A new 30 Rock thread because I can't find the old one

fuk u strike

im going to start self hi-fiving

ok this was great shit

I love how the Fey-Richmond marriage seems to have the effect of integrating musical numbers into the show way more than normal sitcoms.

"Honey, could you arrange Midnight Train to Georgia for the entire cast? Thanks."

Good to see Liz wearing the same pink two-piece from wardrobe that she wore to the strip club in the first episode of season 1

Good to see Liz clasp the hands of Rory Gilmore's grandpa

He who once said "I looked around one day and realized that most of my original fan base was ... dead. So I figured, the WB, that's where there are young people."

"and i'm HEEERE to REMIND YEOOW"

lol

Didn't see a separate thread for this: Tracy Morgan was genius on Letterman the other night.

did he call david letterman "david letterman"?

youtube or something?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ehrqh207QU8

tracy is also in a digiorno commercial!

"who, philip?"

"Britney Jones!"

he's crazier than a box of rocks

OH MAN THAT IS TOO GOOD !!!

im especially interested in his look there - indie pants, bmx shirt, icey chain?

they should just interview him for 23 minutes every weeek till it's back on.

LET'S CLIP IT UP DL

"philip is his government"

FRANK: Yo Tray, we got a problem.
TRACEY: Who be this Tracey Jordan thou speakest of?
FRANK: President Jefferson, we got a problem?
TRACEY: Speakest.
FRANK: That horse ate your wig.
TRACEY: Well, stand guard by his rump and await it in his droppings.
LUTZ: Or we could just get a new wig.
TRACEY: I like you, young man. You shall run my university.

TRACEY: I love this cornbread so much I wanna take it behind a middle school and make it pregnant
KENNETH (laughing): pregnant cornbread...

BANTER!!!!

EUREKO!

man the cougar episode

Liz: I'm 37, please don't make me go to Brooklyn.
Jaime: I'm 20.
Liz: Oh boy. This just went from a senior dating a freshman to Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau.
Jaime: Are those friends of yours?

the last 4 eps of this season might be the best 4 they've ever done

really? I dunno, the cougar ep and the jenna-going-diva one were both total classics, but I thought the last two kinda dropped off a bit. also, the carrie fisher ep! the therapy scene! the best sequence of television I've ever seen!

the ludachristmas one is maybe the only non-classic of the 4. i thought the beginning of the season dragged a little bit so this def reaffirmed my faith, which probably just means they're going to cancel it

someone's getting laid pretending to be Dennis the pager salesman: http://www.nypost.com/seven/01282008/gossip/pagesix/pagesix_u.htm

I can't, I'm expecting a call from 1983.

the recent batch still miss the writers, but it's *all* amazing, who cares.

jenna is mad funny in the cougars episode.

In 2001, cops grabbed a former New York City firefighter who was posing as Robert De Niro in order to accept various freebies and discounts.

Okay this is bold. And significantly cooler than just being "that ass who won't knock it off with the De Niro impression."

At the Plumm, Tracy Morgan ordered two bottles of Champagne, ripped off his shirt and started dancing on the banquette, seemingly lost his credit card, found it in his pocket, and then asked a waitress if he could father her baby.
from nymag

business as usual

Is no one else perturbed by Tracy Morgan? I mean, he's basically acting like Britney/Lindsay/<insert crazy rehab-bound celeb here> but everyone's just kind of pointing and laughing while going "Oh, Tracy!" as opposed to making him get help. Am I alone on this?

i think if dude was actually hurting himself or his career it might be a factor, and im sure if shit did turn tragic thered be lots of 30 rock fans still loling at dude, but right now it just seems like hes having fun

i thought he was sober now anyway? that quote just says he ordered some champagne, nothing about drinking it. he'd probably do that other shit stone cold.

i think dan brings up a decent point

though if he was endangering himself the last thing he (or anyone) needs is britney/lindsay type attention. i would hope w/ the past shit he's had to deal with because of his DUIs that he's learned his lesson

i was actually weirded out by his letterman appearance, though that was probably the point (?)

although do crazy people constantly yell "I'M CRAZY!"?

I'm not trying to start a "SAVE TRACY MORGAN" movement or anything; I'm just unsettled by dude's public appearances and the fine line they skirt with Robin Williams in his cokehead heyday crossed with Kiefer Sutherland's booze rages. He may be perfectly fine; I don't know his life, I just know what gets reported.

I've probably done enough rants about how easily people slot black-men-acting-crazy into the "funny" category (including a long too-public one about Daniel Johnston and Wesley Willis), but I'm kinda on the okay side with Morgan, because:

(a) it's still at least a little difficult to separate his actual-crazy from his comedy-crazy, but I don't know that he's yet done anything too problematically nutsy, like anything violent or family-ruining -- so far he's just like the guy with the lampshade on his head, someone who drinks too much and starts over-the-top clowning in a usually non-destructive way. Mostly all he does is take his shirt off and talk about impregnating people, every time, which seems non-escalating and clowny

(b) sometimes it's easy to think he's nutsy and TV shows are corralling through the work, just like his 30 Rock character -- but then you watch him do the stuff, or even TV interviews, and he tends to seem more in control of it than that

(c) there was some interview where he said in a pretty casual, normal way that he promised his son he'd stop drinking, and while I don't have any particular faith he'll manage that, he talked about it in a way that seemed ... clear and rational, I guess? xpost - I guess n/a had the opposite reaction!

I wouldn't be surprised if he were having a kind of modified Chapelle problem, or something a little like that 30 Rock episode with the golfing -- kinda suffering under the weight of his schtick involving yelling "I'M BLACK" and "I'M CRAZY" and whatnot.

Instead of First Sunday it should have been a movie where Katt Williams is his therapist

Hasn't Tracy said that his whole public character right now is just based on one of his great uncles or something like that? It's 24/7 performance art.

^if this is true it's bs

cf this thread CRAZY RAPPERS

("I say, wouldn't it be funny if he'd said "I am not doing my seatbelt up... nigga!")?

-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:04 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link