Watching 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.)

But what we really want to know, Tina Fey, is if you still Tivo Saturday Night Live? Do you still watch your old show? I would imagine with your schedule you don’t stay up late to watch it live, but do you watch it the next day during brunch? Do you fast forward through the boring sketches? Do you mentally rewrite the unfunny sketches and make them funny and the sort of funny sketches and make them funnier? Do you fast forward through the musical guests? Do you skip ahead to Weekend Update? Or do you make yourself sit through the whole thing so that when your old coworkers call you up and ask what you think you can tell them you watched it all?

Because, Tina Fey, we still have a season pass to Saturday Night Live and we still sit and try to watch them, but lately it just doesn’t take very long, because, well, as much as we hate to say it, the show just isn’t very funny without you. And I don’t understand that! There are still lots of funny people on the show! We love Amy Poehler! We love Seth Meyers! We love Maya Rudolph! And Will Forte is adorable! And Horatio Sanz is GONE! (Seriously, did he have some dirt on Lorne Michaels or something? You can tell me.) But often we find ourselves fast forwarding through anything that isn’t Weekend Update or An SNL Digital Short. In fact, other than the Digital Shorts, this segment is the funniest thing I’ve seen on SNL in a long time:

That is REALLY funny! (See, another pun! You can totally use that too.) So what do you think of SNL these days? You can tell us, Tina Fey. We totally want to know.

Write back, Tina Fey.

Stay righteous,

Lori

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