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30 Rock appears to be funny

posted December 27, 2007 - 2:27am
30 Rock appears to be funny

I think I need to be watching 30 Rock just based on the little I've seen of it, especially featuring the antics of the ever insane and unpredictable Tracy Jordan, which is a character played by Tracy Morgan, formerly of Saturday Night Live and drunk driving charges. I mean, according to a recent interview he was quoted as saying his favorite line of dialogue from his character was "I'm gonna take you out behind the middle school and get you pregnant." I don't know what thats even refering to, I know it probably wasn't directed towards a teenager but you never know. Its just that that quote alone, without knowing the context is hilarious.

I don't know if I've ever watched a whole episode of it, I think once, I used the NBC website to watch one because people were raving about it but there's usually other stuff on that I want to watch so I only get to see it during commercials and usually forget that its available online. The episode I saw featured Carrie Fisher and that part of the episode wasn't really that funny, if I remember correctly. Well, at least compared to everyone elses part.

I don't think I've really ever seen a section of that show where anything Tina Fey is involved with is actually funny. I don't know if she's necessarily unfunny, I guess I've occasionally found her funny in other things but 30 Rock, not so much. Although up against the rest of that episode, featuring Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy going to therapy with Tracy and having some sort of bizarre roleplaying session where Alec was playing a variety of different characters for Tracy and everything just worked perfectly.

The only other person I know on the show is Jane Krakowski, who basically plays a sexually charged, insecure former star named Jenna. And other than the couple of scenes that kind of laid out the groundwork for her character to figure out who she was, I remember a really funny scene where she was flirting with who she thought was a higher up muckety muck from the studio but was actually just an extra.



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I've never been able to

I've never been able to watch an entire episode of that show, but some scenes were funny. It seems like maybe they try to hard to make it funny. I agree with you, Tina Fey isn't that funny--she's a better comedy writer than an actress. Join Xomba Here

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