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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Ronn, it's from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky." It's about a hundred years old. FYI.
some sandwich (of the type that Tina Fey's character might eat or Tyra Banks might model through) got into my nose. Thanks, Heather. Lunch was really fun.
This is Salon. We're supposed to climax with joy over the Wire, only the Wire and nothing but the Wire so help you God, who of course only exists for insufferable hillbillies. Get with the program or we'll pull your snarky liberal membership card.
"Everybody Ought to Have a Maid" is from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Zero Mostel! Not Neil Young.
Weird thing to get confused.
. . . to chris: track 3 of Neil Young's 'Harvest' = 'A Man Needs a Maid.'
great piece as usual, heather. 30 Rock is starting to grow on me. Baldwin's re-invention as comic character actor is really fantastic. Loved the digs at Studio 60.
re: Tyra: I saw a short piece a few days ago somewhere in which Tyra suggests that her ANTM persona is intentional self-parody. Don't know if that makes her any less ridiculous (haven't seen the talk show, so I can't comment on whether or not there's any difference bet. Tyra as 'ANTM tyrant' and Tyra as 'Oprah wannabe'). Just thought it might be worth mentioning that Tyra at least claims to be in on the joke.
30 Rock is my favorite show. Great cast (don't forget Kenneth) and writing. One of the only shows whose episodes I keep to watch a second time.
Actually, this show and "Sunset 60" (hmm, twice as serious? long? as 30 Rock?) are great bookends. The latter is just so earnest ("Do we *dare* to include this sketch?") and the former so perfectly dopey ("I said only one fighting bear, Frank!").
My only quibble, and I'm surprised at ya Heather, because you normally leave no clothes on the emperor, is that Tina Fey is only schlumpy in the same way Bailey Quarters was compared to Loni. That is to say, Ms. Fey is a very attractive woman, but I do agree she plays the "lovable loser" to perfection.
> I do agree with Rob Anderson, though, that the years Tina Fey was 9(co)head writer were probably the worst years in the show's history.
Um, Anthony Michael Hall?
>Is it just a coincidence that this year SNL is funnier than it's been since Will Ferrell left?
Did you actually *see* the show Ludacris hosted? Granted the Alec Baldwin episode was just superb, but that had as much to do with him as the writing.
I hadn't heard that 30 Rock had been renewed! You have made my day! My wife and I have been trying to curb our television addiction as of late, and have severely cut the number of shows we Tivo each week. 30 Rock is one of our favorites and we were both worried it would be canceled because it's so offbeat. After ABC pulled the plug on Invasion, I was wary of giving any new show a chance. I'm glad I read your initial article on the new season recommending this great show because every week it's packed with more laughs than any other in recent memory. Alec Baldwin is just tremendous, and although I never cared for Tina Fey on SNL, she's great on 30 Rock, as is the supporting cast. I'm so glad NBC is giving it another shot next season.
evil, narcissistic, unkind, manic self good to no one except herself and those who exploit her all while trying to help girl exploit their blooming niave sexuallity for the power of the planet white men...oh and she's brown.
Perhaps it’s just because I have experience with GE’s inner workings, but 30 Rock is one of the most frighteningly funny shows on TV. Jack Donaghy –is- GE upper management, especially when he proclaims Jack Welch to be the greatest leader since the pharaohs…
I don’t even know why the show is great. Maybe it’s because it’s not really about sketch comedy, it’s just an office comedy, with Liz Lemon as Jim, and Jack Donaghy as Michael. Or maybe Tina Fey’s experience makes it feel more realistic than Studio 60, or maybe the casual rhythm of 30 Rock feels unforced, or maybe the show isn’t trying to convice me it’s saving television as an art form (ahem). All I know is that when Heroes is over, and Studio 60 starts, my husband turns to me and says, “Wanna save television?” I tell him I'm not smart enough for Sorkin, and we flip to Futurama reruns.
Still trying to find my third kind of heat,
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could while away every single waking minute on My Yahoo and Google News, while someone far more qualified than you scrubbed your bathtub and walked your dogs and paid your bills and breast-fed your baby and massaged your husband's feet?
Well, no. It might be nice for a few days. But, this is the stuff of life. I've had some of the best, most introspective moments of the last few years of my life while walking my dog!
Keep up the good work! I enjoy "I like to watch."
Only a Salon.com reader would confuse A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Neil Young.
I understand both sides, when I started watching 30 Rock I didn't find it all that funny or interesting. That is until the Rural Juror episode, I was laughing my ass off at that one! That episode it was just good bit after bit. So I love Earl, The Office, Scrubs is a snore fest and 30 Rock is now my new love, but I wasn't all that impressed in the beginning.
Plus I love the Tyra hate! She's a great looking woman who wanted to be more than just some dumb model, fine, she wanted to show the world that modeling is harder than just being pretty and standing still for pictures, fine, but now, now she's some sort of walking hyena with psychophants trailing her every move and since she's got total control there's no one controlling her, oh how I miss Janice who would actually argue with Tyra's feel good Plus size models or being so crazy herself she made Tyra look tame by comparison!
I will say about the modeling through it, I thought that was pretty ridiculous too, look I'm dancing and my shoe fell off! - then there is a major Victoria's Secret runway show and I catch the clip where the models shoe does fall off and she models through it! She doesn't stop and put back on the shoe, she just walks on her toes. So maybe a lot of what Tyra does seems lame to us, but maybe it really is useful advise! Plus I'm pretty sure that Tyra had to come up with something bad against Caridee to give any suspense to the show at all, regarding the hypothermia it was clear from the first episode that Caridee was pretty much guarunteed to win compared to all the other girls.
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