Watching 30 Rock

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.

30 Rock, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Golden Globes