her role in National Lampoon’s Vacation?) Check out Krakowsk’s take on the new season of 30 Rock.

When asked about the upcoming season, Krakowski said, “Hopefully winning the Emmy will bring a bit more of people’s awareness to it and that we’ll get to keep making them because it’s so fun to make. The first 5 episodes are so hilarious. We shot 5 of them already. The writers have come up with such funny stuff, I think the first 5 are as good as the best ones of last season and even better. I hope we just get to make more.”

And Jack McBrayer AKA Kenneth, may seem like a showbiz newcomer but the Macon, Georgia native has actually a product of the renown Second City Improv Theater (where Tina Fey came from).
When discussing the new season, McBrayer reveals that a lot of struggle and hard work are also attached to creating the show, along with traditional slapstick.

“It is so difficult just to keep it together because the scripts are so funny. As long as you keep the main goal in line of, okay, lets put this story together so hopefully the rest of American can laugh as much as we are. Everybody here is such professionals and our crew is fantastic, so we run a tight ship here and get the job done,” he said describing the set on a day to day basis.

Quote source: Source: Movieweb.com

Don’t forget that 30 Rock premieres Thursday, October 4 at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.

Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer, 30 Rock