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• Sunday, December 10, 2006 07:37 PM

  Are you nuts??!!

  I love reading Heather's columns - or I should say that I loved reading her until she claimed, ""30 Rock" is the funniest new show on television. " I really wanted to love this show myself when it was coming on, and did my level best to watch it and enjoy it, but after several attempts, it's become obvious that if "30 Rock" isn't the most insipid show to come to television since "My Mother The Car," it's definitely in the top two. And how in God's name did Heather miss this fact.

  There isn't one character on this show that wouldn't have to come up 10 steps just to simply be one-dimensional. Tracy Morgan (who is actually a very funny guy) is saddled with a character so...one note that we saw the entire depth of his character 30 seconds after he appeared on screen during the first episode. Everyone else on the show, including Tina Fey, pretty much failed once they uttered their first syllables. And the best that can be said about the story line of the show is that - they have one.

  I will, however, agree with Heather that that Alec Baldwin is the best performer in the cast. Of course that's kind of like being the best swimmer on the Titanic who didn't get into a life boat. Sooner or later he is going to sink and die.

  I think the bottom line here is (and for whatever reason, Heather, who really has a keen insight chose to ignored this obvious fact) that Tina Fey is simply not a particularly good writer. She's pedestrian and always has been. I'll give you that every once and a while she would write a good skit as the head writer on Saturday Night Live, but that made her, at best, lucky and not necessarily talented.

  My suggestion would be that Heather should watch a couple of old episodes of say, "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "The Honeymooners," "Seinfeld," or "Friends," just to name a few, and then try once more to tell us how great "30 Rock" really is.

  —gmk Read gmk's other letters
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