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

i thought it was setup for dratch to bust out her awesome fonzie impressions.

no i think that's a cool reading elmo!

I enjoyed this very much!

haven't seen the east coast version yet, but west coast jon hamm was the best thing i saw all night (i still love you community, but come on it's jon hamm).

I keep going on about this, because I was worried that he'd be typecast and not get good roles, but his two appearances on SNL followed by 30 Rock and now this prove that he's a totally awesome comedic actor. Maybe part of it is just the hilariousness of him NOT being Don Draper, but I look forward to seeing him do more comedy of all types.

I feel like Bill Hader was doing a Peter Graves impression during the airplane seq.

did video of the live performance they did during the writer's strike a few years ago ever end up online or on a DVD or anything?

yeah, on the S2 DVD

iirc the recording is REALLY bad, like I had to put headphones on to understand it

i'm not really into Mad Men at all so i'm totally just hoping that once that show runs its course Hamm focuses more on comedic roles

Just watched the West Coast version - honestly I liked the crazy over-reactive audience more from the East Coast version more (though maybe because I saw it first), it also gave everyone a little more time to breathe and wait between lines, the timing seemed kind of weird in the later show. Some bits were better, though.

So does Matt Damon just love the show or what? I was surprised they could even get him for a cameo, let alone a major part in an episode, let alone a multi-episode arc.

it's good for his brand. he gets cool points, etc. its not like julianne moore does a lot of t.v. either.

oh - eventually he'll break Liz's heart or vice versa.

no way, they will get married and have a spinoff show called caroliz in the city

people who love 30 Rock but act like SNL is sooooo bad are fronting hard

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this is the audacious high watermark in the "people who don't like the thing i like are lying to themselves" genre of wahmbulance posts

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eh i'm just saying if you enjoyed 30 Rock live but think SNL is shit even when Fey or Baldwin is hosting the quality gap (which i admit is there) is probably much larger in your mind than in reality

forgetting whether snl is very good or not, it's clearly quite different to 30 rock.

i'd agree w/ al very slightly, until this season (where the hosts have been great and the shows still really subpar) i'd have said that recent snl is as good as the host; obv this is true of all eras of snl but recently it has really lived or died by the host. when i was watching the 30 rock though i did think it was weird that there was a certain amount of slack i was extending it that i never think about extending snl. maybe it's cuz snl is SUCH a finely tuned machine whereas there was a heavy element of 'what is this going to be like/how will they pull it off' (i never saw the live er, but live drew carey or roc etc never had this charge cuz they weren't single camera shows; it was more a return to how early tv worked instead of a show doing what it never does like 30 rock). the only time i can think of something similar to the julie louis dreyfus thing w/ snl, where there was a dilemma imposed by the live factor and you wondered how they were gonna solve it, was the 92 debates when carvey had been impersonating bush and perot (and there they just copped out and filmed one of the parts). somewhat wishing now tracy had had a cutaway if only to see who would've played him (does martin lawrence have that much of a sense of humor about himself?).

the difference between 30 rock and snl is that 30 rock has jokes. lots of them. snl was never big on jokes. a 6000 post thread quoting every minute of every episode of 30 rock is some sort of testament to that.

snl is a show made up on the fly which is why it has always been staffed by improv people. but this means that it will always be horribly uneven and only as good as the people involved in a sketch.

(this is why the actual filmed stuff on snl is often so much funnier than the live stuff)

Since watching both versions over the past two evenings, I now have "Live show... it's a 30 rock live show..." in my head PERMANENTLY

i loved this and i loved that it looked like snl

i mean

if you have a problem with that, considering that its a live ep, and its a show based on snl, i mean, i honestly dont understand how your brain works at all

TS jane krakowski's rendition of the theme song vs. cheyenne jackson's

i love jane's voice, but cheyenne's had "let's talk about sushi" which made me think pleasant thoughts about having some sushi.

i love jane's voice, but cheyenne's had "let's talk about sushi" which made me think pleasant thoughts about having some sushi.

And a shout out to Glendale (home of Telecom World Headquarters) too!

They're not making this a regular thing, are they? Man, I just don't see eye-to-eye with all the people who loved it. The best things about the show IMO are the tight writing and dry delivery.

no of course they're not, it was a fun one-off

you guys!!

i kind of want to see Fringe live.

house live

Conversely, I would prefer SNL actually be taped.

saturday night cassette

aren't they on a 30minute tape delay already? (to prevent future pope-rippings i heard)

no

new girls said 'fuck' last year iirc

they DO tape rehersals tho

new already kicked off girl said 'fuck' last year iirc

you are the albert pujols of having problems

How did this show manage to rebound so well this season? It's back to S1/S2 levels of awesome now.

it was just as awesome last season, but you're a communityhead so i'll cut you some slack

yeah wtf seasons 3 and 4 were both great

will you tell the gipper your sexual story

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both 30 rock AND community were blah this week! ah well, next week.

wtf ur crazy this was great.

loved tonight's episode! the poster montage killed me

The Rachel Maddow haircut line got huge lols at my house. Also loved Kenneth getting all tough for like 5 seconds.

Tom Jones! lolol