Watching 30 Rock

I found a link to this picture on another cool 30 Rock themed site called Pregnant Cornbread. It’s a picture from Glamour magazine of Tina Fey’s desk, complete with notes about some items from Tina herself.

Of course she’s got the big old Mac computer, but if you look hard you can also see pictures of Tina with her daughter and from her SNL days. Of course, you know the office probably isn’t always this tidy (I know mine isn’t.) I wonder if there are people who come in and “dress” a room before it is photographed for a magazine …. sort of like I think people go into celebrity homes and organize the refrigerator before an episode of Cribs is shot.

What is it about Ellen DeGeneres that makes stars want to act silly? I mean, it doesn’t take much to get me to act silly, but I’m not on television and I don’t have a film/television/music career to promote and protect. (Not that being silly would ruin a career or anything, but you know what I mean.) But people go on Ellen’s show and act silly for her benefit without much hesitation. Maybe that is because Ellen herself is willing to be pretty silly herself.

What does this have to do with 30 Rock you might be asking? Well here is a video featuring Jack McBrayer, perhaps better known on this website as Kenneth the Page. These celebrities are lip syncing to Glorida Gayner’s “I Will Survive” as part of a birthday video for Ellen, who celebrated her 50th birthday recently.

How silly is that? Pretty silly, but also pretty awesome and pretty funny. Jack McBrayer is great, but my favorites are Queen Latifah and Jake Gyllenhaal. But I also think it’s great that Ellen inspires a lot of people — not just the “regular” people who watch her show, but also the celebrity guests she interviews.

Here’s Ellen being silly with our favorite, Tina Fey, as she teaches her how to be a guest host on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. How silly is this?

And here is one more moment of silliness on the Ellen show. It’s not 30 Rock related, but it’s still nice, because it is both silly and touching. After hearing of Heath Ledger’s death, she showed a clip of his last appearance on her show. Yes, it was silly. But also very heartfelt and touching.

Thank you, Ellen DeGeneres. You are a friend of 30 Rock!

30 Rock, Jack McBrayer, Ellen DeGeneres, Tina Fey, Heath Ledger

Can anyone tell me what this image has to do with 30 Rock? Anyone know? Anyone see some sort of connection? Anyone?

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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.

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Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, ASSSSCAT Improv

Dear Tina Fey,

We’re really fed up with the crap that’s passing for entertainment tonight. Celebrity Apprentice? Really? Is Omarosa really a celebrity? Isn’t she famous for something heavy falling on her head and being cranky? And isn’t Thursdays on NBC suppose to be chock full of comedies? Last night featured Deal or No Deal that Apprentice shit and ER which no one cares about. Can they no longer show reruns of the Office or does TBS have full run of those?

I mean I can only watch guys doin’ the nasty with an ottoman so many times on You tube or look at a walrus kissing a beluga whale on cuteoverload.com. Although some of the mash-ups of the guys dry humping the Ottoman are pretty damn funny, but not as funny as 30 Rock is Tina Fey. We’d be happier watching you and Rachel Dratch play Wii, make cookies or watch guys hump an Ottoman on You Tube than watch most of the stuff on TV.

No, I’m not obsessed with that video Tina Fey, I just want to have quality television options available not only to myself but all of America. Seriously how often can we watch fat people exercise, not eat donuts, stand on big scales then cry? For me, not too freakin’ often. I will tell you what I can watch often. Wait for it…guys humping ottomans.

But seriously Tina Fey. We hope you had a nice relaxing holiday season filled with lots of octopus time. We also hope NBC realizes that football season is almost over and they can’t glom onto NFL network when they need programing for a Saturday night. Maybe soon NBC will give the guys who hump ottomans a show. It could be like Deal or No Deal meets Who Wants to be a Millionaire where contestants answer trivia questions and if correct get to make sweet, sweet love to furniture. Think about it Tina Fey. This could be must see TV in the near future and what a frightening future it is.

Pretty Ricky Late Night Special, Tina Fey, NBC, Deal or No Deal, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Rachel Dratch

So I was all hunkered down ready to watch one of the few spakin’ new episodes of 30 Rock left this season, but was apparently mislead. Us in this here part of Missouri were raped of our 30 Rock hopes and instead delivered a big steaming pile of shit burger in the form of Celebrating 60 Years in St. Louis. Yes our local NBC affiliate KSDK decided to autofellate itself like that guy in Short Bus; not during a Saturday afternoon mind you, but in freaking prime time. What the F KSDK?

Dear Tina Fey,

Please don’t hate us. I was totally ready and excited to recap one of the few remaining 30 Rocks, possibly of the season. But no, the stupid local NBC station (KSDK) picked to preempt a top 20 show in order to honor themselves for being on air for 60 years. Big woop. My dad is 60 and he didn’t preempt thanksgiving to celebrate his birthday. KSDK could learn a thing or two from my dad, not just because he helps me out when I run into legal trouble but he keeps his celebrations to their designated times.

Is there something you’re not sharing with us Tina Fey? Did you do something to piss off one of the heads of the network or this guy? (news anchor Mike Bush)
Even if you did do something we still love you Tina Fey and we hope you still love us. We’ll be anxiously awaiting 11:30 on Sunday night, which is the time KSDK thinks 30 Rock should air. Yes, we think they’re humorless fascists as well.

Anyway, we miss you on our TV tonight Tina Fey and wish you lots of fun Octopus time with your daughter this weekend.

Mike Bush, KSDK, St. Louis, 30 Rock

Hello, Tina Fey. How are you doing? I want to apologize in advance if I am sort of grumpy today, Tina Fey. It’s been an aggravating day. Some douchebag smashed my car window and now I have to pay to have it replaced because my deductible is high. That sucks, Tina Fey. But I bet if something like that ever happened to you, you’d find a way to make it funny on 30 Rock. You take Liz Lemons and make Liz Lemonade! (See, that’s a pun! You can totally use that, I don’t mind!)

I have a question for you, Tina Fey, something I’ve wondered about for a while now. What’s on your Tivo, Tina Fey? What shows do you record? What do you have a season pass for? What gets a thumbs up or a thumbs down? Do you watch other NBC shows? How about The Office? Or maybe you are a fan of Ugly Betty or House? Do you Tivo your own show? It’s okay, you can tell me. Do you have a secret Tivo in the other room where you record all your guilty pleasure shows, like Cribs or My Super Sweet Sixteen or Flip that House? Because that is totally what Amy and I do. The cool shows are on the living room DVR and the embarrassing ones are on the Tivo in the bedroom. Oooh, do you watch Project Runway? The new season starts next month!

(BTW, when are YOU going to be on Cribs? We’d love to see what is in your fridge and I totally don’t mean that in a dirty way.)
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Dear Tina Fey,

It has been documented several times already on our very young blog, as well as on our other, less classy blog, that we love you. We love you because you are pretty and smart and funny and geeky and that is pretty much perfect for us. We sometimes argue over which of us you would like more. You may think we are kidding, but we are not. In fact that is pretty much the only thing Amy and I fight about, except occasionally over where to go to eat dinner.

(I bet you and I would never argue over where to eat dinner.)

But what it comes down to is that we love you because we want to be more like you. Very funny, very smart, very nerdy, and writing for a funny, smart, nerdy television show. (And we wouldn’t mind being smoking hot as well.) If we ever have babies we want them to have role models like you.

In this picture, from an ad in Vanity Fair for American Express, there are so many examples of why we find you freakin’ awesome.

1. The MacBook. We have MacBooks too! I just got mine! Do you use iTunes too? Where is your iPod? What is on your iPod? Do you have secret guilty stuff on there, like the new Britney Spears song?

2. The adorable child who hangs out in your office and is using the MacBook and who isn’t dressed in stupid frilly clothes. Your daughter is a-freakin-dorable. We are a little concerned that she appears to be taking hair styling tips from Jimmy Fallon, however.

3. The desk that is more like a table. Just like mine! Except mine came from Ikea and yours probably came from some store where people with more money and better taste shop.

4. Chattery teeth on the desk. Classic, classic, comedy.

5. You ain’t no neat freak. We aren’t either, which anyone who has visited our apartment could tell you. Especially our office. In fact, I am writing this from my couch right now because the office is too messy to deal with.

Okay, so it may seem like we are a little obsessive here, but trust us, Tina Fey, we are not crazy. We just think you are the greatest. We’d love to have Octopus Time with you and I totally don’t mean that in a dirty way. But maybe it’s better if we never meet, because if you were mean to me I would never forgive myself.

Stay righteous, Tina Fey.

Lori

P.S. One more thing. Do you have cats? I bet you have cats. We have cats! We’ve decided that someday, when we get a new cat, we are going to name her Tina Fey. Not Tina, but Tina Fey. Then we are going to get a slightly smaller cat with rumpled hair and name her Amy Pohler. Then we will build them a tiny Weekend Update desk and …. Wait. I’ve said too much, haven’t I?

Tina Fey, 30 Rock, Amy Pohler, Vanity Fair, American Express, Octopus Time

And of course, we love 30 Rock as well.

We are looking forward to writing this blog and offering news about one of the funniest shows on TV, created by and starring one of the funniest women on TV. She even makes credit card commercials funny!

Watch for recaps of both season one and season two shows, information about the cast, rumors, spoilers, guest stars, and quotable lines you can repeat over and over and drive your loved ones crazy (i.e., “Octopus Time!”)

So tune in Thursday nights at 7:30 CST on NBC and watch 30 Rock and then tune in here for all the information you need about the show (and probably a lot you don’t need as well.)

It’s after six, Lemon. What am I, a farmer?” - Jack Donaghy

Tina Fey, 30 Rock, Tina Fey American Express Commercial