Watching 30 Rock

So tonight, Amy is liveblogging the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards for our sister site, Trashy Celebs. And since our hero Tina Fey is presenting the first award (and showing off her bare right shoulder — pretty racy there, Tina Fey!) with Steve Carrell, I thought I’d pop over here and tell you about any of the 30 Rock angles to the event. Fey and Carrell are presenting Best Actor in a Drama Series, which must be a bit awkward because you know they will be making jokes and those serious, serious actors will just be all “shut up, so I can be pretentious!” Oh, James Gandolfini won! And he gave Tina Fey a peck on the cheek and totally did not order a hit on her. That’s a relief!

Other, more obvious 30 Rock connections to the SAG Awards:

Tina Fey, nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series (along with Christina Applegate, America Ferrera, Mary-Louise Parker, and Vanessa Williams.) Guess what? TINA FEY WON HELLS YES! She thanked the SAG for “considering her an actor at all” and then she thanked Alec Baldwin, comparing doing scenes with him to “Fred Astaire dancing with a hat rack.” Funny and humble, even after winning. And thanking SAG for supporting the Writers Guild, because she is selfless and giving.

(See that NBC, you bitches? She won. WON! And I have been hearing too many rumors suggesting that with the writers strike and all, 30 Rock might get cancelled. DO NOT DO THAT YOU WILL BREAK MY HEART.)

Also, Alec Baldwin won for Male Actor in a Comedy Series (of course) because he gets funnier every damn episode. And while I don’t agree with Tina Fey’s Astaire-Hat Rack analogy, I do think that Alec Baldwin is the Astaire of 30 Rock:

Unfortunately, 30 Rock didn’t sweep all the categories it was nominated for — they lost the award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast to the cast of The Office. And while I do love The Office, I have to stay that I feel 30 Rock really should have won. I mean come on! They should have won for this alone:

Overall, though a good night for 30 Rock at the SAG awards. Congratulations!

SAG Awards, Screen Actors Guild, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin