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

maybe he is still on the show, or in denial
When OK! saw hilarious rookie actor Lonny Ross, who plays the goofy comic Josh Girard, at the premiere of Soul Men in New York, we wanted to know what it was like working with stars like Jennifer Aniston.

"She's a sitcom veteran," said Lonny, "so she gets the (long) hours and how much work goes into a show like that. It's great when you get to work with someone like that," he said.

Cool! So you got to do some scenes with her?

"No," said Lonny. But added, "I heard she was great."

How about Oprah then? Any scenes with her?

"No.

"They keep us away," he confessed, referring to the novice stars, like Lonny, Keith Powell, aka Toofer, and Katrina Bowden, who plays Cerie.

"They don't want us bothering her."

So were there any guests at all you were excited about this season?

"Yes – Steve Martin," he beamed. "I mean, Steve Martin – that's the best there is.

"Another guy I didn't get to meet."

That is sad.

haha yeah imdb doesn't list him for any episodes since the end of season 2, wtf.

and it's not like Frank and Toof are on much either

trucker hat moron is still on too much

but he's still technically on the show, right? maybe hanging around in the writers' room scenes, without any lines?

I don't think he has many lines any more but they usually incorporate his hats into a gag here and there.

He kinda sucks but it was great when he wore the fancier hat earlier this season.

yeah that was a good joke

he had a couple good moments when he thought he was gay (or not gay, but gay for jamie).

who needs josh when you have JOSH HARTNETT http://www.okmagazine.com/news/view/5141

blergh

ughhh larry king's doing a guest star this season too

Yuck.

i never actually watched this bullshit but isnt this xxactly what the show will & grace was all about with the endless celebrity guest stars??? why are they doing this???

maybe the whole writing staff has rabies and they are not making good decisions because of the rabies

if its not a 2 second cameo from joy behar talking bout her vagina being a weird scary flower i dont wanna see any more famous ppl on the show this year

do more people genuinely watch shows because of celeb cameos? the shows that do that alot seem to be the ones where you can see a direct link to more celebs >>> less viewers (will and grace & simpsons come to mind) as its basically just admitting you are giving up on just being funny anymore. oh, and the last couple of seasons of friends until the last when they went back to storytelling. only show i can think of that done it properly was arrested development's LOL obvious joke of needing rubbish c list guests because of no ratings.

maybe network honchos are forcing the show to trot out the guest stars to increase ratings, unaware of a hoy hoy's research findings.

chill out dude. steve martin and aniston were funny, oprah had some lols, there's nothing really wrong with gratuitous cameos as long as the writers have a good idea of what to do with them.

xpost - i dunno how much cameos have meant for 30 Rock, but I know How I Met Your Mother had a big ratings jump with the Britney stunt. like i said upthread, though, 30 Rock gets a lot of its Emmy nominations/wins from celeb guest stars, so i think that's also a big motivating factor for them.

charlize theron is a c-list celeb? bitch won an oscar, no?

ok, i was thinking of zach braff and co (pre-shitty indie movie).

zack braff was funny on AD

do more people genuinely watch shows because of celeb cameos? the shows that do that alot seem to be the ones where you can see a direct link to more celebs >>> less viewers (will and grace & simpsons come to mind) as its basically just admitting you are giving up on just being funny anymore. oh, and the last couple of seasons of friends until the last when they went back to storytelling. only show i can think of that done it properly was arrested development's LOL obvious joke of needing rubbish c list guests because of no ratings.

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yeah and i mean the celeb guest stars in the big guest star heavy last few episodes was like andy richter, richard belzer, gary cole - not xxactly oprah and jennifer aniston

If guest stars help keep my show afloat and they continue to be well written and fun, I have no complaints. The only two I genuinely hated were Seinfeld and Sean Hayes.

no but scott baio, henry winkler, zack braff, james lipton, etc. xxxxposts

i kind of don't mind 30 rock not using every character every week. AD felt that way sometimes, like they HAD to give everyone facetime even if they gave them a lame joke or whatever

we gotta watch arrested development tonight, james lipton is gonna be playing the warden! honey, let's get a sitter for the kids so we dont miss a single minute!!

like i said, arrested development did it right. i think season 1 30 rock (working out with whoopi + ghostface's rhyming dictionary) was great at silly cameos as well. just now every episode seems to be written around some star they have to fit into the show, it doesn't sit right.

Winkler / Baio / Lipton weren't guest stars; they were semi-regulars. It was stunt casting to be sure, though.

30 Rock/AD Poll

as long as the guest star is playing another character (like in the aniston and martin cameos), with comedic results, i think it's ok. i didn't think there was anything funny about the oprah cameo. fuck oprah worship!

i'm so tired of every show trying to get carl weathers for sweeps week... its shameless

ok, i'm just going to shut up from now on. :)

maybe you guys haven't noticed but pretty much every sitcom has guest stars almost every week, very few shows stick with just the main cast members and noone else every episode...on some shows it's just regular workaday TV actors playing "love interest X" or "hospital patient Y" but some shows regular cast recognizable celebs that they can pimp out in the promos, unless everything is a meta joke or a forced "superstar randomly shows up in Springfield" plotline, does it really matter that much?

baio was fucking bob loblaw for godsakes. AD canon.

i think pretty much any human being in the universe would've been funnier as the jennifer aniston character

i can't stand aniston and even i thought her character was pretty funny

she was pretty taut bro

Except Dratch.

taut?

i didn't think there was anything funny about the oprah cameo. fuck oprah worship!

The flashback of Oprah talking like a 15 year old girl on the plane is what did it for me.

Kept in trim shape; neat and tidy.
Marked by the efficient, sparing, or concise use of something, such as language or detail: a taut movie script.

In good order or clean condition: neat, orderly, shipshape, snug, spick-and-span, spruce, tidy, trig, trim, well-groomed. Chiefly British tight. Idioms: neat as a pin. See clean/dirty, order/disorder.

meaning i would like to blap

it's the new slang, GWI

cutty likes taut

fitness chicks

xp

The VF article on Tina Fey was horribly written. Is that why Jack's MoDo joke was funny?

guys, aniston was not funny.

i will give you hot, taut, whatever, but the acting was a;sldkgja.

thank you theresa